Category: Science & Geeks
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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…
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Your photo on a pillow
This is the product offering of an American company (TreasureKnit). You can ask them to knit a plaid, or the surface of a pillow or a blanket starting from the photographic image that you would provide. Even better than the large format prints, here comes tailor-made tapestry. I doubt it will always produce fine art…
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Sigma SD14: It’s out in the wild!
Here it comes! Sigma finally made its new camera public. The SD14 is the serious successor of the SD10 digital SLR camera. The Sigma web site tells us much more than the teaser it was presenting in the recent weeks. As could be expected, the center spot of the show is the Foveon X3 sensor…
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Choosing a graphics card
So, you don’t want to spend too much time checking benchmarks and prices before buying your next PC graphics card. Tom’s Hardware has a nice solution in an article that gives the solution: The Best Gaming Video Cards for the Money: October 2006. The selection may change in time (this market is a real ground…
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AdSense-Deluxe to ease Google advertisment on a WordPress web site
For some time now, I use a small plug-in that I feel is quite nice to help me manage specifically the advertisment banners from Google AdSense on my web site. You may have already noticed one or two of those ads that appear right in the body of a posted article. Usually, it is quite…
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Choosing an AMD AM2 motherboard
Currently, the wonder kid of AMD microprocessor sockets is the AM2. But, up to now, it was a bit difficult to find comparaisons between the available motherboards. This is what Tom’s Hardware corrects nicely with its “Socket AM2 Motherboard Summer Slam“. There is no winner (only good motherboards), but with a lot of different feature…
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6mn to move to OpenOffice
You are thinking about moving from Microsoft Office (expensive commercial bloatware ;-)) to OpenOffice (free). A few questions you can ask to orgniaze your transition, before you jump ahead.
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Download your word processor (free)
For a very long time, one of the greatest hits of search engines sending visitors to Roumazeilles.net has been “free download word”. Now, we are nearly in position to offer another advice than the usual Go download OpenOffice. I still consider OpenOffice as the best replacement for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but new opportunities are…