Technology opinions and digital photography
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WMD better than JPEG?
It is quite hard to tell but, according to Microsoft, the JPEG file format needed a good lifting or – better – its complete replacement with a new one. So, Vista will recognize the new Windows Media Photo format. They promise smaller files with less visual defects/artifacts. But nothing is said about the actual support…
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404 Random page found
I have been correcting an old need for this web site. There was no page to handle the case where you click on a link to a non-existent page. Now, if you go to a non-existent page you will be greeted with some random message. I hope you’ll appreciate the kind of humour.
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AMD: 300mm and cycles
In the recent months, the stage where we observe the battle of the titans of PC microprocessors (Intel and AMD) was not really shaken by the thunder of news or the tremors of falling prices, like in some other times. You may know it or not, but there are major cycles in this industry and…
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ThePirateBay is back online
Merely a few days after their server computers were seized by the Swedish police, ThePirateBay.org is already back online. It appears that as any global private company, ThePirateBay.org really had a crash recovery plan prepared to correct extreme circumstances like those found last Wednesday. The new server is located in Netherlands (an additional server has…
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Firefox is growing up
At least, that is what I see from my web site statistics. Today, I checked and I can see that Internet Explorer is only 65% of last month’s visits. 23% of the visits come from one or another version of FireFox. By the way, Safari from Apple is still around 2%, while Opera does 3%.
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ThePirateBay: some more
The latest news in the battle between the entertainment industry and the (previously) world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site. The owners of ThePirateBay.org, still very sure of the legality of their web site (and it seems that they some good points drawn from the Swedish law), announced that they would be seeking for compensation from the…
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AOL chokes on millions of email messages
Yesterday, AOL fell because of a “software bug” that prohibited any email to be sent or received by the millions of subscribers to the giant ISP. After an unspecified time (visibly less than 24 hours), the operation could be restored. It seems that there was no email lost. The very old but robust email protocols…
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ThePirateBay: We’ll be back
That’s the message that the owners of ThePirateBay.org are sending right now. They expect to come back within a day or two. Woa! If they go as quick as that, it seems they were ready or prepared. I’m not sure that the entertainment industry was expecting such a fast move. I did not.
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