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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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Combine two Internet connections

David — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:48:51 +0000

You may be in the same situation as me: not a good Internet connection and a neighbour you know well.

So you may be asked the same question as me: can we join our two connections to double the speed?

The answer is not simple, there are several solutions with different costs, different degrees of sharing and complexity. Let's study 3 cases.

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Create a contact page in PHP

David — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:20:36 +0000

If you have a web site, you probably want to allow visitors to contact you. But without reveal your electronic address.

Of course, it can easily fall in the robots hands which scan the web to make listings. Then your box would be full of spams!

The solution is a contact page, where people can send a message to you without seeing your e-mail directly.

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French justice condemns a security website for hacking

Jessica — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:44:27 +0000

I couldn't believe my eyes reading this story: The French justice condemns Zataz.com to silence.

Here is a little summary.

A reader alerted Zataz.com, a site specialized in computer security, after discovering a very important security hole on the server of a company. Anyone was allowed to access confidential data with a simple browser.

The writer verifies the hole and alerts the company. No reaction. He needs to send several e-mails and phone for the hole to be corrected.

Instead of thanking him, 2 month later, this company attacks Zataz in court for piracy!

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Force to download .PDF

David — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:22:45 +0000

With some PDF reader software, including the most popular Adobe Acrobat Reader, the default setting is to open PDF files in the browser when we click on a link to a PDF.

As a webmaster you can force the browser dialog box allowing to choose to open it directly or to save it..

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English version of the site

David — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:50:19 +0000

Pffff, I has worked hard (I need to congratulate myself!). I prepared an English language version of Azur Dev computer news & web tutorials.

I'm not sure azure.ironie.org is very anglophone, but as I'm locked on the ironie.org, azure is the translation of azur, and moreover the final e is like the e of English (but undoubtedly I am the only one to see it!).

The goal is to translate only the articles which can interest the rest of the world. Some news I publish are too French. I hope that this translation will attract more visitors than the French site. Answer in a few weeks...

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EeeBox, a desktop eeePC

Jessica — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:31:52 +0000

The Asus EeeBox is a very small computer, but bringing all you need: a Atom N270 CPU at 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 80 GB of storage space.

All that in a box of the size of a VHS tape (1 litre says Asus), definitely smaller and less visible on a desk than our large towers!

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Switch from RSS to Atom feeds

David — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:42:25 +0000

What we generally call RSS feeds can be in fact feeds from different formats: RSS 1 (or 0.9), RSS 2 or Atom.

The last one has an advantage (very important for a real geek) on the RSS format: it's not proprietary and supported by the W3C. Moreover it brings additional elements for more content.

That's why I decide to put the link on the Atom feed on my blog. Here is how to do:

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Fire in a hosting centre

Jessica — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:43:50 +0000

The office of the american host "The Planet" had been devastated by a fire, thousands of websites are down.

A data centre has been destroyed, impacting 9000 servers. Nevertheless the building structure and most of the servers are intact.

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