Category: Science & Geeks
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AMD starts shipping 3-core Phenom
2008 will be the year of the triple core CPU. AMD started to ship the Phenom chips in various configurations. As said before, this is a great way for AMD to differentiate itself, but the prices are not expected to go down immediately. Either because AMD does not want to shoot itself in the foot…
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5$ a month legal P2P in Canada and USA
Nothing is for sure, but Wired has an article about this issue: paying a monthly fee to have fully legal access to unlimited music download on P2P. Wired seems to believe that it would be a piracy levy on ISPs, but I think it would be a real license paid on a monthly basis.
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Your nVidia card will get free games
If you have a nVidia graphics card on your PC, you can get a free download of recent games from Steam / Valve. For a limited time, if you qualify (you only need your PC to hold a nVidia graphics card), you can donwload a free copy of the following games from Steam just by…
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Copyright basics
Long ago, I had already published the old Copyright FAQ (“10 Big Myths about copyright explained” by Brad Templeton; You find a copy below, since it appears to no longer be available elsewhere), but here is a good post from PlagiarismToday: “10 Basics About Copyright Everyone Needs to Know“.
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Art Déco pochoirs
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MS-Office 2007: I want to read my files elsewhere
The bane (correction: “one of the banes”) of the new opus of the Microsoft Office saga (MS-Office 2007) is that the Redmond developpers once again changed the file formats. I’m sure that this is for the best. But if you went the MS-Office 2007 path and not your colleagues or friends, they no longer can…
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You do not need more graphics memory
Some of the graphics cards are available in different memory sizes (like the successful nVidia 8800 GT or 8800 GTS): 256MB, 512MB, 1GB. But how much RAM do you really need? Thanks to The Tech Report, you will know: “How much graphics memory do you really need?“. Summarized: 1GB: is worthless, the CPU of the…
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How to draw a triangular optical illusion
Of course, you know about the impossible triangle (very classical optical illusion). Do you know how to draw it? It is complicated indeed and most people will do some ugly sketch instead of a nice optical illusion. However, this is quite simple. It is all a matter of starting it right thanks to the help…
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FontEXPRO to see your Windows fonts
Here is a software tool that will allow you to explore the fonts installed on your Windows computer: FontEXPRO.