Category: Software
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DRM techniques battling for your computer
The small world of technical solutions to protect the copyrights starts seeing the same issues as the software industry observed fifteen years ago when trying solutions for software copy protection. For example, we start seeing cases where two DRM solutions (Digital Rights Management) cannot live simultaneously on the same computer. This wasn’t enough that you…
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Digital Artifacts – removing digital noise the easy way
The Luminous Landscape is a great web site with a lot of information on digital photography, excellent photos and nice reviews of related hardware and software. I singled out a nice little article about what they call “the colour gremlins” (More commonly, this is known as digital sensor noise). What is interesting is that they…
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Writing Adobe PDF documents
Even if I am still a continuous partisan of writing PDF files directly from OpenOffice (my prefered free replacement for Microsoft Office), I found a web page with information about how to produce directly PDF files from applications which do not know how to make them (contrary to the native feature of OpenOffice). Loose wire.
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How to clean C source code (fast)
The old tricks for cleaning your C code of most of its unwanted ugliness: Run PC-Lint on the code. Run LCLint on the code. Run CL /W4 /Za /Ox on the code (with your usal compiler, optimization finds many bugs not found without) Run GCC -O3 -Wall -ansi -pedantic on the code.
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Valve cuts its games in episodes
Valve, the famous producer of the Half Life video game, decided to try transforming distribution of video game software. As they announced, the next launches will see short episodes (shorter than the original successful game) aimed at a public ready for paying less but more often. It seems to be a way to avoid the…
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AdSense, delay to sense
Your blog contains AdSense ad banners and you are wondering whether they are always taking into account the real content of the articles you publish. A few remarks from a mere user.
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Need more traffic, do not pay for site submission
There is a deafening advertisment flood to increase your web site traffic. This looks like snake oil to me: Need more traffic, xxx$ for site submission.
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Windows 98 is dying
We’ve been warned. Win98 is now nearing its official demise. In July Microsoft will stop supporting it altogether. My machines still using it will have to move to a more recent Windows or Linux.