Category: Internet
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner – network vulnerability risk
everybody told you about it, Boeing is preparing a new medium range jet airplane that will do everything but coffee: It is nice, it is light, it eats 25% less fuel, it is less noisy. But it has two problems: Boeing was forced to announce a dealy for the first deliveries (EADS-Airbus is not the…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, available on Steam download
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, the game prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl (FPS PC game we appreciated a lot last year here at Roumazeilles.net) is now available for download at the Steam video game distribution web site of Valve. More, it will only be available there (no boxed DVD on the shelves). It seems that this…
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It’s time for the 2008 awards
I wanted to thank 2007 readers and visitors, so here are the 2008 Roumazeilles.net awards: Best Guest Post Thanks to xo-fashi0n-x0 for her post of “La Cigarette“. A welcome poetic distraction from the routine of this web site. Best Commenter This one was easy since ted is a persistent commenter with interesting insight and providing…
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Sony joins the DRM-free crowd
It was about time! I had previously wrote here that Sony was now the last major music company not having announced any plan to offer its music catalog in MP3 format without DRM (without digital rights protection). This is about to change. Sony, like the other disc producers/distributors, finally figured it out: Consumers are actually…
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Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.2
As you may have noticed (because of the unusually long time it took me to do the upgrade), I upgraded Roumazeilles.net to the newest version of WordPress 2.3.2. You should see no significant impact (except some security improvements and in the administration part, if you want to propose an article). But if there is something,…