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How to check your digital camera focus

The best article that I can find was here, here is link to another chart

And the following has been cut from this topic

But if you still have concerns about focusing accuracy, are not sure if it’s user error etc, are dubious about some of the ruler tests worth (as I am), then this method is very simple to use, requires no special equipment, and takes only a minute to do.

Very quick and easy way to check a number of aspects of your focus system repeatably and accurately using no special equipment:

Mount camera on tripod. Use remote release, or self-timer for taking the test shots. If you don’t use a tripod, I think you should consider your results invalid.

Step 1:

Display something predominantly white, with text all over it on your monitor screen. Maximising your Outlook inbox screen works well.

Ensure your camera back is parallel and centred with respect to your screen. Focus on your computer monitor screen manually. Notice that at the point of exact focus, you see a Moire pattern in the viewfinder. (Squiggly interference lines).

Take a picture.

Step 2:

Move the lens out of focus, and this time use AF to onto the screen again, and you should see the moire pattern in your viewfinder.

Take the picture.

Step 3:

Review the images.

That’s it.

Possible Problem Indicators:

If you can see the moire pattern in the viewfinder when manual focusing, but not when Autofocusing, or not in the resultant image on the CF card, that would indicate that there is some kind of focus alignment issue that might warrant further investigation. The moire is always strongest at the point of exact focus, so the AF and MF tests should appear very similar.

Additional test

Instead of using Outlook for the above test, open up FVU and display one of your previous images with the FVU focus point overlay.

Align your camera at the correct distance and position, so that your in-finder focus boxes, overlay those displayed

Now when you review your images, you can also see if the focus boxes in your camera, correlate with those shown in FVU.

The reason I added this step, was that someone on this forum was concerned that their in-camera focus boxes appeared to disagree with those shown in FVU.

Quick, easy and repeatable check of your finder, sensor, and AF alignment.

Zip Codes and Distances

The Haversine formula to calculate distances:

  • #C example http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=634
  • A lot of talking … http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/51879.html
  • http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/48815

Get ZIP codes in range

  • http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/174783
  • http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/how-can-i-search-my-database-using-an-array-like-534211.html?p=2052453
  • http://www.hotscripts.com/listing/zip-code-range-and-distance-calculation-class/

Ruby Gems

  • http://github.com/collectiveidea/graticule/tree/master
  • http://github.com/andre/geokit-gem/tree/master
  • http://github.com/andre/geokit-rails/tree/master

Finding visitors via their IP address

  • http://www.hostip.info/

Use Google Maps to display the results check this post here

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How to help your self if the windows expires

What is your key that you are using:

  • http://magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

Activation console:

I have searched in Internet for some activation removal tools like RESET 5 but I cant find any active online.

How to login in expired windows:

  • click login try pressing WIN-U keys to bring out the Narrator dialog box. Then on the menu in the left, click About then click on the link for Microsoft website. IE will launch (not tested)
  • Or you could just go into safe mode with a DOS prompt; type explorer.exe and have a full safe mode machine running allowing you to bypass the activation with a hack

The conclusion is:

Use the aways the latest windows version. Turn off the windows updates to be not surprised bad.

Use cases

I will prepare some notes here for my future application use-cases web manager.

http://www.scenarioplus.org.uk/download_uc_templates.html

http://www.technosolutions.com/use_case_template.html

http://www.gatherspace.com/static/use_case_example.html

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Windows hacking

How to change the password for a user

net users
net user “user name” *

Microsoft WYSP program

Mysql gem and the mkfm error

The mysql gem was removed from the rails 2.3.2. and you need to install it via the gem install mysql command
But! There is a problem compiling it. seems that the mysql cant find the libmysql so..here are the options:
yum install openssl openssl-devel

Configure with path to mysql_config and install the mysql api via gem:

# cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7
# ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config
# make
# ruby ./test.rb [hostname [user [passwd [dbname [port [socket [flag]]]]]]]
# make install
# gem install mysql

Source: http://www.linuxweblog.com/ruby-on-rails-install

And after that you can read the README.html located in the mysql gem directory :)

Debian/Ubuntu

 sudo aptitude install libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby  libmysql++-dev ruby-dev

WordPress themes

Last week I have the honor to make one wordpress website and I was amazed how good it is wordpress for such small personal websites.

Here I have found a list of wordpress templates in Internet (lost the source please forgive me).

Nice collection of links

more….

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Magnolia

We bought magnolia for our garden but in the store we forgot to ask which kind of magnolia we have. I am sure that we are the only customers don’t knowing what we are buying :)

Lets find it here http://www.magnoliasociety.org/classifications_ndx.html

  • http://www.zadoma.com/index.php?APP_ACTION=FLOWERS_INFO&FLOWER_ID=88
  • http://www.gradinata.bg/index.php?article=105
  • http://gradinata.bg/index.php?plant=368
  • http://www.zeleno.eu/bg/articles/186-magnoliya-ii.html

магнолиите са първите цветни растения. Има храстовидни, и дървовидни представители на род магнолия. Характерно за него, е цъвтенето още по време когато дървото не се е разеленило. За съжаление, цветовете са доста красиви, и цъфналото дърво е красиво, но процесът трае само около седмица. После дървото се разеленява, и практически не може да се открои от останалите дървета, в общ пайзаж. Може да се размножава вегетатично чрез, вкореняване на резник, веднага след цъвтежа и преди раззеленяването.


MSI notebook are total scrab

For MSI Notebooks

Don’t buy MSI. Look for HP, IBM or some real brand.

  1. The lid of the laptop is breaking – I have  MSI 3 laptops and all of them are broken. One of my friends has the luck to return his laptop and now he is with a nice HP machine – lucky man. It was 6 months for repairing.
  2. The wireless is loosing connection all the time. My wife is with IBM and she is chating chating chating, and I am reconnecting, reconnecting reconecting….
    Update:The MSI lan adaptor has gone away. The only way to use Internet is via the integrated broken wireless. I hate MSI.
  3. The heat is like an oven – my son don’t want to play NFS because of the heat. Me too.
  4. The LCD screen gets on some dark and light spots very soon
  5. The material for the laptop is not good – not nice to touch. The silver color is quickly gone and ugly black places are shown
  6. If you enable the 32 bit access mode Linux kernel wont work (tested till ubunto 8.10
    1. After such try you must remove the battery start the power without any AC and return the power – is this magic ?
  7. The fan of the notebook is making awfull noise. The fan costs 40EUR and there no garantee that the new fan will be the same like the old one.
    1. The fan never stops
  8. Their support is not answering on ANY of the problems pointed here. maybe all from MSI are dead. Who knows.
  9. The microphone is very quiet and the this makes it impossible to talk with skype, btw why they have put the camara then?
  10. The mouse which they give as a bonus doesnt work – both 2 are broken, missing some clicks from time to time.
  11. Try searching for “MSI fan” in google. I got this result. Internet is full of “happy” MSI owners.

CHEAP RUBBISH !

I want my money back! for all 2 laptops that I have bought.

I will publish some pictures soon.

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