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Tinis - Tiny and simplistic Network Information System

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Tinis is a small script to suppport sharing of some data among few hosts of a small network. It is designed to be as simple as possible to avoid the management overload of the widely used network information systems such as NIS, DNS, LDAP, that are also sometime a bit tricky to setup.

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Repaire a broken nvidia config after debian upgrade

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Sometime, when upgrading your debian linux disto, a new kernal is installed and after reboot, the X server no more starts. This is because, now using a new kernel, the nvidia kernel module is not properly recompiled to fit the new kernel. To solve this you can manually remove and reinstall the related package to force a fresh install that will fit your new kernel.

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Re-Synthesized Reality Transportation Game

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How to make long transportation time more fun ? Let's make the transportation itself a game. Using geographic database synthetic world generator coupled with GPS, the traveler may play inside a fantasy world directly derived from the real locations he is going through. All the needed pieces to build such entertainment are already almost freely available: geographic data, portable device integrating GPS and advanced graphics capabilities. Let's try to think about what is feasible by linking all that stuff.

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