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Scribefire
June 28, 2008 – 8:58 pm
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I just installed ubuntu 8.04 in a 10Gb partition of my vaio.
I like it a lot. But… 1/2 battery life that I get with windows, no hibernation… and problems (now fixed) with sound.
I installed also firefox 3.0 and Scribefire plugin in it. Now I’m trying it to post into the blog. Looks fine, but Windows Live Writer looks much better… petty that there is no version for Linux…
2 more Gb
May 28, 2008 – 5:17 pm
globat sucks
May 24, 2008 – 3:27 pm
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I have had ESAN.biz site at globat.com
I got a call from my customer (ESAN) to tell me that the site was offline. I had already several problems with this hosting company… they were down quite often. I took a look… mmm
I went to the FTP and all the site was gone!!!! GONE!!
I chatted with them… The server crashed, the backup copy is corrupted. All data is gone. That’s it.
Unfortunately I don’t have a backup. It is not my responsibility I delivered the site, now is their problem… but I recommended this hosting service…. it just sucks. I’m a dead man…
I will publish the conversation with them…. but the clearly state in their legal terms:
12.2 - Customer shall be solely responsible for the development, operation, backup, and maintenance of Customer’s web site and any online store and e-commerce activities. Globat is not required to keep backups of customer sites or data at any time.
strida
April 28, 2008 – 5:38 pm
in the news…
April 28, 2008 – 4:49 pm
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China to s(t)eal $9bn DR Congo deal
(by John C Dvorak at http://www.dvorak.org/blog)
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | China to seal $9bn DR Congo deal –This is one of those China-Africa deals I’ve been harping about on the weekly No Agenda podcast. If you read between the lines you can see how the Chinese are operating in Africa.
Due to be signed in Beijing in the next few days, it gives DR Congo $6bn of desperately needed infrastructure - about 2,400 miles of road, 2,000 miles of railway, 32 hospitals, 145 health centres and two universities.
In return, China gets a slice of DR Congos precious natural resources to feed its booming industries - 10m tonnes of copper and 400,000 tonnes of cobalt.
Its a barter deal - what the Chinese side loves to call “win-win”. Not aid with strings attached, like Western powers have given DR Congo over the years, but pure business.
Any bets that they get started on the mining before the 32 hospitals?
Here is the kicker paragraph late in the article:
A copy of the original DR Congolese-Chinese memorandum of understanding obtained by Newsnight appears to exonerate the Chinese side from all taxes and customs duties until the promised building work is completed.
So the Chinese flood the local economy with everything from spatulas to food to computers paying no duties. This goes into the local economy and drives competition out of business. They keep this up forever because there is no timetable in these deals and the building work is never completed so the Chinese get this sweet deal forever as they stall on the projects while raping the mines. Slick. This was explained to me two years ago yet nobody does anything about it. Oh, and in the process, the Chinese colonize the area since they have to bring in their own workers. Everyone will wonder what is wrong with Africa when someone gets a clue and the populace goes on a rampage and butchers all the colonists some years from now. Unless, of course, the Chinese bail out by then leaving half-finished projects and the country in a shambles with no resources left. They can then blame the Western powers for somehow meddling. Somehow the USA will get blamed. Smooth.
CERN open doors
April 1, 2008 – 11:33 am
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CERN opens its doors to the public
On 6 April 2008, CERN will open its doors to the public, offering a unique chance to visit its newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), before it goes into operation later this year. This scientific instrument, the largest and most complex in the world, is installed in a 27 km tunnel, 100 metres underground in the Swiss canton of Geneva and neighbouring France. CERN will open all access points around the ring for visits underground, to the tunnel and the experiment caverns. On the surface, a wide-ranging programme will be on offer, allowing people to learn about the physics for which this huge instrument is being installed, the technology underlying it, and applications in other fields.
phone watch
April 1, 2008 – 9:03 am
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some time ago I plugged a lint to a shop where I buy some stuff because it is incredibly and unbelievably cheap and in addition they do not charge for shipping worldwide even being based in Hong Kong.
Well they have a watch which is a phone with:
-Triband GSM 900/1800/1900
- Bluetooth support (free bluetooth headset included)
- Built-in 1.3MPixel Camera
- 700mAh rechargeable Lithium battery included
- 1.3-inch Touch Screen Color LCD
- MP3/ GPRS/ WAP/ SMS/ MMS support
- TF Slot available for memory expansion
- Voice Dialing supported
- Built-in handsfree speakerphone
- Standby hours: 150~300 hours (manufacturer rated)
- Talk time: 2~3 hours (manufacturer rated)
- 128MB built-in storage memory
- AC charger and all necessary accessories are included for usage right out of the box
How much… 179 USD
photo workflow
March 17, 2008 – 8:00 pm
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Since 2001, when I got my first digital camera until today, I have shot a lot of pictures. More than 30.000.
Now that I have my nikon d300 there are a couple of fundamental questions that I keep asking to myself:
- 1.-Should I shot RAW or JPEG.
2.-How do I organize my 30.000 files.
1.-Well, I have always shot jpeg, simply because my previous cameras did not have the option to shoot RAW.
I have tried both formats and honestly I cannot see the difference. What I can see is that RAW takes much more space, that the camera takes longer to shoot it, that I can’t open the files with picasa, for instance and that it is not a friendly format (you have to install nikon software to allow windows to read NEF files), as it is specific for my camera. Who know if in 20 years time NEF files from nikon d300 will be supported? I’m pretty sure that jpeg will.
On the other hand, RAW keeps all data, and it is true that if you use photoshop you can improve the contrasts, colors and dark areas better. But honestly, how often do I open a photo in photoshop? I do most of the modifications with picasa… or now I will try lightroom….
I still have no answer for the first question. I guess that regular photos can be shot in jpeg and special ones in RAW.
2.-My workflow now is:
I shoot, I take it out of the camera to my computer. I save it in a folder:
photos/raw/080317-photos of today
Then I process them in DxO, a great tool that I bought to correct the defects of my 18-200 nikor lens. I run it with the photos (around 200 for one day shooting) and I put them in:
photos/DxO/080317-photos of today
Next step is to save both folders to my external backup disk.
Then I’m a bit lost. I would like to stack similar photos together (10 photos of a portrait and select the winner), add metadata, select the ones for the web, add ratings, and modify the winners with picasa, photoshop, lightroom or whatever. I don’t do that…. and if I would, where would I save the winners? In a different folder? That is hell a lot of space…
I have the feeling that it should be a better way.
I would love to read how you do it… please go ahead and comment. When you put the mouse on the article on the right appears the icon to add comments.
iPhone’s sdk
March 12, 2008 – 4:44 pm
ski rando - lac jovet
February 11, 2008 – 10:02 am
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On Saturday we did an outing to “lac jovet”.
See the photos here.
Starting altitude (parking): 1210m
Top altitude (for those whe did not get to the top): 2322m
Difference of altitude: 1122m
Starting time:8.32
End time: 15.43
Distance done: 32.9 Km
ski rando - pointe de chavasse
January 22, 2008 – 10:10 am
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On sunday we did an outing to “pointe de chavasse”. Gorgeous.
See the photos here.
Starting altitude: 965m
Top altitude: 1950,4m
Difference of altitude: 961m
Distance done: 12.1Km
home sweet home
January 18, 2008 – 9:53 am
chiang rai, thailand
January 8, 2008 – 5:09 pm
to thailand
December 29, 2007 – 11:14 am
nikon d300
December 8, 2007 – 12:18 pm
mac OS X leopard
November 30, 2007 – 11:24 am
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I was invited to participate in the developer’s tech talk from the new apple mac OS X leopard in Geneva (yesterday). Very interesting…
…everybody with their apples macbook pro and their iphones (how do they get them here in Switzerland?), and I was with my sony vaio T and my HTC p3300… Black sheep…
The Bluetooth® Sports Helmet
November 30, 2007 – 9:49 am
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This is the winter sports helmet with built-in headphones that receive Bluetooth® signals from a remote transmitter that plugs into your iPod® or other MP3 player, providing you with a personal soundtrack while skiing or snowboarding, ensuring no audio wires will impede your mobility.
The upper shell is durable injection-molded ABS, while the lower shell is made of a polycarbonate with an EPS foam liner. Includes 16 airflow vents, removable ear pads, vent plugs, easy-to-adjust straps, and a goggle-securing lock. 