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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • RoHS and WEEE, the new game in the electronics industry

    Ok! Those do not look like nice words. But the European industry is starting to consider very seriously the consequences of these. They represent two European Directives intending to reduce very significantly the toxic waste and the use of hasardous materials in the electrical and electronic products (this is so wide a scope that a…

  • Wild trails

    A photography friend’s web site: Sentiers sauvages (Wild trails) where you will find a lot of nice animal pictures. Plenty of birds, but also some pictures taken in Africa including some that may remind you of my own safari to Kenya (this is no random encounter, of course).

  • WiMax now!

    At least, this is the offer that just fell on the French public from Free.fr (they had shocked the competition just a few days ago by announcing that in the hot advertisment competition to replace the national telephone directory number with dozens of privately owned operations, they would open a free 118.818 number killing all…

  • First legal movie downloads in the US

    That’s just the beginning. Movielink and CinemaNow are now the first significant (and legal) source for movie downloads. The big question is still “will they succeed?” Two issues are key here. First, the movies are protected by a DRM solution that limits significantly the ways you can use the movies you just bought. Second, and…

  • The lizard and the hippo – a one-snapshot photographic tale

    The lizard and the hippo – a one-snapshot photographic tale

      A green lizard too lazy to cross the Mara river (Kenya) is using the back of a friendly hippopotamus

  • Masai Mara – Landscapes

    Masai Mara – Landscapes

    Remember! I advised to bring a trans-standard zoom to take a few postcards during your photo safari (there is more than mere animals in an African wild life reserve). Morning and evening lights gave me the occasion to make a few interesting images in the landscapes I was in. I collected here some of the…

  • GNU/Linux is tough on Asus A7N8X

    I just did a few quick tests (I wanted to install a Linux distribution on a second-hand PC using the A7N8X-X motherboard for Athlon processors). I took me just a few minutes to remember that most distributions (Knoppix, Kanotix, Slax Kill-Bill, Movix2, etc.) do not support the Ethernet controler for this family of motherboards (only…

  • April fool’s day

    This year’s April fool’s day spoof, and some more…

  • Nature images

    For the lovers of nature images (mostly African), I was directed to a new web site. Seemingly interesting, images are not all perfect, but some are quite neat. Colors of WildLife Thanks to Simba.