Category: Software
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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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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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BioShock sample movie
This is a sample movie showing most of environment and game play of BioShock, one of the next impressive FPS video games for PC. Apparently, the images of the game will really be dark (compared to other games). But it’s true that everything is happening underwater in indoors. Source: Voodoo Extreme.