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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Very slow network on Win2K

    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…

  • 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,…

  • Advertising turns to SPAM on MySpace

    When a good idea appears in the Internet space, it attracts people, a lot of idle people and a lot of marketing people. Of course, with marketing comes its shameful brother: SPAM. This is exactly what is happening right now on MySpace, the virtual social network where teens have been spreading and sharing for months…

  • Vista: Time for 64 bits

    While Vista will soon be available in a 64-bit version (and that GNU/Linux went down this path several months ago), it is time to ponder the following question: “Do we need to go 64 bits?” And the answer is surprisingly simple if you look at it. Currently, PC are more and more often equiped with…

  • Reading poetry in Paris

    In the evening of November 25, a poetry reading happened in the Equipages bookstore, rue de Bagnolet in Paris. It was organised with the help of Editions L’improviste. As I was in the public and that I had my camera with me, I shot a few pictures:     Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them.