Category: Software
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Pages moved, inform the user but don’t tell
Actually, on my web site, a number of pages have been moved around in the last year. Additionally, some pages are now located so deeply in the site structure that access paths are quite convoluted. The solution seems to go through the use of server page redirection. In Apache (the web server roumazeilles.net is based…
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Suse Linux 10.1 is nearly ready
Or so it seems! This Linux distribution, famous for being very user-friendly and targetting the normal user and providing desktop applications that can be considered more normal than the usual GNU/linux distro, is readying its launch of version 10.1. On its road, Release Candidate 1 was just made available. Previous versions were somewhat worryingly fragile.…
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Free download of Word
Since this question is regularly asked here in the recent weeks, I decided to answer directly. Easier than pirating Microsoft Word, nicer, faster than finding a hacked warez version without a virus, a Trojan horse, you just have to go to OpenOffice. I can’t repeat it enough: Forget Microsoft Office, don’t try to copy this…
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GNU/Linux is tough on Asus A7N8X
I just did a few quick tests (I wanted to install a Linux distribution on a second-hand PC using the A7N8X-X motherboard for Athlon processors). I took me just a few minutes to remember that most distributions (Knoppix, Kanotix, Slax Kill-Bill, Movix2, etc.) do not support the Ethernet controler for this family of motherboards (only…
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Contextual advertisment for safaris?
I just noticed (on my own web site) a contextual ad from Google that seemed quite well targeted. Titled “Wildebeest migration” (gnus migration), it promotes a Tanzania safari en Tanzanie in June-July for this great moment of Nature: 15 millions gnus and 3 millions zebras simultaneously leave Tanzania to go back to Kenya. Big show!…
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Vista draws Office into the whirlwind
After announcing by Microsoft that Vista wold not be available before October 2007 (and, even then only for big customers; Christmas buys are in a bad shape for you and me), we learn that Microsoft Office 2007 will suffer the same fate. Push it a little more and we will have to rename it Microsoft…
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WordPress, keywords are impossible (are they?)
Keywords are not naturally generated by WordPress. But, if you know how, you can easily correct this. I will not let you tell me that keywords are useless in modern search engine. It is more or less true, but not totally true. Their lack in the header of an HTML page is not without effect…
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What do you need to start a profitable blog?
This is more or less the question any blogger asks. This is what a Wired News article tries to answer with the help of Harold Davis you wrote a few books about Google and Google advertising. However, do not expect to make a living out of it right now. His opinion is that you can…
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Disappearing PC from “Network places”
It happens when several PC are configured as serveurs on the same Microsoft network using one of the many versions of Microsoft Windows. If the PCs can all assume the role of a server (for files or printers), it sometimes happens that the network services seems to stop working unexpectedly (one PC becomes no longer…