Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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PD70x: Possibly a problem with dirty contacts
You learned a few days ago that I had some problems with random errors in my Compact Drive PD70x flash card portable hard disk reader. It seems (I’m not 100% sure) that it came from dirty contacts between the hard disk drive and the electronics. I actually cleaned quickly those (thanks to Compact Drive for…
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New Macro 70mm f/2.8 at Sigma
Sigma launches a new lens with a nicely wide aperture: a medium/short tele, Macro 70mm F2.8 EX DG. Certainly a good lens needed to draw some of the macro photo enthusiasts (1:1 ratio) and whose quality should be high enough to keep the flag of the EX line quite high (gold ring at the front…
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CPU: Performance/Cost ratio
Thanks to TG daily (Tom’s Hardware) we have a clearer view of the performance/cost ratio of dual-core processors these days (after the arrival of the cost cuts both from AMD and Intel). Click on the thumbnailto open a larger graph. Things get clearer now. It becomes quite obvious that the old Pentium EE is completely…
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Canon new DSLR may be named 400D
According to Engadget, the new Canon Digital SLR camera may have the name of 400D (instead of previously reported 370D) and it may include an ultrasonic sensor cleaning (the new fad these days).
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Sony leaves LCD market
After announcing its intention to leave the market of plasma screens, Sony would be about to do the same with the LCD monitors. Being only the 10th world manufacturer of such screens on a world market terribly competitive (margins are plumetting) and whose growth is decreasing rapidly after two good years, Sony would be preparing…
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Canon follows: Rebel Xti, or 370D
After so many news from the competition (Digital SLR cameras from Sony, Nikon, Pentax), Canon could not leave the field open for them. Without waiting for the upcoming Photokina, Canon starts letting some information flow about its newest digital reflex camera (or the Internet news hunters got wind of some bits before the official announcement…
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Collateral damage from SPAM
Back from my Summer vacations, a little surprise was waiting for me with more than 20,000 messages stored in the verious mailboxes I use daily. First, I thought that I had been receiving a mere flood of SPAM (I get easily 300 SPAMs a day, so in a period of 10 days it could have…
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Some insecurity in the Maasai Mara Park
It seems to be well under Kenyan authorities control but, on 22th of August 2005, vans of a safari photo tourists has been attacked by Kenyan bandits while returning from a safari in the Masai Mara National Park. Two Japanese tourists were lightly wounded; The others (Japanese, Americans and South-Africans) returned directly to the safety…