Category: Computers

  • System monitoring with great looks for the control freak

    System monitoring with great looks for the control freak

    We don’t always have all the information we want about what is happenning inside the computer. Sometimes, we get too much of it. But these technical details don’t always appear in a way pleasant to the eye. However, this is what CoolMon has to offer. Free utility for Windows.

  • Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason – Review

    This PC First Person Shooter (FPS) game was already presented on Roumazeilles.net some time ago. Here is a preview by HookedGamers. As they say: “Ghosts and zombies and rust, oh my!”

  • More than 1 GB of RAM on Linux

    More than 1 GB of RAM on Linux

    It may come as a surprise to some of you, but with the newest PC equipped with more than 1 gigabyte of DRAM, the 32-bit version of the Linux kernel is usually showing issues around the use of 2-4GB of central RAM. It appears that it’s only a matter of checking the kernel configuration to…

  • Online color thesaurus

    Online color thesaurus

    Would you know what colour cerulean is? Or peach? Or spruce? Or watermelon? Or plum? Or rust? The HP online color thesaurus is a great way to identify these and to get the precise formal definition of such colours. You type in a name, and it will give you the color, similar ones and anonyms.

  • DRAM and NAND Flash markets still very low

    Manufacturers of DRAM chips and NAND Flash modules still see the market as one long nightmare they cannot wake up from. There is a permanent oversupply that does not seem to be reduced by the end-of-the-year purchases. Taiwan DRAM makers are worried because they do not even see a reason why this should improve in…

  • More Crysis madness

    More Crysis madness

    Crysis, the First Person Shooter PC game of the year is already upon us, but the marketing frenzy is not finished and news are pouring in relation with this FPS game. Let’s have a look at what ended up on this desktop and that I’d like to share. Crysis will be part of a trilogy.…

  • Control Linux from afar

    Control Linux from afar

    When you have one computer under GNU/Linux, it is common to have it as a second machine to run experimentations or dedicated to one single task (run one program like BitTorrent, a backup server or a web server, for example). In this case, it is quite pleasant to be able to control it without leaving…

  • Crysis, available tomorrow

    Crysis, available tomorrow

    After months of expectation organised by marketing and advertisment, the FPS video game most awaited of the year, Crysis, will be available tomorrow (you can already download it on Steam and the Electronic Arts online shop/store -on-line electronic payment and validation- but not use it yet). Graphic card providers are already dreaming of the rising…

  • Crysis minimum requirements

    Since it appears that finding this information about the Crysis video game is a bit difficult, you can follow the link to Crysis minimum requirements here.