Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Masai Mara – Jackal
The Masai Mara National Park of Kenya does not host only felines. Dogs are also present in the carnivorous fauna of the country. We’ll see some hyenas later on, but here is a jackal encounter. Little fearful dogs, nervous hunters, they are quite difficult to approach. Â Â
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Color and wind
A few images I shot last weekend while the sun was shining in the French Vexin (near Paris). Green hair Before the flight Colors
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Windows 98 is dying
We’ve been warned. Win98 is now nearing its official demise. In July Microsoft will stop supporting it altogether. My machines still using it will have to move to a more recent Windows or Linux.
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HDCP/HDMI broken, or nearly broken
The technology supposed to protect the equipments aimed at digital TV with a semi-secret protocol using techniques borrowed from the military in order to ensure that only approved devices can see the previous digital data of our movies, seems to be on its way to be broken and is already the target of very serious…
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Canon EOS 30D
When looking for a digital single lens reflex (D-SLR) photo camera for prosumer (mid- to high-end consumer application for the enthusiast), you necessarily notice the recent Canon offer. The Canon EOS 30D is a nice beast of a camera looking a lot like the EOS 20D, that was already a success and that merely was…
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Pages moved, inform the user but don’t tell
Actually, on my web site, a number of pages have been moved around in the last year. Additionally, some pages are now located so deeply in the site structure that access paths are quite convoluted. The solution seems to go through the use of server page redirection. In Apache (the web server roumazeilles.net is based…
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Suse Linux 10.1 is nearly ready
Or so it seems! This Linux distribution, famous for being very user-friendly and targetting the normal user and providing desktop applications that can be considered more normal than the usual GNU/linux distro, is readying its launch of version 10.1. On its road, Release Candidate 1 was just made available. Previous versions were somewhat worryingly fragile.…
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Rent a private jet
Complementing an article I wrote previously about renting planes (yes! yes! a business aircraft or business jet, exactly like the Hollywood stars and the international enterprise CEOs), I discovered a British company using the planes from NetJets (people who sell shared ownership into business jets (and up to the Boeing 737 equiped for 18 people…