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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo panorama creation

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 30, 2009, 11:46 PM »

Microsoft ICE was a minor part of some other, bigger project, and has not been updated for more than a year. Might never be.

I wanted to warn people about the problem so that they could avoid the time and effort of installing and uninstalling it.

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General Software Discussion / MS ICE vs. AutoStitch

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 29, 2009, 06:48 PM »

I tried creating panoramas using Microsoft Image Composite Editor 1.2 recently. See below how it sliced objects:



When I tried the AutoStitch v2.2 demo, using the same set of pictures, I got this:



Does anyone else use the Microsoft program and have this happen to them also? I am going to use AutoStitch for any future panoramas. If you can't see the difference and can't download the attached panoramas, let me know and I will try to provide downloadable pictures.

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Living Room / Apollo conspiracy's doom

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 19, 2009, 07:48 PM »

I read a news item   (   http://www.newscient...o-landing-sites.html) about the LRO images showing the Apollo landers. If later more high-resolution images show a recognizable lander and other equipment, will this mean the end of stories that we never really went to the moon?

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Living Room / Early Windows apps

« Last post by Arizona Hot on June 17, 2009, 07:06 PM »

While surfing the Web looking at Windows history I found  this page which talks about modifying the file headers of Windows 1 and 2 programs so that they will run in later versions. I have done this in my Win XP machine. I would like to know if they will run under Win Vista. I think it would be a real blast from the past and interesting backwards compatibility if some Windows 1 programs would run in Windows 7. I have attached the 2 zip archives of the programs to this entry.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Final Release: DecClock

« Last post by Arizona Hot on January 10, 2009, 11:54 PM »

Too bad, I would have liked to have a digital time only clock for my screen next to my DClock.   

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Living Room / Re: One answered question before you died

« Last post by Arizona Hot on October 08, 2008, 07:28 PM »

My question is:

"Is there other intelligent life in the universe and where is it?"

If only one part of this is permitted, then the question is:

"Where precisely is any other intelligent life in the universe?"

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Living Room / Re: How often do you reboot your primary workstation?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 09, 2007, 03:18 PM »

I rebooted Windows XP yesterday because the computer couldn't see that a disk was in the drive while burning files to a backup disk. I reload Windows Explorer more often because it keeps adding extra "Shared Documents" and "My Sharing Folders" to the folders structure.

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What's the Best? / Re: Malware protection (a-v, firewall) for Linux Ubuntu

« Last post by Arizona Hot on May 26, 2007, 06:53 PM »

I use Nod32 (http://www.nod32usa.com/). On their website, one of the products listed is an AV program for Linux file servers. You can try that.