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The Chapel – HDR video

Here's a short film on Vimeo - The Chapel paying tribute to an exceptional protestant temple in Zeliszów, Poland, designed by Karl Langhans and built in 1796-1797. There's also a making of video as well that is quite worth watching.
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Headless Install of Mac OS X Server 10.6

I had to install a Mac mini Server today and couldn't get a spare monitor to plug it in to for the installer. In the past, I'm sure I've been able to use Apple Remote Desktop to connect to it...
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Unzip Mac OS X Archives from the Command-line

I was under the impression that most, if not all, OS X command-line utilities are resource-fork aware (where they need to be anyway) It seems that this isn't the case. The Unzip command does not understand the way that BOMArchiveHelper...
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The Thomas Beale Cipher…

Based on a true legend of the famous unsolved code. The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters' secrets. Eight are fairly easy requiring only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods....
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Setting up a Git server on Mac OS X Server

Background I'm doing a bit of web development work, for myself and for my clients, and realised that having some form of source control will be quite useful. Subversion I initially looked at Subversion which has a lot going for...
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Skynet meets the Swarm

This is quite an interesting article about Artificial Intelligence researchers creating an AI (the Overmind) to play a realtime strategy game, StarCraft. They go into a fair bit of detail about some of the challenges they faced and some strategies that...
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Nightscapes and other great photos

Check out Chris' Greek Sky photos - including a selection of his Favorites. There's some beautiful imagery there, including a great 24-hour photo, the winter solstice and plenty of star trails.
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