Category: Culture

  • Download free public domain music

    Musopen is a community driven, online music repository started by a music and economics college student named Aaron Dunn. This site takes music that is in the public domain, meaning a work that belongs to the community, and has it recorded by individuals and college/community orchestras throughout the United States and stored online so it…

  • Best posts of 2006

    It is now the time to look back at the year 2006 and to check what you really liked in the Roumazeilles.net web site. So, here are the posts viewed the most in the past year. Is it a surprise? Canon 40D crushes 30D prices, at least, that was the rumour. But the prices went…

  • Exclusively for Linux lovers

    Exclusively for Linux lovers

    Sorry for those of you who are not in love with GNU/Linux and Unix (exclusively in their command line version), but I could not resist to this: From xkcd.com

  • How to crack HD DVD?

    How to crack HD DVD?

    I was preparing a small post to talk about what I was envisonning as the future of anti-piracy measures included in HD DVD and BluRay DVD. According to me, there were two possible angles of attack: Break the AAS coding on the disc itself. Use the weaknesses of the HDCP protocol that is a requirement…

  • YouTube & Google will kill the TV

    Now that Google has bought YouTube, the issue is really what is going to happen. It is not enough to see a lot of traffic (YouTube has tens of millions of users rushing in to look at a myriad of online videos) to make a good business model (look at the 2000 Internet bubble that…

  • Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

    Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

    This is the title of one of the worst movies ever filmed, according to the Internet Movie Database. But anyway, I have the pleasure to wish you a merry Christmas.

  • Dodie Legaspi photos

    Dodie Legaspi is a photographer I foudn on the Internet (he exposes on Multiply.com) Image courtesy of Dodie Legaspi – all rights reserved I invite you to check specially the following series: Roovin & Maela (marriage shots) Street photo Studio portraits

  • BitTorrent purchases uTorrent

    BitTorrent, the leader and creator of the P2P technology that is driving most of the video and large-file peer-to-peer exchanges just announced that they bought µTorrent (micro-Torrent or uTorrent), the company providing the smallest, lightest (and maybe, fastest) BitTorrent client. Apparently, they intend to re-inforce their presence, possibly in preparation of an extension of the…

  • Apple wants total supplier security

    This is the obvious conclusion of this minor news that may attract the attention of the engineers among us: Apple now has no less than seven suppliers for the Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) of its iPod (they expect a strong growth in 2007): Tripod Technology, Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC), Unimicron Technology, Compeq Manufacturing,…