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Choice of a PC case

David — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:57:47 +0000

The case is the only visible element of a computer from the outside. So you need to choose it at your taste!

You must also take care of its characteristics, but nowadays, all manufacturers create good cases, more practical and evacuating a maximum heat. You have still some choices to make.

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Buying a computer or building one?

David — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:55:45 +0000

As in all domains, in computer science there is a huge gap between the "newbies" who buy a computer in supermarkets, and the experts who will choose each component one by one.

However, many shops and Web merchants offer to assemble your machine for $30 to $60. It allows you to build your custom PC. But build it yourself is even not so difficult as you may think. Each piece fits generally only in the correct location.

Finally, your machine can be much more efficient and powerful for the same price as the mounted computers.

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DVD legal vs illegal

David — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:04:42 +0000

Sometimes an image is more than one thousand words... This schema shows how you read a DVD when you illegally download it, and when you stupidly pay to see ads!

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Computers in 2010

David — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:11:42 +0000

Here we are on 1 January 2010, this site now exists for 2 years. Since we have seen the appearance of processors with multiple cores, phones with more and more features...

On the Web, the fashion in sites design was sober and clean, today they become again heavier and flashing. Social networks have lost some appeal and the public returned to the classic information sites.

Google has expanded its system of spying on all Internet sites using its advertising.

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Apple cancel warranty for smokers

David — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:25:19 +0000

Apple refuses to repair several computers, still under warranty, for the reason their owner was a smoker.

The Apple company has explained that these computers were "contaminated" by cigarette smoke and could not be repaired for "health reasons" because of risks of passive smoking on health technicians!

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The new Nokia Internet Tablet

David — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:49:20 +0000

Following the N770, N800 and N810, Nokia improves its Web tablet principally through integrating the functions of a cell phone.

The Nokia N900 will appear around Christmas and bad news, its price will be triple that of its predecessors: near 650€!

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Two new Sony Ericsson cell phones

Jessica — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:06:21 +0000

The 18th November, Sony Ericsson invades several websites and the Yahoo homepage with some jumping balloons, the hoppers.

This was to introduce two new cell phones: Aino and Satio.

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The Pirate Bay shuts down its trackers

David — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:19:13 +0000

The site The Pirate Bay, referencing files for sharing on BitTorrent, had been attacked in Italy and the Netherlands, and heavily sentenced in Sweden. The film and music industries had obtained sentences of one year of jail and € 2.7 million compensation.

In order to save some money, The Pirate Bay announced today the end of its BitTorrent trackers. (A tracker is a server to organize the transfer of files between peers.)

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Hadopi, French way to lose 150 millions €

David — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:52:29 +0000

Thursday, the famous French law Hadopi (version 2.1) is published to the official journal, but some questions still remain unanswered.

The goal is that the first notification e-mails are sent in early 2010. Yet we must clarify some points among all the texts. For example, in Article 6 of the law, the second paragraph was censured by the Constitutional Council. It said that the record companies can bring civil actions to obtain financial compensation.

As these record companies are behind this ridiculous law, no doubt they will also pressure to correct this.

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Another bunch of statistics in video

David — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:30:56 +0000

Another video like the Did you know about technology, this time about everything but still a lot of hi-tech, as Internet and cell-phones communications are really the big evolution of the 20th century. But take care: this video is not 100% true!

Did you know 95% of china's adult population have university degress?

Did you know more jobs have already been lost in 2009 than existed in the great depression?

Did you know at his very moment, the American military has 3 nuclear bombs orbiting the earth?

If not, you should watch this video!

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A lot of numbers in technology

David — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:27:45 +0000

Did you know more video was uploaded to Youtube in the last two months than if ABC, NBC and CBS had been airing new content since 1948!?

Did you know 90% of the 200 billion e-mails sent every day are spam?

Did you know Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every seconds?

Watch that video!

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Windows 7 first look

David — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:29:26 +0000

Some sites just released their first sensation about Windows 7 in final version.

In short, the new operating system from Microsoft is a good evolution of Windows Vista. Keeping the visual aspect of the Aero interface, Windows Seven brings more stability and more rapidity.

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Buy a eeePC without Windows

David — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:32:28 +0000

At the beginning one of the major innovations of the famous Asus ultra-portable, EeePC was its operating system. A version of Linux (Xandros) modified for the EeePC and its small screen.

Attracted by the success of the small computer, Microsoft has "kindly" offered a version of Windows XP, adapted to ultraportables.

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French law Hadopi in troubles

Jessica — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:58:59 +0000

After the strong defeat in front of the Constitutional Council, the high authority for the art dissemination and the rights protection on the Internet Hadopi still suffering some attacks.

The law, refined to comply with the constitution, is now only a big tool to send warnings. A big tool costing 150 millions €.

First Friday, Numerama published an e-mail written by a journalist of the TV company TF1, Jérôme Bourreau, who was fired after writing to his MP. We learn that he has finally said the same things that the Constitutional Council.

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Release approaching for The Sims 3

David — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:16:46 +0000

The Sims is a long saga, with two main games and a lot of extensions. Created by Will Wright, who has also invented Sim City, the first appeared on 2000, the second in 2004. This is one of the most sold video game in the world.

On early June 2009, the new opus The Sims 3 comes! It was time, after 8 extensions et 9 object collections for the 2d episode, the players biting their nails with impatience.

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Hadopi law terrifies the French Internet

David — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:14:16 +0000

The best proof, according to me, of the inefficiency of our legislative system is the small text, made mandatory in 1996, on all the video games warning against the risks related to the epilepsy. Whereas it is the light of the cathode tube TVs which can be responsible about it (and only for already predisposed people), this warning is obligatory on the video games, and not on televisions. Even on the portable consoles, which are not concerned.

The French law for "Creation and Internet" Hadopi was finally accepted on April the 28th in its actual way (some modifications could still be made by the senators) after a first rejection.

We speak and write a lot about this law in France, and it's a good thing. We have a lot of unnecessary laws in France, as everywhere. That's what inevitably happens when politicians must create rules in domains don't know.

So we can really ask ourselves if it's to the members of parliament to vote for laws. They can not be competent in all domains.

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The Pirate Bay also attacked in Italy

David — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:37:42 +0000

The site The Pirate Bay, referencing files for the P2P network BitTorrent, was already heavily condemned by the Sweden justice. The musical and cinematographic industries have obtained one year of prison sentences and 2.7 millions € of reparation.

This time it's in Italy that IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) attacks the website in justice.

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Windows 7 RC available in warez

Jessica — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:02:53 +0000

The Realease Candidate version of Windows 7 falls in the warez networks like BitTorrent in P2P.

This version (build 7100 english) was distributed to several Microsoft partners to find the last bugs. But there won't be major evolution in the final version which will be commercialised.

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Google Update becomes open-source

David — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:47:27 +0000

After often criticized Google, about Chrome because of a potential spyware in Google Update and recently about the cookie DART, I must applause the excellent initiative of the U.S. giant to make available the source code for Google Update.

We often have doubt of what was actually doing this program provided with all Google products. To clear this doubt, this note was published:

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Sextoys vending machine

David — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:54:55 +0000

By searching how to translate some words relative to the sex toys for a site about sextoys, I found this image quite strange.

On the Wikipedia page about sex toys, as an illustration there is a picture of a sex toys vending machine:

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