Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Why tables for layout is stupid
Even if I am usually in favor of designing web sites using tables, I wanted to provide a link to an interesting article taking exactly the opposite position: Why tables for layout is stupid. For those wondering, my preference goes to HTML tables because they are easier to implement the 3-column designs that I prefer…
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OpenSUSE 10
OpenSUSE is one of the most famous GNU/Linux distributions. It got a recent additional attention when Microsoft announced that they would support specifically the execution of SUSE in the virtual environment that will come in the future Microsoft Windows Vista. Knowing my previous failed attempt with SlackWare Linux, I decided to try again with another…
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Spider pictures
Not only for exclusive insect and arhtropod lovers, but also for those who want to see nice photo snapshots, the spiders are a bottomless source of nice pictures. A web site is offering an impressive link collection about these: Arachnology. Not all links are working (far from it), but the choice is impressive and leaves…
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Roe-deers on photo
After a previous post about a photo ballad I made in Rambouillet, I decided to go back to the same location (a little South of Paris, France) and to try by myself again to surprise a few of the large animals that can be found here. Since I was alone, I could take advantage of…
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KNOPPIX: Linux to save a Windows install
I had recently a significant problem while trying to upgrade a Windows 98 installation to Windows 2000 pro. Everything turn ugly (I clicked to fast on a button and could not provide drivers for my motherboard, the installation went bad in the middle of the update of system parameters), leaving the system in a very…
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Why I don’t use the high ISO setting of my camera?
We all noticed that our digital cameras offer a button (or a menu) to choose different sensitivity ISO settings. The casual user would note that the higher this value (let’s say 800 or 1600 ISO), the easier it is to snap a photo in a dimly-lit room or to stop the motion of a fast…
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Click prohibition
The dontclickit.com web site is an experience definitely interesting for all who (like you and me, no doubt) are used to intereact with a web site using the click of our mouse. This special web site – it is a research experiment about man-machine interfaces – is 100% usable without ever clicking on anything. It’s…
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Top quality free fonts
Plenty of web sites try to attract you with free fonts (or other free items) and fail to deliver this. If you are lucky you will find a couple of ugly (but still free) fonts. Now, it is quite exceptional to find true top-quality fonts on the web. Vitaly Friedman just did this on his…
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The digital museum for the Achaemenid Persian Empire
You certainly remember the (somewhat ephemereal) success of the many cultural CD-ROMs that appeared on the shelves five years ago to offer quality presentations of painters, museums, cities or historical periods (they were flourishing just before Christmas of course). Even if it did not disappear completely, this market seems to have been overwhelmed by the…