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  • Boeing 787 Dreamliner – network vulnerability risk

    Boeing 787 Dreamliner – network vulnerability risk

    everybody told you about it, Boeing is preparing a new medium range jet airplane that will do everything but coffee: It is nice, it is light, it eats 25% less fuel, it is less noisy. But it has two problems: Boeing was forced to announce a dealy for the first deliveries (EADS-Airbus is not the…

  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, available on Steam download

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, the game prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl (FPS PC game we appreciated a lot last year here at Roumazeilles.net) is now available for download at the Steam video game distribution web site of Valve. More, it will only be available there (no boxed DVD on the shelves). It seems that this…

  • It’s time for the 2008 awards

    I wanted to thank 2007 readers and visitors, so here are the 2008 Roumazeilles.net awards: Best Guest Post Thanks to xo-fashi0n-x0 for her post of “La Cigarette“. A welcome poetic distraction from the routine of this web site. Best Commenter This one was easy since ted is a persistent commenter with interesting insight and providing…

  • Chinese prefer business to sex

    We already knew that Englishmen prefer porn to sex. Now, this is the turn of Chinese to fail getting interested in one of the human activities we thought was really attractive This is the conclusion of one comparison study from Google. They observe that their Chinese search engine is used for terms like names of…

  • Sony joins the DRM-free crowd

    It was about time! I had previously wrote here that Sony was now the last major music company not having announced any plan to offer its music catalog in MP3 format without DRM (without digital rights protection). This is about to change. Sony, like the other disc producers/distributors, finally figured it out: Consumers are actually…

  • Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.2

    As you may have noticed (because of the unusually long time it took me to do the upgrade), I upgraded Roumazeilles.net to the newest version of WordPress 2.3.2. You should see no significant impact (except some security improvements and in the administration part, if you want to propose an article). But if there is something,…

  • bbPress installation

    While installing the new forums software on Roumazeilles.net (bbPress) [it was only an evaluation that will not be followed immediately by a full implementation], I noted a few of the details I needed to do in order to reach a conveniently installed package. Since bbPress is only lightly documented, it may be helpful for other.…

  • More than 1.4 millions pages seen in 2007

    Thanks to all visitors! This year 2007 saw a near-doubling of the number of visits and the start of new article categories. Arguably, you were pleased, but we’ll try to make it even better. I start immediately. Happy new year 2008.

  • This year wishes come from scammers, too

    Visibly, in 2008, scammers and spammers start early: The sheer number of emailed wish cards seems to have increased to very high levels. Only one advice: If you receive a “best wishes” electronic card from somebody that you don’t know, don’t even spend time (and computer security) checking it. It’s most probably a mean to…