Yet another Cyanotype added:

This picture was shot on July, 28th 2004 as well. I don't think this was a special named tree.

I did update the Sequioa 1—The Senate with a new (more snappy) version too.

On golem.de there's a very interesting interview about samba4 with Volker Lendecke (the article is in German though). So maybe I could replace the Win2K AD server at work easily soon?

…at least if you look for baobab blossom or the German Affenbrotbaumblüte ;-)

So I did add my first Nucleus plugin to the wiki: NP_RandomImg.php and posted a note to the forum.

Of course you can download it from this blog post directly: NP_RandomImg.tgz.

As I did use this plugin for a while and changed some things it already is at version 1.2. ;-) (Yes, I've my site upgraded too.)

Added my site to sitedescriptions [Wiki:NucleusCMS ]. And right now I'm preparing the release of my first Nucleus plugin: NP_RandomImg.

Yes, it really did! What a Giant.

You may have noticed already, that I did add a small blogroll. But first it was a list edited by hand and now I based it on the blogroll plugin.

Here's a new Cyanotype:

This picture was taken on July, 28th 2004. If I remember correctly (and if I'm reading the map in lonely planet: Hiking in the Sierra Nevada correctly too) this is the Senate Group, because there we turned on the “Trail of the Sequoias”. Unfortunately we couldn't walk this trail completely as it was closed because of fire partially.

As usual it's not easy to get a scan which looks really alike the original. And as I don't know your monitor settings, I can't even guarantee, that the colours and contrast will look similar to what I see and expect.

…almost finished. ;-)

I don't think I'll publish it tonight but it's almost finished. I adapted all the plugins which needed some tinkering and wrote an additional one to make the quotation I use configurable.

There's one thing I definitely won't include: the Cyanotypes. But you can easily create your own RandomImg gallery (the plugin is called RandomImg).

These are the current search strings my pages are found with.

1 	2 	15.38% 	latex graphpaper
2 	2 	15.38% 	turboprint 1.91-2 key
3 	1 	7.69% 	computer
4 	1 	7.69% 	get chipd
5 	1 	7.69% 	gutenprint for suse
6 	1 	7.69% 	latex pdfcprot usage
7 	1 	7.69% 	quality gutenprint
8 	1 	7.69% 	seal chipdrive
9 	1 	7.69% 	suse 9.3screenshots
10 	1 	7.69% 	turboprint key 1.91
11 	1 	7.69% 	turboprint suse 9.3

Hey people, why don't you buy turboprint but look for a key? I'm really fond with OpenSource, but if there is good software I need and no free alternative is in sight, I'll buy it (I'm using VueScan for instance, because sane isn't quite competetive really. And if you want free software (I guess you're just interested for free as in “free beer”; heh?) help the community. (And BTW, is google the right place to look for stolen keys?)

I even buy a Linux distribution on a quite regular base (I'm a longtime SuSE user). As I don't have much time work on a OpenSource project right now, I think this is a good way to support Linux and other free projects too.

Decided to by a flat panel finally. ;-)

I thought “installing” it would be real plug and play—but what happened did remind me more of my first days with Linux, which was about 1996! I had to discover, that the X driver for my Matrox G550 has a problem supporting the 1280x1024 modes correctly. Even the most consistent setup using the same settings for the console framebuffer and for X didn't work as expected. There's a workaround: switch the resolution in X once… As this seems a common problem with the G550 and the messages in the Matrox forum weren't very encouraging, I decided to buy a new graphics card too. So I substituted my fine G550 with a nVidia GeForce FX5200. But even here the setup wasn't real plug and play. SaX2 (the X configuration tool of SuSE) didn't match the flat panel to the correct output! I did have to use a special option of the nVidia driver to force the flat panel as first (and right now only) screen. Here's much work to do…

In many, if not even most, blogs I read around the web there's some reference to the new pope.

Do I have to say something? Shouldn't I as German? Well…

• He's not coloured.
• He's not young.
• He's not married.
• He's not a woman.

So there has happened nothing unexpected at all.

You might have guessed already: I do not care at all… ;-)

Looking a bit aroud Stijnzz site I came to Maansverduistering: Schemering op de Leien. It seems that Antwerp has got some new interesting landmark.

No, I don't speak any Dutch. ;-)

As Stijn Onlijn asked for my Nucleus skin, I'll finally create a package including all plugins needed. I just have to decide, whether I'll post my changes to the plugins to the Nucleus plugins site. For some I might need to have some work to do (make some changes of me customizable, so that people don't need to “code it back” if they like the old behaviour better.

So stay tuned! Maybe I'll even get the time to post a first version this weekend.

Installed dotproject at work today because I'm looking for a nice application for project management with gantt charts and so on.

Acutally I do like nice made web applications. Ones using PHP and MySQL are easy to install on most LAMPs and I don't need to install anything on all the clients. With current hardware the server load is negligible.

Id did look at ganttproject too. Looks nice as well, but dotprojects seems to have more features but doesn't seem to be harder to use.

AFAIU the documentation on Linux USB, the hub problem could be a Linux problem nevertheless. I changed the small cheap hub with sitecom one, but the scanner still doesn't work :-(. And printing my negative gives problems too. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't—and then the hub (or the port on my board?) shuts down completely (the hub is no longer powered even)! But the docs give some clues that for handling devices on a hub, esp. at high bandwith or many (time critical) packets, the code is not complete yet and known to have problems… A solution I found on Tom's hardware guide could be an USB hub with “Multi-TT”—but how do I find one in a local store (where I can give it back easily)?

As you often don't want to be seen as a “stupid” tourist taking too many photos you just take one—but later on you'll be annoyed about this.

So the motto is: take more than one shot; throwing away later is easy, taking shots again often not. Esp. if you have a digital camera (that doesn't mean just to snap without thinking ;-)…

Just found a pretty old article about free IPv4 address space. This article sounds quite resonable compared to the rants about too few free addresses you read normally.

If I buy a USB 2.0 highspeed hub I expect it to work with my USB 2.0 highspeed scanner without any problem—but this thing doesn't. Even if only the scanner is attached… :-(

I still have some problems with my chipdrive and I'm testing a better solution using udev to integrate it currently. Another problem right now is that scanning doesn't work. VueScan stops after scanning just a part of the page. I assume it's kernel problem (2.6.11.4) —on my SuSE 9.2 using a 2.6.10 kernel (kotd of 2005-01-13) all is working fine.

At least udev is working better now. On my SuSE 9.2 the dynamical creation of the dev nodes didn't work, but on the 9.3 system is doing like charm :-). It's a much better solution to create two devices with unchanging names for my two printers than to have cups handle this. Funnily cups doesn't get a serial number of my Epson R200 (and maybe of my Kyocer Mita FS-1010 too), but udev does so.

No, I'not using it right now; not yet!

As I still need a working system I did a parallel install. It's been smoot, really! And the Gnome desktop is the best configured ever by SuSE… So now I just need to adjust some configuration (esp. I need to get my chipd drive working for HBCI online banking) and update some packages (gutenprint, sylpheed-claws, some gnome things from James).

A German news article pointed me to an article of the EFF about blogging safely.

Well, I think you shouldn't blog about internal struggles, but if they are known to the “outside” world anyway. But I think too that some companies may have overreacted… So there's a Bloggers' Bill of Rights which you may sign.

As I still have some problematic negatives to print I'm just testing some more options how to print these—even if that means to do some additional calibrations.

So I still hope do get some “perfect” prints somehow…

I just added these two Cyanotypes of baobab blossoms I finished on the weekend:

PS: These images are examples, that you can get really good prints using gutenprint on Linux, despite some the problems I sometimes have with my “special” images (you can read those stories on my blog too)!

Yet golden treasure inside is hid.”

Yes, I'm reading “The Hobbit” (again).

I actually took the risk and bought a new Epson R200 even though I didn't know exactly whether it is an algorithm problem or not.

The results are better but show still a bit of the macro banding. That's why I assume that the combination of this picture (or better some feature of this picture) and the gutenprint algorithms are very sensitive to bad aligned heads. Now I hope that less pictures are problematic, at least.

I'll just do some more testing and if I get some new results I may post some examples again…

Added some of the essential plugins to my site.

So now there's trackback available and a referrer list too. And I switched to showblogs. With that you can easily go to the next page.

I do like the article by alfons about my cyanotypes and agree, that some of them give you an "out-of-this-world" feeling.

Actually a friend of mine said, that the Forrest at Col Verte 1 reminds her of Blair Witch Project—that's a feeling I have too sometimes (and I did have while walking through this part of the forrest).

On January, 22nd I bought the DVD-Audio Seal IV—on January, 29th I gave it back because it didn't play on my HiFi set. Here's the story about the long going communication with the Pioneer support.