Category: Science & Geeks
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More than 1 GB of RAM on Linux
It may come as a surprise to some of you, but with the newest PC equipped with more than 1 gigabyte of DRAM, the 32-bit version of the Linux kernel is usually showing issues around the use of 2-4GB of central RAM. It appears that it’s only a matter of checking the kernel configuration to…
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When will the Canon EOS 6D or 5D MkII appear?
This is the very good question asked by Bob Atkins on his web site. Admittedly, the EOS 6D or the EOS 5D Mk II (nobody knows for sure the future real name of the successor to the Canon EOS 5D Full Frame sensor digital camera). But Bob makes good assumptions about what is possible. Essentially,…
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Free video players for the PC
When you want to play video on your PC you often end up being chased by error messages about missing codecs or similar tough configuration issues. Initially, we saw some people bundling as many Codecs as possible in freely downloadable packs that where then distributed to the Internet. However, most of them where essentially a…
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Online color thesaurus
Would you know what colour cerulean is? Or peach? Or spruce? Or watermelon? Or plum? Or rust? The HP online color thesaurus is a great way to identify these and to get the precise formal definition of such colours. You type in a name, and it will give you the color, similar ones and anonyms.
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FTP drive mapped onto Windows
Sometimes, you make a heavy use of a FTP server. But it is tiresome to go to a separate program in order to copy files to and from this server. There is an easy solution under Windows: Add a FTP server onto a disk drive letter. For this, thanks to CyberNetNews explanations, you can map…
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Manufacturing an Airbus A380
A time-lapse video to show the birth of a giant airplane. YouTube link
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Western Digital: audio/video police included
What could be the use of network hard disk drive of one Tera-Byte which would strictly refuse to serve files because there may be a risk of breaching licensing agreement potentially applicable to them? This is the question that potential buyers should ask before purchasing the Western Digital disc drives using WD Anywhere Access: WD…
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Hot pixels, stuck pixels, Minolta/Sony solution
Sometimes, on a digital camera, there are small defect on the sensor. They translate into a pixel or two which seem to be either black, colored (hot) or white (stuck). This is ususally not much of a problem, but it can be very annoying. On my reliable but old and still alive-and-kicking Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D…
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Latest whale news: talk and faeces
Did you know that whales not only sing but their songs are being decoded into talk? University of Queensland researcher Dr Rebecca Dunlop thinks she now understands a lot of what they are talking about through their thumps, whistles and clacks. Also about whales, Stacy DeRuiter at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts started…