Technology opinions and digital photography
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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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Star Wars
This is obviously not fresh news, but there are significant differences between the old Star Wars movies filmed by G.Lucas in the beginning of the 1980’s and the DVD versions currently distributed. The SciFi fans fight over these differences. More simply, I found a review of the DVD Trilogy of Star Wars including comparaisons supported…
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Tokyo for free
Imagine a second! You are in Tokyo without no change in your pockets. But you still want to have fun an bring back some impressive souvenirs (at least very different from what most tourists have been experimenting). there are 10 things to do for free in Tokyo.
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Microsoft gives USB keys away
Right! If you go to the web site of the Redmond company and you ask for information about the Microsoft licenses, they will offer to send you a USB key containing all the needed information. This is certianly not a 1GB USB drive, but nothing will stop you from formatting the USB key once you…
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New technologies: Updated availability schedule
If we look quickly, here are a few of the significant availability dates for some important technologies for PC computers around us: Windows Vista: awaited for the first week of October HD-DVD: announced for March 2006, but probably without write capacity (because DRM will not be implemented yet) Blu-Ray DVD: announced for May 2006 at…
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A low-priced Home Cinema configuration
Willing to install a Home Cinema configuration (that was an old dream of mine), I decided to buy according to my limited budget. Here is how it turned to be and how you can do the same. Video projector I started by buying a fairly good video-projector. You should always be sensitive to what is…
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A tutorial on printing
Beware, this web site will not be overflowing with images and colors. It is about the technicalities of printing technology. Interesting anyway. A tutorial on printing.
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