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by alirov 9y ago
I'll try and get the process written down but in the meantime, feel free to shoot me an email with any questions. You can find my email in my profile.
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by alirov 9y ago
I looked at some guides for ideas and was hoping to find a ready to go solution but nothing seemed perfect for our use case. Good quality photos for keepsakes was a primary goal so I used this as an excuse to buy a DSLR (which still ended u
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by alirov 9y ago
The camera is hooked up to the raspberry pi via USB. I'm using the gphoto2 library in python to communicate with the camera, show a live preview on the attached LCD screen, snap photos and copy the photos onto the raspberry pi after th
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by alirov 9y ago
Nice, that sounds quite a bit more compact than mine. Having really good quality photos for us to keep was the biggest priority so we settled on a DSLR and dedicated flash. Along with the printer, I ended up installing it all into an old sp
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by alirov 9y ago
The photobooth application was written in Python and I was able to get picasawebsync ( https://github.com/leocrawford/picasawebsync ) working. Even though the documentation says it's probably no longer working, I ca
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by alirov 9y ago
I used one to build a photobooth for my wedding. The raspberry pi controls a DSLR camera to take 4 photos, stitches them into a 4x6, prints the photo and uploads everything to a Google Photos album which was displayed live on a projector.
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NTSB: Air Canada close-call at SFO was even worse than first reported(mercurynews.com)
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by alirov 10y ago
I'm not sure about other brands but I just looked at the bag of Krave jerky I have in front of me and they don't use any corn syrup. Their website [1] confirms it. [1] https://www.kravejerky.com/about
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by alirov 10y ago
Does Southwest selectively offer access to different sites? I know Momondo lists Southwest flights when I search through there. Or is Momondo crawling Southwest's site for prices?
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by alirov 10y ago
Yeah, there was another one [1] built with the same name later. It's a 2/3 scale model of a battleship which is still on display in Point Loma (in San Diego). I used to work around there and it seemed like they were refurbishing i
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by alirov 12y ago
I have a pair of Philips Citiscape Uptown headphones ( http://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/SHL5905GY_28/uptown-over-ear-... ) and they are awesome. Super comfortable and has good noise isolation (but not active noise can
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by alirov 13y ago
I had that same engine you link to as a kid except mine was orange instead of blue. It's definitely one of my more memorable childhood toys and even though a fairly basic representation of an engine, I agree that it was a great intro.
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by alirov 13y ago
Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for but you can get some database dumps that you can browse offline at your leisure. I know Wikipedia offers a file you can download so does Stack Exchange.
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by alirov 13y ago
I'm sure experiences vary greatly depending on the mix of hardware. I remember having to tweak some things to get bumblebee to work properly (or maybe I had to recompile from the source) but it's worked flawlessly since. This is on Ubuntu 1
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by alirov 13y ago
Have you tried using bumblebee[1]? I use it on my Samsung QX411 which has an NVidia GeForce GT 525M video card along with the onboard Intel. The Intel card is used by default at all times. If you want to run a program using the NVidia card,
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by alirov 13y ago
A prepaid phone specifically purchased to be used briefly and then replaced is known colloquially as a burner phone or burner. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_mobile_phone So basically a phone that can't be tracked to you and
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by alirov 13y ago
Here's a clip of that joke: http://youtu.be/u6xaj2fC1jI?t=2m38s
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by alirov 14y ago
I haven't delved into the Windows drivers but clearly they're doing something that the Ubuntu ones aren't for this issue to exist. I just noticed it's happening after a "cold boot" of the amBX. I'm just calling it an initialization issue be
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by alirov 14y ago
I got a secondhand amBX system (just the lights) off of Craigslist a few months ago for cheap and it's been pretty cool. The Windows drivers were a pain to deal with but I got everything up and running in Ubuntu and it works much better. In
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by alirov 14y ago
Bumblebee works well for me on a Samsung QX411. Once installed, just prepend 'optirun' to any command (like when running a game) and it will use the discrete graphics card.
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by alirov 14y ago
I've used the same feature through Citi credit cards although it's fairly well hidden on their site if I remember correctly. I've never found this feature with my American Express or Chase accounts.
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by alirov 14y ago
Regarding the video quality, they do stream some games in HD. As far as I know, it's still a minority of games at this point though.
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by alirov 14y ago
I don't follow baseball so please correct me if this information is for something less than it seems to me. A quick google search brought up two services (MLB.tv and MLB Extra Innings). The former seems to cost about $40-$50 while the latte
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by alirov 14y ago
I don't know about boxing but to watch the NBA (I know that's not going to cover college sports), you can get NBA League Pass for around $100. It's not necessarily cheap but it's cheaper than paying the $64 a month I used to with DirecTV (t
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by alirov 14y ago
I just tried my American Express account and you can add that to the list of financial institutions discarding case-sensitivity.
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by alirov 15y ago
Almost true. You can have the front side windows tinted as long as 70% of light still gets through. Which in actuality is fairly close to not tinting at all. The windshield of course can't have any tint whatsoever except on the top 4 inches
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by alirov 15y ago
You're right, it does check the weather through the Wi-Fi connection: "Nest uses its Wi-Fi connection to keep an eye on current weather conditions and forecasts so it can understand how the outside temperature affects your energy use."
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by alirov 15y ago
Calculators haven't been allowed on the GRE either but with the new one (it either started this month or next month), they are offering an on-screen calculator built into the test.
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by alirov 15y ago
I tried a photo taken with a Fujifilm Z37 which is on the supported list. However, the photo didn't display a serial number on the EXIF data. I'm pretty sure I've never seen an option in a camera to not write just the serial number. Perhaps
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by alirov 16y ago
This just about sums up my office and what everyone likes about it. Snacks and coffee and a fridge filled with beverages is a huge plus that everyone seems to like. And definitely lots of natural light. And to add to the bad, how about bein

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