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Technos Incabloc

Aug 19

Posted by chrleon in design

This is a render of my grandfathers old watch. It’s over 50 years old. The watch, not the render :) I use this watch everyday, and love it to death! I finally managed to render this out. It’s been an abandoned project, sadly, but now it’s here.

Modelled and rendered in C4D, with manual lights set up for detailing and some GI as fill-lights. Tried comping it in blender, but had to resort to Photoshop to get the lensblur correct :)

One of the things that bothers me, is the feeling I get that it’s not photoreal. I can’t put my finger on what it is, but you might. Leave a hint in the comments if you see something that could get fixed re: photorealism. Thanks!

Hope ya like it :)

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webdev on network without NAT-loopback

May 19

Posted by chrleon in development

I’ve been using WordPress for a while now, and I’m doing development on a local apacheserver. Since I’m used to not having NAT loopback on my network, I usually setup wordpress on the local dev-server and pass the blog URL as localhost:portnumber. When clients want to see progress, I upload to the www, and give them the link.

But I wanted the clients to be able to check out what I’m doing without uploading, so I had to find a way to enter the blog URL so it would work from outside too. If I put in localhost:portnumber, WordPress reroutes the visitor to that internal address which is not available from outside the LAN.

Enter DynDNS!

Dynamic DNS was the solution: So I entered myurl.dyndns.org:portnumber. It works like a charm, but since I’m inside a network without NAT-loopback, when I try to go to myurl.dyndns.org:portnumber, it won’t resolve for me. Another thing to solve.

Enter /etc/hosts!

If I modify my hosts file on my developer-machine, I can reroute all traffic to the dynamic dns URL, to the internal one, which is localhost:portnumber. So I added this to my /etc/hosts file:

//webdev locally on network without NAT-loopback
//10.0.0.2 is my dev-server
10.0.0.2 myurl.dyndns.org

Enter Terminal

terminal-img To use these hosts-settings without a reboot, enter terminal on macosx and type sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

So this is how I’ll do it going forward. Any tips and ideas can be put in the comments below.

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Download complete

May 10

Posted by chrleon in misc

Our son arrived last night at 3:13am. Mother and child is fine and sleepy.

Say hello :)

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Donate to charity and get a Google Wave invite

Nov 1

Posted by chrleon in misc

Update: Thanks to@nech, I now have two more invites.

Update 2: I’ll convert my nominations to invites as well, so I can send out instant invites.

Update 3: I have now converted all of my nominations, so they are instant!

Google Wave is a new collaboration/email/Instant Messaging platform, that I and other, have yet to understand the complete reach of. There are Multi User dungeons(MUDs) on there already, book-editing and much more.

I recently got some invites to Google wave. Now I’m seeing people auctioning these off on eBay and other sites.

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Vår tapte frihet

Jul 30

Posted by chrleon in misc

This is a blogpost about current affairs in Norway. It discusses the use of censorship to stifle filesharing. It contains norwegian text. Sorry to my english readers.

Dagbladet presenterer i dag en flott kronikk om overvåkningssamfunnet vi er i ferd med å snuble oss inn i. Jeg nekter å tro at noen deler av regjering eller storting har en skjult agenda, men kanskje de ikke makter å se rekkevidden av sine gjøremål, eller tenker de at målet helliger middelet? Read the rest of this entry »

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API fra SSB #ssbdata

Jul 3

Posted by chrleon in development

I slutten av mai sendte jeg en epost til Statistisk Sentralbyrå om de hadde APIer tilgjengelig for å håndtere data fra deres statistikk. I dag fikk jeg et meget positivt svar! Ilp. 2010 planlegger SSB å lansere APIer for allmennheten. Kjempegode nyheter! Les mer nedenfor. For english visitors: see the link below Read the rest of this entry »

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Submit and forget

Jun 26

Posted by chrleon in development

How to make password reminders remember the password even though you use the Cleartext option on passwords.

Jakob Nielsen made an alertbox entry about password fields, recently.

The gist of what he said, is that it’s user-unfriendly to obscure the passwords, on websites, which presents a password field to their users. He proposes to just use cleartext and not bullets, in these fields, and also suggests a solution to the secrecy problem on public computers: Have an option to show and hide the password field, in case someone looks over your shoulder.

Jakob Nielsen propose that the password is cleartexted as default, but I, and others disagree. Chris Heilmann shows a way to make a show / hide link on all password fields, on a page.

It looks like an elegant script. Kudos to him, for sharing it.

What about password reminders? They only trigger on password-fields.
Password reminders, I believe, will remember passwords if input type=’password’, when you hit submit.
There should be a script that checks to see if the field is text or password, and turns it into password on submit, so that password reminders can remember the passwords even though you use the cleartext method.

Thanks to Chris Heilmann for making the script in the first place.


UPDATE: And btw: I tried my hand at an icon for show/hide password link. It’s of-course under Creative Commons.

Hide/show password icon. With a Creative Commons license.

Hide/show password icon. With a Creative Commons license.

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You are here

Jun 16

Posted by chrleon in design

klode-final

A friend,@BrokenPoly challenged me to create a realistic render of Earth.

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Electronic elections and hardcopies

May 24

Posted by chrleon in development

Paul Venezia, of infoworld.com, on the 18th of May 2009, published Toward a Technology Bill of Rights, that cites six potential elements of a Technology Bill of Rights. Read the rest of this entry »

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A moat against spammers

May 1

Posted by chrleon in development

If you’re like me, you probably have eliminated almost all of your daily spam email, by being very diligent.

You, and I, read every privacy section on every beta we apply for, to feel secure that our email address won’t get in the Infernal Spam Database(TM). It pays to be diligent, and safeguarding your email address is a smart thing to do, and you should, but you can’t do it forever, you know. Read the rest of this entry »

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