Pssst! I’ve got a secret!
Most decent imaging programs have the capability of automating actions. With the right actions applied to a photo, you can easily mimic some of the quirky qualities of your favorite film camera on multiple photos and bundle the actions to share with others.
To Wit, the Holganizer. With it, you can take a rectangular, well exposed digital image and make it look like it was taken with the Holga, a $30 plastic camera. This was taken with a Canon SD110; for the original, see the previous post.
The film banner on the top and bottom are a nice touch, but unfortunately they don’t change when you make another Holganized pic, making the viewer think you’re permanently stuck on exposure # 9.
For a good Holga action, see the previous link. There are tons of LOMO actions for Photoshop and The Gimp, just a google search away.
Posted on September 1st, 2008 in uncategorized | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite photos from a walk along the water in San Francisco. Things change so quickly out there that these pictures are all that’s left.
Posted on August 29th, 2008 in digital | 1 Comment »
Troy Paiva is one of my favorite photographers of late. I love his choice of subjects – googie architecture, abandoned buildings, junk yards and the southwest desert. He shoots almost exclusively at night and uses a combination of colored flashes and LED lights to “paint” his subjects.
Troy published his first book of night-time photography, Lost America: The Abandoned Roadside West
in 2003. His newest book,
Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration continues his explorations into abandoned scenery, night time photography, surreal coloring, and imaginative vision.
I found a full review on Epic Edits, a new (to me) photo blog.
More of Troy’s work is available on his Flickr page.
[via Epic Edits ]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 in journal | No Comments »
Calling all San Francisco and New York City Lomographers!
Our friends at JPG Magazine and Photojojo are teaming up with us for a very cool event on September 3rd.
Simultaneously, in both cities (well, 3-hours apart actually), we will be holding a meet-up at sunset in Dolores Park in SF and at Union Square Park in NYC. (Round-up begins at 7pm, but shooting will start when the sun goes down.)
Posted on August 26th, 2008 in digital, lomo | 2 Comments »
Red Phone, SOMA. Canon SD1000
Posted on August 26th, 2008 in digital | No Comments »
Am so enthralled with the photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichy, who made cameras out of cardboard tubes, thread spools, rubber bands, and other similar things, and then photographed public scenes in his small hometown. He developed the negatives in a bucket at night, because he didn’t have a darkroom. Later, he said that the defects and ugliness were where the true art happened.
Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you’re doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.
[via This Is That ]
Posted on August 26th, 2008 in art, film | 2 Comments »
Taken on a walkabout in San Francisco's South of Market area, Canon SD1000, Photoshop cross-processing,
Posted on August 23rd, 2008 in digital | No Comments »
For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”.
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Posted on August 18th, 2008 in weird | No Comments »
I’ve had this little router for years, bought it for $20 with a $20 rebate, and since upgrading the OS to DD-WRT it’s performed flawlessly.
I have a Belkin wireless router (model number: F5D7230-4 v1444). For some reason, the Virtual Server (or Port Forwarding) did not work correctly. It’s obviously a firmware problem. I checked the firmware version and my router had the latest firmware from Belkin. I wrote to Belkin Customer Service but who knows how long I have to wait to a response from them.
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 in blog | No Comments »
Want to configure your Smart Phone, tablet or telephone to use the T-Mobile data network? This is a simple collection of settings for use with the T-Mobile (formerly VoiceStream) U.S.A. network I’ve collected over the years. I have used these settings to configure my own GSM mobile phones, PDAs and laptops. They may or may not be accurate at a given time and are compiled here in the hope that others may find them useful.
I have no affiliation with T-Mobile other than being a customer for several years.
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Posted on March 22nd, 2008 in blog | No Comments »
The Art of No
…what nobody ever teaches us is perhaps the most important thing you can learn to be a successful working designer: How to not say “no”. If I could give one piece of advice to the designer just getting into client work, or even some who’s been doing this for a while, it’s this: The next time you want to say “no” to a client, boss, or colleague, say this instead: “Why?”
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 in blog | No Comments »
- Introduction
Did you know that BlackBerry can now be used just like an external modem for a laptop computer, so that a laptop can have full Internet access? This is useful when you need to do certain things that a BlackBerry cannot yet do. Increasing numbers of success reports have caused me to post this message. (Note: Mark Rejhon has not himself yet successfully used a BlackBerry as a modem; I am aggregating information). Sometimes, it is still tricky to set up a BlackBerry as a modem for a laptop, but this feature is becoming more and more common in cellphones, and BlackBerry models are following suit.
- Supported BlackBerry Models
Model 7100t, 7105t, 7290, 8290, 8700g
- Connect Your BlackBerry
Make sure your BlackBerry is connected by USB cable, and your BlackBerry Handheld Manager is running (just launch BlackBerry Desktop to run it.) This is necessary for using the BlackBerry as an external modem. You cannot use BlackBerry as a modem unless you have BlackBerry Handheld Manager running in the background!
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- Modem Driver Install
If you installed a recent version of BlackBerry Desktop that came with a 7100t, 7290, 7250, or 7520, it should include modem drivers and already be automatically installed. In the event you need to manually install them, the modem drivers should be located in this directory:
C:program filesCommon FilesResearch In MotionModem Drivers
However, if you are having problems with these drivers, uninstall, delete all leftover RIM files, and then reinstall the latest version of BlackBerry Desktop.
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- Verify The Modem Driver Is Functioning
Go to Control Panel -> Phone & Modem Options. In the Modems tab, you should see a new Standard Modem on a new port (such as COM6 or COM11). Click Properties -> Diagnostics -> Query Modem. You should see the following:
Quote:
ATQ0V1E0 – OK
AT+GMM – BlackBerry IPmodem
AT+FCLASS=? – OK
AT#CLS=? – OK
AT+GCI? – OK
AT+GCI=? – OK
ATI1 – Research In Motion / BlackBerry IPmodem
ATI2 – Research In Motion / BlackBerry IPmodem
ATI3 – Research In Motion / BlackBerry IPmodem
ATI4 – Research In Motion / BlackBerry IPmodem
ATI5 – Research In Motion / BlackBerry IPmodem
ATI6 – Research In Motion / BlackBerry IPmodem
ATI7 – Research In Motion / BlackBerry IPmodem |
Note: This may look different on Nextel 7520, or Sprint/Verizon/Bell Mobility 7250. This is normal. Just make sure there is a response at all, rather than no response.
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- IMPORTANT SPECIAL CONFIGURATION STEP
Click Properties -> Advanced and add only ONE of the following Extra initialization commands with the appropriate carrier-specific APN Setting:
TMOBILE USA Users (Success!)
+cgdcont=1,”IP”,”wap.voicestream.com”
- Add A New Internet Connection
Close the Phone and Modem Options and the Control Panel. Create a new connection with Start -> Connect To -> Show all connections -> Create a new connection.
Quote:
| 1. Click Next
2. Select “Connect To The Internet” then Next
3. Select “Set up my connection manually” then Next
4. Select “Connect using a dial-up modem” then Next.
5. Check only the Standard Modem (if prompted).
6. Give the connection a name such as “BlackBerry Modem”, then Next.
7. On the next screen, pick one of the following phone numbers, depending on your carrier:
….If you use GSM/Cingular/AT&T/TMobile: Enter phone number *99#
….If you use iDEN/Nextel/Telus: Enter phone number S=2
….If you use CDMA/Verizon/Sprint/Bell Canada: Enter phone number #777
8. Click Next.
9. On the next screen, pick one of the following, depending on your carrier:
….If you use Cingular Blue, AT&T or Nextel:
………Username: (blank)
………Password: (blank)
….If you use Rogers Canada:
………Username: wapuser1
………Password: wap
….If you use Cingular Orange:
………Username:
………Password: CINGULAR1
….If you use T-Mobile:
………Username: (Your existing TMobile.com Username)
………Password: (Your existing TMobile.com Password)
….If you use Verizon, replace 8005551212 with your phone number:
………Username:
………Password: 8005551212
….If you use Sprint:
………Username: (Your existing Sprint PCS Username)
………Password: (Your existing Sprint PCS Password)
….If you use Bell Mobility, replace 8005551212 with your phone number:
………Username:
………Password: (Your Bell Mobility Voicemail PIN)
10. Clear all checkboxes (“Use…when anyone…” and “Make this the default…”)
11. Click Finish |
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- Disable IP Header Compression
Make sure TCP/IP Properties (Advanced) “Use IP Header Compression” checkbox is NOT checked. To verify this, do these steps:
Quote:
1. Start Menu->Network Connections->”BlackBerry Modem”
2. Click Properties Button
3. Click Networking Tab
4. Select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)”
5. Click Properties Button
6. Click Advanced… Button
7. Disable “Use IP header compression” checkbox
8. Click all OK buttons to close all dialogs |
Also make sure you clear all these checkboxes, if you see any of these checked:
Turn off “Enable Hardware Flow Control”
Turn off “Enable Modem Error Control”
Turn off “Enable Modem Compression”
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- BES Configuration
Skip this step if you are not on BES. You only need to follow this step if your company gave the BlackBerry to you. If you are at a company and you are on a BES 4.0, your Administrator must enable the “BlackBerry IPModem” setting on the BES. This is a new setting in the Version 4.0 of BES.
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- Surf On The Laptop!
Connect to the Internet on the laptop by clicking the “BlackBerry Modem” icon via Start Menu->Network Connections. No username or password is needed.
Posted on December 5th, 2007 in blog | No Comments »
SPAM fighting (A talking to myself, want to get this in google post…)
I’ve been getting a HUGE number of SPAMs slipping through my SPAMASSASSIN filter, and have been trying to figure out how to combat it. SPAMs are getting flagged as BAYES_00, which gives them a negative score.
I was moving them into the SPAM folder, then running sa-learn nightly to train.
I’ve started moving those SPAMs into a separate folder, then running sa-learn—forget to forget the scoring, then moving them back into the SPAM folder and re-running sa-learn.
I’ve also tried changing the score for BAYES_00 from negative to 0 by adding the following line to my user_prefs file:
score BAYES_00 0.1
I should look at getting my addresses out of Outlook and into a whitelist format for Spamassassin.
So, the process looks like:
Move mis-filed HAM from SPAM to SPAM-moved
/usr/bin/sa-learn—forget—dir /home/kweiske/Maildir/.SPAM-moved/cur
/usr/bin/sa-learn—spam—dir /home/kweiske/Maildir/.SPAM/cur
Move the mis-files HAM from SPAM-moved to Inbox
/usr/bin/sa-learn—ham—dir /home/kweiske/Maildir/cur
Fingers are crossed.
There’s a good online resource regarding Bayesian filtering at http://spamassassinbook.packtpub.com/chapter9.htm, a free chapter in an online book.
Posted on November 12th, 2006 in blog | No Comments »
From http://tontos.splinder.com/post/8596280
I can’t read the site but I LIKE IT.
Posted on July 5th, 2006 in weird | No Comments »
This is one of the strangest knock-offs I’ve seen; they’ve totally borrowed the Linksys case design, but use a one-antenna board:
I’m pretty sure that even the B Linksys routers had two antennae.
In another project, I have my FON router operational. It’s in a DMZ and allows access to other FON users for free. Check out the web page, it’s a great idea.
The FON router is a WRT54GL, apparently it’s a Linux version of the WRT54G series. Older G series routers ran Linux, newer ones run VXworks. Mine is the router equivalent of putting “Classic” at the name of anything. 
I’m going to hook one up as the FON point, another as a router to handle PPTP services, featureful firewalling, and act as a border host.
Having a router running embedded Linux changes the way I think of appliance routers. Instead of a box with limited functionality, a finite development path and obscure featureset, linux routers are functional, expandable, can be extended beyond the manufacturer’s end-of-life, and are easy to understand if you know Linux.
The Netopia R- and 3500-series routers and SMC barricades I’ve loved over the years seem crippled by comparison.
Posted on July 3rd, 2006 in blog | No Comments »
We recently finished upgrading an NT 4.0 domain and Exchange 5.5 mail server to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. After turning off AD and decommisioning the 5.5 server, we attempted an upgrade of our Blackberry Enterprise Server from 2.1 to 4.0. Simple, Right?
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Posted on June 18th, 2006 in administrivia, blackberry, exchange | No Comments »
Speechless
It’s all over the news now, HST was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in his home in Colorado.
Damn!
I don’t know if it would be possible to understand the effect that HST had on my circle of friends. Circle back to 1990, the heyday of BBSes. Rat Head Systems was a nexus of all things related to the Big Fear, bad science, alien conspiracy theories, better living through chemistry, Frank Sinatra and Spock erotic filk. Think Mondo 2000 meets the Rat Pack in college at Burning Man.
RatSnatcher (the sysop) is a wonderful person whose passion for bizarre governmental coverups and legendary monster sightings inspired me to look to alternative news and information. There’s a whole new world just underneath the surface if you dig far enough…
One of Ratsnatcher’s favorite authors was, you guessed it – HST. Hanging with the Rat Head Systems crowd inspired me to read his books over the years. Others have come and gone as I’ve moved, gone through different phases, or organized, but I can look at a bookcase near my computer and see the titles – FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, THE PROUD HIGHWAY, BETER THAN SEX, SONGS OF THE DOOMED, THE RUM DIARY, FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICA, SCREWJACK…
His writing in Hell’s Angels was scathing, gritty, gone to earth, and as embedded as they come. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a wonderful drug-addled fantasy that makes me want to drive a 1970 Chevy Impala convertible to Las Vegas and attempt a pale imitation of his tale.
One passage in that book struck me as particularly beautiful. He’s remembering back to the Summer of Love a few years hence in SF from his hotel room in Las Vegas:
"There was madness in any direction and at any hour. You could
strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense
that whatever we were doing right, that we were winning. And
that, I think, was the handle -- that sense of inevitable
victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or
military sense; we didn't need that.
Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum;
we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep
hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of
eyes you can almost see the high water mark -- that place
where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
I read his books, explored his rarified world that was part reality, part drug haze and part vivid imagination. Every time I think it’s more drugs and imagination than reality I’m reminded of the movie “Big Fish”, where Ewan Mcgregor follows his father’s legend and tries to make sense of a life’s worth of tall tales.
Looking for a fitting tribute, I scoured the house for ice and rum to toast his leaving this earth, but had to settle for single malt scotch in a coffee mug.
Be Well, Hunter. We’ll miss you.
“He who makes a beast of himself escapes the fear of being a man.” — HST
Posted on February 6th, 2005 in journal | No Comments »
Can a SDI/DCH (ntak02ba) card be used as a programable d channel for a DTI card?
If not what is the actual purpose of the SDI/DCH card?
I need to be able to set the IFC type on the d channel to ISGF as necessary
to interface with cisco and have QSIG work. On systems with the DTI T1 card
the d channel daughterboard is not capable of being set to that type.
(receive some sch error message that says isgf can only be set for card type
msdl..or something close to that)
These systems are all pre 24.x so a TMDI card is not an option.
Even though Nortel doesn't support the msdl card anymore, could the msdl
card be used in conjuction with DTI to get at PRI that works with QSIG?
Posted on January 30th, 2005 in blog | No Comments »
On the Pigdog list (“Bad Craziness at Impossible Speeds”) We’re talking about having Arnold save the country via a congressional amendment to allow foreign-born citizens to run for president.
> The much more straightforward way is to simply declare war
> against Austria, annex it, and then it's part of the U.S.
Nah, Austria's in the EU. That would make the US would a
member state just as subject to oversight from Brussels as
any other EU country.
Wait a minute.. it's brilliant! Who cares what fools we elect
then -- we'd all be Europeans. Socialized medicine! A real
currency again!
Generous unemployment benefits! Snooty French rules about cheese!
I think I'm in love with this idea.
Invade Austria -- join the EU now!
Posted on January 10th, 2005 in blog | No Comments »
I went for a drive on my lunch hour today in my multi-airbag, ABS-equipped, V-6 sedan, and the song “Red Barchetta” came on the radio. It made me think of old convertibles.
I drove a Fiat 850 Spyder in high school – it had a wooden dashboard, chrome rear-view mirrors, that super UV-proof thick vinyl that convertibles had back then, and a distinctive exhaust note. With a 903cc engine, about 45 horsepower, and 1700 pounds wet, it didn’t exactly accelerate, but it was a hell of a lot of fun to drive.
I was part of a fraternity back then – drivers of MG Midgets, Austin-Healey Sprites, Fiat 124 Spyders, Alfa Spider Veloces and Triumph Spitfires would respond with a tip of a hat or a nod to another ragtop driver with the top down. For one small moment, nationalities didn’t matter – then it was back to jokes about British electrics, “Fix It Again, Tony”, or clueless Alfa drivers and mechanics.
I don’t know if I could drive one of those every day any more – times have changed, cars have gotten bigger, and I’ve gotten older – although I would love to have a 1975-76 Fiat 124 Spyder with 5-spoke campagnolo mags and a bigger weber carb, once I get a house with a usable garage, though. I always loved the exhaust note on the 124s, even though I liked the handling of the mid-engine X1/9 and 850s better.
Posted on July 15th, 2002 in blog | No Comments »
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