lenux is awsome!!! On Feb 23, 10:54 pm, "Jonathan Vigh" <[email protected]> wrote: > I sure hope they don't make Picasa a cloud-only program. The developers > might be interested in how I'm using Picasa, so I'll give a brief summary, > as I'm pushing it's limits in one particular way: > > I'm a hurricane researcher and am working with an image library of 60,000 > satellite images (~13 GB) of approximately 180 Atlantic hurricanes over the > past 15 years. I sorted the images chronologically and stored in a > hierarchical directory structure by storm year and storm name. Really basic > stuff. There are between 100 and 700 images per storm, with each image taken > every 15 or 30 minutes. So I use Picasa to browse through the satellite > imagery for a particular storm - I was doing subjective image analysis to > determine various baseline times for eye formation - so using Picasa, I just > "animate on the fly" using the forward and back arrow keys. It works > fantastic - on an $8000 dual quadcore Xeon HP linux workstation with lots of > memory (16 GB?) running off of a local disk. I tried to do this on my home > computer (a dual core 2.2 GHz intel-PC with 3 GB memory running Windows and > Picasa 3.6) and the animation is rather jumpy and not nearly as fast - kind > of unsatisfactory actually. Obviously, a cloud-based solution would be > horrible for this type of use. Anyway, I just thought some might find this > interesting. Anything that decreases the capacity to smoothly loop rapidly > through all the images in a folder would be detrimental to uses like this. > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miguel > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 3:54 PM > To: Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux > Subject: Re: Linux Support > > That would be quite a stupid thing to do, If only with Google Chrome, > doable, but really dangerous (to not go the same path as microsoft has > gone before) > > @Patrick > I am also runnign 3.6, but i had to work it out myself, since there is > NO OFFICIAL release by google. And furthermore, Places / Geotagging > and Backup is not working... Things that Google would have taken care > of if they would make an official release for linux... > > On Feb 23, 7:09 pm, Alan Cummings <[email protected]> wrote: > > Miguel wrote: > > > So, as you can read in this article (http://www.informationweek.com/ > > > news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220100440) it is > > > supposed that Picasa si not well adopted under Linux and this should > > > be the reason for discontinuation. > > > >>SNIP<< > > > I have a feeling that by the time version 4 comes out it will be a "cloud" > > version, or maybe a Chrome browser plugin. After all I would thing they > > would want some sort of version to run on Chrome OS. > > > -- > > Alan. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
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