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  • Belem in Bayonne’s harbour

    Belem in Bayonne’s harbour

    On 19th August 2006, the French ship, Belem, enters the harbour of Bayonne. I went there to enjoy the show. A few images with varying sizes and forms. All images are Copyright (C) 2006 Yves Roumazeilles – All rights reserved.

  • Word tip #2: Page numbering bug when printing

    On about all the versions of Microsoft Word the footers anre headers of a page can print wrongly (The footer may show either 5/1, or 5/5, instead of 5/22, for the fifth page of a 22-page document). It is a Word bug that is known on many different version of Word. Unfortunately, Microsoft did not…

  • D&D baby (is he a NPC?)

    Ron Davis has a very nice picture of a baby fully ready to play in Dungeons & Dragons (or ready to be a NPC).

  • I say NO to the leader

    We are all in a capitalistic society where commercial companies are guided by their financial interest. A company in a monopolistic position is able to freely set its prices (at least, very independently from the consumers/customers whishes and market interests). I can’t do anything about this kind of situation, but it still opens a few…

  • Free movie: His Girl Friday

    Free movie: His Girl Friday

    Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Some may believe that free movies and public domain films come only from low-budgets, B series (or Z series) and cheap cinematographic efforts. This is not always the case and, today, we want to stop at one movie with famous great actors and that can be easily…

  • Ben WILHELMI

    Ben WILHELMI

    Ben Wilhelmi is a photographer I like a lot. He has a nice web site with galleries of powerful safari photos. All his images seem different, but they share an invariable personal requirement for quality.

  • Windows 98: Last available patches

    Windows 98: Last available patches

    With the final real actual end of Windows 98 support by Microsoft in the beginning of Summer 2006, those who are still using this Operating System (the great-grand-mother of the much more expensive Windows Vista) started worrying about how to obtain the needed software patches. For example, what would you do if, needing to re-install…

  • Vista opening sound will be compulsory

    I do not report each and every little news about the upcoming Windows XP replacement. But today, we are learning that Microsoft marketing got one weird idea. Since they want Vista to show a “common, and beautiful, face to the world”, they decided that the music/sound provided by Microsoft as an opening sound for Windows…

  • PDF Creator web site moved

    PDF Creator (the free open-source PDF production application) has moved to a new web site : PDFforge.

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