Category: Tech
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Grand Canyon soon to open its sky walk
We started talking about it already long ago. Today, the glass path in the sky will soon allow you to walk suspended over thousands of feet of empty air in the Grand Canyon. Grand opening: 28th March. Source: Grand Canyon & Hualapai nation.
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Paris without a speed ticket
C’était un rendez-vous is a short film from Claude Lelouch that turned into a short visit to Paris jail after publishing it in 1876. Speeding through the streets of Paris as seen from the bumper of a Ferrari sports car equipped just for the occasion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLC3-BciWlk Lelouch never revealed who was the driver. The speed…
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MacBooks burn too
We thought that last year’s story of burning and exploding laptop batteries from Sony was a dead one, but everybody is speaking about this now: A MacBook burned while charging its battery. And this is not one of the batteries recalled by Sony. The problem may not be fully under control.
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416 megapixels of true RGB image data
This is the promise of the Press Release by BetterLight. Their new Super10K-HSâ„¢ scanning back is a hell of a big data cruncher producing 416 MP per scan.
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Software RAID: More links
In addition to the recent articles posted here about testing a software RAID solution on OpenSuse, here are a few complementary elements and recommended useful links: The Software-RAID HOWTO Software RAID in the new Linux 2.4 kernel, Part 1 Software RAID in the new Linux 2.4 kernel, Part 2 Worth reading!
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Pixels and LCD diagonals
An importance feature to check when considering the size of an LCD screen. The pixels do not always have the same size on all the screens. At some diagonal sizes, the manufacturers just increase the glass surface but not the number of pixels. This is the reason why the French-speaking Hardware.fr web site made a…
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Hard disc reliability
In the midst of the posts I made about the reliability of optical media, I want to stop a minute to look at the reliability of magnetic hard disc drives. The recent publication of two interesting studies on this subject create a kind of immediate actuality that is useful to comment upon. The first publication…
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CD-DA life duration
In the context of the interest I have in evaluating the reliability of optical discs (more specifically CD-R and DVD-R whose use for archival purposes fully justify special attention), I found an interesting document published by the Electronic Library team of the French National Library (BNF). The BNF is the recipient of the legal deposit…
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Sigma monster lens
At the PMA 2007 fair, today, Sigma just presented a lens outclassing just about everything: An APO 200-500 mm f/2.8. You read it right, just look at the photo below to understand that this is a super-tele-zoom built by aliens for aliens. No idea what the price is going to be, but you’d better be…