this is one of my first attempts to use hugin in conjunction with autopano-SIFT:
panorama: view of innsbruck and the inn valley, as seen from patscherkofel
it seems like a good piece of (open-source) software.
i think i’m keeping it.
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panorama: view of innsbruck and the inn valley, as seen from patscherkofel
a tiny little modification of the standard settings for adblock plus – one of the best firefox plugins ever – has made my life a little easier:
type
about:configin firefox’ adress bar, search for the entry
extensions.adblockplus.defaulttoolbaractionand change the value to “3″.
this activates/deactivates adblock plus by a single click on the adblock logo. (using standard settings, you’d have to open the dropdown-menu and click “activate/deactivate”)
i’m using this function frequently (at least, more frequently than the “blockable elements” window that opens with standard settings), so this saves me some valuable time…
in this spirit: hooray for a good support forum.
that’s the slogan of axbo, a unique alarm clock that sebastian told me about, several months ago. several months ago (minus a few days), i went and ordered one.
(click to enlarge)
axbo is a sleep phase alarm clock – it monitors your sleep stages and determines the best time to wake you up within a 30 minute time frame. [more...]
today was the second time i received the following email within two weeks:
Die Firma Ericsson verteilt Handys. und das gratis übers Internet, um der Marke Nokia entgegen zu wirken, welche dasselbe macht. Ericsson will sich damit bekannter machen. Deshalb verteilt das Unternehmen jetzt gratis das neue WAP-Handy. Alles was zu tun ist, ist diese Mail an acht Leute zu schicken. In etwa zwei Wochen erhält man dann ein Ericsson T 18. Wenn die Nachricht an 20 oder mehr Personen verschickt wird, erhält man sogar ein Ericsson R320 WAP-Phone.
the main message of this chain email: forward the email to at least 8 of your friends and receive an ericsson t18. forward it to 20 or more, and receive a free ericsson r320.
i find it stunning that the hoax has prevailed for so long, and is still very active. especially considering that the r320 was released in 1999! also, note how it says “ericsson” instead of “sony ericsson”.
both of these cellphones had monochrome displays (naturally), the t18 one only had two lines. you’d probably get some money along with it if you decided to take one. :-)
life would be a much better place if people did an internet search before forwarding this crap.
on the other hand, this particular one made me reminisce about the old days, when internet connections were dial-up and expensive as hell…
das problem konnte ich nach etwas herum-testen ausfindig machen: das firefox-addon “geo 0.7″.
wenn geo deaktiviert ist, funktioniert bei mir auch das vz-messaging wieder.
vielleicht nützt diese erkenntnis ja dem einen oder anderen vz-user etwas…
my new sound card has lots of preset values for different environments, for example “living room”, “hallway”, “hallway with carpets”, …
in the list of available settings, i also found some …”less probable” situations to put a desktop sound card to use:
preset configurations for use in a parking space,
padded room, airplane hangar or waste pipe.
never say never! ;)
ich hatte anfang dezember die gelegenheit, das aon kombipaket zu testen.
für das hausinterne LAN und WLAN wollte ich mich natürlich nicht mit jedem einzelnen PC via VPN einwählen müssen – die konfiguration meines routers (d-link 707p) war ein kinderspiel. nach wenigen einstellungen war die verbindung hergestellt.
die nötigen einstellungen1 sind hier zu finden: [aon kombipaket + router]
- diese einstellungen reichten bei mir für den automatischen aufbau der verbindung. falls das bei anderen nicht der fall ist, wäre ein hinweis per kommentar vermutlich für andere sehr nützlich. [↩]
