When I resurrected this blog, I lamented the loss of history and old posts from the time when this blog was hypecycles.wordpress.com and pizzaandcode.com.
Well, thanks to the wonders of the internet (and help from my friend Daniel Senie) I was able to recover all of the old posts and add them back to this blog!
History going all the way back to sometime in 2009 is now back online.
SETI has observed a “strong” signal that may originate from a Sun-like star
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VMware says, “We’re not dead,” updates Fusion and Workstation for free
Enlarge /VMware Fusion 8.5 for Mac, with tab support.
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Tips for Shooting the Milky Way
Seeing the Milky Way with your own eyes is what you may call a jaw dropping experience, but one that can be truly achieved only in complete darkness. While stars are visible even in light polluted areas, the Milky Way’s beauty, which is actually caused by concentrations of stars, gas and dust, fades away in the light polluted areas and cannot be seen.
Circular Polarizers Versus Graduated Neutral Density Filters for Landscape Photography
Whether you’re a professional or hobby photographer, odds are you’ve come across a beautiful, scenic landscape, that you absolutely had to photograph. Unless you’re an experienced landscape photographer, there’s a good chance the color in that photo wasn’t as saturated, or balanced as you were expecting. That’s because there’s generally a wide disparity in the dynamic range between the foreground and background of landscapes, as well as between the upper (sky) and lower (earth) halves of the frame. Thanks to a couple of lens filters, this hurdle can easily be overcome without having to spend hours of post-processing in Photoshop.
How and Why to Use Back Button Focus
Common Photography Mistakes Newbies Make and How to Avoid Them
Every shooter will tell you that they all made the same photography mistakes when they were starting out. From horizon lines not being straight to poor focusing, here are some of the most common newbie mistakes and how to avoid them.
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This is How Light Pollution Affects How We See the Night Sky
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It is almost that time of the year again and that means it is time to start brushing up of the fall color tips and tricks.
6 tips for shooting fall color
https://www.dpreview.com/techniques/4329601714/6-tips-for-shooting-fall-color
This is huge news!
Leading India e-commerce site launches OpenStack hybrid cloud
Just to give you a sense of the size of this company, consider this:
Snapdeal has already cornered about a quarter of the Indian e-commerce market, that’s twice as much as Amazon but about half of its largest local competitor Flipkart, in what some are calling the “great race” to rule what may become the world’s largest online marketplace. With the fastest growing e-commerce market, Snapdeal reaches people that brick-and-mortar businesses can’t, since half of its customers live outside India’s biggest cities.
In this interview, learn more about how OpenStack’s Trove and Manila projects are adapting to meet the varied database needs of cloud users..
Source: Expanding DBaaS workloads with OpenStack Trove and Manila
Some day, I want to do this! I’ll post some of my attempts at this in a later post.
High speed photography is great for capturing the moment when two water droplets collide and make incredibly beautiful fluid impacts.. Read more on MAKE The post Capture Incredible Water Droplet Impacts with a High Speed Camera Rig appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers ..
Source: Capture Incredible Water Droplet Impacts with a High Speed Camera Rig
Ron Bradford posted this interesting article on his blog after a recent trip I made to New York City.
Trove is used for self service provisioning and lifecycle management for relational and non-relational databases in an OpenStack cloud.. Trove provides a RESTful API interface that is same regardless of the type of database.. CLI tools and a web UI via Horizon are also provided wrapping Trove API requests..
Source: Utilizing OpenStack Trove DBaaS for deployment management
When it comes to the list of digital imaging pioneers, Marc Levoy is one of those names that belongs right near the top.. His work has led to many of the technical advances that we see in use today with computer generated imagery..
Source: Stanford Professor puts his entire digital photography course online for free
This post appeared first at the Tesora blog.
I was recently asked what resources I would recommend to someone looking to get started with OpenStack. I’d like to provide them here for those who may be beginning their OpenStack journey.
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