Category: Science & Geeks
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Fujitsu and Hitachi caught in the Sony battery fiasco
This time, this is Hitachi who announces a global recall of its Sony-manufactured batteries. Only 16,000 this time, after Fujitsu (287,000 units this week), Dell (more than 4 millions in August) or Apple. Â Â Acer (one of the world’s largest laptop PC manufacturer who let a number of others re-brand their machines) is allegedly talking…
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Flight patterns over North America
It’s been years that I was looking again for images I found and used on September 11, 2001. They were showing flight patterns over the United States of America (the way commercial airline flights criss-cross the country). Here are the animations showing the enourmous density of planes in the US of A skies. Flight Patterns
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Internationale Zurich Gruppe – it is illegal in Sweeden
IMPORTANT: After my precedent post about the Internationale Zurich Gruppe, it appears that a very important development happened a few days ago with a Warning (“mise en garde”) produced by the very official Finansinspektionen, from Sweeden. If you look at the comments back into my original post, you’ll see that people are having a very…
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Javascript to reload a web page
I recently had a little problem to solve: I want to update (very) quickly the display of a web page. For this kind of job, there is usually the easy solution to write the command in the headers of the HTML page using the META REFRESH tag, but this is acceptable only if you meet…
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China attempted to blind U.S. satellites with laser
Yes! They are shooting very high-power laser flashes at the American satellites in the alleged intention to blind the spy satellites (temporarily or permanently). Nothing is really said as to whether they succeeded. Source: DefenseNews.
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Local news: The lifts broke down
I live in a 30-level building with fourn (4) independent lifts to reach the 200+ flats. Unfortunately, today (after several days of incidents), the last of the lifts broke down. No way to get in or out (apart from climbing by foot 28-level stairs)… Grrrrr! I hate Otis for not being bright at repairing those.
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Search (free) photos by color
I had already told you about Yotophoto, the image search engine allowing you to choose the kind of copyright or legal rights associated to the image (and, thus, giving you an east way to find free images for your web site, while keeping you in the legal high road). Today, Yotophoto disclose another very interesting…
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Total recall for Sony Li-Ion batteries
After several weeks of companies lining up to recall portable PC using Sony Lithium-Ion batteries (Dell, Apple, Lenovo/IBM, toshiba, etc.), the Japanese manufacturer decided to move boldly: In order to avoid further spontaneous combustions and explosions, all laptop PC batteries using the Lithium-Ion technology from Sony are subject to a worldwide recall. There were already…
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Audit your Unix process list
When you are managing a Unix machine (it is about the same thing for GNU/Linux machines), you are often interested in maintaining a good level of security. For this, one of the most important things is to ensure that the process list (the list of all activities) is containing only secure processes. Checking this is…