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    [itemid] => 58
    [title] => Ejecting the CD when things are hosed...
    [body] => 
So, in starting to set up bootcamp, I totally managed to f something up! (Yes, I can even break a Mac). I tried the usual turn off / turn on the machine, and CRAP! the CD is still in the drive, and it HAS NO BUTTONS. Eject is totally software driven.

Thankfully, someone already took the time to list all of the interesting things you should try to get your CD back. Number 3 did the trick.

The iTunes eject button
Disk Utility ...
Hold down mouse button at startup
Hold down C key at startup
Start up into Open Firmware ...
Start up in Target FireWire mode ...
Start up from another machine
Take your machine to an Apple Store
    [author] => erin
    [authorname] => Erin Schnabel
    [itime] => 2007-12-31 11:29:00
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    [authorid] => 1
    [authormail] => erinschnabel@gmail.com
    [authorurl] => http://ebullientworks.com/
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    [itemid] => 59
    [title] => Happy Solstice!
    [body] => 
The longest night of the year has come.. the shortest day of the year is done, and I... well.

So there was this box. It got shipped here a little while ago. It's large, squarish, and only about a foot and a half deep. It's been sitting in the dining room by the skimpily ornamented Norfolk pine and the tiny Meyer lemon tree (which is just beside itself with lemons on the make, but that's another story).

Chris was very careful that I not see anything about it (I also was honest and didn't go looking.. I mean, what's the fun of that?), but he has asked me to guess what it was.. "A spare tire", "A wall-hanging jewelry closet", "A mirror"... The closest I could come (and I didn't think I had a chance in hell of it being so) was a big beautiful LCD monitor to replace the monstrosity on my desk downstairs.

And Lo! it was a big beautiful LCD monitor.. complete with a bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse. My husband, that wonderful man, gifted me an iMac.

Yesss..
    [author] => erin
    [authorname] => Erin Schnabel
    [itime] => 2007-12-21 11:27:00
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    [title] => Well, as Jon was bugging me about it..
    [body] => 
I have, in fact, begun publishing my scans on deviantArt.. I told you I wanted to get prints of some of them.. ;)

The scanning has only just begun, though, so be patient. Some of these  images have spent too long in a sketchbook rubbing against other pages.. so it's hard to get the scan so it doesn't look so darn grainy. *sigh*
    [author] => erin
    [authorname] => Erin Schnabel
    [itime] => 2007-07-02 11:10:00
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    [itemid] => 61
    [title] => Fixing ATI again..
    [body] => 
I'm also rebuilding my T60p in place (meaning I started half of it while chrooted, and have now switched over to the newer half...).

I've run into  anew issue loading the dri drivers: AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __glXFindDRIScreen). Moving to the latest ati driver seemed to fix that (8.37.6-r1).
ATI Linux drivers for debian has great information around how to configure X11 to work with the proprietary ati drivers.
Fglrx - ThinkWiki is a good source for how this stuff all works with thinkpads...

    [author] => erin
    [authorname] => Erin Schnabel
    [itime] => 2007-06-24 23:00:00
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    [title] => Scanning in my pencil sketches...
    [body] => 
So, I blew some time this weekend working on getting some of my pencil sketches scanned in the right way (why I decide the summer is the time to try this stuff.. ).  There are a few of them I've been lugging along in my silly sketchbook, and I really like them.. which actually makes me less likely to carry the thing along, because it could mess up some of those doodles I really like.

So. I started by *gasp* removing them all from my little sketch book. I happen (because I'm a dork) to be equipped with things to make a nice portfolio with these sketches in them because of other crafty things, so I know where they'll end up. BUT.. before they go there, I'd like to get some  high-quality scans of them (I'd like to be able to make prints of at least one..).

Anyway, after wasting scads of time, I can agree that the following links have whatchya need:

Scanning pencil drawings (question in forum thread)
Extending dynamic range (resulting HOW-TO)

    [author] => erin
    [authorname] => Erin Schnabel
    [itime] => 2007-06-24 22:22:00
    [more] => 
I've been going back and forth between the two plugins mentioned in the posts above, and I'm also hovering between the two methods (two gimp plugins: dynamic range extender (DRE) or HDR tone mapping).  As I go, I have been slowly leaning towards the first (which is what the author used for the example in the HOW-TO), mostly because I can then scan and work with the image all in grayscale (the HDR plugin assumes RGB mode).  Not sure which is better in the end, but I'm finding the output from the DRE plugin to be more direct.

Scan w/ XSane:

  Standard options window: Brightness (1, 0, -2 or -3), Sharpness 1
  Created a "pencil sketch" medium: Gray with 1.0 Gamma, and -100/100 brightness/contrast (basically telling the xsane post-scanning processor to leave it alone)


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