Technology opinions and digital photography
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Faster downloads on Windows 7
Windows 7 is not even here, but there are already people complaining about its download speed when using Torrent P2P software. It has the same limitation on half-open connections as Windows XP. So, there are people who already found the solution: Half-Open Limit Fix is a small, portable utility that is compatible with Win7 and…
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One fast lap racing in a Lotus Elise
In automobile racing, if you start from the last position, it is difficult to come back to the 1st position. But if you have the same car as the other drivers, this is even worse. Dean Evans, in 1985 did much better than this in an Australian car race where all the competing cars were…
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User manual of OpenLDAP
A good bookmark: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux and Samba Users is a user manual for OpenLDAP; But it does a lot more than merely explaining the installation of this directory on Debian Linux. It can be considered as a proper training to OpenLDAP in more ways than one. But if you…
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The map of my trips
Nairobi, Kenya Rangiroa, Polynésie française Biarritz, France Lourdes, France Paris, France Rambouillet, France Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud Bilbao, Espagne Grenade, Espagne Madrid, Espagne Séville, Espagne Manchester, UK Dublin, Irlande Galway, Irlande Cuiaba, Brésil Tefe, Brésil New York, État de New York, États-Unis San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis Voir mon profil Créez votre propre carte…
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The invasion of the Giant Jellyfish
No! This is not the title of Hollywood next horror flick. This is a sad reality around Japan. According to National Geographic, for reasons that are not entirely understood giant jellyfish like the ones photographed below are observed in great quantities. They need to be harvested by boat…
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Firefox: more than Internet Explorer
I am not sure that this is exact all over the Internet, but I just noticed that this is true for YLovePhoto, one of my web sites: There are more visitors using Firefox than Internet Explorer. Then, I checked for Roumazeilles.net itself, and I noticed the same situation: It appears that Firefox is moving very…
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Nikon, Sony, photo news flood
Nikon launches a Nikon D3000 (entry-level SLR), a Nikon D300s (enthusiast SLR). Sony reveals accidentally the future Sony Alpha 850 as a relatively inexpensive complément to the Sony Alpha 900 (Full Frame SLR). Find all about it on YLovePhoto.
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Nero 9, for free. No thanks!
A rather interesting article of DownloadSquad tells us about the trial version that Nero offers for its Nero 9. I had already mentioned that there are solutions to pay nothing in order to get Nero 8 in free download (see lower), but it goes quite far. You must give them your email address to download…
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Intel SSD has big problems?
This is what is strongly suggested by an article published in The Register indicating that the Santa Clara giant would have suspended the shipments of its 2nd generation of X25-M SSD drives, because of a data corruption issue. We are waiting for a firmware update to correct this problem from what appears to be a…
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