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  • The Y2K7 bug

    On the 1st of January 2000, some people were expecting to see the world crumble because old software applications had been written using dates coded on 2 digits. At the turn of the century (or rather at the change from 99 to 00), there was a need for upgrading/patching applications to support 4-digit years in…

  • Sony Alpha 10 or Sony Alpha 200

    Sony Alpha 10 or Sony Alpha 200

    PMA: The new Sony DSLR is official now Sony Alpha-100 After making a successful entry in the market of the digital SLR photo camera with the A100 in July 2006, Sony should be preparing the extension of its product line (still containing one camera only). Most people expect it to take the form of the…

  • Free movie: Elephants dream

    Free movie: Elephants dream

    Download from the web or from Bittorrent Movie information from IMDB.org You were told repetitively so: It’s bad to download movies, this is really bad; Each time you donwload a movie a cute little kitten dies. But in reality, there are movies that you can download for free without going ilegal, without risking the ire…

  • Canon 40D: Internal information this week

    It seems that there would be some internal information spread on 12th/13th February inside Canon to prepare the announcement of the Canon EOS 40D digital SLR camera. Around there, it is said that the AF will be using the 9+6 sensor of the 5D camera. Stock-Photo-blogspot is also very precise in the list of rumoured…

  • Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation?

    “Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly. It might take a while to change the conversation habits that’s been ingrained throughout your life, but it is very possible.” The rest of the article is on The Positivity Blog.

  • Valentine’s day

    Valentine’s day

    Source: XKCD.

  • A short break to prepare the US Presidential Campaign

  • The most expensive ads on Google

    Google sells advertising. There is some of it on my web site pages. Normally, as a web site owner, I don’t really look at the price ads are sold (I don’t buy ads to publicize and market my web site). But, nonetheless, I was curious about the price ads are sold to Google customers. More…

  • Azureus configuration

    In the world of P2P, Bittorrent is clearly the protocol of choice for big file transfers. This is true for videos (pirated or not), for GNU/Linux dsitribution CD-ROMs, for collections of photographic images, etc. Among the Bittorrent-compatible P2P software applications, Azureus is clearly the one that receives the favors of the greatest public. It is…

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