Category: Science & Geeks
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Trusted Computing Platform – Not for the consumer
Trusted Computing Platform is an initiative that is going to help the media companies (music, movies, etc.) securing the media they sell in a strong way. Essentially, it’s intent is to keep everything encrypted to avoid users to have a direct access to it. This approach promises to stomp out pirates. The problem is that,…
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WSPR will tell you the power of your PC
This is a rather good surprise for the normal users of PC. Microsoft is rumoured to prepare a rating to evaluate if a PC will be able to provide a good, bad or excellent experience with Windows Vista. A PC rated 1 will be providing a minimal experience, a PC rated 5 will be near…
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Nikon goes 55nm
Nikon Precision just announced the delivery of equipment to etch silicon at the 55nm level. A major step in the direction of ever more integrated circuits.
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Half the PCs cannot run Vista
According to The Inquirer, it is a wooping 50% of all current PCs that will not be able to display the nice new graphic interface of Windows Vista. Be ready to buy a new graphics card in just a few months for this. This could become a real problem for Vista because one of the…
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United Kingdom wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives
Her Majesty’s police force is worried by the promised arrival of Microsoft Vista and its feature to protect data on a PC hard drive by sophisticated encryption methods – to a result of leaving a foreigner unable to read any information from the PC hard drive. As a matter of fact, this feature could well…
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All the secrets of digital photo storage
Maybe not all the secrets, but a good number of ideas to keep in mind about the storage and archival of data that is pouring out of our digital cameras. Here is what is proposed by the article “Storing Your Digital Images” (by Vincent Bockaert) seen on dpreview.com. All you have to keep in mind…
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Linux penguin
You may have wondered were the drawings of the Linux penguin come from. As a matter of fact, there was indeed somebody who draw the cute logo and it is rather easy to find the real author. Larry Ewing is this guy with a pen. You will find nearly everything you want on his web…
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My test blog on Roums.WordPress.com
This is the blog I use to test the operation of the ready-to-be-used blog installment in WordPress.com: Roums.WordPress.com
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Configuration of WordPress
When you use a blog engine software as WordPress, you soon discover (as I do right now) that one of the great helps this is bringing to the web site owner is the quick and easy reconfiguration and the fast adaptation of the web site that becomes possible. For example, the categories list (the news…