i want an eee-pc NOW! and no it is not "extra creamy" or "extra crunchy"

ASUS produced another toy that makes me feel like a little kid having just one big wish for xmas.

The EEE-PC!

It is a so called sub-notebook. This means that it is incredibly small and weights nearly nothing (about 922gramm)

So now let's look at some facts - in numbers:

• Display: 7''


• Resolution: 800x480


• OS: Xandros Linux


• Chipset: Intel (900Mhz)


• Lan: 10/100


• WLan: 802.11b/g


• Memory: 512 MB (DDR2)


• HDD: None (hehe...)


• SSD: 4GB - (oh yeah! - SOLID STATE DISK ROCKS!)


• Webcam: YES


• Audio: Hi-Definition Audio Stereospeaker


• Microphone-In: YES


• Battery: 4 Cells (5200 mAh)


• Weight: 0.92 kg (that's less than the last Harry Potter book...)
  

Now you might say "OMG! 4GB storage? 512MB memory? Is this a bad joke?"

No.

At this point I have to say that the eee-pc is no Laptop- or PC-alternative. It is a Sub-Notebook designed for mobile usage.

There are some features that should show you what I mean:

• The battery supplies power for over 3 hours! (if you are working and listening to music - without music even longer)


• You can use SD/MMC cards or usb-drives as storage (SD's are cheaper than toiletepaper)


• It is not bigger than a small thin book


• It boots in less than 30 seconds


• because of the solid state disk it is extremly shock-resistant


• the display is a non-glare display (no troubles with sunlight reflecting in your display)


• Skype, OpenOffice, Messenger for (icq, msn, etc...), Organizer, PDF-Viewer, Firefox (with all essentail plugins) and over 40 other applications are allready pre-installed and configured


• apt is pre-installed so you can add every additional software you need very easy

...and because of the apt you can do this (senseless but funny):

Maybe now you know why I want it.

There are several scenarios coming to my mind in which this thing would be my gadget #1

• Holding a presentation (yes there is an output for an additional monitor so you can connect it to a beamer)


• Working on my way to work (by train of course)


• Beeing able to use skype,icq email or what ever while I am sitting in a cafe, in the park or anywhere else! (thanks to HSDPA)


• I can even sort, edit and upload my photos to flickr directly from where I am (even if there is no power plug)

BUT, there is one big problem!

I can't get one!

It is sold out!

Ok I hope to get one in some weeks, but I can't wait for so long!!!

I want it NOW!

Now you have read this and maybe you have allready forgotten about the title saying "no it is not "extra creamy" or "extra crunchy"".

I just want to mention - totally off-topic - that there is a writing on my KitKat that tells me that this one is "extra creamy" and "extra crunchy" and I want to tell you that it is not. It tastes like every othe KitKat i have eaten so far.

So better get back to the real important things.

I want a EEE-PC!

NOW!

thanks for reading....

Wiimote + Ubuntu + Python + QT = A lot of fun

I found a pretty funny Video on Youtube.com. It is about a guy that uses a Wiimote to control a program to do something called headtracking.
Take look at it here ->




Yesterday evening I found out how to connect my Wiimote to my pc.
You only need 2 candles (emitting infrared light for the wiimote) a bluetooth-dongle (to connect the wiimote to the pc) and a tool called wminput (to catch the signals from the wiimote)
Then I wrote a little programm (using Python and QT) to demonstrate that it is working. The programm is nothing more than a drag&drop test with some basic shapes.
Take a look at it here - >



Ok I am very far away of what this other guy did, but he probably worked a bit longer than me (it took me just two hours to do this.)
Of course I will go on try what I am able todo with the wiimote and of course you will be able to read about it here.

If you want to try it yourself, just follow this tutorial to connect the wiimote to ubuntu (feisty fawn) ->http://dingsblog.de/wordpress/index.php/2007/10/31/ubuntu-mit-wiimote/
And then use my python script to do what I did.

myWiimoteDemo.py

hf gl salendron

youtube is better than tv.

I really like youtube.
It is entertainment on demand.
Here are some of my favourit clips about rabbids.
I think I will post some more of my favourit clips here with different topics soon.

Bunnies can't...


Bunnies can'T play 360...


Ninja Rabbid scream


Rabbids at the Games Convention in Leipzig

crazy dancemoves! - without any reason!

So...
Ok I was at a bar with some friends. The music was... ....let's say "ok" and there were some people standing arround drinking, talking, having fun, but.....
...suddenly - when the music turned from "ok" to "omg! please turn this shit off!" - the people started to get crazy!!!
It felt like fucking "high school musical" became real! They were performing choreographies and the dancefloor turned into a stage full of dancing-freaks!
There were two guys that danced for hours and they looked like they had practiced their dancemoves for years!
Everybody seemed to know exactly what to do and sometimes 10 or 20 people performed a choreographie together without knowing the others!
It was crazy!
What a freak show!

I am famous *gg*

Ok, I am not really famous, but my photos seem to be popular.
All of my photos are published under the Creative Commons Lisence. This means that everyone is allowed to use my picture (for personal use, not for commercial use) as long as he mentions me as the author of this photo.
I choose this lisence, because I think this is a pretty good way to make my photos more popular - and it seems like it works!

Today I searched the internet for myself. Strange...
of course I did not search for my real name - you won't find much using my real name. I used my nickname "salendron".

I found some pretty interessting things.
Here are my results. (first the page I found and the second is the original)

http://twopenniesearned.blogspot.com/2007/10/comparison-shopping-for-car-repairs.html
The original on FLICKr

http://www.livinglightly.ca/about-the-project/mission/
The original on FLICKr

http://library.louisville.edu/tutorials/scholarly/index.html
The original on FLICKr

http://rock-tatoo.blogspot.com/2007/12/eye.html
The original on FLICKr

http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/10/05/halo-3-epic-moments/#more-2910
The original on FLICKr

Some people may say, why I do not want money for my photos. If someone needs some special photos he needs to know that I can do that. So they have to know me.
If I make photos for fun and share them via the internet, people may notice me and my work.
I hope my concept will work... ...in some kind of way.

the shoe-challenge

Yesterday I made some experiments with a totally new topic (not really a new topic - just a new for me)
I made some photos of shoes. Yes, shoes!
At this point I want to thank my girlfriend for helping me. You are a really great modell.
It was a big challenge for me to take these pictures, because I allways wanted to keep the focus on the shoes and still keep the picture dynamic and interessting.
I hope you like some of these.
Take a look at the set to see all the pictures -> SHOES SET
Of course I took these pictures not just for fun. I am member of a flickr group called MatchPoint.
This group is a tournament group and the current theme is "Footwear". The tournament with this theme starts soon so I had to take some photos for it.
It is allways a lot of fun to do new things and this group gives me a reason to try new things and to show them to a critical audience.

pano 2.0

I made some panoramas in my X-Mas holydays.
A flickr user called Edward All ☆ wrote a comment to one of these. He told me about a online tool called SPi-V panorama.

With this tool you can view your panoramas (directly from flickr) in an really cool online pano-viewer in your browser.

Let's take a look at some examples:

• PANORAMA: Turrachsee
• Panorama: My Room 360
• Panorama Teich am Kreuzbergl
• PANORAMA: PAULI-LIFT

I really like this thing and it is so easy to use!

Just use this URL:
http://fieldofview.com/flickr/?page=photos/[flickr-username]/[photo-id]/

...and replace [flickr-username] with your flickr username and [photo-id] with the id of the panorama-shot (you get this id from the url of your picture on flickr).

Then the url should look like this for example :
http://fieldofview.com/flickr/?page=photos/salendron/2139225698/

and that's it. Just copy this to the address line of your browser and you can view the panorama in a much cooler way.