Category: Science & Geeks
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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…
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CD-R/DVD-R reliability
The questions Many people are using optical media for their archival needs. They are very affordable and the manufacturers claim a storage life of more than ten years, often a century. However, when such claims are made people are always interested in ensuring that the figures are right and provable (archive management cannot accept to…
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G80, G84: nVidia solutions for 2007
The year 2007 will be DirectX 10 graphics solution year. It will be significant because of the arrival of new video games arriving in Spring 07 that will be compatible with this new standard (don’t forget that Vista is only requiring Direct X 9 compatibility to support its spiffy new 3D graphics interface, Aero). Most…
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Economic indicators
While trying to prepare a set of economic indicators for my more official job (I’m not earning enough money from this web site to stop working and just type posts for this site), I have been pushed into looking at what indicators are available to describe the economic outlook in Europe in order to evaluate…
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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…
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ENIAC is 60!
The computer that really started the revolution of our societies, ENIAC, officially turned 60 in 2006. Before closing the door on this year, I wanted to celebrate this birthdate with its museum. All that without forgetting that those of us who are more than 40-year old saw the birth of pocket electronic calculators. With ENIAC,…
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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
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Canon EOS 40D in March 2007
Let’s try a prediction (I was about to say prevision). While the end of 2006 was clearly marked by the lauch of digital cameras to attract some of the less wealthy to digital single lens reflex cameras (or D-SLR) with new products like the Canon 400D (Rebel Xti) or the Nikon D40, I can foresee…