Category: Science & Geeks
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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…
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SPAM is flaring up again
As a matter of fact, the holiday season seems to be a season of SPAM. This web site is receiving again a large amount of comment SPAM. I guess that the spammers are hoping to catch bloggers while they are distracted by more family matters. Thanks to Akismet for catching all that. I only have…
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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…
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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.
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Franck Brudieux black and white reptiles
Franck Brudieux recently made an impressive photo work on reptiles. Usually, reptiles are subject for nature photography insisting on placing the animal in its natural context. Here, Franck moved to a studio and decided to favor heavily the skins and surfaces of the animals and went for Black and White images. Something completely out of…
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The Linux Equivalent project
If you jumped from Windows to GNU/linux you are certainly looking for the equivalent Linux programs for your previous Windows applications. This is exactly what the Linux Equivalent project provides: A list of Windows programs with their “equivalents” on GNU/Linux. But you have to understand that some “equivalences” are not exactly on par with Windows…
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Free online games
RED is one slightly addictive video game that you can play freely online. But AmorGames has other Flash-based games to fill the long Winter night.
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Hoya absorbs Pentax
Hoya and Pentax just announced that they reached an agreement on a merger between both companies that would result in the absorption of Pentax into the major glass manufacturer. Pentax shares will be exchanged against Hoya shares; Management will be shared between top brass coming from both companies. The good news is that, even if…
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A look at the N|vu HTML/CSS editor
N|vu is a web development application with a WYSIWYG interface that is aimed to be user friendly, easy and powerful. It is supposed to be a serious competition for major commercial tools like DreamWeaver (N|vu is a free download making it a good contender). Unfortunately, since it comes from the Open Source world, N|vu tends…