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There is a new Firmware available for the Canon EOS 40D since beginning of April. I was very eager to see what changed and had to update my Camera today.

The first thing I checked was the image zoom of a taken picture. In release 1.0.5 the image got unsharp afrer the 3rd or 4rd zoom level. This annoying bug seams to be gone now. The image looks sharp until the second last zoom level. Much better than before. Bravo Canon.

The Firmware is available ath the EOS 40D Dowlnoads Page.

Today I saw a Post on the IPv6 Ops list that Google is now reachable over IPv6 on a special URL.  This is a small but jet significant move in the right direction. Hope more big players will start using IPv6 soon.

the podcast blog unwiredshow.tv has some great links to pages where you can find great wallpapers for your computer. This pod cast is a good source for informations and product reviews anyway.

Have a look here:
Unwired » Blog Archive » #55 - Desktop backgrounds

IPv6 get’s more and more attention. Many experts say, that it is already to late for a smoth transision to IPv6.

IPv6 and IPv4 - big trouble coming, and soon - Mixed Signals - Rupert Goodwins’s Blog at ZDNet.co.uk Community

There are many stitching tools out there. But many of them are either complicated to handle ore produce unusable or bad results. I tried many of them. The absolute best I found is Autopano Pro from Kolor.

It has many very useful features like:

• Automatic Panorama detection and alignment
• Color Correction
• HDR (High Dynamic Range) Feature
• Batch rendering

any many more. On their homepage are many very nice how-to movies and examples to get an idea what all can be done with autopano.

The new version 1.4 works on MacOS, Linux and Windows. Which makes it usable everywhere.

Autopano is not really cheap, but definitely worth the money.

The Panorama above was stitched out of 16 Images made with a Canon 40D without a tripod.

The IPv4 address space gets less and less. IANA projects to be out of allocation by 18-Jun-2011 to give out to Registries. The Registry pool in turn is projectet to be empty by 12-Aug-2012. Thats not a very long time from now. This Page has some interesting graphs on the IPv4 space usage. So you should consider moving on and get IPv6 rolled out in your network and implemented in your software. Many of the Open source tools already support IPv6 with production quality eg. Apache, Power-DNS, Firefox, Thunderbird, just to name a view. On the operating system side it also looks pretty well. Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OpenVMS, MacOS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista all support IPv6 out of the box.

The more frustrating part is support for consumer networking devices like ADSL Routers or Firewalls. Only the big players support IPv6 on there higher priced equipment.

For all of you that are luky and already have IPv6 connectivity here is somepthig for you.
It’s not a really new site. I first heared of it on a RIPE meeting some years ago. But with IPv6 getting more and more attraction I thought it is worth a post …

Here it is: http://www.ipv6porn.co.nz/

On the search to find out how to hide the icon in the Dock of HardwareGrowler, I landed on the blog of an old LUGS colleague Beat: - 0×1b - Hide Dock Icons -

Here are the translated instructions:

• Open the contents of HardwareGrowler.app
• Edit Info.plist
• Insert the following code:
  

  <key>LSUIElement</key>
  <string>1</string>
  

• Restart the Application

Now the icon should be disappeared

I found this cool video of a performance at RIPE 55.

Enjoy

I upgraded my MacBook to Leopard a few days ago, and liked to sync my phone now. Unfortunately my Phone is still not Supported and the old hacks with editing the iSync content seams no longer to work.

After googling around a bit, I found out that there is a tool called “iSync Plug-In Maker”. It looks realy simple but I was unable to produce a usable plugin. If someone has some hints, they would be very welcome.

I was not satisfied by the idea that I would no longer be able to sync my Phone, so I searched for similar models on the net, and found a plugin for the Nokia 6300, which is almost the same. I then was able to change the identification string and the display image. Et voila … it works.

Here is the Plugin: iSync Plugin for Nokia 6288

But if anyone knows how to make a working plugin from scratch with “iSync Plug-In Maker” I would realy be interested.

On Sunday September 10. my Wife Monika gave birth to our Daughter Julia. We are very happy that almost everything went quiet smooth till now, even she came 5 weeks too early.

I’ll keep you updated on her own page … there will be more images every view days now.