I’ve already taken over two hundred photos (maybe 1 or 2 good ones, mind you) in the past day, about 1GB of files. Maybe I should buy another HD?

It’s been raining toys recently. Finally got my EOS-10D yesterday. After going to a friends house and borrowing some lenses, I filled up the half-gig CF card I had with me in a matter of minutes. I can see that that new HD I ordered should come in handy.

Borrowing a couple of lenses from Jaime right now. Here’s a shot from Day 1 shooting. 1600 looks really good scaled down. I love RAW.

My process needs some work, but the IQ is spectacular: 12-bit linear -> 16-bit sRGB TIFF -> Crop -> White/Blackpoint General Curves -> 8-bit -> Color adjustment with image mask -> scale -> USM

Oh, got my NEX ia today. Has some pretty neat features, seems to work well. Will write up sometime after I get a chance to play with it.

MPlayerOSX – Mac binary distribution of “Movie Player for Linux” – flossy. Plays DIVX (and kin), Real, etc.

Just got around to installing the new version of TopStyle. It has an interface to access the TopStyle Blog straight from the program. Cool! (Recently I’ve been doing most of my design/editing in vim, but TopStyle really is great – everything that used to be good about HomeSite (not surprising seeing as it’s by the guy who originally wrote HomeSite).

Yeah, it’s pretty uninspired… but come on, you knew it was coming.

Musssst…. resist… remember, they betrayed us…

Ahh, there we go, sanity returning… It’s useless to me if I can’t read through my blogroll, and no SSH. That solves it. Oh, and there’s an SDK but no way to load my own apps. (and no expansion, and no BT) Next!

The blog might be sitting fallow until I get off my lazy butt and fix things. Been futzing with my Gateway Touchpad and USB Audio Device in my nonexistant spare time. Oh and the work, freelance work, stack of bills and cleaning and all that jazz.

• mp3DirectCut – awesome Windows program w/ a nift GUI that slices and dices MP3’s (w/ vis and vu meter)
• Similar tools are available for Linux, like PyMP3Cut, and Mp3Splt (with .cue/cddb and mp3wrap (albumwrap) support). No nifty guis however.

In other news, the Star Wars clips I’ve been mirroring for Andy hit a max of 10.5Mbps Friday (my connection is a fully burstable 100Mbps – theoretical 12.5MB/s). Since then, a few more mirrors have been added, so, I’m not too worried about bandwidth usage, but will have to look at it in a few days.

What is disappointing is that Andy had to turn off commenting [and delete about 50 posts] because of the increasingly spiteful, petty, malicious, and distasteful nature of the comments. In any case, it was a little reminder that things are much different now that the rest of the world is online. It’s filled with the same sort of stupidity, careless cruelty, and downright mean-spiritedness as the real world (hoo-ray for humanity!).

Andy notes the irony that the people ripping into this kid most viciously are primarily coming from Game, Hardware and Tech, and Star Wars fanboy sites. Talk about pots and kettles. Maybe we need a different kind of mirror for these guys.

I was looking for this a few months ago. It looks like I just wasn’t looking hard enough (well, searching for the right keywords, at least). LUFS is a “hybrid userspace file system framework” which allows you to mount FTP, SSH, and even Gnutella files (it’s expandable) as local folders.

It involves a kernel mod and a user daemon that handles most of the VFS calls… Too bad there’s no way to handle the stuff purely as a loopback device, that would make it easier to port to OS X, I’d imagine. Obviously it doesn’t work on Windows, though. The only solution I’ve found over the past few months that’ll mount SSH/SSL drives is KnoWare’s Internet Neighborhood Pro.

(Look into KDE Fish – might work xplatform – can it work outside of KIOSlave – ie, at system level, or does it require Konqueror [and a GUI]?)

See also:

• enfs – user level vfs for linux and bsd. last release (v0.1) was in 2001 though
• AVFS – userspace virtual file system that supports: floppies, tar and gzip files, zip, bzip2, ar and rar files, ftp sessions, http, webdav, rsh/rcp, ssh/scp via Coda Kernel mod (OS X doesn’t seem to have one, and from this message, looks like it never will) or shared library hack (works for Solaris – would it work for OS X?)
• podfuk – like AVFS, uses Coda, works for Linux and Solaris