About bloody time.
Upgrade installed and appears to work.
Now to wait another 2 months for the release…
Gallery 2.2 RC2
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Timing is pretty important.
I lack good timing. I lack lots of other things but I lack timing. A ticket to where I am traveling will be in the $700s. Peak season no less. That was how much it was last time except half the value.
Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8D AF-D
I am now the proud owner of another two eight zoom. Go me. It is in good condition. Just a few light scratches on the front element and some cosmetic damage on the outer parts of lens. The macro functions seem to suck ass. But I didn’t get it for that.
Editing EXIF data
Using the ‘HI’ ISO setting on my D200 results in the ISO value being missing from EXIF as it somehow is not properly ISO 3200 but instead some equivalent. I still want it known from EXIF data that my goal was ISO 3200.
I got some Windows tool named Reveal (albumshaper.sf.net) but I don’t totally thrilled. Works. But not elegant. This piece of software uses an EXIF toolkit from http://www.exiv2.org/ named Exiv2. All open source and everything. I got it. Compiled it… Installed it.
There is a neat tool for fixing Nikon ISO values. I like that. But it might not always apply to what I am doing. Took a bit to figure out how to set ISO.
exiv2 -M”set Exif.Photo.ISOSpeedRatings <value>” mo <filename>
where -M is to indicate the next string enclosed in ” ” is the command
where mo is the command to modify exif data
Faststone 3.0
Major version number. No obvious new features to show for it.
Where the hell is Gallery 2.2 RC2
Where in the bloody fuck is Gallery 2.2 RC2? I was going to wait for the final but it has been weeks and weeks. Bloody hell.
Lightbox 2.02 Plugin test
Lightbox 2 is a great little piece of javascript for showing pictures without navigating away from the current webpage. Took a bit to get this working and to figure out the best image sizes but here it is. 420 wide for the ‘thumbnail’ and 800 wide for the ‘full sized image’. All that it needs is a tag in the image link ‘rel=”lightbox”‘ and the plugin takes care if it all.
East Asian text in web browsers
I’ve finally fixed a decade old problem. Well. It has been fixed for years but I’ve never properly implemented the solution. Years ago, to display say Chinese characters in a web page, I used a tool like Richwin. Crappy tool. I’ve suspected that modern browers can display these characters natively for years but never figured out how. Turns out I was just missing a unicode font. All I needed was arialuni.ttf installed and everything works easy as pie.