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  • STALKER goes gold

    THQ Inc confirmed yesterday that the long-awaited “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Shadow of Chernobyl” FPS game has gone gold (it means that THQ transmitted the final version to the company in charge of manufacturing the CDs). So they confirm that it should be ready for the official launch on 23rd March.

  • Why did the chicken cross the road? Prequel

    Those of you who read my little History (or historiogrpahic) exercise about the old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” joke may remember that did not succeed moving back in time very far because of the limitations of Internet search engines. So, I was concluding that the story was older than 1981. After that,…

  • Commodore is back with gamer PC

    This is a dear old brand name that is back: Commodore would be ready to announce a new line of PC for hard-core gamers. This morning, I’m waking up with 20 years less.

  • 40D: Surprise features in a forum

    Today in a DPReview forum, it was heard a set of features for the yet-unannounced Canon EOS 40D. You’d better be solidly in your seat: Live viewfinder (selectable) In Body IS (adding stabilisation to IS lenses when mounted) Good integrated sensor cleaning More Mega Pixels Better Noise management at higher Iso Weather sealed Can this…

  • Combine/synchronize Excel sheets

    When several people work simultaneously on one single Excel document, things may become a little difficult if everybody is doing modifications (or trying to do them) on their own. It is usually necessary to bring some tool in, if you want to handle correctly the comparison between all the modified versions and to lead/guide you…

  • Fluorescent lamps recycling (UK)

    Fluorescent lamps recycling (UK)

    Following (or is it answering to) a discussion thread about the recyclability of low consumption lamps in a previous post in the French part of the site, here are some pointers that may be useful to our UK readers. It is currently agreed that individual householders should dispose of their lamps and fluorescent tubes should…

  • Nikon D40x, a better D40

    Nikon just announced an improved version of its D40 entry-level digital single lens reflex camera, the D40x. According to Ken Rockwell, it would keep most of the features of the D40, adding a few significant ones: The 10MP sensor from the D200 and D80 Fast mechanics (3 frames/s) 100-1600 ISO (or 3200) All in all,…

  • Statistics for the RSS feed

    I recently checked the log files for my web site roumazeilles.net and I stopped to look at the share of the different tools used by the users of the RSS feeds of the site: my Yahoo! 3.8% * NetVibes.com 3.8% Google 11.5% BlogLines 3.9% NewsGator 3.5% MoreOver 4.6% * Technorati 6.9% * Firefox 34.6% Opera…

  • What is a Blue Ball machine?

    That is the right question to ask. But when you’ll see one (thanks to Manufactured Serendipity), the answer will be obvious. Or maybe not… Blue Ball machine

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