Category: Science & Geeks
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Everest Home Edition
There are days when you are lazy (you don’t want to open the box of your PC to check what’s under the hood). There are days when all is against you (that cheap PC card only has a reference number printed on it). The rest of the time you’d just like to have a nap.…
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A bottled PC
This is probably what happens when an alcoholic sailor meets a mod’ PC geek. The English Metku.net web site shows us the building of a micro PC inside a whisky bottle. Yes, this is no typo: A micro PC made out of very small boards installed inside a whisky bottle. Even if you don’t want…
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Google pack
For lazy people, Google prepared a set of free software programs, easy to use and supposed to create some competition for the major software companies (like Microsoft). This is called the Google pack and it works with Windows XP.
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WordPress installation
The installation of a brand new blog engine on a web site like mine (containing a lot of things I do not want to change despite the useful addition of new features) was something I feared slightly. It was not half as difficult as what I expected. Let’s see how it went.
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WordPress: A new web site engine for Roumazeilles.net
As you may have noticed a few little things changed recently on this web site. Actually, I have added a new blog engine to handle the bulk of the daily publication of news: WordPress.
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The 1.09 giga-pixel image of Bryce Canyon
People are always aiming for records. While the digital photo industry is all about bigger sensors (despite the fact that it would be better for the actual user to have more sensitivity now that we reached about 5 mega-pixel level), some think ahead and want to create really big images. In 2003, Max Lyons has…
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Will Linux be able to replace Windows?
Up to the first weeks of 2006, I wondered if GNU/Linux will ever be able to replace Windows on your desktop and the result was stored in a separate page. You can still access it.
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How long will your ink jet prints last?
Today, inkjet printers are everywhere outputing photo images. Yesterday, silver-based prints were known for their good permanence (lasting up to a century). But is it the same for the latest inkjet prints? Henry wilhelm (of Wilhelm Imaging Research) is really the expert in evaluating this. The web site contains links to consumer-level articles (e.g. PDF…
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Linksys routers (archive)
If you are interested in getting news I published previously (mostly in 2005) about Linksys routers, just have a look at the original page.