Panorama of PAX (aka PAXeast)
Penny Arcade Expo 2011
March 12th, 2011Monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery are in Bedford
March 9th, 2011The Tibetian monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery have a cultural presentation last night at the Bedford, NH that included a slideshow, demostrations of prayers, debating and the creation of a mandala.
More photos can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157626105267991 To view as a slideshow, click here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157626105267991/show/
synergy on Ubuntu/Debian desktops
March 8th, 2011I have three monitors in my home office connected to two different systems, which gives a lot of screen space, but I don’t want to use two sets of keyboard/mouse. The open source package synergy lets you do that. (It also works on Windows systems too)
Sitting in front of me is nyx.local, an hp EliteBook 8530w (Ubuntu/Maverick) in a docking station connected to two monitors, keyboard and mouse. To the right is a monitor from an hp workstation xw8000 named mm.local (Debian/Lenny). It is a tucked away in the corner and a bit hard to get to the power button.
My morning routine is:
- Boot nyx.local and log in
- power on mm.local using Wake-on-LAN (WOL):
sudo wakeonlan 00:11:85:ad:eb:ca - Wait a minute to mm.local to boot and autologin
- Start the synergy server on the system I’m in front of:
synergys - Run the synergy client on the other system:
ssh -f mm.local synergyc nyx.local
Now when I slide the mouse to the right it moves focus to the remote system!
Here is the ~/.synergy.conf file.
section: screens nyx: mm.local: end section: links nyx: right = mm.local mm.local: left = nyx end
Autumn Bedford Windmill (Tilt-Shift’ed)
February 28th, 2011
Panorama of West Point Gymnasium
February 14th, 2011
Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
February 14th, 2011
Hoover Dam Panorama
February 13th, 2011
This was created from 14 photos and stitched together using hugin. View the largest size (15M). The original was 21M, which is over Flickr.com photo size limit.
Use an HP Cloud Map to automate Oracle on RHEL
November 11th, 2010Shameless self promotion here — I’ve written a post on the HP AllianceONE Partner Solutions blog: Use an HP Cloud Map to automate Oracle on RHEL.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) & Cornerstone Action are violating my copyright
October 5th, 2010I sent this to WMUR’s sales department this morning and left voice messages twice.
I’m an amateur photographer in New Hampshire and have taken a number of photos of various state and national politicians, some of which I license under a Creative Commons (CC) license. The CC license is a simple way to allow other people to use my work at no fee in exchange for following certain conditions.
The photo in question of Governor John Lynch (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/2616348625/) I’ve licensed under a “Attribution Creative Commons” license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
That license requires:
“Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified
by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that
they endorse you or your use of the work).”
The ‘you’ in the above paragraph refers to the person using the work, in this case NOM. The ‘they’ is refering to the copyright holder, in this case me.
The National Organization for Marriage (http://www.nationformarriage.org/) & Cornerstone Action (http://www.cpraction.org/) has produced a TV Ad that is uses my photo but does not give me proper attribution and therefore is in violation of the license agreement.
The video can be found on Youtube “He’s Changed” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZajaoReo8Xg) where my photo of John Lynch appears 7 seconds into the video. A screen capture can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/5054289922/
I demand Cornerstone Action and National Organization for Marriage cease and desist all use of the “He’s Changed” video on the internet, cable and broadcast TV and other distribution methods.
Additionally, this is directly affecting my right to sell non-exclusive use of my work. Yesterday morning, prior to learning of NOM’s copyright violation, I sold a non-exclusive license for that very same photo to a Washington DC-based production house. It is unclear if that deal is now in jeopardy since it is to be used in a
pro-Lynch work.
Sincerely,
Marc Nozell
[[my contact info]]
My photo:
Screen capture from the video showing my photo:
Update 1
Tuesday 1:45pm — got call from WMUR’s general sales manager who talked with the SF-based Ad company. They will be re-cutting the commercial and also contacting me directly. The video on youtube.com hasn’t been changed yet.
Update 2
Submitted a copyright complaint to youtube.com @ Tuesday 3:50pm EST
Update 3
Google/Youtube accepted my copyright complain and has taken down the video. @ Tuesday 6:24 PM It appears that NOM has re-uploaded it and now links to the original content from their website. Submitting another complaint against: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgzs-TPYWQ4
Update 4
Google/Youtube got back about my 2nd takedown request @ Wednesday 5:14pm. NOM has taken down the video that used my photo & uploaded a new non-infringing version of their dreck of a commercial.
hugin presentation @ Lawrence Library (Pepperell, MA)
October 1st, 2010Last month at the new Manchester LUG, I got tagged to give a presentation down at the Pepperell, MA library for their fall Tech Talk series.
Basically how to stitch a bunch of photos into one larger panorama, like this one created from 4 photos:
Below are links to the flyer, my slides and the four source images used in the panorama demos:
- PDF Flyer: http://bit.ly/dk1nPK
- My slides: http://bit.ly/bnbg8I
- the four Simple-Pig images used in the demos: