norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2004/09/13/newLaptophttp://norman.walsh.name/2004/09/13/newLaptop/comments.atom2012-05-22T19:04:03.183824ZComment 1 on /2004/09/13/newLaptophttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012004-09-14T02:00:28Z2004-09-14T02:00:28ZSteve Cassidyda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

I've not tried it but I recently came across Hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/) which promises to do amazing things with image stitching, more than the windows stuff that came with my camera can manage.

Comment 2 on /2004/09/13/newLaptophttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022004-09-14T05:42:22Z2004-09-14T05:42:22ZJohn Cowanda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

My favorite example of incongruous use of "end of the day":

"At the end of the day, you have to be able to get up in the morning."

Yours sleepily,

Comment 3 on /2004/09/13/newLaptophttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00032004-09-14T12:09:09Z2004-09-14T12:09:09ZNorman Walshda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Does "When all is said and done" strike you better, John? :-P

(For readers who didn't notice: when this essay was first published, the abstract began "At the end of the day".)

Comment 4 on /2004/09/13/newLaptophttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00042004-09-14T14:17:00Z2004-09-14T14:17:00ZNorman Walshda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Hugin is spectacular. Thank you for the pointer, Steve! I'll blog it seperately when I've had a chance to play with it some more. I just made a quick sample panorama of our backyard and I'm seriously impressed.

For those that want to try it, this worked for me: 

apt-get update
apt-get install libwxgtk2.4-dev libwxgtk2.4-contrib-dev
alien --to-deb --install panorama-tools-2.6bml12-2.i386.rpm
alien --to-deb --install hugin-20040404-1.bp.rh9.i386.rpm
Sweet!
Comment 5 on /2004/09/13/newLaptophttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00052004-09-14T17:12:05Z2004-09-14T17:12:05ZNorman Walshda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

WOO HOO!

Inexplicably, I just got email notification that my laptop shipped yesterday via UPS 2-day service. I only paid for ground shipping, but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth!

Comment 6 on /2004/09/13/newLaptophttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00062004-09-15T11:46:30Z2004-09-15T11:46:30ZAndrei Popovda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Congrats. At the end of the day, TP is the best Intel notebook one can get, even if it is less Linux-friendly than some other ones.

Comment 7 on /2004/09/13/newLaptophttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00072004-09-15T12:03:42Z2004-09-15T12:03:42ZDan Connollyda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

I faced roughly the same choice. I went with novelty. I'm winning in that my son composed another song this week, using GarageBand.
But for office work, I miss gnome, evolution, nxml-mode, and the like. Especially gnome. I want all umpteen web page titles in the panel/doc, not just "Safari". details: http://dm93.org/z2001/ToMacOrNotToMac