The Allods crash reporter fails. I had a crash yesterday and the process failed to send the report. And today when I launched Allods, the reported tried again.
QtSlidePlayer – Display Slides without Movies
I wanted to display images each with one or more pan / zoom shots. Both on Windows and Linux. I have a Zbox running Linux Mint that I use as a photo frame. As I looked around for programs, all of them created movies. I did a test with one of these programs and 5 slides took 2 minutes to render the 100MB video. This means that a slide show of 300 slides would take 5 hours to render a movie of 8GB. The images for this slide show are only about 200MB.
QtSlidePlayer allows building slide shows in a portable way and the program runs on either Windows or Linux. You can find the program at SourceForge.
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Moving to WordPress.com
This blog moved to wordpress.com.
Apparently it was hacked on the previous hoster, and rather than fixing it, it has been moved to a hoster that will take responsibility for the code base.
Of course the domains will need to be moved and when that happens, you will see this posting. Continue reading “Moving to WordPress.com”
Welcome to Windy Weather
Welcome to the Windy Weather Website.
These are musings from my vantage point on the Oregon South Coast.
A long-time software engineer and general geek, I continue my exploration with Photography, 3D Graphics, Linux and other nonsense. Come along for the ride.
Qt – Fixed Aspect Ratio Resize
Sorry. This is a support post. I used to be able to hide such posts from the front page. But not here. Continue reading “Qt – Fixed Aspect Ratio Resize”
Kitchen Cabinets – Online Experience
As I did my kitchen counter tops, I purchased extra pieces of granite to make a sideboard. Now I’m shopping for the 2 base cabinets to make the sideboard.
Here’s what I need: 2 36″ wide base cabinets, Shaker style in a dark finish – Usually called Havana as it turns out. Each cabinet with drawer[s] above and two slide out shelves below behind double doors. This is a standard cabinet layout, and 36″ wide is a standard size. Continue reading “Kitchen Cabinets – Online Experience”
Linux Mint – Steps to Fix an Installation
I’ll be adding a set of steps to this post to fix up a Linux Mint installation for use. This is a post in progress that I would normally hide from the home page, but can’t do that here. Continue reading “Linux Mint – Steps to Fix an Installation”
Guild Wars 2 – All Level 80 Now
We are all level 80 now. The last push for most of us was with crafting. It’s pretty easy, and not that expensive, to level from 76-77 to 80 by leveling a crafting discipline. We have an Armorer, Weaponsmith, Leathercrafter, Huntsman, Tailor, Artificer and Jeweler among us.
We are all wearing crafted armor and most of us have crafted weapons. All Rare level 80. Not yet Ascended gear, but we will be working on that.
LazyCrazy Emoticons – posted so I can use them by reference
Google Class – Movie Subtitles?
My friend is hard of hearing. He has problems with dialog especially when there is background music in movies. He saw “Her” when it was at the movies and got the gist of the plot, but did not really hear the dialog. I rented the movie and we watched it with subtitles and this time he got it. He was able to “see” it all. Continue reading “Google Class – Movie Subtitles?”
Windy Weather 