Technology opinions and digital photography
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Reliability Glossary
This glossary contains brief definitions of terms frequently used in reliability engineering and life data analysis. The purpose of these entries is to provide a quick explanation of the terms in question, not to provide extensive explanations or mathematical derivations. For those desiring such detailed descriptions, links have been provided when possible for more extensive…
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I went to Kenya for a photo safari
It’s now done! I just left to Kenya. I intend to spend more than a week in a small camp in order to shoot (photos) at lions, lepards, antelopes, and other big game animals. I’ll select the best images for this web site when I’m back. And I’ll try to give you feedback about how…
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Bag contents for my photo safari
As my friends and the readers of this web site already know, I am ready to leave for a photo safari in Kenya. In such a trip, the question of what you need to bring with you is always an important one. As a matter of fact, you cannot (or don’t want to) be loaded…
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The end of the pro-P2P French legislation
Everything shows that the French Members of Parliament (Députés) are currently discussing the end of the attempt to install in France a law that would favor freedom for Internet downloaders. The new law currently lacks any reference to the global license (and its explicitly included remuneration of artists whose music would be downloaded by the…
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Email injection: How I protected my web site against a SPAM attack
Some of you may have detected like one visitor (who left a message in the comment zone of an article) that the contact page was no longer working. It was a quick and dirty solution to protect us against a spammer trying to (and succeeding to) use my contact page to send email to another…
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Free Movie: The cabinet of Dr Caligari
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari is a great classic movie from Robert Wiene (Germany, 1920) available from public domain.
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Free movies
The Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Thanks to the efforts of a few half-mad half-genial men, The Internet Archive is attempting to archive all the contents of the world wide web. This led to the creation of an exceptional hardware/software combination (for example, there are hundreds of Terabytes of memory online). While they had…
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Disappearing PC from “Network places”
It happens when several PC are configured as serveurs on the same Microsoft network using one of the many versions of Microsoft Windows. If the PCs can all assume the role of a server (for files or printers), it sometimes happens that the network services seems to stop working unexpectedly (one PC becomes no longer…
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OpenOffice logo
Surprisingly, a large number of people come right to my own web site just to collect the OpenOffice logo. I am sure that this is only a fluke, but I’d like to help them finding what they want. If you need a copy of those logos for your web site, please, do not directly include…
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