Open Source Photography

2009-10-12 Thread Ted Roche
I think I saw this written up in one of ACM's magazines, but those don't get a lot of traffic. NPR did a story on a group at Stanford doing computational photography - camera hardware with a Linux backend. The prototypes are ungainly, of course, but the potential is very interesting. Here's

Re: [GNHLUG] GNHLUG is turning 15! Let's have a party!

2009-10-12 Thread Dana Nowell
They have a downstairs room for groups now (I hear, haven't seen it). Heather Brodeur wrote: On 10/09/2009 12:08 AM, Bruce Dawson wrote: Google found 2 brew pubs in Manchester: * Milley's Tavern (www.milleystavern.com) * Strange Brew (www.strangebrewtavern.net) I believe we had

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Buskey
IBM was working on a Cell on a card to plug into a motherboard for use in supercomputer clusters. Much like nvidea's tesla gpu cards. On 10/11/09, Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote: Greetings Bruce, Interesting and challenging project! On Saturday 10 October 2009 15:20, Bruce

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-12 Thread Bruce Labitt
Tom Buskey wrote: IBM was working on a Cell on a card to plug into a motherboard for use in supercomputer clusters. Much like nvidea's tesla gpu cards. Fixstars, formerly known as terrasoftsolutions has an equivalent item http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/gigaaccel180/ If this was

NEAR-Fest

2009-10-12 Thread Ted Roche
Just a reminder that NEAR-Fest, the NorthEast Amateur Radio ham fest, is this upcoming weekend on the Deerfield Fair grounds, Friday and Saturday. I don't think there's any official GNHLUG presence planned, but it can be a great opportunity to pick up some hardware, flashlights, oddball items,

Fwd: User Groups! Win Free Pizza and Beer + 45% Off Manning Books

2009-10-12 Thread Ted Roche
Manning Publications regularly offers very good discounts on their books. This month, they're offering a very generous discount to the user group (see below) and a contest for those interested in posting reviews of their book. Apologies for the ugly reformatting of their HTML email...