Category Archives: Projects
fixed empact
empact data gathering scripts broken from recent mySQL upgrade. Fixed.
Kathy Marmor
Met with Kathy to fix her CD to autoplay on Windows.
Jane Petrillo
Conference with Jane Petrillo regarding lab problems
Scripts to auto generate time lapse movies
Researched, downloaded, ported to AIX, compiled, installed and tested a variety of unix packages that might convert a folder full of images into Quicktime movie files. Finally settled on ffmpeg (from CVS). Wrote perl script that would run the package … Continue reading
Samer ElJabary
Came by to put finishing touches on his project before heading home to palistine.
Davis Construction cam
Advised clients why the 46 MB time-lapse video file take 15 minutes to download over cable modem
More broken iPod
Continued to fiddle with iPod. Demonstrated the ease with which music can be extracted from iPod and inserted into iTunes for Windows, even without copypod of ipodcopy. But I still couldn’t put new photos on it without it corrupting the … Continue reading
iPod Photos fix
5th gen iPod was reporting "The ipod cannpt be read from or written to" while trying to update photos. Solution was to turn OFF photo synchronization; answer yes to "Delete all photos on iPod;" then turn ON photo synchronization. Ipod … Continue reading
jpgraph for Emily
Emily wanted to know how to do this. See here for horizontal bars documentation See here for reversed axis documentation I couldn’t get $bplot->SetWidth() to work, so used SetAbsWidth Needed to stagger X axis values so bars didn’t … Continue reading
Bruce Duncan and Rob Ryan
Provided code in the form of example sample web pages to Rob Tyan to link to streaming video placed online for Bruce Duncan.