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High Dynamic Range

Matthieu — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:10:50 +0000

Today I finally decided to try this HDR thing I’ve heard so much about. It was actually quite easy. I may not be getting optimal results, but I think what I got is pretty cool for messing around for 15 minutes. I just set up AEB on my Rebel XSi, then took the resultant 3 images and threw them into Photomatix. The leftmost picture is the HDR-process result, and the other 3 are the -3, 0 and +3.

Hey Apple, YOU’RE holding it wrong

Matthieu — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:47:10 +0000

So yesterday, the iPhone 4 was released in the US, the UK and many other countries other than Canada. And the Internet is all abuzz over the problems with reception on the iPhone 4. Basically, the problem is that human hands are conductive, and when holding the bottom left corner of the phone, skin creates a bridge between the HSPA and Bluetooth/Wifi antennae (antennas?) and causes the phone to drop connections as seen here:

(Video: Watch this video on the post page)

An iPhone 4 user sent an e-mail to Mr. Jobs regarding the problem and received a curt reply:

via engadget

So, according to Steve, we all need to adjust the way we hold our phones. Not a huge deal I suppose, but as a clever user pointed out, I think we learned by example.

via engadget

Resetting Adium to use user account icon

Matthieu — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:47:07 +0000

A clean Adium profile wiill by default use your Mac’s user icon as the “display picture” for your IM accounts. Changing your DP once breaks this association.

To fix : Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Account Status.plist and delete the “User Icon” Data value.

That’s it!

KFC

Matthieu — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:51:52 +0000

“¡Dos piezas de pollo!”

Stephen Harper on TPB

Matthieu — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:11:37 +0000

Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay – The world’s most resilient BitTorrent site.

Wikipedia down! again!

Matthieu — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:13:10 +0000

I hope this doesn’t become a regular thing… I can’t live without Wikipedia!

Latest Atheros drivers

Matthieu — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:29:45 +0000

http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/15297-latest-atheros-modded-driver-for-windws-7-vista-and-winxp/

Drafts

Matthieu — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:06:57 +0000

Unfortunately my blog has been the victim of neglect lately. I have a few posts that have been saved as “drafts” and were never published. Over the next little while I’ll be cleaning those up and publishing them, and posting links to them here.

http://matthieu.yiptong.ca/2009/12/15/workout-and-yorkdale/

http://matthieu.yiptong.ca/2009/12/17/christmas-cheer/

http://matthieu.yiptong.ca/2009/11/15/apple-service/

Also, I just did a clean install of WordPress and reimported all content. So if anything is broken, let me know.

Windows GDR vs. QFE

Matthieu — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:56:20 +0000

http://windowsconnected.com/forums/t/1050.aspx

After the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Microsoft began doing software updates in a new way. They now maintain two different development environments a General Distribution Releases (GDR) and Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) that only converge again at Service Pack levels.

The GDR branch of updates are used when Microsoft issues one of the following types of updates: security updates, critical updates, updates, update rollups, drivers and feature packs. This branch does not include the updates from the QFE branch.

The QFE branch are cummulative hotfixes issued by Microsoft Product Support Services to address specific customer issues. These updates do not get the same quality of testing as the GDR branch.

GDR-class fixes are included in hotfix files, but hotfixes are not included in GDR version files. The GDR and hotfix versions of a particular file in a security update, critical update, update, update rollup, driver, or feature pack package will typically have the same version numbers. If the version numbers are different then the hotfix file will have a later version number. This indicates that the hotfix file includes a hotfix that was created after the GDR-class fix.

When a security update, critical update, update, update rollup, driver, or feature pack installs you will automatically get the correct “branch” based on your current file type (GDP or QFE). Additionally if you install the GDR version files, the hotfix files are also copied to the %windir%\$hf_mig$ folder. This supports migration to the appropriate files if you later install a hotfix or service pack that includes earlier versions of these files.

Sometimes, you will need to force the installation of the GDR package only or of the QFE package only. To do this, use the following command-line switches.

To install the GDR package only, use /B:RTMGDR

To install the QFE package only, use /B:RTMQFE

Wine Launcher GUI "frontend" for Mac OS X

Matthieu — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:31:04 +0000

Yesterday I installed Wine 1.1 on my Mac using MacPorts. It works great, however it’s not as well integrated as wine on Linux or CrossOver on Mac. What I mean by this is that it’s not possible to double-click a Windows EXE and have it open with wine. So I made a quick and dirty app using Platypus (http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus) to allow me to launch Windows executables directly from Finder.
WineLauncherOSX