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My day always start with some news reading. You'll stay on the bleeding edge of software
business and development with
Slashdot or
Wired. And when you're a total geek, you never miss an issue of the daily
User Friendly comic strip or the not-quite-daily
Hackles. Monday is especially a nice day because
this is the weekly Kernel Traffic release relating
the last adventures of Linus, Alan and friends in the land of the penguins. I also regularly check
the OpenGL reference site as a 3D enthusiast and developer.
Software
As a Free Software user & advocate, I'm browsing sites like
Gna!,
Savannah or
SourceForge (where some of
my projects are hosted),
SGI's open source projects or
IBM's one.
And of course life would be sad without serious kernel and/or operating systems like
the one with the cute little penguin or
the one with the cute little daemon.
I'm a long time user of the Gnome Desktop.
I've been using
XMMS almost since the very beginning ('98).
I favor patent-free audio compression schemes like
Vorbis Ogg or less free ones like
DivX;). Finally, I'm used to
unlock DVDs from their stupid encryption and
region code scheme, in order to enjoy my right of viewing the DVD I legally purchased. Softwares like
VideoLan will do the trick very nicely.
Hardware
If I want good advice on computer tidbits, I'll check the absolute reference, namely
Tom's Hardware or the french site
Hardware.fr (operated by some Tom's testers).
I also check meticulously my newest and oldest RAM (and overall basic hardware stability) with
Memtest86, a great and ultra-simple tool.
If you trust your OS/drivers and you're encoutering strange hang ups, run it !
I'm very concerned about ergonomy for my every work day. I'm using a soft and indirect
halogen lighting, one of the great Diamontron® monitor from
Iiyama (best quality ever, and affordable) providing a
sharp, square and stable 100Hz image, a comfortable chair and try
to hunt all the nasty noises coming from this dumb box on my side.
Miscellaneous
- Les Entreprenautes : the best internet professional yellow pages (France only)
- Olvido Ruiz : cuban singer sponsored by a friend of mine
- Jazz Valley : the best jazz reference, great mail notification service
- Magnatune : good music, free streams, new business model to reward authors
- Sexual averages : where you learn that a coïtus expends 419 Watts
- Sodaplay : play with living bouncy creatures
- The Jacky touch : find a new meaning of the word tuning (french)
- Cat scan contest : cats have a new ennemy besides dogs
- Monty Python Flying Circus : the best tribute for the most hilarious blokes of the 20th century
- Mad Pong : a humorous tribute to the famous vintage video game
- At last, end up with the last page of the Internet