filter-media, ugly JPEGS, TIFFs, and Java Advanced Imaging

Posted on January 27, 2005 by Wesley Wright

I learned way more about java today than I wanted to, but it was for a good cause.

I had a mess of images scanned by our Geology Department and imported into Dspace. Filter-media produced some ugly thumbnails for these (and only these) images:

original — http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/archives/00000041.jp
Thumb — http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/archives/00000041.jpg.jpg

Meanwhile, all these Geology JPEGs had high-res TIFF files associated with them, too. I wanted TIFF thumbnails. So I started hacking away at JPEGFilter.java And I discovered "Java Advanced Imaging" —  I downloaded "JavaTM Advanced Imaging 1.1.2 CLASSPATH install" and "Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools 1.0"

Installed the jars and .so files in dspace-1.2.1beta4-source/lib Added some "import" statements and 3 lines of new code to JPEGFilter.java , and like magic, two birds killed with one stone

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Activity Log

Posted on January 26, 2005 by Wesley Wright
  • investigated issue with network connectivity at wruv offices
  • tried to figure out why my mac doesn’t like http://sharepoint.uvm.edu/
  • Steve wanted us to work on 2005 annual plans
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Activity Log

Posted on January 24, 2005 by Wesley Wright
  • tried out Nvu, an alternative to Mozilla Composer
  • mac hardware questions from k marmor
  • installed R and learned enough about it to answer questions from Benjamin.Osborne@uvm.edu

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Detector Progress

Posted on January 20, 2005 by Wesley Wright

My physical computing projects are coming along. I’ve built an infrared distance detector. I’m trying to tune the IR-LED frequencies to detect objects at very close range. I’ve hooked in a potentiometer to control the frequency of the LED, and am placing objects near and far and seeing what frequencies respond.

I’lll chart that data, and use it to build a frequency lookup table. the idea is to detect my Cable Car at distances of about 18", 9" and 2". Once in the 2" range, crawl to stop; wait 20 seconds, and reverse direction. I need an H-bridge or darlington array to control the cable car motor.

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Calendar & iCal issues

Posted on January 20, 2005 by Wesley Wright

On Jan 20, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Robert H. Maurizi wrote:

Additionally, has anyone had any luck making Calendar & iCal (or  iSync) talk to one another? I’m not looking for anything fancy where I  can update Calendar entries from a different app– I’d just like to have a read-only version of my calendar on my iPod.

It might be worth trying the Windows client, see if it can generate an ..ics file without dying. I’ll try that later. In the meantime, I offer this homemade client

as described here

Example

I just updated it to generate ics files that do import into iCal. However, since this is an anonymous client, it won’t get your non-public events. I could probably come up with an authenticated version, if need be.

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Calendar & iCal issues

Posted on January 20, 2005 by Wesley Wright

On Jan 20, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Robert H. Maurizi wrote:

Additionally, has anyone had any luck making Calendar & iCal (or  iSync) talk to one another? I’m not looking for anything fancy where I  can update Calendar entries from a different app– I’d just like to have a read-only version of my calendar on my iPod.

It might be worth trying the Windows client, see if it can generate an ..ics file without dying. I’ll try that later. In the meantime, I offer this homemade client

as described here

Example

I just updated it to generate ics files that do import into iCal. However, since this is an anonymous client, it won’t get your non-public events. I could probably come up with an authenticated version, if need be.

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Activity Log

Posted on January 20, 2005 by Wesley Wright
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Activity Log

Posted on January 19, 2005 by Wesley Wright
  • helped g nunley with romance languages department home page problems
  • advised l shelton on audio recording of lectures using an iPod
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Activity Log

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Wesley Wright
  • helped debug issue with CIT home page and news display
  • explained some uvm web policy to brian bittman/wruv
  • instructed m tignor how to stream Microsoft Windows Media files on realserver; wrote new documentation for same

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Activity Log

Posted on January 13, 2005 by Wesley Wright

more webcam advice for jrosebus@emba.uvm.edu

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