At Seneca we showed that the Creative Commons registry is technically doable and we wrote software to show how. Now the project needs to be taken over by another organization interested in running it. We don’t have the infrastructure at Seneca to host it. I would love to one day see Wikimedia (perhaps via Wikidata) …
Continue reading CC Registry – Next stepsIn this series: CC Registry – What it’s all about CC Registry – Architecture (this post) CC Registry – Next steps I’ll now describe the components making the registry possible. All the source code for this is open source and available from GitHub. Data Source When this goes into production – the images need to …
Continue reading CC Registry – ArchitectureIn this series: CC Registry – What it’s all about (this post) CC Registry – Architecture CC Registry – Next steps Wouldn’t it be nice if one day you could find an image online and know whether you can legally use that image and for what purpose? This is fundamentally what the Creative Commons registry …
Continue reading CC Registry – What it’s all aboutI don’t even know if this should go into Open Source, but there are definitely machines that will not run X.org with the Nouveau driver with some of the newest NVidia cards, and this is the only realistic way I know to fix it. The procedure for installing this thing is incredibly weird and error-prone …
Continue reading Installing proprietary NVidia drivers in CentOS7I’ve decided to finally print my photo collection and put the prints in albums like in the good old days. I spent a few days going through the files and picking what I want printed. I was not expecting to see that I will end up with 934 photos. But that’s not going to stop …
Continue reading Printing photos with bashI forgot I saw this when I visited back home in Tiraspol. I forgot to make a photo of this car right away, but then saw it 3 or 4 times in other locations. It’s a small city so that’s not too surprising, but was interesting anyway, especially since I was working on a project …
Continue reading Creative Commons in TransnistriaFor some reason this doesn’t work out of the box. The official pHash 0.9.6 from phash.org won’t build on CentOS even though ffmpeg-devel is installed. I don’t even think this is the fault of pHash, I think the CentOS package is broken. When trying to build it I get: libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. …
Continue reading Building pHash 0.9.6 on CentOS 7There are plenty of people in our industry (software development) who advise to fail early and fail often. This is a story of such a project. The OSTD is a really cool idea: get free translations, or at least get started on them. I never pushed it too hard but I developed it to the …
Continue reading OSTD: an experiment that didn’t workFor our research project we needed to use pHash to do some operations on a lot (tens of thousands) of image files. pHash uses ImageMagick internally, probably for simple operations such as resizing and changing the colour scheme. I am pretty familiar with errors such as these coming from convert or mogrify: convert.im6: no decode …
Continue reading Using ImageMagick without running out of RAMOur school moved to PeopleSoft for.. I’m not going there.. but that’s where everyone’s timetables are now. I thought maybe this big fancy company has an API to let me access the data but no, it’s basically impossible to access the API directly. So I was left with screen scraping, which I always wanted to …
Continue reading Screen scraping timetable data from a PeopleSoft Faculty Center