the way of light

Drive by and trees 2
Originally uploaded by salendron

Today I will drive around a bit. Searching for something cool to take pictures of it. I'd like to have a name for this - a name for driving arround doing photos of everything cool or interessting.

suggestions? - post a comment

Today my target is to make a cool panorama.
I don't really know where to go to find a cool location for a panorama, but I am sure that 'the light will guide me'.

uh... I forgot.... I have promised a friend to drive him home today after work. - No problem I'll take him with me. I think...

At night I also want to drive arround a bit. Taking photos at nihgt is much more difficult, but also much more fun.

It is very interessting to do something without planing anything. It is so much more fun.

Ubuntu Studio and Beryl 3D Effects

Pictures say more than 1000 words. Woobey windows, windows are burning down in 3D, 3D cube Desktop switcher and much much more...

Have a look....

Me and my studio PART 1

Yes I did it. I installed Ubuntu Studio 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Only alternative installer.
Big DVD iso image.
Worked fine - except of some xserver issuses, but "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" helps a lot - did it 2 times.
Beryl also works - also just a little problem - "force aiglx" option did it for me.

These two things were done using two really good howtos.

Installing Ubuntu Studio:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Ubuntu-Studio-54514.shtml


Then I activated nVidia graphic acceleration like this:
from ubuntuusers.de

7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Man kann die Treiber bei Ubuntu über "System -> Administration->Verwaltung eingeschränkter Treiber" installieren. Diese Funktion ist derzeit in Kubuntu noch nicht implementiert. Hier wird der entsprechende Treiber bereits angezeigt und es wird gewarnt, dass die Verwendung von binären Treibern nicht risikofrei ist. Nach dem Bestätigen dieser Warnung wird der Treiber automatisch installiert und konfiguriert. Nach diesem Schritt muss der Computer neu gestartet werden.


Installing Beryl with nVidia:
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_nVidia


All the other usefull stuff (codecs, tools, fonts, etc) I used Automatix:
http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation


Today I won't be at home in the evening so I won't be able to wirte a userfirendly easy tutorial. I will write it tomorrow. The next step is to learn about Blender 3D and cinelarra (also needs to be installed). I am also looking for a little and easy to use document managment system. I hope I find a good one.

to be continued...

adventuresome

Today I'll give it a try. Since Ubuntu Studio was released I wanted to install it. I wanted to see, fell, experience it, but I haven't had the heart to do so. Now I think the time has come.

My Goal:

• Install a fully working Ubuntu Studio 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Tasks:

• Download it
• Install it
• Install Automatix for missing codecs and stuff
• Write a Guide about installing and configuration
  
• Getting my mobile phone working as a MODEM again
• Getting my Mouse (Logitech MX Revolution) working
• Installing Cinelerra
• Learning Blender 3D and Cinelerra

optional:

• Getting Beryl

The time has come.

Night Lines

Reflective
Originally uploaded by salendron

Yestarday evening - after a very uncomfortable dentist's appointment - my neighbour and I drove through the city to make some more pictures of light stripes and other cool things. So we drove to the university and took some pictures there. Then we took some pictures of cars driving by on the street - really cool stuff.
I really like spending my evenings like that. Just doing what I like, having fun and don't wondering about any problems.

I hope you like the pictures -> flickr.com/photos/salendron

For those that won't be there

30 seconds 1
Originally uploaded by salendron

Tomorrow LAN PARTY.

For those that won't be there I will Blog directly from where the Party is. I don't know if this Post will apear here or in my mobile blog (Link on the right). This depends on how stable the connection of my wireless UMTS MODEM mobile phone will be.

/*Comment for interessted people

I found a way to use a bluetooth dongle and my mobilephone as UMTS modem and the cool thing is that it works great and it works with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
To put it easy: I connect my mobilephone wireless (via bluetooth) to my Laptop and my mobile phone does the work of a wireless modem with a maximum bandwidth of 384kb/s.
I think that's cool.

*/

If the connections is bad (terribly slow or simply not working), I will blog via my mobile phone using GPRS connection. This means shorter Posts low quality pictures an d that all post apear in my mobile blog.
I hope the UMTS will work - in fact I think it will - because in this case I can use high quality images and post more text and the post apear here in my normal blog.

We'll see.

MOBILE BLOGGING WITH SHOZU

AND IT WORX. THIS TEXT AND IMAGE WERE DIRECTLY TRANSFERED FROM MY W850I MOBILE PHONE. BECAUSE OF THIS I CREATED A NEW BLOG CALLED "ON MY WAY TO NOWHERE". This will be my mobile blog. You can access it by using this URL: http://on-the-way-to-nowhere.blogspot.com/ or using the link on the right called 'my mobile blog'

Just four weeks left

HDR Hotel
Originally uploaded by salendron

I was going to the vocational school during the last 5 weeks. Really boring, but now it is over and there are just 4 weeks left in winter. Yesterday my girlfriend, my neighbour (one of my best friends in fact) and I did some pictures in Klagenfurt at night. Really funny. There are so much little - and big things to see. We tried a lot of different things. (HDR, high exposure time, low exposure time, wired perspektives).
For example taking a tripod placing it next to a street and using an exposure time of 30 seconds to capture these cool stripes of light when cars a driving by. When we were driving home my neighbour sat on the passenger seat an took some pictures of the street with a very high exposure time while I was driving.
But this was allready the second photo-session of this day. Some hours before my girlfriend and I were at the "Europa Park". A lot of ducks and flowers.
Today I will take the train to my girlfriend's home. Maybe I will take some more photos there. - I think I am in the right mood.
I am so happy that I can go to work tomorrow and don't have to go to school again. I am really in a good mood.

PS: all photos of this wekend can be found at http://flickr.com/photos/salendron

Chaos

HDR Garage 2

salendron has added a photo to the pool:

Qtpfsgui tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 0.1
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 1
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PreGamma: 1

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At the moment everything is really strange. School is strange, I feel strange, this new HDr looks strange.

Strange, isn't?

curiculum vitae

Leaves in strange perspective
Originally uploaded by salendron

Sometimes I have to express my self - I know that I am.. egocentric...

www.the-engine.at/me

Games on Ubuntu

HDR Surreal View
Originally uploaded by salendron

It was a really funny weekend - billard - poker - etc - but on sunday afternoon i decided to try to get some games working on ubuntu (feisty). After a few hours (and a lot of restarting my X-Server) I finally got some games working:

Warcraft 3 (ROC)
CounterStrike 1.6
Counterstrike Source
GuildWars

All of them work bretty much perfect - some better than on M$ Windoof.

If you want to how to get one of this game sworking simply mail me: webmaster@the-engine.at

anticipation

I am really looking foward to enter my car in about an hour. It will be hot as hell. I hate that. The weather is really anoying. Too warm april, cold and rainy may, ..... and at the moment it is a lot too hot.

This is what I see when I look out of the window:AND I HATE IT! Why isn't it possible that the weather is comfortable (22°C, a few clouds, rain every monday evening from 10PM - 11PM.) and stays like that.

Whom should I talk to?

HDR Creek 3
Originally uploaded by salendron

Someone - I won't use names here - told me "If there is something you think it is wrong, you should talk one of the people who are responsible for this!"

I spent some time thinking about this.

the responsible people:

Person 1
arrogance: 100%
willingness to talk: 0%
tells me that me and my colleagues are idiots without knowing me at all.

Person 2
arrogance: 100%
willingness to talk: 0%
Everytime I try to describe the problem he answers with something that has nothing to do with what I said and gets angry.

Person 3
arrogance: 100%
willingness to talk: 0%
Tells me about something that hasn othing to with this and then tells me a story about anything.

Person 4
arrogance: 0%
willingness to talk: 100%
Will listen to everything I say, but will forget it just a second later. This person has no willingness to change anything.

Person 5
arrogance: 100%
willingness to talk: 100%
Strange combination. Will listen to me, but won't do anything and then tell me he has solved the problem.

So whom should I talk to?

Monochrom

Monochrom 2
Originally uploaded by salendron

Yesterday I was walking through the deep forrest of Fresach. No I am not totally mad. I was looking for some cool locations to take some pictures and in fact I found some. During this 2 hours trip I took over 120 photos. Of course most of them weren't really usefull or cool. The other photos - just a few - are now stored at flickr - even the hdr pictures. You can watch them at my flickr album. http://www.flickr.com/photos/salendron

bored

HDR class
Originally uploaded by salendron

school is like seeling your mind for a dirty wooden chair and the knowledge of how to stay awake in the most boring situation you can imagine.

20

Takeoff
Originally uploaded by salendron

I think I am getting old. Who cares. 20 now. Do I have to listen to classic music now?

Me and my EOS 400D

Me and my EOS 400D
Originally uploaded by salendron

One Happy day. I finally got my EOS 400D. Because of this, I created a flickr account to store my images on the web. You can acces using this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/salendron/

welcome to the playground....

"Home sweet home" or "The pursuit"

I am living in a really little village, a very peaceful an quiet village.

But, today - I was just leaving the house to go to work - my grandfather told me that my mother - she was talking the dog for a walk in the wood - heard shots and people screaming and that even he had heard the shots.
I thougth maybe it was just a hunter shooting a deer, but who shoots a deer with 7 or 8 shots?
I got into my car and drove to work, but after 200 meters I saw a lot of police cars and a destroyed car on the street. Now I was pretty sure that something has happend. Nevertheless I had to go to work.
About 2 hours after I arrived at work I read the online news, and I read what happened this morning. The police chased a man - probably drunken - driving way too fast. They tried to stop him, but he didn't. So they destroyed the wheels of his car. In fact they were shooting at the wheels.
Like Hollywood. Just a few meters away from my "Home sweet home".

PS: Read the news: http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/chronik/453356/index.do

fibre optic cabel

I thougth and world is crazy and wired, but now I know it is also really funny. Some thiefs have stolen 11 kilometers (yes 11 kilometers!!! 11.000 meters!!!) of fibre optic cabel. Submarine cabel! This means they had to dive into the ocean to get it! - and it means that the internet is really slow in Vietnam.
How hardcore crazy is that? But,...

Thief A: "Let's steal some cables!"
Thief B: "Ok, but which cables?"
Thief A: "There are 11 kilometers of cables deep down in the ocean!"
Thief B: "But they are heavy and diving is dangerous and don't you think somebody will notice what we are doing?"
Thief A: "No. I think that's a good idea!"
Thief B: "Ok.."

I don't think that such conversations really happen, but I also thougth nobody would be so stupid as to steal 11 kilometers of cable!!

I hope they find and arrest these guys, not only because they have stolen cables but because they are so stupid and crazy!

all the little things

There are things we never think about. For example to give a directory the names "nul" or "con".

I explain it. If you are sitting in front of a Pc with Windows XP on it please try to create a directory with the name "con" or "nul".

Hehe...

Another one: Type "keiner mag die Zivis" (without the "" of course) into the windows standard editor notepad and save it for example as Text.txt. Then try to open it again by double clicking the file.

Hehe...

Check this out:
http://www.google.de/Easter/feature_easter.html

Or just type "answer to life, the universe and everything" into google. Ok it is joke from Douglas Adams, but i think it's funny that Google cares about this.

All the little things... We can't live without them...