Category: Software

  • Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows

    A good 2-part tutorial from C|net. Dual-Boot Windows and Linux, Step 1: Get Ubuntu Dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu Linux

  • Canon color management guide

    A guide published by Canon to help you better manage colour with photo cameras and photo printers from this brand. Canon color management guide (2MB PDF file)

  • Rip DVD with Linux – Tutorial

    Rip DVDs in Linux the (Semi-)Easy Way

  • 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…

  • Windows XP nagging reboot message

    Windows XP (probably more after upgrade to WinXP SP2) has an unnerving habit of nagging you when it wants to reboot. Not only does it tell you that it wants/needs to reboot your computer, but it will keep opening nagging error message boxes to ask if you want to reboot. My solution is simple: Do…

  • Palm goes Vista

    Palm goes Vista

    Actually, Palm users were waiting for the release of a Vista-compatible version of the Palm desktop software (companion to the Palm PDA). Here it comes now under the cute name of version 6.2. Download from Palm web site.

  • Crysis – Patch v1.1

    The Crysis game just received its first major patch. It brings a number of little improvements and some big performance improvements, too. Link to Crysis Mod.

  • Project Offset (working title) screenshots

    I have already spoken several times here about a PC First Person Shooter (FPS) video game currently known under the name of Project Offset (a working title htat will certainly be replaced before the project goes to distribution). Its innovation comes from replacing the tired old “Space marine in charge of wiping monsters out of…

  • Optimize Linux and Windows

    Optimize Linux and Windows

    You install your PC some time ago, it may be necessary to clean it up a little in order to keep or improve its raw speed. As a matter of fact, even if we are no longer in the old times of Windows 98 that were nearly forcing you to a re-install once or twice…