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Digital ICE on the Nikon Coolscan V ED works rather well.

For example, here is a single frame scanned both without and with Digital ICE, set to remove dust and scratches. The negative wasn’t removed from the scanner between scans, the option was simply turned on and the frame re-scanned:

· Without ICE. Note the dust on the mountain, and small scratches on the house at the right side of the frame.
· With ICE. Aforementioned dust and scratches (and other bits) are just simply gone.

Can any of you recommend a Win32 RSS / Atom feed reader? I’m liking Vienna on OS X, and Google Reader, but Google Reader just suddenly breaks all too often. And by breaks I mean fails to update feeds for long periods of time, if ever.

And Firefox sucks for feeds, because if I nest a bunch under one bookmark toolbar entry I have to drill down to each to check if there is anything new there.

Do any of you know how to donate software licenses?

I’ve got a 20 CAL copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, for x64 here. It’s NFR, and was handed to me by a MS rep. Unfortunately I don’t have a use for it. I can’t really sell it, so I’d like to donate it to a charity which can use it. But I don’t know of any. If any of you know of a organization which can (and will) use it, and how I can get it to them, please let me know.

And yes, it’s brand new, still sealed, etc.

Thanks. :D

Anyone want to see a bug in Mail.app v2.1 (752/752.2)? Here: mail_imap_single_subfolder_bug.mp4

In short, I have two folders under INBOX (in this case .Logs and .Other) which aren’t defined as special folders (.Sent, .Drafts, .Junk, and .Trash are being used as special folders in Mail.app). If I delete one of them, in this case .Other, suddenly .Logs is no longer visible.

In short, if there is one folder besides the ‘special’ ones off of INBOX, it won’t be shown. And yes, I’ve confirmed that the folder is subscribed. Pointing SquirrelMail or Thunderbird at the account shows all folders as expected.

This is with Courier-IMAP 4.1.1 running on FreeBSD 6.1.

And yes, this has been reported to Apple as Problem ID 4764544.

Can any of you tell me why the following matches no files (and thusly won’t back things up?

tar -czP --include '*.sh' -f /home/telematic/backup/`date +"%Y-%m-%d_scripts.tar.gz"` /usr/local/sbin

This is with BSD tar, and there are files matching *.sh under there. In fact:

root@rowla:~telematic/backup# find /usr/local/sbin -name "*.sh"
/usr/local/sbin/fastcgi/fastcgi-katester.sh
/usr/local/sbin/fastcgi/fastcgi-c0nsumer.sh
/usr/local/sbin/fastcgi/fastcgi-rekram.sh
/usr/local/sbin/fastcgi/fastcgi-sithspawn.sh
/usr/local/sbin/fastcgi/fastcgi-nuxxfriends.sh
/usr/local/sbin/fastcgi/fastcgi-tnorman.sh
/usr/local/sbin/fastcgi/fastcgi-secure.sh
/usr/local/sbin/automysqlbackup.sh
/usr/local/sbin/webalizer_daily.sh
/usr/local/sbin/dailybackup.sh
/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd-hash.sh
root@rowla:~telematic/backup#

So, uhm… What am I doing wrong?

DreamHost Cancelation
(Click for full res image…)

In case any of you are interested, the process for canceling an account with DreamHost is completely automated. In fact, it’s easier than signing up for the account in the first place. When canceling the site simply calculates whether or not it has been more than 97 days since signing up for the account and if not, automatically supplies a refund.

Maybe they get quite a few of these or something.

Anyway, I’m (obviously) going to wait a few days to be sure things go through as expected with the credit card company, but this is definitely a bright spot in this whole ordeal with DreamHost.

Oh, and yes, all sites are now on rowla.nuxx.net at the wonderful host which is Waveform Technology Inc, LLC. As long as I can provide a stable, unhacked box for another more than two years I’ll be content.

So it seems that my choice of webserver for rowla.nuxx.net, lighttpd, isn’t working out so well. It seems that the Nokia 6600 (and I’d imagine others), as part of implementing the Nokia Image Upload Server API v1.1 sends an Expect: 100-continue, but lighttpd always returns 417 Expectation Failed. As can be seen here, the ‘100 – Continue’ part of HTTP/1.1 simply hasn’t been implemented.

A bug report (#377 – Incorrect handling of the 100 (Continue) Status) has been submitted, but it looks like there hasn’t been any work done on it in quite a while.

I presume that Nokia uses that because then the client will only send another chunk of image after the server has received the last, helping ensure data doesn’t get lost somewhere in the high latency / flaky world of GPRS. Or maybe because they anticipate the Image Upload feature of the phones to be used on potentially overloaded ISP / telco servers and they don’t want the phones sending data faster than the server can handle it.

As is stated in RFC2068, 10.1.1 – 100 Continue:

The client may continue with its request. This interim response is used to inform the client that the initial part of the request has been received and has not yet been rejected by the server. The client SHOULD continue by sending the remainder of the request or, if the request has already been completed, ignore this response. The server MUST send a final response after the request has been completed.

I don’t think I can use some sort of proxy for it either, because it seems that Expect headers need to be forwarded by proxies. (RFC2616, 14.20)

So, back to Apache, or I can try to find another way around this… At least I know what’s causing it. Until then, no from-phone updating of my moblog can occur.