Technology opinions and digital photography
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Recent posts about RAID storage
RAID storage is using several hard disc drives together to improve the reliability (sometimes the performance) over what can be done with one single disc drive. The recent posts here: Creating a RAID-1 on OpenSUSE Testing RAID-1 on OpenSUSE Software RAID: a question of light
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Free online Photoshop
Adobe has been observing the desktop application market and specifically seen Google challenging Microsoft with its online Google desktop suite (spreadsheet, text processor, agenda, etc.). They determined that they want to go the same way in order to ensure a bright future for the Photoshop line. Currently, Adobe has already split its market niche between…
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A game for Friday afternoon
Thanks God It’s Friday! To celebrate this important event of the week, I offer you a special game: throw a ball of paper into the waste basket of your cubicle. It will soon be time to go back home.
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Best performance / noise ratio
As previously announced here, PowerColor just announced the launch of a graphics card based upon the AMD-ATI X1950 pro chipset in a totally silent version (PowerColor X1950 SCS3) that should immediately be awarded the title of the most powerful slinet grpahics card in the world. This is no small thing seeing the difficulty to cool…
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Internet loves UK Internet users
More precisely, according to an eMarketer market study, the companies advertising on the Internet are rushing to be in front of the English and French Internet users. Much more than for Italian, Spanish and German users. The exact origin of this difference is not well explained, but the advertising companies probably believe more in these…
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Video games on a wide screen
It seems clear that if you have interest in a video game that is not just out to the market (even if it is only a few months old), the addition of a new wide LCD display can be source of endless troubles. You may not find the game using all the nice display surface…
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Hard gamers choice: Athlon64 X2 5200+ vs. Core 2 Duo E6400
Steven Walton, of LegionHardware, has been doing a very interesting comparison. He’s interested in getting the best possible CPU for a gamer willing to pay around $220 for his CPU. This is a nice price point because it seems to be around what most gamers are ready to pay to have a fast machine, and…
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A photographer in Northern India
A photographer is hidden behind the FloFlo pseudo. She went to Northern India in December 2006 and she brought a few interesting phtoos organized as mini-slide-shows. The initial sorting allowed to separate some photograph of animal (wild or not) and snapshots of the Indian daily life (from a great country were colour is present everywhere…
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