Category: Tech

  • BitComet v0.7x configuration

    BitComet v0.7x configuration

    As the PC I use to run BitComet is rather old (it’s still running under Windows 98) it is easy to believe that this configuration is a good basis that will work on any small machine and old configuration for BitTorrent. Cet article traduit en Français Of course, it would also work very well on…

  • Local news: The lifts broke down

    I live in a 30-level building with fourn (4) independent lifts to reach the 200+ flats. Unfortunately, today (after several days of incidents), the last of the lifts broke down. No way to get in or out (apart from climbing by foot 28-level stairs)… Grrrrr! I hate Otis for not being bright at repairing those.

  • Search (free) photos by color

    Search (free) photos by color

    I had already told you about Yotophoto, the image search engine allowing you to choose the kind of copyright or legal rights associated to the image (and, thus, giving you an east way to find free images for your web site, while keeping you in the legal high road). Today, Yotophoto disclose another very interesting…

  • Audit your Unix process list

    When you are managing a Unix machine (it is about the same thing for GNU/Linux machines), you are often interested in maintaining a good level of security. For this, one of the most important things is to ensure that the process list (the list of all activities) is containing only secure processes. Checking this is…

  • Your photo on a pillow

    This is the product offering of an American company (TreasureKnit). You can ask them to knit a plaid, or the surface of a pillow or a blanket starting from the photographic image that you would provide. Even better than the large format prints, here comes tailor-made tapestry. I doubt it will always produce fine art…

  • Sigma SD14: It’s out in the wild!

    Here it comes! Sigma finally made its new camera public. The SD14 is the serious successor of the SD10 digital SLR camera. The Sigma web site tells us much more than the teaser it was presenting in the recent weeks. As could be expected, the center spot of the show is the Foveon X3 sensor…

  • Download your word processor (free)

    For a very long time, one of the greatest hits of search engines sending visitors to Roumazeilles.net has been “free download word”. Now, we are nearly in position to offer another advice than the usual Go download OpenOffice. I still consider OpenOffice as the best replacement for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but new opportunities are…

  • Pentax K10D – Revealed!

    Pentax K10D – Revealed!

    Pentax finally let everything loose about its new high-end Digital SLR camera, the K10D. Summed up, the beast has enough to fight directly the Nikon D200, the Canon 40D and other Sigma SD14 or Sony Alpha A100 (the latter being somewhat left behind, but it is widely available since last July). Of course, it got…

  • Canon 40D crushes 30D prices

    Sometimes, I like to browse what is appearing in the ads. Today, I noticed that the announcement of the new Digital SLR from Canon, the 40D replacement for the 20D/30D line, is driving prices down for the 30D. If you want a good price, you can check by yourself, but I found the following offers…