Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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No PDF for MS-Office
Adobe is trying hard to avoid having Microsoft include a PDF generator in its upcoming Microsoft Office newest desktop suite. They decided that this would be too much a menace against their business model and so told Microsoft that they would fight up to a judge if they tried to put PDF in MS-Office. In…
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Chernobyl caused by a video game
During a suprise check at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, inspectors found a guard so deeply engrossed in his video game on a portable console that he did not see them come (and failed to answer to a security-related radio check call). Of course, the control ends in bad result (it was not…
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Sony Alpha A100, first peek
A very attentive guy found real images of the new Sony D-SLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) on the Sony-Style web site.
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WMD better than JPEG?
It is quite hard to tell but, according to Microsoft, the JPEG file format needed a good lifting or – better – its complete replacement with a new one. So, Vista will recognize the new Windows Media Photo format. They promise smaller files with less visual defects/artifacts. But nothing is said about the actual support…
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404 Random page found
I have been correcting an old need for this web site. There was no page to handle the case where you click on a link to a non-existent page. Now, if you go to a non-existent page you will be greeted with some random message. I hope you’ll appreciate the kind of humour.
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AMD: 300mm and cycles
In the recent months, the stage where we observe the battle of the titans of PC microprocessors (Intel and AMD) was not really shaken by the thunder of news or the tremors of falling prices, like in some other times. You may know it or not, but there are major cycles in this industry and…
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ThePirateBay is back online
Merely a few days after their server computers were seized by the Swedish police, ThePirateBay.org is already back online. It appears that as any global private company, ThePirateBay.org really had a crash recovery plan prepared to correct extreme circumstances like those found last Wednesday. The new server is located in Netherlands (an additional server has…
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Firefox is growing up
At least, that is what I see from my web site statistics. Today, I checked and I can see that Internet Explorer is only 65% of last month’s visits. 23% of the visits come from one or another version of FireFox. By the way, Safari from Apple is still around 2%, while Opera does 3%.