Category: Science & Geeks
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Is your password safe?
This has been the big question of security for many years. You are told repetitively that this is critical. Over the injunction not to trust anybody with your valuable passowrd(s) and not to write it down, it is interesting to know what would happen if a hacker tried to crack your password with minimal knowledge…
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My Whale day
I have recently found quite a number of interesting tidbits about whales (mostly from scienceblogs) I wanted to share here with you. Do whales sleep? Whale sharks do it deeper? Whale sharks are not whales, only sharks, but it seemed adequate enough for this category. Studying whale behaviour Pacific whale decline ‘a mystery’ The Acoustic…
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FileHamster: Better than backup
It’s often (but not often enough) repeated: data backup is a critical element of the security of your data. Too often, we frget about it because of a lack of tools easy enough to support it without significant user involvement. Here comes the main advantage of the excellent freeware tool for Windows: FileHamster from Mogware.…
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The Windows upgrade
An upgrade maybe painful: Vista as a fakir chair. Source: Ctrl-Alt-Del.
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GNU-emacs, version 22.1
One of the most efficient way to start a religious war between white hat hackers is to ask “what is the best text editor?” Everybody got their own choice and they are quite sensitive to the issue. My own choice is Emacs. Today I have the pleasure to announce that GNU-Emacs is released in its…
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84 births: The Siberian Tiger mothers are feeling good
A North China breeding center has announced that they already had 84 births this year. The Amur Tigers or Siberian Tiger, or Machurian Tiger are the largest living big cats with more than 600 pounds for an adult. They intend to breed some of them in order to prepare them for a future life in…
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How to disassemble your Minolta 50mm/1.7 lens
The 50mm f/1.7 lens from Minolta has the bad reputation of sometimes seeing its diaphragm iris locking itslef open (along with the excellent opticla quality of the glass – even better than for the bigger brother the 50mm f/1.4). Knowing that the repair services are expensive and remembering Minolta’s demise, here comes Internet and one…
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Inkjet impressions will be dead soon
Previous articles about inkjet printing 2005 highlights about inkjet printing (including prints longevity). Canada’s National Archive experts are worried that we don’t have enough knowledge about how inkjet prints age. They fear that most of them will die early because the dried ink is much more exposed to external stresses than the pigments of traditional…