Technology opinions and digital photography
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623 marine blue mega-pixels
In the context of a campaign to protect whales from intense hunting and killing all over the world, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society created a gigantic image representing a life-sized blue whale that you can check in details from your computer. A good half giga-pixel of blue whale – to observe with a magnification…
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Paris without a speed ticket
C’était un rendez-vous is a short film from Claude Lelouch that turned into a short visit to Paris jail after publishing it in 1876. Speeding through the streets of Paris as seen from the bumper of a Ferrari sports car equipped just for the occasion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLC3-BciWlk Lelouch never revealed who was the driver. The speed…
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OpenOffice nearly compatible with 2007
OpenOffice, the free desktop suite competing directly against MS Office, reached an important milestone with the availability of version 2.2, Release Candidate 3. This time, we believe, the officiel release of v2.2 is near. Some of the most sensitive improvements were expected by the users: Calc should improve notably the management of dynamic pivot tables…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. requirements
I admit I have been surprised when I recently read the official recommended requirements from THQ for their upcoming FPS game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Shadow of Chernobyl: Minimum Requirements None given, but compatible with DirectX 8 (as well as DirectX 9). Recommended Requirements CPU: AMD Athlon 64×2 4800+ or Intel Core 2 Duo Graphics: 3D Hardware Accelerator…
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Waiting for Crysis, Ballad of the Black Mesa
For all of you lovers of the FPS games, here is a musical hommage to Half Life 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbL5elVXrU
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MacBooks burn too
We thought that last year’s story of burning and exploding laptop batteries from Sony was a dead one, but everybody is speaking about this now: A MacBook burned while charging its battery. And this is not one of the batteries recalled by Sony. The problem may not be fully under control.
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GeForce 8600: Starting in silence
According to PCinpact, the availability of the next generation of nVidia graphics cards, GeForce 8600, will happen with immediate presentation of passive cooling (thus 100% silent solution). It is definitely true that this has become a major problem for the most powerful graphics cards. They usually come with a fan that reminds us of the…
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416 megapixels of true RGB image data
This is the promise of the Press Release by BetterLight. Their new Super10K-HSâ„¢ scanning back is a hell of a big data cruncher producing 416 MP per scan.
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Software RAID: More links
In addition to the recent articles posted here about testing a software RAID solution on OpenSuse, here are a few complementary elements and recommended useful links: The Software-RAID HOWTO Software RAID in the new Linux 2.4 kernel, Part 1 Software RAID in the new Linux 2.4 kernel, Part 2 Worth reading!
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