Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Man fined for ‘pregnancy’
A man living near Johannesburg (South Africa) was recently fined by a court for a bizarre reason: He stole a pregnancy certificate and forged it to get seven days off work. Apparently, he did not think that somebody would notice the ‘difficulty’ a man would have to become pregnant. Source: BBC news.
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Firefox 3 already
Firefox 2 is hardly out that developers are already working hard on the new version 3 as shown by the apparition of an alpha version on the FTP server. Some visible improvements: Bookmarks will be replaced with “places” that will end in a left-side menu (an innovation to be tested). Tabs will be easier to…
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Dodie Legaspi photos
Dodie Legaspi is a photographer I foudn on the Internet (he exposes on Multiply.com) Image courtesy of Dodie Legaspi – all rights reserved I invite you to check specially the following series: Roovin & Maela (marriage shots) Street photo Studio portraits
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BitTorrent purchases uTorrent
BitTorrent, the leader and creator of the P2P technology that is driving most of the video and large-file peer-to-peer exchanges just announced that they bought µTorrent (micro-Torrent or uTorrent), the company providing the smallest, lightest (and maybe, fastest) BitTorrent client. Apparently, they intend to re-inforce their presence, possibly in preparation of an extension of the…
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Sigma SD14: Late
The brand new slick nice digital SLR camera from Sigma -the SD14- is announced late. Sigma published that the Digital Single Lens Reflex will be available not in November (we knew it), not in December (before the Christmas purchases), but in March 2007. This is very bad news for this good product. After having missed…
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Nikon D40 reviews
The Nikon D40 should arrive now in the shops (if we believe what Nikon announced). So, it is the right time to try and summarize the tests, reviews and comparisons available on the Internet about this digital camera that, if he is not a real revolution, represents a major step forward in making digital single…
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Bugs shot in macrophoto
Here is a photo gallery with nice macro photos of little critters and bugs. Some of them look like actual ETs from StarShip Troopers. I do think that these are really great shots from Igor Siwanowicz.
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Very slow network on Win2K
On a PC computer equiped with Windows 2000, I had a major problem of network slowness (when accessing the network, all operations seemed to atke ages to complete). I admit I was somewhat lost without a solution. So, I decided to use the ever-powerful solution: Google. It allowed me to find a web site with…
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Apple wants total supplier security
This is the obvious conclusion of this minor news that may attract the attention of the engineers among us: Apple now has no less than seven suppliers for the Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) of its iPod (they expect a strong growth in 2007): Tripod Technology, Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC), Unimicron Technology, Compeq Manufacturing,…