October 2009
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Tokyo Bay Timelapse
I finally got my shutter release timer from Hong Kong. It works great! Here is the latest attempt:
The original source video (sequenced from the original photos) was stunning, but I find I’m having a lot of trouble getting good quality output from iMovie ‘09. There are a lot of people complaining about it, so I guess it’s iMovie and not just me. In frustration, I bought...
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Time Lapse
I ran across mockmoon2000’s YouTube channel a couple of weeks ago and started what may turn out to be an obsession with shooting time lapse videos.
Below is my latest attempt, shot with an old video camera hooked up to my neighbour Joe’s Mac Mini in webcam mode, using open-source software Gawker to create the movie. I edited it using iMovie ‘09.
The resolution and image...
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kill -3 to the rescue!
A basic and ancient weapon to keep close at hand when hunting down deadlocks and other weird threading issues in Java applications is the kill -3 command. I don’t know of an equivalent on Windows, but if you are running on any flavour of Unix (including Mac OS X) it is available via the command line.
If you’ve never tried it, basically it gives you a dump of the stack traces of all...