Since I tried it for the first time, I simply fell in love with creating panorama pictures.
Gloriously, this is possible with the Free Software Hugin.
The new (2011-09-30) version 2011.02 features a greatly improved interface making work really easy.
Here is the result of stitching together 4 pics taken by mobile phone (Sony Ericsson Cybershot C905):
You want to install Debian GNU/Linux on a machine?
You don’t have an install CD at hand (or you’re facing a netbook)?
USB booting is a nightmare?
That’s the situation I was in lately. So I remembered some clever guys had turned the debian installer into a windows executable: The Debian Installer Loader. It’s available at the well memorizable site http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ and works absolutely perfect.
It even preseeds some installation values from the Windows environment.
You also have the choice whether you turn the machine into dual-boot (takes much time for shrinking NTFS partition) or convert it as a whole.
This tool gets rated five stars by me!
Wie an jedem zweiten Dienstag im Monat treffen sich wieder alle, die sich für Freie Software interessieren, um 19 Uhr in Bonn in der Pauke.
Einzelheiten im Wiki-Eintrag der Bonner Fellowship-Gruppe.
Viele Grüße
Michael
So, Apple has lost its great visionary.
Apparently Software Freedom and User Freedom did not belong to his vision.
Maybe it’s a new chance for them to add these and listen to what their customers really want.
Perhaps the foundation of some “Critical Apple Users” groups would help them with that. 
Today’s Bonn Fellowship of FSFE meeting will take place at a new location: Klein Bonnum, Paulstraße 5, 53111 Bonn: Fellowship Calendar Event Entry
On Saturday, we had a nice booth in the city of Bonn:
As other groups (worldwide children’s day) on that beautiful day, we released several balloons into freedom:
But besides people trying to grab our free goodies (LinuxTag posters and (K)ubuntu CDs), we also had some good chats about our main issue:
I can say just one thing:
You can see more pictures (and hopefully also some videos) here.
Ich habe das erste Interview von Matthias mit DRadio Wissen in Text übersetzt: Hier ist meine Transkription des Interviews vom 2010-07-26.
Today is Norwegian Constitution Day.
In 2007, I spent my honeymoon in Norway. That was a fantastic journey!
As a reminiscence, I wanted to finally create some panoramas I photographed then. Thanks to Hugin this really is fun:
There is one downer, though:
You need to connect the pictures somehow. You can either do this manually (tedious) or you can use autopano-sift-c. This gives you an ugly warning, though:
=============================================================================== The use of this software is restricted by certain conditions. See the "LICENSE" file distributed with the program for details. The University of British Columbia has applied for a patent on the SIFT algorithm in the United States. Commercial applications of this software may require a license from the University of British Columbia. =============================================================================== Another story how software patents harm innovation!
Hi, because of overlapping events, the next Fellowship meeting in Bonn will be on Tuesday, 2010-03-09, 19.00 at the usual place: https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Bonn
Did you already vote your Fellowship representative for the GA?
If not, hurry up!