Category: Science & Geeks
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CyberShot: Sony is shot again
You’d suppose that bad news could end for Sony, but no. They just announced that they found a defect in eight photo cameras of the CyberShot series sold between September 2003 and January 2005. It would be an LCD display problem with camera refusing to shoot pictures (a software problem?) Sony offers a free repair…
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Your DSLR for Christmas
Christmas is coming with the usual rush for techno gifts. Digital cameras are going to be (again) one of the successes for Christmas gifts. Even more, the Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras are going to be impossible to avoid. Customers seem to be understanding that compact digital cameras are limited and the SLR cameras…
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How do your web site look?
This is the tough question that BrowserShots.org web site anwsers for you. They provide a simple way to test your web site in a large variety of configurations and browsers. This is a very nice idea founded on the voluntary help of computers installed all over the world (widely distributed architecture). This way, you will…
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Public-Key cryptography ready to shatter?
Public-Key Cryptography is a very common technique used to protect sensitive information by encoding it in such a way that decoding relies on the extreme difficulty of some mathematics techniques (like finding the root factors of a prime integer). Today, a large part of our security is relying on this (including most of the secure…
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Why tables for layout is stupid
Even if I am usually in favor of designing web sites using tables, I wanted to provide a link to an interesting article taking exactly the opposite position: Why tables for layout is stupid. For those wondering, my preference goes to HTML tables because they are easier to implement the 3-column designs that I prefer…
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OpenSUSE 10
OpenSUSE is one of the most famous GNU/Linux distributions. It got a recent additional attention when Microsoft announced that they would support specifically the execution of SUSE in the virtual environment that will come in the future Microsoft Windows Vista. Knowing my previous failed attempt with SlackWare Linux, I decided to try again with another…
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Spider pictures
Not only for exclusive insect and arhtropod lovers, but also for those who want to see nice photo snapshots, the spiders are a bottomless source of nice pictures. A web site is offering an impressive link collection about these: Arachnology. Not all links are working (far from it), but the choice is impressive and leaves…
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KNOPPIX: Linux to save a Windows install
I had recently a significant problem while trying to upgrade a Windows 98 installation to Windows 2000 pro. Everything turn ugly (I clicked to fast on a button and could not provide drivers for my motherboard, the installation went bad in the middle of the update of system parameters), leaving the system in a very…