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Random ideas of a drinking cat: OpenCL on the Samsung Chromebook ARM - Benchmarks
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Sunday, 1 December 2013. OpenCL on the Samsung Chromebook ARM - Benchmarks. This is a second post on using OpenCL on the Chromebook ARM. The previous one gives instructions to install OpenCL drivers and SDK on the Samsung Chromebook ARM. Without requiring to boot a separate Ubuntu, by using crouton. OpenCL performance of the Chromebook ARM with a 4-year old laptop. Intel Core2 Duo T9950 @ 2.66Ghz. The ARM CP...
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: June 2013
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Wednesday, 19 June 2013. Yesterday morning Singapore woke up under thick haze. Due to forest fires in nearby Sumatra. Not healthy. You can feel it in your throat, and some corridors smell like Scamorza. Some delicious Italian smoked cheese). It smells just like that. (Image from Necrophorus. Anyway. it gives some "interesting" light when the sun is low. Good morning purée. (slightly underexposed). Actually, ...
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: Tracking your DHL package in conky
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Monday, 30 September 2013. Tracking your DHL package in conky. Or converting the DHL tracking page from HTML to plain text, using XSLT). So, let me explain the problem: You have that package shipped by DHL, and its tracking number. And you're so eager to receive it, that you end up checking the package tracking page every 5 minutes. Your productivity falls to zero. But, worry no more! Then call it with:.
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: January 2013
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Tuesday, 29 January 2013. Pinwide "lens" - or real life Instagram. I recently bought the pinwide. Cap for my micro 4/3 camera (Panasonic DMC-GX1). Sure, you can also make a pinhole by making a hole in a camera camera cap, but this one is optimised, with the pinhole receding inside the camera body to get an image as wide as possible. The adapter is made of good quality plastic (polycarbonate char siew. Subscr...
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: Olympus OM 50mm f/1.8 on Micro Four Thirds
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Monday, 22 July 2013. Olympus OM 50mm f/1.8 on Micro Four Thirds. One of the strong points of the Micro Four Thirds (MFT) system is that, thanks to its short flange focal distance. You can mount lenses designed for almost any other camera system. I originally bought this lens to use it as part of a custom tilt-shift adapter. But realised that the 50mm focal length is usually too narrow. Focusing is not easy,...
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: April 2013
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Wednesday, 24 April 2013. The previous post shows you pictures of a thunderstorm. And how to create a composite from the images. This one shows you how to make a video from the images. Two week-ends ago, a fairly strong thunderstorm struck, with clear views from my window. I mounted my camera on a tripod, and I took close to 1000 shots in about 45 minutes, each with 2 seconds exposure. We then add the requir...
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: Chromebook
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Sunday, 2 June 2013. Since the adventure during my last trip, where my (work/home/main) laptop suddenly died. I realized that carrying a heavy and expensive laptop is not the best idea while travelling (in terms of risk of theft, damage, but also weight to carry around). Seems to be a thing of the past, so I went for a Chromebook. I went for the second cheapest ( Samsung ARM Chromebook. Oh no, Korean! And, w...
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: September 2013
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Monday, 30 September 2013. Tracking your DHL package in conky. Or converting the DHL tracking page from HTML to plain text, using XSLT). So, let me explain the problem: You have that package shipped by DHL, and its tracking number. And you're so eager to receive it, that you end up checking the package tracking page every 5 minutes. Your productivity falls to zero. But, worry no more! Then call it with:.
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: March 2013
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Monday, 18 March 2013. Macro photography on the cheap - Correcting chromatic aberration. In this series I show how you can use a cheap close-up filter to take macro pictures. The previous post is a general introduction. And this post will show you how to fix. 160;chromatic aberration introduced by the filter. Checkered pattern (1mm square size), uncorrected. Can we fix this? Tuesday, 12 March 2013. There are...
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Random ideas of a drinking cat: Bokeh-fixing: Opening and cleaning an Olympus OM 50mm f/1.8
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Random ideas of a drinking cat. No cats. Just some Linux stuff, and some photography experiments. Thursday, 25 July 2013. Bokeh-fixing: Opening and cleaning an Olympus OM 50mm f/1.8. In the previous post, I talked about the Olympus OM 50mm f/1.8. And how I find it interesting to use on my Micro Four Thirds camera (Panasonic DMC-GX1), along with some sample shots. When taking some night shots, with an object close in focus, I could see obvious defects in the bokeh. Advise that it may not be worth the fuss...
