Category Archives: Projects
out with the old, in with the new
Wanted to recycle my 9 year old Dell Optiplex. Wanted to reformat harddrive first. You think anyone has a boot floppy with FORMAT.com on it? Nope. Alan made me a boot floppy, but couldn’t find a FORMAT in Windows 2000 … Continue reading
Image Uploads
Samer ElJabary dropped by again, looking for more help with his image upload script. It is miinimally working now. He is learning fast.
The new Tablet
Figuring out how to make the new tablet work: downloaded/installed MS Office from UVM campus agreement share downloaded/installed/configured Thunderbird, which did some screwey stuff with mailboxes but eventually got going (although the Junk Mail filter, I didcovered later, was a … Continue reading
mySQL, php, and images uploads
Samer ElJabary (classified by LDAP as continuing education student but working as intern at Gund Institute, webmaster for Redesigning the American Neighborhood website), came to visit and talk about using mySQL as a repository for uploaded images. Showed him some … Continue reading
Davis Construction cam
Finalized my SMIL/php script, once and for all. Ultimate results seen here. Click on either image to zoom.
Short Takes 5
Ralph Olberg called and asked about virtual tours, cubic VR style. Some Free/Cheap software possibilities can be found here. Most everything seems to be based on "Pano Tools." http://panotools.sourceforge.net/ Commercial tools: http://www.easypano.com/index.html http://www.panoscan.com/ http://www.kaidan.com/ From what I can … Continue reading
Short Takes 4
Tina Escaja wrote: About making the voice happen with the barcode, I do the following: 1. I open Audocity and record my voice (I used this time the iSight microphone, because for some reason the regular one did not work. … Continue reading
Short Takes 3
Samer MH El-Jabary wrote: Quoting Wesley Alan Wright :Thanks alot.I am using mySQL administrator but I do not know how to view the records insidethe tables. help? I downloaded and examined MySQL Administrator, and read some documentation. From the documentation: … Continue reading
Short Takes 2
Advised Katherine Robyn Calise how to combine password protection and magicscript
Short Takes 1
Steve forwarded message from Mutsumi Matsubara Corson I posted katakana quick movies on my weblog this weekend. I switched ppt files to mov files. Most of them turned out just fine, but a couple of them have dark spots like … Continue reading