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Formula 1 returns this weekend to SPA, Belgium. I searched for SPA on Google Earth and the feedback focus was not the racing circuit, but the village. I got better results looking for some famous turns, like “Eau Rouge”. Once I found the racing circuit, I grabbed the snapshot below. Regarding the event’s live coverage, [...]

Very good and free Usenet search engine: http://search3.aeton.biz/ Interesting blog – got here after some F1 related search: http://doctorvee.co.uk/ Good explanation of rFactor’s player profile file: http://legends-league.com/wiki/RFactorPLRFile?show_comments=1 Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 (I was surprised to learn that its 32 bits version can address up to 32 GB of RAM – indeed I am using it [...]

If you have files that unpack to a Blu-Ray structure like \BDMV \CERTIFICATE but you don’t have a Blu-Ray recorder, you can easily still play the corresponding Blu-Ray disc: (1) use Nero Burning ROM to burn an image .nrg file of a Blu-Ray compilation consisting of the files. (2) mount the resulting .nrg file in [...]

I nearly bought an Apple iPod Touch 64 GB version, from amazon.co.uk, using some gift certificates I had been offered. I had been considering the iPod since I saw at zinio.com that they now have an app for the iPhone and iPod, that can read Zinio content. This made me happy because I own (literally) [...]

I am a long time user of Chris-TV, a sofware that handles many analogue PCI TV cards – I use it with a Hauppauge’s dual tuner PVR-500. I think this software product lost some of the attributes that once, years ago, made it the only viable solution for those who really wanted to use their [...]

After the failure of my 27 months old XFX 8800 Ultra, I bought an ATI 5970 VGA card, which is impressive hardware on paper, yet served by very imature drivers. This card performs great on 3D games but is miserable on “simple” 2D desktop applications, namely for video – and I am a very intense video [...]

Round / Grand Prix / Circuit / Date / Race result01  Bahrain  BIC  March 14  02  Australian  Albert Park  March 28  03  Malaysian  Sepang  April 4  04  Chinese  Shanghai  April 18  05  Spanish  Catalunya  May 9  06  Monaco  Monaco  May 16  07  Turkish  Istanbul  May 30  08  Canadian  Gilles Villeneuve  June 13  09  European  Valencia  June 27 [...]

“Drawn to Japan – A Manga Adventure”, is a 12 minutes funny introduction to ten Japanese particularities: (1) exchanging business cards, (2) hot springs, (3) toilets, (4) riding the bullet train, (5) the tea ceremony, (6) the Japanese subway, (7) food and (8) how to eat it, (9) the samurai, and (10) karaoke. Oh, and [...]

I consider Alain Prost the best F1 driver, ever, and by far! Today, 2010–02–24, was his birthday. To feel some of the old F1 magic, that once got me out of bed to watch the Asian Grand Prixs at 05:00 AM and earlier, I drove the 1993 William Renault and the 1991 Ferrari, on rFactor. Great [...]

I rejected VS.PHP as a viable solution for PHP debugging. It happened in 4 steps. (1) I was trying VS.PHP 2.8 with Visual Studio 2008, when I found that, for curl projects, it is needed to edit the file php-xdebug.ini located in the VS.PHP install folder, and then uncomment the use of the curl extension. This means [...]