Technology opinions and digital photography
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Global warming
Some people still think that there may be some uncertainty about global warming. Maybe it’s not really there. Apart from the scientists consensus, some people would have you believe that a temporary warming happened recently, but stopped even more recently. Just let them look at the global air temperatures over the last century and a…
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Amazing: Duke Nukem Forever comes back again, and again
After years of multiple announcements but a launch always pushed far into the future, the oldest PC First Person Shooter on the planet comes back again with a video trailer supposed to thrill us with anticipation. However, it’s been years that we’ve been thrilling and the vibration is now dampened. Link to GT
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Capibara, South American rodent
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them The capibara is supposedly the largest rodent on Earth (and it really is much bigger than the usual grey mouse). You will find this placid animal anywhere water meets earth (swamps and rivers), in Matto Grosso as well as near the Amazonia.
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Multiple optical illusion
A fairly good one created by Ava7.com.
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Amazonian panorama
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it
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New Canon products on 24th of January 2008
According to PhotoBlog, Canon is about to announce new photo products on the 24th of January just before the PMA fair in Las Vegas. Obviously, they do not have more information than anybody else on what will be announced really. But they speculate on a replacement for the EOS 400D/Rebel Xti (Canon EOS 450D, maybe)…
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Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason – Review
This PC First Person Shooter (FPS) game was already presented on Roumazeilles.net some time ago. Here is a preview by HookedGamers. As they say: “Ghosts and zombies and rust, oh my!”
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Brazilian ocelot born in zoo
The Brazilian ocelot is a feline species already endangered that you would only find in the wild in South America. The Louisville zoo had the chance of seeing El Conquistador, a lovely little ocelot, born on last September 23rd. Source: ScienceDaily.
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More than 1 GB of RAM on Linux
It may come as a surprise to some of you, but with the newest PC equipped with more than 1 gigabyte of DRAM, the 32-bit version of the Linux kernel is usually showing issues around the use of 2-4GB of central RAM. It appears that it’s only a matter of checking the kernel configuration to…
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