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  • ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand

    ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand

    Last Summer, you read the saga of The Pirate bay, Swedish Bittorrent tracker that was raided by the local police force upon request/complaint of the music industry majors (there is indeed a large number of links to pirated music and video on http://www.thepiratebay.org/). But after moving quickly to Netherlands, the server came back to Sweeden…

  • Panoramic photos from the world

    More and more, photography amateurs are attracted toward panoramic images and photos. Virtual Sweeden is a web site showing a large number of the highest quality. I particularly recommend the following ones: Le Louvre Museum 360° Rome’s St Peters basilica 360°

  • Happy Birthday HAL-9000!

    Yes! The computer from “2001, A space Odyssey” (the book from Arthur C. Clarke and the movie from Stanley Kubrick) was offically born (first powered) on 12th January 1992. So, it is exactly 15-year old today. Happy birthday HAL-9000! There, HAL-9000 is an Artificial Intelligence computer (the AI word was common then) that takes its…

  • Crysis expected Mid 2007

    Crysis is going to be the hit game from Crytek (previously producer of the hit game FarCry). But there is the big issue of when such a game is going to appear on our screens. Today, we read an article in the Inquirer that gives some details about the launch. Or lack of. Crysis is…

  • Everything you DON’T want to know about your kid’s sex life

    Parents usually think they know their kids and that they have a relatively good grasp of what they do and think. If you speak about kid’s love and sex life, parents are always a little less at ease, but they keep their confidence. A study from the NY Mag confirms that parents don’t know nothing.…

  • PCB trade shows

    As an extension to the previous article about Apple suppliers for Printed Circuit Boards, here is a list of the professional trade shows that showcase new products in this very specialized area: EPC Show: The EIPC is a network of PCB professionals providing platforms to exchange business and technology information for the success of the…

  • 11 Myths of Surge Protection

    Surge protection is a technology which is obviously difficult to grasp and the sales people do not make it easier. Wendell H. Laidley wrote a nice paper to explain it in an interesting way: He shows the 11 Myths of Surge Protection: Any surge protection is better than no surge protection A UPS will provide…

  • Supersize your images

    If you ever dreamed of printing images in much larger size than what your personal printer allows (let’s say 3′ by 6′), you have either to buy a very expensive printer or use a very expensive photo printing service. You see the common words here: very expensive. The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any…

  • The world’s leading source for pure technical x86 processor information

    Sometimes, you really need to have plenty of detailed technical information about the x86 Intel family of processors or some of the compatible models from AMD, Nexgen, Cyrix, Centaur or Transmeta. And it is not easy to find. So, I recommend SandPile.org: Implementation details, technical documentation, and even discussion forums.

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