Technology opinions and digital photography
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Flowers of Costa Rica
Tropical flowers are often very colourful and unusual in form (for us, European people). Why not try and interpret them with pictures which abandon all hope of identification and taxonomy.
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CrashPlan: A few questions
For some time already (a few years, actually), I use and I recommend CrashPlan as an online backup solution. My photos are sent to a US backup server to protect them against some seriously bad event in my home (a fire? the theft of my computer hardware?) which would leave me without any backup locally…
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Back from Costa Rica
Did you know that Costa Rica probably has 5% of global biodiversity (if it is counted in quantity of local species)? Marion and I went and checked this on location, despite (Marion’s) worries that most of local animals may be mostly insects, but with the hope to bring nice shots of cute little frogs. All…
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Default calendar in iOS
When I recently replaced my ageing iPhone, I had to install some applications again and I encountered a little issue: Since I have several calendars all in the same phone (my office Outlook agenda, the personal calendar from Google, and some others), the phone insisted on creating all my new meetings in the wrong calendar.…
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Happy Birthday HAL-9000!
It’s on January 12th, 1992 that, according to Arthur C. Clarke, was born HAL-9000, the computer from “2001, A space Odyssey” (the book from Arthur C. Clarke and the movie from Stanley Kubrick). Actually, the first time it was powered on. So, it is exactly 23-year old today. Happy birthday HAL-9000! HAL-9000 is an Artificial…
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#IAmCharlie
In solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, the victims of 7 January 2015 and all defenders of freedom of expression. The bastards can kill, but they will never be right.
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Happy new year
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Panda discovers Toronto’s snow
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Synology on a sub-domain (with a dynamic IP address)
My problem: I’ve got a Fiber connexion to the Internet (at Numéricable, one of the main ISP in France) which is forcing a dynamic IP address on me (no fixed IP address, even with a premium; They’ve settled in the XXth century). This would not be very serious except that I host a RAID server…
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