Le deuxième constructeur automobile japonais a annoncé vendredi à Tokyo qu'il se retirait de la Formule 1 en raison de la crise économique mondiale. 2008 aura été sa dernière saison.

Honda a annoncé vendredi à Tokyo son retrait de la Formule 1 en raison de la crise économique mondiale. « Honda va se...

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800 workers at Honda in Northamptonshire face redundancy, following news the F1 team is up for sale.

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Heu... déjà ? pIl commence à se faire un peu vieux mais ce n'est pas grave, Codemasters met à disposition dès à présent un pack de contenu téléchargeable baptisé 8 Ball Pack pour le très bon Race Driver : GRID . Au menu de réjouissance, 8 nouvelles voitures : - McLaren F1 GTR - TVR Cerbera Speed 12 - Mitsubish... /p

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag"Motorsports/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/honda/" rel="tag"Honda/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/83234204_450op.jpg" /br /br /According to several reports, Honda has put its F1 team up for sale and if the automaker doesn't find a suitor before the start of the season in March, it won't be campaigning in 2009.br /br /An unnamed source told Reuters that Honda team bosses Ross Brawn and Nick Fry said, "They have a month to find a buyer, otherwise they are closing the team." Autocar reports that a media lunch was cancelled this week and that a staff meeting at Honda Team HQ in Brackley was called this evening and an official statement will follow tomorrow morning from Japan.br /br /The reason for the decision is due to the current economic climate and the cost of developing a competitive car that abides by the 2009 rules. Finding someone to back the team during these tumultuous times is going to prove difficult and there's already talk that Bernie Ecclestone may step in to attempt to work out a deal to keep Honda around.br /br /More information should follow tomorrow. Thanks to all who tipped in.br /br /[Sources: a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSTRE4B379P20081204"Reuters/a, a href="http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/236363/"Autocar/a, a href="http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44707"ITV/a | Image: Clive Mason/Getty]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/honda-f1-team-for-sale-no-buyer-means-no-2009-season/"Honda F1 team for sale, no buyer means no 2009 season/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:48:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/honda-f1-team-for-sale-no-buyer-means-no-2009-season/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1391631/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/honda-f1-team-for-sale-no-buyer-means-no-2009-season/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/nvqhCFfdBWPW7grVFXJQh5-ny-c/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/nvqhCFfdBWPW7grVFXJQh5-ny-c/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=xTRSYyLz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=xTRSYyLz" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=LtB1MMGP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=LtB1MMGP" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/cu7mbiEljhQ" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://www.f1-action.net/infos/IMG/rubon0.jpg" align="left" hspace="2" vspace="2" Un accord pour le futur

Selon les dernières informations rapportés par les médias britanniques, l'écurie Honda F1 va annoncer son retrait de la Formule 1 dès ce vendredi. Le team basé à Brackley (Angleterre) fermera définitivement son usine si aucun repreneur n'est trouvé d'ici peu de temps.

F1 Le départ de Honda ? - Honda / Fiche Honda, Grande une

Selon l’agence de presse Reuters jeudi soir, l’écurie Honda communiquera vendredi au sujet de son avenir en F1. Aucune autre précision n’a été apportée mais les rumeurs circulent.

img src="http://www.f1-action.net/infos/IMG/arton10158.jpg" align="left" hspace="2" vspace="2" Le départ de Honda ?

Honda are expected to make an announcement on their future in Formula One on Friday amid widespread reports that they are set to leave the sport -- leaving Jenson Button (left) and Rubens Barrichello without a drive for the 2009 season.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/edition_sport/~4/fSe-4eZY2qQ" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://www.f1-action.net/infos/IMG/arton10157.jpg" align="left" hspace="2" vspace="2" Bourdais va être évalué

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Sport's financial crisis deepens as Brawn breaks news, prompting flood of calls from staff to other racing teams

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En farfouillant dans un magasin d'invendus, j'ai découvert une tablette graphique SMOBY (Les technopotes). J'ai pas mal hésité avant de la prendre ne sachant pas si elle fonctionnerai sous Ubuntu. Mais dans ce type de magasin les bonnes affaires partent vite et vu le faible prix (20 euros) je me suis finalement décidé à l'acheter.

Installation

Une fois la tablette connectée, la commande "lsusb" me donne :

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 5543:0004 UC-Logic Technology Corp. Genius MousePen 5x4 Tablet

Elle semble reconnue mais ne fonctionne pas. Une petite recherche sur Google avec ces références me dirige vers le blog "The digital Blue Wave"

Attention : Cette installation ne s'applique qu'à Hardy Heron 8.04. De plus l'utilisation d'un pilote externe et la modification du fichier de configuration Xorg représentent un risque non négligeable d'endommager votre système.

Téléchargez le fichier http://specificcrap.arbitrarycrap.com/wizardpen_drv.so et copiez-le dans le dossier "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/" :

sudo cp wizardpen_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/

Trouvez le nom exact de la tablette avec la commande :

cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep Name

Avant toute modification sauvegardez votre fichier de configuration :

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

Éditez le avec :

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

pour y ajoutez les lignes suivantes en utilisant le nom obtenu précédemment :

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "WizardPen Tablet" Option "Name" "UC-LOGIC Tablet WP5540U" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Driver "wizardpen" Option "TopX" "5619" Option "TopY" "6554" Option "BottomX" "29405" Option "BottomY" "29671" Option "MaxX" "29405" Option "MaxY" "29671" EndSection

Vous pouvez adapter les valeurs Top et Bottom pour agrandir la surface utilisable de la tablette.

Dans la section "ServerLayout" ajoutez les deux lignes :

InputDevice "WizardPen Tablet" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer"

Sauvez le fichier, déconnectez-vous puis ouvrez une console avec CTRL SHIFT F1 pour y redémarrez X server :

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

Si vous rencontrez des problèmes au redémarrage vous pouvez restaurer vos paramètres initiaux (si vous n'êtes pas sur de vous pensez à imprimer la procédure) :

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Utilisation

Pour activer la gestion de la pression dans GIMP il vous faudra configurer votre tablette dans "Préférences - Périphériques d'entrée" :

J'en ai profité pour installer Tuxpaint :

sudo apt-get install tuxpaint tuxpaint-data tuxpaint-stamps-default

La distinction des boutons sur le stylo n'étant pas évidente pour un enfant, il est préférable de lancer Tuxpaint avec l'option "--nobuttondistinction".

Il a réussi à écrire son nom mais il a encore besoin de s'entraîner :

Cerise sur le gâteau, le logiciel fournit avec la tablette "Atelier Créaclique Mia" fonctionne en utilisant Wine :

Finalement tout fonctionne parfaitement et je ne regrette absolument pas de l'avoir acheté en ayant fait confiance à la communauté Linux pour son installation.

Billet original de Pianopenguin.Votez pour cet article sur le Planet Libre.

I have decided to switch from an Olympus system to one of the two mainstream systems.
I absolutely love Oly glass (this is why I have been holding on to 4/3), but the full frame bodies like the D700 and the 5D II are simply too tempting.

My initial plan, due to budget considerations, is to get a crop-sensor body (40D, D200, or D300 - I am *not* considering the 50D, D90, or D80), and then upgrade to a D700, its higher res successor, or a 5D II later.

Now I need to decide which lenses I will be getting, and that is where the choice between systems gets tricky.

Initially, I want to get a nice "walkaround" zoom. The lens should be full-frame capable (not DX or EF-S), sharp, and reasonably fast.
Also, the lens has to be immediately useful on a cropped sensor body. I.e. a 28-70 mm lens will probably *not* fit the bill.

I doubt that coming off the ZD 14-54 f2.8-3.5 I could be tempted with an f3.5-5.6 consumer zoom. You never know, of course - I know next to nothing about Canon and Nikon glass, and maybe some of these are excellent!

Canon lens choice is more or less clear: if I will be going with a Canon system, the first two lenses I will be getting are the 50 mm f1.4 and the 17-40 f4 L ($300-ish and $650-ish, respectively).

With Nikon it is much harder to decide. Did they ever make any affordable, full-frame capable lens that will be comparable to Canon's 17-40 L? Are there any non-zoom Nikon lens combinations I should be considering? Are there any Nikon lenses I should be avoiding like plague?

Gagner une troisième couronne mondiale. C'est dans cet état d'esprit que Fernando Alonso ( Photo L'Equipe ), champion...

Sur son site Internet, jeudi, l’écurie Toro Rosso a annoncé que le Français Sébastien Bourdais, le Suisse Sebastien Buemi et le Japonais Takuma Sato allaient effectuer de nouveaux essais les 9, 10 et 11 décembre prochain à Jerez (Espagne).

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