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Xam'd: Lost Memories
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:27:00 +0100It's been a while since I posted anything to the anime section of this blog. It is not that I don't watch anime anymore, it is just that I don't want to write about anime that is already widely known and appreciated (like Haruhi or Lucky Star). Recently I have discovered a new series, both good and unknown enough to write a blogpost about it.
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Stitching Photos
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:31:00 +0100In Oregon, I took several photos from one point in order to try to stitch them to one panorama later. The shots were taken from hand, so it was not optimal. In further experiments I would have to use a wider angle lens and higher overlap of the frames (I used about 20 % on each side). Manual exposition and focus is a necessity in order to get the same level of light across the whole view.
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Driving in the United States
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:23:00 +0100I will not write about everything I did in Oregon (you can get better insight to the way of life in the US from the point of view of a foreigner in a Linus' blog), but there is one pretty interesting topic: my experience from driving a car in the US. There are several differences for the European driver:
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Kernel Summit, Day 2
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:31:00 +0100Just a short report from the rest of the Kernel Summit:
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SSH and the Network Gear
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:01:00 +0100How do you configure and manage your network gear? Am I the only person in the world who uses SSH (OpenSSH) to remote login to my switches, access points, master switches, etc.? Does everybody use "unified" tools (but for one vendor only) like HP ProCurve Manager?
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Numpty Physics
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:00 +0100Probably the craziest toy/game I have seen in several years is Numpty Physics. They have PC and Maemo version (with stylus, the playing experience is much better). I have seen something similar as a demo at the conference in Barcelona in June, but this one is absolutely gorgeous :-)
Kernel Summit, Day 1
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:46:00 +0100The first day of the Kernel Summit was pretty interesting, altough against my expectations it was much more development process orineted than technically oriented.
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Intel HDA: Headphones versus Speakers
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:56:00 +0100I have solved an interesting driver problem yesterday: I have a new laptop (more on it later) with an Intel HDA sound device. The problem was that it did not detect when the headphone jack was plugged in, and did not switch the built-in speakers off in that case. After reading many web forums, I have finally managed to get it working. I will try to summarize the steps required, in case somebody in the future will have a similar problem on a different hardware:
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New Laptop: Is Bigger Better?
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:48:00 +0100I am considering buying a new laptop instead of my old ASUS M6R. The biggest problem is that I don't know whether I want a big or small one (see below). My requirements for a laptop are:
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Orange Sunglasses and Chromatic Aberation
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:40:00 +0100I bought a new sunglasses for use on my bicycle. Somebody recommended orange colour because of supposedly better levelling between shade and light (which I often need, esp. on the forest roads), so I went for orange ones. I have discovered that when riding a bycicle, I see the edges of shadows coloured asi if my eye had chromatic aberation:
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Password Manager
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:04:00 +0100Leaving the PalmOS platform, I need a new tool for storing my passwords securely (I have been using GNU Keyring with its JPilot conduit so far). What do you use for your passwords? Is it secure, easy-to-use, synchronizable both with other computers (think using the password data from home and work computers) and with other platforms (Nokia maemo in my case)?
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Alpha 700
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:45:00 +0100My old camera stopped working with any memory card bigger than 512 MB, so I have finally decided to buy a true D-SLR. Having several Minolta-A mount lenses and a Minolta-compatible flash, I have decided to buy a Sony Alpha, which is a successor of Minolta (later Konica-Minolta) cameras.
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What's Wrong With GIMP?
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:33:00 +0100I have recently came across this discussion under the article at Root.CZ. More than half of the discussion is centered around GIMP and its (un)usability.
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Won a Lottery
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:28:00 +0100There are things that can be bought for money, and there are things that cannot. The following one is from the later category:
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Lawful Ransom
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:04:00 +0100My almost five years old compactflash microdrive in my camera has finally died, so I have decided to buy a new CF card. To my great surprise, about 10 % of the total price is the "authors fee". Which is law-imposed tax (a ransom, in fact) for supposed loss on authors' fees caused by distributing copyrighted work using this CF card. WTF?
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