I hate it when Fedex leave my parcel at the sorting depot for a day; just to meet and not beat the 2 business day delivery.
The parcel //could// have been delivered today – 5th November – but that would be next business day.
As a customer I’d be //really// happy if I got things early.
I’ve been using Hugin for a few years now – following a recommendation from Nat.
The best things about Hugin:
So here’s my 5 minute how-to:
Get Hugin – download from http://hugin.sourceforge.net/download/
Install it.
Get autopano-sift to do the point management from http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/
Install it.
Get enblend to do the excellent blending of photos once they are stitched together from http://sourceforge.net/projects/enblend
Install it.
You now need to tell Hugin to use autopano-sift and enblend.
File –> Preferences –> Autopano
Specify the location of Autopano-sift
File –> Preferences –> Enblend
Specify the location of enblend
That’s it.
Add your pictures; do the magic – and you have some great panoramic pictures.
I’ve found that experimenting is key; you can get great results with some patience.
There’s also a manual for Hugin here http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=707719
I’ve been looking for a good quality, upscaling, multi-region DVD player for ages.
Alan tipped me off about Oppo – and I’ve just bought a DV981HD player.
Should be here Monday.
Apparently it’s $1000 worth of player for $225. Alan swears by his.
Novell has let go a lot of colleagues and good friends in the last month.
ZENworks Engineering and QA lost a lot of good people; their roles are being filled in Bangalore, India.
Also several UK friends were let go this week; and also people across the US.
Woo. Off to sunny Orlando in a few weeks for the annual sales conference. I missed last year; I was on paternity leave.
I’m running three days of ‘Endpoint management training’ for the global pre-sales and technical teams.
I’m juggling the agenda right now – should include:
– Advanced ZCM scenarios; scale, deployment, labs etc
– ZENworks Endpoint Security Management
– ZENworks Patch Management Services update
– Vista deployment and migration lab
– roundtable, roadmap, updates etc
Superstition? Maybe.
I always listen to “Dreams Never End” by New Order before every exam I’ve taken. Ever since mock GCSEs in 1987.
Back in London to sit the two, three hour papers for the Managers Certificate.
Fingers crossed; first one Wednesday afternoon, second on Thursday morning.
In some circumstances you need to turn down the agent trust – especially with a NAT or DNS Round Robin environment.
This registry key changes the agent to accept a looser trust on name matching:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARENovellZenworks] "require-verified-certs"="false"
A long title for a short post.
The default agent deployment packages created during Primary Server installation are hard coded to the Fully Qualified DNS Name and the static IP address of your server. All well and good for a single server; but what about:
Here’s how to build a custom agent deployment package with either no server details (add them via registration at deployment time) or with a single DNS name.
As I wrote in a previous post – one of the most important new features of ZENworks 10 Configuration Management is the System Updates feature.
This allows administrators to automatically download, approve and deploy ZENworks patches and updates across their servers and workstations.
Written at: Winchester, England
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