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See the original post for the basic information. This post exists only to highlight a few bug fixes. Since running with my sign for a few days, the main bug I’ve run into is that Twitter doesn’t let you post identical status messages over a short period of time. One recommended fix is to append …
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A sizable amount of my work week is spent outside of my office, and is difficult to schedule ahead of time: Material testing jobs show up with little notice. Students or faculty need help fixing a coding, instrumentation, or other problem, and it’s easiest to fix those on-site rather than in my office. etc. I’ve …
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We’ve had a research project requiring a fair amount of image acquisition and processing, requiring higher resolutions than most industrial cameras can offer. As a result, we’ve tried at least three different digital cameras (Canon PowerShot S3is, Nikon D40, and Canon PowerShot SD780is). Each of them has their own advantages and disadvantages: S3is advantages: good …
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MarcoPolo, “context-aware computing for OS X” appeals to all three great virtues of the programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. It makes me want a Mac notebook. Unfortunately, Pro/E, ANSYS, and other necessary tools for my regular work would mean I’d end up dual-booting the Mac all the time. And I’d miss my port replicator and …
One good thing about the switch from the legacy administrative computing system to the new Banner setup is now I can more easily get an unformatted table of my department’s equipment inventory instead of a printed report. This matters to me for a few reasons: The default inventory reports always come out sorted by inventory …
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I also love python. — From XKCD, 2007/12/05
About a week and a half ago, I was reminded of a long-dormant project to archive still images from an Axis IP camera. I started this up a few years ago as a favor to a coworker, but it never really got finished. Previously, it was a pretty simple cron job that would just authenticate …
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