| karora | snail: I saw a simple book digitisation device last year that was using relatively cheap digital cameras, much smaller than the bookdrive but a similar concept. | 00:20 |
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| snail | karora: there are a number of very, very cheap designs out there. five years ago when we bought ours it was considered very, very cheap too, but things have moved on. | 00:39 |
| karora | Certainly seems like the right general approach to the job. | 00:40 |
| snail | the main trick is that if you can about colour reproducibility you need eliminate secondary sources of light and let your bulbs warm up before you start | 00:42 |
| karora | The enhancements in the 'pro' version would seem well worthwhile for a professional environment, but I'd find it hard to see why you would not do the basic job with DSLRs. | 00:42 |
| snail | karora: most of the 'pro' versions use DSLRs too. they're just so cheap, reliable and interchangeable. | 00:43 |
| === Milos|Laptop is now known as Milos | ||
| snail | morning all | 19:41 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:41 |
| snail | sometimes i really wish nautilus didn't copy USB drives by first building an in-memory list of every file on the drive... | 19:44 |
| snail | my copy is still going from last night | 19:44 |
| snail | and taking up so much memory that my PC is almost unusable for anything but IRC | 19:45 |
| ojwb | morning | 20:00 |
| ajmitch | morning | 20:31 |
| snail | does someone know of a nice scriptable commandline tool for putting metadata into PDFs? | 21:22 |
| Aginor | isn't there a really good pdf library for python? | 21:26 |
| Aginor | it isn't exactly command line, but it is very scriptable | 21:26 |
| ajmitch | reportlab? | 21:27 |
| Atamira | rmorning | 21:29 |
| ojwb | snail: pdftk? | 21:33 |
| snail | ojwb: thanks, looking into pdftk now | 21:34 |
| ojwb | don't think i've used it to set metadata but I have for other stuff | 21:35 |
| ojwb | says it can do it anyway | 21:36 |
| snail | looks like perl's Image::ExifTool is the perfect storm for editing PDF (and other image formats) metadata | 22:03 |
| hads | Anyone think I should sell these; http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ | 23:15 |
| ajmitch | hads: they look like they could be good, what sort of price though? | 23:17 |
| chilts | hads: I got one a few years ago, they're nice ... but I had nice problems getting the video card working with my old monitor | 23:19 |
| chilts | it was weird | 23:19 |
| chilts | but they are nice machines | 23:19 |
| hads | They would be around $600 for the base model I think, so not super cheap. | 23:23 |
| hads | chilts: Weird, what type of problems? | 23:23 |
| hads | Got offered the NZ distribution but wondering whether it's worth commiting $10k to it. | 23:23 |
| ajmitch | that's quite a cost | 23:24 |
| chilts | it just took a while and someone else poking it to work ... I wasn't sure what they did in the end | 23:26 |
| chilts | I'm happy to send you it for evaluation, remembering that this is an older model | 23:26 |
| hads | Thanks, I think they are going to send an eval model anyway | 23:27 |
| hads | ajmitch: The $600 or the $10k | 23:28 |
| ojwb | looks a neat box | 23:28 |
| ajmitch | hads: $10k :) | 23:28 |
| hads | Yeah, that bit is :) | 23:28 |
| ajmitch | you'd need to sell a few to get that back | 23:28 |
| ojwb | $600 doesn't seem too bad by NZ prices | 23:29 |
| hads | Just from the minimum distributor order | 23:29 |
| ojwb | to that's $10K of stock rather than buy the rights? | 23:29 |
| hads | Yeah | 23:29 |
| ajmitch | ok, not so bad | 23:29 |
| ajmitch | $10K up front just to buy the distribution rights would be too steep | 23:29 |
| hads | Indeed, I don't buy rights. | 23:30 |
| hads | Yeah, just a gamble on how these type of things sell. | 23:30 |
| ojwb | so it's a case of can you sell a few dozen in a reasonable time I guess | 23:30 |
| hads | Yup | 23:30 |
| hads | The thing that attracted me was that they come OS-less or with Linux Mint which is nice. | 23:32 |
| ojwb | i'm not in the market for something like that (currently anyway), but if I was, it looks a good option | 23:34 |
| hads | Thanks, it's helpful to get feedback | 23:37 |
| ibeardslee | hmmm I could think of a number of uses for things like that .. although the budget disagrees | 23:41 |
| hads | heh | 23:41 |
| ibeardslee | more CPU and RAM than my existing home server | 23:42 |
| hads | A big draw for me is the <10W power usage. | 23:44 |
| ajmitch | yeah, that & being fanless is what I like | 23:44 |
| ajmitch | I was looking at the pc engines kit as an option for an AP & router, something like this could probably do a similar job & have power to do other stuff | 23:45 |
| hads | Yeah, the atom CPU has plenty of power for lots of things. | 23:46 |
| ajmitch | not really a gaming box though :) | 23:46 |
| hads | Not enough power for plenty of things too :) | 23:47 |
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