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As with the author of this review, I really like the cookbook format. I've made heavy use of the MySQL cookbook, also from O'Reilly, by Paul DuBois. It is excelent, and just about everything that Simon P. Chappell says about the SQL Cookbook applies, except of course the focus on just MySQL.
I'm glad to hear of the SQL cookbook because I'll be developing for postgresql as well as MySQL in the near future. Thanks.
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It still would help to filter at the mail server, as per the numerous suggestions for ClamAV and spamassassin.
So if the white balance information (the encrypted stuff) is a part of the photograph, the photographer owns the copyright on that data, too, right? That seems pretty straightforward, but I could be wrong...
On the other hand, manufacturers of photographic film certainly keep the chemical makeup, etc of their products secret. Why shouldn't digital camera makers be able to hide the methods of RAW storage for their products? As long as the content is still available in open-ish format (tiff, jpg), the artist can work with it using third-party products. BUT, to get the best result, use the manufacturer's suggested paper/film/processing/image processing software.
(I personally think that would be a bogus interpretation of the DMCA, since I think the copyrighted information inside the NEF file belongs to the photographer, not Nikon. But Nikon apparently thinks they own the information inside the NEF).
If the medium used for the artistic is subject to some IP/copyright, doesn't the artist still have some rights to be able to get to her/his content? I suppose this is the similar to saving to any proprietary format (say zip disk or fat32), but this overlaying of rights sure gets confusing. Sort of reminds me of the recent article about GPL'd fonts.
On the other hand, manufacturers of photographic film certainly keep the chemical makeup, etc of their products secret. Why shouldn't digital camera makers be able to hide the methods of RAW storage for their products? As long as the content is still available in open-ish format (tiff, jpg), the artist can work with it using third-party products.
eks
Thanks for the information--actually from the article. There is a detailed review of the epson r800 at the luminous landscape, a good place to find tutorials on photoshop by the way. Some of these tutorials have been translated to GIMP by the GIMP Guru.
So everything is based on estimates. Now, you know and I know that the Linux kernel has less bugs... but this is a tentative (at best, shoddy at worst) way of presenting that idea.
This makes sense to me, trusting IT information that you get from Wired is kind of like trusting information about women that you get from Playboy. Sure, it's the subject matter of the publication, but is there really any effort at understanding? Doesn't look like it.
This is very helpful in showing what Blockboxvoting is working for--not overturning the election, but demonstrating where (or not) there are really problems with the voting systems. It is unlikely that there are problems in sufficient numbers to change the outcome, but if BBV.org is able to gather something like representative samples across the different technologies it will help the arguments on whether electronic voting is a good way to go.
eks
Yes, I think this is very close in concept. The haptic painting you link to is an effort to give an artist with painting skills a "virtual" tool that is similar enough to allow immediate creation of the digital art. The result may not be all that different than doing a painting and scanning the result, but what if one is painting something that doesn't physically exist (modeled figure, a canvas the size of Manhattan).
Anyway, thanks for posting the link, the video is well worth downloading.
Exactly, this is a continuation in the efforts to create more intuitive methods of getting data from people into computers. Keyboard...Mouse...Flat Scanners...3D Scanners...
These are all ways of allowing thoughts and sights to be moved into digital space. This article particularly reminded me of "SandScape" a project at the MIT Tangible Media group in which users can manipulate a sand surface, and the computer senses the changes in the contours of the surface, recomputes a model and then displays the model projected back on the surface. Almost complete feedback to see how the model reacts to changes in a surface!
By the way, I started looking at this piece with some moderator points, but there's just sooo much to mod down that I figured I might as well post instead.
I don't know, I just hate this inflation and engineered obsolecesence (err... obsolescence... thank goodness for google). One of my fears is that Linux distributions will also follow this way of thinking. One of the main reasons for switching to linux in the past was that it was possible to utilize older hardware that the commercial OS's would not support well.
On the other hand, I'd be perfectly happy to have the cast-off of some upgrader for this system.
I just have to give thanks for this review. After reading through this I ordered it right away, and it came yesterday. I learn most easily from cookbook style books, because I actually don't LEARN things, I just learn how to look them up.
The examples in the book are clear and interesting, and almost make me want to set up a test network to try each one out. Next I'm going to need an LDAP cookbook, hmm, better search for it.
Oh, I see that there is:
IBM pdf of LDAP implimentation cookbook
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg2 45110.pdf
A few months ago I and a co-worker taught a workshop on digital photo restoration. In these workshops we alwas like to send the students home with a CD containing the examples and the software they used in this class. Previous versions used a demonstration version of Photoshop Elements. This time I decided to use the GIMP for windows (pre 2.0 version). We advised them that it was probably more powerfull than whatever came with their scanner or camera, unless it came with Photoshop Lite. The students (who are charged $20 for a full day course) range from retired folk to those working for small business, non profits, and state government. They also ranged from accomplished photoshop users to needing help with right-clicking on the mouse.
We warned them that they would find the GIMP odd, and that the windows version was likely to crash on them, but to say to themselves "it's free, it's free." Some will use it, others will not.
Some observations:
They were very confused by the lack of the normal windows file browsing. This is, of course, because it is built on the GTK api rather than the windows api.
Most finally did get the "right click to get all commands" thing, and liked it. I think that they will prefer the more familiar menu of 2.0.
Many were confused by the multitude of windows.
However, the concepts of color, layers, masks, and file formats are more difficult than the user interface for beginners.
I've only pointed my apt sources to it for a couple of months, but I'm happy that there have been some important updates. I have a couple of machines that are stuck at RH7.3 because of high-priced commercial software running on them for which there have not been updates. Likewise, I have another machine that is stuck at RH8 for some hardware support.
Where I can, I have moved to fedora, and am trying out Fedora Core 2 test3 on my everyday work machine (I break it alot).
I wonder, however, how long the legacy project can continue to cover a wide variety of RedHat releases? It seems as though it would make sense to focus on a few very good (stable) releases, such as 6.2 (maybe), 7.3, 9 (maybe).
Maybe too detailed, but thanks for the effort. Brings me back to adventure on a Prime 750, and I'll look forward to seeing (and buying) the book in a remainder bin in a year or so.
I probably just missed it, but are the graphic mysteries such as Myst and such also to be considered IF as Montfort defines it? The game doesn't really react to what the player is doing, but then neither did adventure as I remember it.
eks
This is more like a spyware/adware thing. Or, as the site-formally-known-as-gator calls it "Online Behavioral Marketing." I think the next step will be a browser hijacker for IE with Robert Vaughn and Ron Konowski--"show them you mean business."
This is very much the case. I have managed 15-20 linux machines for the past seven years, and have moved from largely building from source to largely depending on packages. The porting of apt to rpm systems has completely changed my work for the better, so if at all posible I use the packages and a small subset of apt repositories. My next step is probably develop our own apt repository.
In some cases, the packaged version won't play well with something that I need, or I particularly don't want upgrades to disturb something. In that case I put together a pseudo-script that gets and builds the source and dependencies, and mark the packages as "Ignore" in my apt configuration.
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As with the author of this review, I really like the cookbook format. I've made heavy use of the MySQL cookbook, also from O'Reilly, by Paul DuBois. It is excelent, and just about everything that Simon P. Chappell says about the SQL Cookbook applies, except of course the focus on just MySQL. I'm glad to hear of the SQL cookbook because I'll be developing for postgresql as well as MySQL in the near future. Thanks.
It still would help to filter at the mail server, as per the numerous suggestions for ClamAV and spamassassin.
On the other hand, manufacturers of photographic film certainly keep the chemical makeup, etc of their products secret. Why shouldn't digital camera makers be able to hide the methods of RAW storage for their products? As long as the content is still available in open-ish format (tiff, jpg), the artist can work with it using third-party products. BUT, to get the best result, use the manufacturer's suggested paper/film/processing/image processing software.
eks
If the medium used for the artistic is subject to some IP/copyright, doesn't the artist still have some rights to be able to get to her/his content? I suppose this is the similar to saving to any proprietary format (say zip disk or fat32), but this overlaying of rights sure gets confusing. Sort of reminds me of the recent article about GPL'd fonts.
On the other hand, manufacturers of photographic film certainly keep the chemical makeup, etc of their products secret. Why shouldn't digital camera makers be able to hide the methods of RAW storage for their products? As long as the content is still available in open-ish format (tiff, jpg), the artist can work with it using third-party products.
eks
Thanks for the information--actually from the article. There is a detailed review of the epson r800 at the luminous landscape, a good place to find tutorials on photoshop by the way. Some of these tutorials have been translated to GIMP by the GIMP Guru.
This makes sense to me, trusting IT information that you get from Wired is kind of like trusting information about women that you get from Playboy. Sure, it's the subject matter of the publication, but is there really any effort at understanding? Doesn't look like it.
This is very helpful in showing what Blockboxvoting is working for--not overturning the election, but demonstrating where (or not) there are really problems with the voting systems. It is unlikely that there are problems in sufficient numbers to change the outcome, but if BBV.org is able to gather something like representative samples across the different technologies it will help the arguments on whether electronic voting is a good way to go.
eks
Claria prefer to call it Online Behavioral Marketing, according to their web site.
Nope, 9 is correct. The Divine Comedy
Anyway, thanks for posting the link, the video is well worth downloading.
These are all ways of allowing thoughts and sights to be moved into digital space. This article particularly reminded me of "SandScape" a project at the MIT Tangible Media group in which users can manipulate a sand surface, and the computer senses the changes in the contours of the surface, recomputes a model and then displays the model projected back on the surface. Almost complete feedback to see how the model reacts to changes in a surface!
SandScape
By the way, I started looking at this piece with some moderator points, but there's just sooo much to mod down that I figured I might as well post instead.
On the other hand, I'd be perfectly happy to have the cast-off of some upgrader for this system.
But, why doesn't your company take your computer for testing, and give you a new one? (bet I know)
The examples in the book are clear and interesting, and almost make me want to set up a test network to try each one out. Next I'm going to need an LDAP cookbook, hmm, better search for it.
Oh, I see that there is:
- IBM pdf of LDAP implimentation cookbook
2 45110.pdf
Ah well, more to read.http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg
We warned them that they would find the GIMP odd, and that the windows version was likely to crash on them, but to say to themselves "it's free, it's free." Some will use it, others will not.
Some observations:
I've only pointed my apt sources to it for a couple of months, but I'm happy that there have been some important updates. I have a couple of machines that are stuck at RH7.3 because of high-priced commercial software running on them for which there have not been updates. Likewise, I have another machine that is stuck at RH8 for some hardware support.
Where I can, I have moved to fedora, and am trying out Fedora Core 2 test3 on my everyday work machine (I break it alot).
I wonder, however, how long the legacy project can continue to cover a wide variety of RedHat releases? It seems as though it would make sense to focus on a few very good (stable) releases, such as 6.2 (maybe), 7.3, 9 (maybe).
Maybe too detailed, but thanks for the effort. Brings me back to adventure on a Prime 750, and I'll look forward to seeing (and buying) the book in a remainder bin in a year or so. I probably just missed it, but are the graphic mysteries such as Myst and such also to be considered IF as Montfort defines it? The game doesn't really react to what the player is doing, but then neither did adventure as I remember it. eks
I'd probably get more done if I had a turn-off slashdot week.
This is more like a spyware/adware thing. Or, as the site-formally-known-as-gator calls it "Online Behavioral Marketing." I think the next step will be a browser hijacker for IE with Robert Vaughn and Ron Konowski--"show them you mean business."
This is very much the case. I have managed 15-20 linux machines for the past seven years, and have moved from largely building from source to largely depending on packages. The porting of apt to rpm systems has completely changed my work for the better, so if at all posible I use the packages and a small subset of apt repositories. My next step is probably develop our own apt repository.
In some cases, the packaged version won't play well with something that I need, or I particularly don't want upgrades to disturb something. In that case I put together a pseudo-script that gets and builds the source and dependencies, and mark the packages as "Ignore" in my apt configuration.
eks
Has anyone done the "Popcorn Chicken?" I doubt that unpopped corn will pop in the cavity of a roasting chicken, but what do I know?