Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Lecture - Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

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Few political memoirs have made such a dramatic entrance as that by Richard A. Clarke. During the week of the initial publication of Against All Enemies, Clarke was featured on 60 Minutes, testified before the 9/11 commission, and touched off a raging controversy over how the presidential administration handled the threat of terrorism and the post-9/11 geopolitical landscape. Clarke, a veteran Washington insider who had advised presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush, dissects each man's approach to terrorism but levels the harshest criticism at the latter Bush and his advisors who, Clarke asserts, failed to take terrorism and Al-Qaeda seriously. Clarke details how, in light of mounting intelligence of the danger Al-Qaeda presented, his urgent requests to move terrorism up the list of priorities in the early days of the administration were met with apathy and procrastination and how, after the attacks took place, Bush and key figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney turned their attention almost immediately to Iraq, a nation not involved in the attacks. Against All Enemies takes the reader inside the Beltway beginning with the Reagan administration, who failed to retaliate against the 1982 Beirut bombings, fueling the perception around the world that the United States was vulnerable to such attacks. Terrorism becomes a growing but largely ignored threat under the first President Bush, whom Clarke cites for his failure to eliminate Saddam Hussein, thereby necessitating a continued American presence in Saudi Arabia that further inflamed anti-American sentiment. Clinton, according to Clarke, understood the gravity of the situation and became increasingly obsessed with stopping Al-Qaeda. He had developed workable plans but was hamstrung by political infighting and the sex scandal that led to his impeachment. But Bush and his advisers, Clarke says, didn't get it before 9/11 and they didn't get it after, taking a unilateral approach that seemed destined to lead to more attacks on Americans and American interests around the world. Clarke's inside accounts of what happens in the corridors of power are fascinating and the book, written in a compelling, highly readable style, at times almost seems like a fiction thriller. But the threat of terrorism and the consequences of Bush's approach to it feel very sobering and very real. --John Moe

Amazon.com: Books: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

Pioneer DVR-108D - Crowning a new Champion

AnandTech

Know your enemy: the author of Netsky/Sasser speaks

La preuve qu'ils ne sont pas tous des 100 watts...

Know your enemy: the author of Netsky/Sasser speaks

First practical plastic magnets.

Article: First practical plastic magnets created� New Scientist

Monday, August 30, 2004

US website offers Caller ID falsification service

C'est les directeurs de crédit qui vont l'aimer celle-là!!

US website offers Caller ID falsification service | The Register

NOVELL: Linux Resource Kit Order Form

Those of you that are working as IT-professionals, can get a free "Linux Technical Resource Kit" from Novell. (But to get it you'll have to answer 23 questions about your organization.)

One of the discs is a "SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional Bootable Installation DVD". - Very useful !

NOVELL: Customer Communities: Linux Resource Kit Order Form

[HACKS] GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem

GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem

Counter-Strike: Source Engine Video Stress Test

Counter-Strike: Source Engine Video Stress Test

3DMark 2005 d'ici deux semaines ?

3DMark 2005 d'ici deux semaines ?

Monday, August 23, 2004

[H]ard|OCP - The Official DOOM 3 [H]ardware Guide

"This is actually great news, as when you are running at the High Quality setting you know you are very near to the best visual gaming experience DOOM 3 has to offer."

JF a raison: La différence entre "High" et "Ultra" est insignifiante.

[H]ard|OCP - The Official DOOM 3 [H]ardware Guide

Mark Carlson's Home Page

Check for "Rigid Fluid" full animation.

JF, thanks again...

Mark Carlson's Home Page (Under Construction)

Tetra Vaal Robot - realistic 3D animation - Analogik

This is one of the most realistic 3D animations we've seen so far. Why is that?

Merci à JF!

Tetra Vaal Robot - realistic 3D animation - Analogik

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Holly Fucking Shit!

Where can I order this genetic malfunction?

http://users.pandora.be/EnricoPlacenta/Films/oor.wmv


Saturday, August 21, 2004

Surge Protectors and Uninteruptible Power Supplies

Peux être utilile pour faire comprendre à certaine personne...

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1638309,00.asp

AWOL USA Alcohol Without Liquid

A disaster waiting to happen.....

http://www.awolmachine.com


Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Counter-Strike: Source Benchmarked

What we saw today with our initial batch of high end tests is that all five graphics cards tested can play Counter-Strike: Source very well. The game is not as demanding as Doom 3 and actually runs at over 65 frames per second with 6X AA and 16X AF enabled at 1600x1200x32 with a Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=1181&s=1: "Counter-Strike: Source Benchmarked"

Monday, August 16, 2004

Google Mail cheats for e-mail marketers.....

Between the Lines - Google Mail cheats for e-mail marketers offer rare glimpse at junk mailer tactics - ZDNet.com

Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2

The programs that are listed in this article may experience issues after you upgrade to Windows XP SP2. You may not notice some of these issues. Additionally, software vendors may have resolved some of these issues. Contact the software manufacturer or vendor for more specific details.

Many of these issues are related to the introduction of the Windows Firewall feature.

884130 - Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2

Saturday, August 07, 2004

POVCOMP 2004: Welcome!

Just in case you missed the announcement in povray.general....

Folks,

I would like to let you know that POVCOMP 2004 is now accepting registrations.

http://www.povcomp.com

The contest starts now and submissions will cease being accepted on October 15.

First prize is a $10,000 64-bit Appro computer system.
Second prize is a $2,500 zazzle.com shopping spree.
Third prize is a $1,000 zazzle.com shopping spree.
4th-25th place prizes are zazzle posters.

You can find out more at http://www.povcomp.com/prizes/

There is also a new group called povray.competition on news.povray.org.

Happy rendering!

--
Ken Tyler - POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group


POVCOMP 2004: Welcome!

Le Service Pack 2 de Windows XP termin�

A noter que Bill gates en personne à spécifier que toutes les versions de Windows XP, pirate ou non, pourront installer ce Service Pack. Ceci dans le but avoué de faire bénéficier des mises à jour de sécurité à tous et d'éviter que les versions pirates soient les futures propagatrices de virus ou autres trojan.

Le Service Pack 2 de Windows XP terminé !

Thursday, August 05, 2004

Nouvelles versions pour Mozilla et Firefox

Important : Avant d'installer cette nouvelle version il est recommandé de désinstaller l'ancienne et de vérifier si le répertoire a bien été supprimé.

Nouvelles versions pour Mozilla et Firefox

Chrysler rappelle 831 000 mini fourgonnettes aux E. U. et au Canada.

Les propriétaires de mini-fourgonnettes à moteurs six cylindres des années 2002, 2003 et 2004 recevront un avis par la poste en septembre pour les informer du problème.

Le Matinternet -- RAPPEL : Chrysler rappelle 831 000 mini fourgonnettes.

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Le saviez-vous? POV 3.6, et avec un nouveau DOC en PDF!

Version 3.6 has many internal differences from 3.5, mostly to prepare for the move to v4.0. From a users perspective, there are no major differences in the way the program is used. There have been numerous changes made to improve stability and speed, however as a rule you should expect most scenes to render identically as compared to v3.5.

POV-Ray: Download

Symantec lance Ghost 9.0

Symantec lance Ghost 9.0