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  • How to clean C source code (fast)

    The old tricks for cleaning your C code of most of its unwanted ugliness: Run PC-Lint on the code. Run LCLint on the code. Run CL /W4 /Za /Ox on the code (with your usal compiler, optimization finds many bugs not found without) Run GCC -O3 -Wall -ansi -pedantic on the code.

  • Books that will induce a mindfuck

    Books that will induce a mindfuck is a post on Everything2.com, and it gives a list of pretty interesting English books.

  • Only f/5.6 for auto-focus

    People keep asking a simple question: “why do my expensive camera fail to auto-focus when I plug my tele-lens into a 2x converter?”. Unfortunately, the answer is pretty simple. Most auto-focus cameras (digital or not) have a AF sensor limited to f/5.6 detection. If your lens is not opening more than that, the AF is…

  • Inkjet paper has a surface: Is microporous best?

    All inkjet papers were not born equal. For example, their surface can be varying a lot from one paper to the next. Maybe, you thought that the only difference was in the weight of the paper, whether it was glossy and its price. Oh boy! Were you wrong… As a matter of fact, paper manufacturers…

  • Nuclear war in Iran in 2006? It’s gonna flash!

    In a private circle, I had made the prevision that the United States of America would initiate a military action against Iran in 2005. Time proved I was a poor prophet. But, now, I wonder whether 2006 is time for celebration of my failure. From voices usually well informed, we hear repeated stories that the…

  • Fighting blur: Two guns at Sony

    This is the right combination against blurry images at Sony: With the new DSC-T30, Sony brings both optical stabilisation and a button to press to reach high sensitivity. Two aces to allow Joe Average to take neat snapshots.

  • Valve cuts its games in episodes

    Valve, the famous producer of the Half Life video game, decided to try transforming distribution of video game software. As they announced, the next launches will see short episodes (shorter than the original successful game) aimed at a public ready for paying less but more often. It seems to be a way to avoid the…

  • AdSense, delay to sense

    Your blog contains AdSense ad banners and you are wondering whether they are always taking into account the real content of the articles you publish. A few remarks from a mere user.

  • This Boring Headline Is Written for Google

    That is exactly the title of an article just published in the New York Times and explaining how online publication had to adapt itself to search engines, their literal-minded approach to text and the impossibility to use nice, intelligent, witty, humorous, sarcastic titles.

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