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New 16:10 wide screen
I have purchased a new screen, and I have chosen an Acer AL2002W, mainly because of its low price. It is a 20″ wide screen, with a native resolution of 1680×1050 @60Hz. For now, it seems to be good...
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New camera: Sony DSC-H9
I received this week my new bridge camera: a Sony DSC-H9. It is meant to replace my Konica Minolta Z5, which had some defaults for the use I have. Along with its 8.1MP CCD and its 15x optical zoom, the...
View ArticleNew router – livebox!
I decided to buy a Livebox on Saturday. The livebox is a modem-router used by my French ISP Orange. It allows me to profit from Orange VoIP service (and thus stop my standard phone line), as well as...
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New mobile phone: Sony Ericsson K750i
I have just received my new mobile phone: a Sony Ericsson K750i which I have chosen mainly for its price and multimedia features, but also because it has an internal modem, accessible via both...
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New motherboard and CPU for my workstation
I have just set up my new motherboard and CPU on my workstation. I have chosen an Asus P5B-V motherboard with an Intel E4400 Core 2 Duo CPU. I have also acquired 2x1Go DDR2 memory from Corsair. I...
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iPod nano video
My girlfriend received an iPod nano video for Christmas. As for music, it works fine with rhythmbox from experimental rebuilt against latest libgpod library. But I can’t find any Linux software which...
View ArticleHosting problems and side effects of the OpenSSL vulnerability
I am in the process of moving all my services (including this website and my mail server) to a new host (actually a virtual server). Until now, almost all of them were (hum, are… see below) hosted on...
View ArticleUSB card reader and USB power management
I have received a brand new USB card reader. At first sight, everything was working well “out of the box”, but when I have checked the log files, I could see the following lines repeated very...
View ArticleFirmware update for Sony DSLR-A700
Sony has recently published an updated firmware for the DSLR-A700 camera. Changes since oldest v3 firmware are: The choice to select auto exposure bracketing (single & continuous) with 3 shots in 2...
View ArticleLaptop as desktop computer replacement
I am currently studying the possibility to change my current desktop computer for a laptop. This is the first time I am looking at these powerful laptops, as I now only use cheap laptops for small...
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