Technical Rockabilly

I’ve been using Hugin for a couple years now, and its saved me hundreds of hours of work. Creating a great panorama is hard without a tool like Hugin, or Photoshop. With Hugin, you have greater control, and some really inteligent code to get the job done a lot faster than Photoshop. Most the time its really as easy as 1, 2, 3. Load the images, let it chug away and align them, then export the picture.

Here is the UI, its pretty damn simple:

Here are a few panoramas I’ve made with just Hugin. It wouldn’t take more than 10 minutes post work to get them looking perfect. Click the photos below to see the full size images.

Tropic Reservoir (Originally 5 Individual Pictures):

My Room (Originally 27 Individual Pictures):

Astoria-Megler Bridge (Originally 12 Individual Pictures):

Zion’s National Park (Originally 4 Individual Pictures):

Linux is gaining more and more popularity everyday. Right now Windows in the grand scheme of software is well supported legacy software. Its simply out of date. Unix, Linux, and BSD have always been lighter, and more stable. Unless you’re a gamer, there is little reason to switch. BUT if you are a gamer that can switch, you might show the game developers Linux is a platform worthy of having games ported to.

The reason I say Windows is a “legacy” OS is simple: Its updated rarely, unstable, confusing, slow, insecure, large, poorly optimized, and closed ended. Linux on the other hand, has been re-worked, re-though, and re-optimized by hundreds if not thousands of developers over its life. Its been optimized to the point it will run on a cell phone, or even a watch! Windows Mobile requires a rather robust phone, when Linux can run on a 49Mhz ARM cpu found in most calculators.

Now for the show down — the reasons Linux is better.

File Compatibility:

No time after you load Linux you can load PDFs, RAW images from your camera, Illustrator files, Photoshop files, Word Documents, Exel Spreadsheets, the list really goes on forever.

Greater Flexibility:

Want to run World of Warcraft, Ventrillo and/or TeamSpeak, and your guild’s forum amd website? No problem! You could run it all off one machine! FREE!

Lower Cost:

Windows costs over $100. End of story. It really makes no sense to install Windows for a workstation PC. Most everything is compatable, and you’re just feeding a big, old, crotchity, money hungry, beast when you pay Microsoft for their dinosaur of an operating system.

All together you’re making a much better choice with Linux. You get all the great looks as Vista, with the the stability of MacOS, and the freedom to do whatever you’d like with your OS.

Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>
ftp> EXIT
?Invalid command
ftp> QUIT
?Invalid command
ftp> fuck
?Invalid command
ftp> exit
221 Goodbye.
troy@employee-terminal:~$

Me: Thanks for calling BlueHost, this is troy
cu: Hows it going Joy?
Me: Pretty good, but my name is Troy.
cu: Yeah, Joy, thats what I said
me: No, its Troy, like Helen of Troy
cu: Helen of who? What? Is it Helen or Joy?
me: My name is Troy
cu: Thats what I said, JOY, J-O-Y.
Me: T-R-O-Y
Cu *click*