Category: Science & Geeks

  • United Kingdom wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives

    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…

  • 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…

  • Linux penguin

    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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • Ping services via XML-RPC and RPC2

    WordPress users know that it is possible to automatically ping search engines (inform a search engine of the updates of the contents of the blog/web site. WordPress uses XML-RPC and RPC2 protocols for this. I collected a number of ping services that are compatible with WordPress