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Archive for November, 2004

Et Cetera: Apple, LinkedIn, Skype, DLP, Estonia…

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

I’m borrowing the title from ArsTechnica to point out and comment on some of the interesting things I have been putting in my link blog lately.
A survey seems to show that over 10% of PC users, who buy an iPod, switch or consider switching to the Mac. It pretty much supports what I was writing […]

Some more Firefox love

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

It isn’t very original these days to write that one loves Firefox, the Mozilla web browser that reached its 1.0 milestone a few days ago. I have been using Mozilla since some time, as well as many of the Firefox precedent releases. Tabbed browsing and popup blocking changed my browsing experience, and I spend a […]

The Nespresso approach… and Apple

Saturday, November 20th, 2004

This week I bought a Nespresso coffee machine. It is an espresso machine that makes a coffee as good as the espresso one can get in a French restaurant. It has 19 bars of pressure, which is key for making a good espresso. The coffee comes in individual little aluminum capsules, which makes the whole […]

S5 slideshow system and using it with FreeMind

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

S5 is a great little piece of software. It is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The slide show is one simple HTML file and with the different style sheets provided, one has the slideshow, the printer-friendly and the online-friendly versions. Check out the S5 introduction slideshow and don’t forget […]

My blogging history

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

I did notice that I have been blogging since longer than I thought… For the development of the APIC Timer module for the Linux kernel, I had a project page that I maintained along the development and where I posted news about my progress. This was started beginning of 2000, and it actually was a […]

On Skype Phones

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

This is going to be about speculations on Skype possible future moves. If you don’t know Skype, the Internet telephony software that just works, go try it out and come back after.
Skype said they plan to make money by selling premium services, like calling real phones (available) or voice mail (might come), while keeping the […]

Such a deception

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

Although I’m French, I have been following this US election with a lot of interest. French TV had many reports about various aspects of the US, like the importance of religion. The French-German channel Arte had basically everyday some very interesting program on the US. Some of these programs have been quite frightening, especially regarding […]