Category: Science & Geeks
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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…
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Roumazeilles.net in your email
To all the readers that are interested in keeping in touch with us without even the effort to visit us every day, there are two options that you should keep in mind: Using the RSS feed for the web site. You need to have an RSS reader (one is included in recent versions of Safari,…
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Color-blindness and software specification
Do you happen to know that 5% of all male population is actually affected by some form of color-blindness (females are much less prone to it). It means that plenty of activities that tend to rely on color identification by the user is significantly flawed for about 2-3% of the user population. This can become…
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FreeMeter: to keep tabs on your connection
FreeMeter is a small Windows utility displaying a graph showing your network/Internet usage. Simply, tidy, you can try it.
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Intel/AMD, at war again
July will be another month of price wars for Intel and AMD (after a very bumpy April). Both announced that they would shoot prices down once again in July trying to grab a larger market share (for AMD) or trying to asphyxiate the competition (for Intel). AMD will start at the beginning of the month.…
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Script for 404 random page found
Some people have been wondering how I did the random selection of 404 page not found messages that are used on this web site. So, here is the nice little PHP script that I use here to redirect randomly to one of the right pages: <?PHP $address_list = array( “/404/404-01.php”, “/404/404-02.php”, “/404/404-03.php”, “/404/404-04.php”, “/404/404-05.php”, “/404/404-06.php”,…
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Panorama of the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider, the next monster from experimental physics in CERN at Geneva, is currently being built. Peter McCready shot a photo of it in a magnificent panorama (or is it the LHC that is really magnificent?). Source: Neatorama.
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Rent your lenses
PopPhoto has a nice short article about renting your lenses in the US.