Like the author, I too am in love with the Southern accent: http://www.asiteaboutnothing.net/w_southern.html
Yay! Using the info here, I finally liberated myself from that incessant LinkedIn spam:
LinkedIn Customer Support Message
Subject: Add My Email To Do Not Contact List
Hi Karen,I truly apologize for the delay in my response.
Per your request, I've added your karen.nakamura@yale.edu email address to
our "do not contact" list.You will no longer receive any email from LinkedIn or our members on this
email address. If you decide at a later date that you want to set up a
LinkedIn account, you will need to first contact
us to have your email address removed from the “do not contact” list.If you have further questions, please feel free to reply to this message.
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LinkedIn Customer Service
Original Contact:
Member Comment: Karen Nakamura 01/17/2012 01:33
Please add my e-mail to your do not contact list. I have no wish to ever use linkedin.
Thank you.Karen Nakamura
My pal Eric sent me this link:
Some links for further cogitation:
- Narrative Journalism: Subjectivity, No Longer a Dirty Word
- Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work
- NY Times Ethics
I was trying to find a link to the oft-quoted dilemma of TV news crews in disasters -- keep filming the person being swept away by a river, or jump in to save them. But couldn't. Readers?
I've been spending the past couple of months in Tokyo. Worried about the radiation, I brought my DRGB-90 russian geiger counter /dosimeter that I had bought a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, the DRGB is a rather old analogue design and the readings at low (natural background radiation) are rather imprecise. I modified it so that it could hook up directly to an application on iOS called Geigerbot that is a sophisticated click-counter. Set up correctly, it can give you precise microsievert per hour readings. It also interfaces with Pachube which allows historical readings. Now Geigerbot can use the microphone on your iPad/iPhone to detect the geiger counter's audible clicks, but it will of course also pick extraneous external noise.
I wanted to directly interface my DRGB-90 with my iPhone so I could have more precise readings. Unfortunately, the DRGB doesn't have an external speaker jack or any other outputs. I wrote up an article (that I've since moved the actual hacking instructions to another blog) that talks about how to hack it. For this blog, here's the data coming out of the DRGB-90 + iPhone + Geigerbot.
It shows that radiation levels -- at least in my apartment in Tokyo -- is around 0.15 uSv/hr. This is actually lower by a full BED than background radiation in many places in the United States, which averages 0.23 uSv/hr. I haven't taken the unit mobile yet to see if there are any hotspots, but for now I feel less worried about the situation at least in terms of background radiation. I'm still concerned about food as a set of recent revelations make it clear that government and corporate monitoring has been less than ideal in this regard. Unfortunately, measuring food contamination is extremely difficult and not something a consumer can do herself. For more info, see safecast.org.
From my mailbox:
Jean Rouch International Film Festival
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Please, pass this on to your colleagues, friends and students
Dear Friends,
We are very pleased to announce that the 2012 Jean Rouch International Film Festival is now open for entries. We remind you that the deadline to submit a film is 15th April 2012.
This deadline is for all films completed after 1st January 2011 .
You will find the online entry form on our website via:
http://www.comite-film-ethno.net/festival-international-jean-rouch/2012/entry-form.html
We are looking forward to receiving your film submissions.
With our very best regards.
The Organizing Committee
Barberine Feinberg, Françoise Foucault, Laurent Pellé.
The Festival Jean Rouch, previously known as Bilan du FIlm Ethnographique, was created in March 1982 by anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch.
Over the past thirty years, the Festival’s aim has been to showcase the most innovative and relevant trends in ethnographic filmmaking and visual anthropology, and to promote dialogue between cultures.
Organized by the Comité du Film Ethnographique, this international film festival is held in Paris (France). Each year, it brings together filmmakers, academics, students and producers, in an attempt to promote discussions and debates amongst ethnographic film practitioners and their many public, and to favour the diffusion and the distribution of the films.
We welcome documentary films without restriction to theme and length.
Comité du Film Ethnographique
Festival International Jean Rouch
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
36 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire - CP 22
75005 Paris
festivaljeanrouch@gmail.com
http://www.comite-film-ethno.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
As a faculty member of an Ivy league, I get a lot of crazy e-mails. This one seemed legit at first:
Dear Professor,but there were too many red flags. I decided to see if there was any legitimacy to it, and it turns out that there isn't: http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-live-forever-or-i-get-email/The Beverly Hills Times Magazine is considering running an article on the hypotheses, biography, and pictures located at [redacted]. We are asking for your assistance because your extensive expertise was brought to our attention. …
Our main goal at this point is to determine whether there is any established scientific evidence that tends either to support or invalidate the hypotheses. We would also consider publishing one of your own articles as trade for your contribution. We are interested in opinions from multiple fields of expertise. If you do not have time please feel free to forward this to a colleague.
While not a phishing attack, malware, or a Nigerian prince with the last name of Nakamura, it's still a type of link bait scam. Avoid.
And don't feed the trolls.
While we're on the topic of fictional skits, my pal Nana sent me this one. It's in Japanese only. It depicts some fathers who are having trouble communicating with their teenage daughters using their keitai cell phones.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/neo/contents/catalogue/movie/ct_mv_003.html
(Right now, I'm watching the first season of Louie, so it's particularly amusing to me).
I'm not sure how I feel about this mix of static and motion image that Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg are calling cinemagraphs. Some are quite beautiful like this one below, others are a bit more meh.
See more at: Jamie Beck e Kevin Burg – Cinemagraphs
From TheProfessorIsIn, much of the same could be said about PhDs in the social sciences...
And nine years later...
I'm (JCR) exploring web design and a new life lately, and/so these sky pictures touched a nerve. Beautiful, simple, and well designed. Click here to see some of the photographer's other beauties.
Via Minimalissimo.
One of the graduates of our PhD program (hi Nana!) turned me on to Karen Kelsky's blog and website, TheProfessorIsIn. Kelsky used to be a tenured professor in the field of Japan Anthropology, then dropped out to become a paid academic consultant. The advice she gives on her site is cogent and insightful:
My position is, rather: go in not just with “your eyes open” (as so many Ph.D. program apologists insist) but with a strategy and a game plan. Calculate your chances from start to finish, and maximize them with strategic choices about *which* program, *how much* funding, *what* topic, *which* advisor, *how much* TA-ing, *how* to cut corners, *when* to be selfish, *where* to network, *how* to schmooze, *where* and *when* and *how often* to publish. And so on. Find the job ad for the type of position you want and make every decision based on reaching that goal. Get out quickly. Don’t count on your advisor. Don’t fixate on the dissertation. Protect yourself. Collect your own set of transferrable professional skills.People wanting to go to graduate school as well as those in grad school should definitely check her site out. Here's the direct link to her blog: http://theprofessorisin.com/pearlsofwisdom
I somehow missed this great article about Elyn Saks' book, The Center Cannot Hold:
In 2007, after years of weighing the possible risks, Elyn R. Saks, a professor of law at the University of Southern California, published a memoir of her struggle with schizophrenia, “The Center Cannot Hold.” It became an overnight sensation in mental health circles and a best seller, and it won Dr. Saks a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation “genius” award.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/health/23livesside.html
Thought the 1/2000 second shutter on your camera was fast? The NY Times reports on a new generation of scientific cameras with shutter speeds in the femtoseconds -- two-trillionths of a second -- fast enough to catch light moving as a wave: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/speed-of-light-lingers-in-face-of-mit-media-lab-camera.html
I want to know if I can retrofit it to my Leica III. :-)
I'm on the cusp of sending the manuscript for A Disability of the Soul to my publisher. I was cleaning up the text and came across tips for two important tasks:
- Are you plagued with horizontal rules in Word that won't go away? These horizontal rules are created when you type three dashes --- in a row -- and are almost impossible to get rid of. Deleting them won't work, cutting them won't work. They are immortal. Here's how to get rid of them: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f57/remove-horizontal-rules-ms-word-105393.html
- I needed to add line numbers down the left side of the page to make it easier for copyeditors to mark material. Here's how to do it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692905.aspx
In both cases, scroll down as the tips are at the bottom of the pages.
A student who is afraid of flying asked me how to survive the fourteen hour flight to Japan. These were my tips:
- Shorten. Take a direct flight. Connections suck.
- Reserve. Make sure to get a seat in the forward half of the cabin. Less turbulence and less claustrophobic.
- Sleep. Don't drink any caffeine on the day of the flight and try to board the plane slightly sleep deprived. If needed, pharmaceuticals can be your friend. Take a (properly prescribed) chill pill or sleeping pill (not both!) and sleep through the entire thing. Alcohol can dehydrate you and make you wake up with a headache, but if a small glass of beer or wine will send you to lala-land, go for it. (I personally can't take either drugs or alcohol, so these last two are based on the advice of seatmates and other travelers).
- Nest. Get a window seat and bring your own neck pillow and fluffy blanket.
- Shutout. Get good earplugs, noise isolating or noise cancelling headphones with a good soundtrack or audiobook on your iPhone, and an eye mask and/or wear a baseball cap (it can shade the cabin light quite well).
Any other tips or suggestions?
I've collected all the tips on successfully applying to graduate school into a single index page: http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/careers/gradapplications.html
Dear Karen,
I have been following your site for may many years now and thought I would send you a link to a project I am working on.
Although I am now working in the legal industry, my AB is in Anthropology and I have been a photographer for many years, working closely with the Silverlens Gallery in Manila until now. I have had two shows with them in the past, but this next one really brings in may background as an anthropologist much more than the previous two.
The project can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yophoto/sets/72157627205877902/with/6303608714/
Just wanted to share that. I have enjoyed your website, and continue to read it over and over. If ever you are in Manila, pleas let me know!
Cheers,
Johann
Fascinating! Be sure to look at the flickr feed! - Karen
Reminder – Call for Films – ETHNOCINECA 2012
Deadline: January 15 2012
Dear colleagues and friends,
ETHNOCINECA is a film festival based in Vienna focusing on ethnographic
and documentary films. We would like to invite you to send us your
contribution(s) or to forward our Call for Films to interested filmmakers,
students and scientists.
You can find more information about the submission process in our entry
form:
http://www.ethnocineca.at/fileadmin/media/submissions/CallforFilms_Ethnocineca2012_English.pdf
For further questions please feel free to contact us.
Kind regards,
Nadja Haumberger
Reposted for a colleague:
Funding available for Doctoral Research in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester
Application for a place on a PhD program should be made by mid-February at the latest, in order to be meet further deadlines for funding in March. Applicants are advised to make contact with faculty members who are potential supervisors in advance of formal application. For informal inquiries, please contact: Dr Sharon Kinsella, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, at sharon.kinsella@manchester.ac.uk
The North West Doctoral Training Centre, jointly run by the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester, is offering 3 PhD studentships in Language-Based Area Studies, in fields which include East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies. These are open to UK and EU students. In addition, the University of Manchester is allocating about 40 President's Doctoral Scholar (PDS) awards to outstanding applicants across the Humanities. Approximately 20 of these PDS awards will top up an AHRC or ESRC award by an additional 1000 pounds, to raise the overall level of funding to 14, 590 pounds. A further 20 awards will be awarded to UK, EU and International applicants without AHRC or ESRC awards and will include tuition fees and an annual allowance of 13, 590 pounds. Successful candidates will be based at the University of Manchester.
The University has wide-ranging expertise in contemporary East Asian Studies with relevant members of staff based across the Faculty of Humanities, particularly in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, and the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures. We will be able to offer supervision on a wide range of topics on modern and contemporary Japan, and in topics involving East Asian societies, media, politics, population, and history.
For description of the North West Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) and of the opportunities for post-graduate studies which it offers, please go to http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/humnet/acaserv/pgresearch/DTC/index.html
The deadline for the application for the North West DTC studentships is 25 March, 2011.
For description of the President's Doctoral Scholar (PDS) Awards, please go to
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/
The deadline for applications for the PDS Award is the 1st March 2012.
UK and EU applicants are advised to apply for both awards in order to be eligible for both an ESRC and a PDS award.
Please note that prior to these deadlines you should apply for a place on the PhD programme in one of the two Schools mentioned above. The choice of School will depend on the location of the member of staff you wish to be supervised by and your field of study.
These are some random notes on installing an OpenVPN server on MacOSX:
The NYTimes has two great photography related articles:
- Years Later, Lawsuit Seeks to Recreate a Wedding: A man who married in 2003 is suing a photographer, citing omissions and demanding the re-creation of his wedding, even though the marriage ended in divorce.
- 15 Years That Changed Photography: Sixty years ago this week, the Photo League fell victim to Cold War witch hunts and blacklists, closing its doors after 15 intense years of trailblazing – and sometimes hell-raising – documentary photography. From unabashedly leftist roots, the group influenced a generation of photographers who transformed the documentary tradition, elevating it to heady aesthetic heights.
Makes me happy to have a digital subscription. Now if they'd only cover more of the OWS protests!
I'm pleased to announce that A Japanese Funeral will be awarded the David Plath Media Award at the upcoming American Anthropological Association annual meeting. The prize committee noted:
This short documentary allows viewers to participate in a Japanese funeral following the unexpected death of a 39 year old man in his sleep. While the film shares no information about how the director came to have such open access to the event and family in question, it is an example of an aspect of ethnographic film often left undiscussed - a richness and intimacy that comes from sustained fieldwork preceding the shooting. Not only is the anthropologist there and given access once the death occurs but there is a sense that she has ties to the community that extent far beyond the three day even the film documents. In other words, the film allows one to see rather than stare at a Japanese funeral. The film should also be commended on its brevity because the disciplined editing contributes to the film being an experiential ethnography rather than an expository documentary.
Thank you!
The official website (with downloadable trailers) of my film is here: http://videoethnography.com/funeral/
The film itself can be purchased on Amazon.com.
My (Jason) photography knowledge is pretty thin, so I was happy to see this article on NPR titled "A Woman Of Photos And Firsts, Ruth Gruber At 100." As the article explains:
At the age of 100, Ruth Gruber is responsible for a lot of firsts. When she was just 20, she became the youngest Ph.D. ever at the University of Cologne in Germany. She was the first photojournalist, much less female journalist, to travel to and cover both the Soviet Arctic and Siberian gulag. She documented Holocaust survivors and the plight of the ship, the Exodus 1947.
In other words, "She was just a badass -- no other way describe it," as Maya Benton is quoted in the article.
The short article also touches very clearly on some of the ethnographic issues of positionality anthropologists often face, for good or for bad. As the article says "being a woman gave her an advantage in getting sources to reveal themselves" and includes this exchange as an example of this advantage in action:
In 1944, she spent two weeks on the Henry Gibbins, a ship of 1,000 Jewish refugees, many of them clad in striped concentration camp uniforms, on a voyage from Italy to America.
She recalls: "Some of the men said, 'We can't tell you what we went through, it's too obscene. You're a young woman!' I said, 'Forget I'm a woman, you are the first witnesses coming to America.' So they talked. Nobody refused to talk."
One of my pals asked me which I thought was better: the Panasonic GH2 or the new GXR A-12 with M-mount. I own the GH2 and tested the GXR / A-12 at a camera show recently.
Here were my thoughts:
GXR or a Panasonic is a hard question, I think....
If you were only to put Leica lenses on it, I think the GXR is better:
+ Lower crop factor (1.6x vs. 2.0x) and bigger sensor
+ Better manual focusing options
+ Ability to code EXIF data to custom lenses
- The eye-level viewfinder was good but not *great*
If you wanted to use the Panasonic / Leica DG lenses as well as others then the Panasonic is better:
+ Much broader supply of auto-focus, auto-aperture Microfourthirds lenses from Panasonic, Olympus, and Leica
+ Ability to mount many more types of lenses (Nikon F, Pentax K, Leica R, C-Mount, original Olympus Pen, etc.)
+ More body options (GH2, G, GF3)
+ GH2 eye-level finder is very good (but not great).
I was also really impressed by the Fuji X100 viewfinder but I want it with an M mount rather than a fixed lens.
I was not so impressed with the Sony NEX but there are many people who like them.
The new Nikon 1 is a failure, I think. The Pentax mini series has some nice 'toy' features.
As for used camera lenses, in USA: KEH camera and B&H camera are the best.
In Japan, my favorites are Camera Alps in Shinjuku and Fujiya in Nakano.
Karen
I'm in Japan for the next couple of months and making good use of Amazon.co.jp for many of my purchases, including camera equipment. Many people don't know, but Amazon's foreign subsidiaries have the Amazon Currency Converter feature where you can make the purchase either in the local currency (Japanese yen, in my case) or in US Dollars. This can be handy for credit cards that charge a currency conversion fee -- or for invoicing one's university in US dollars (in my case).
Will buying from Amazon.co.jp using my local currency make my purchase less expensive? When you buy in Japanese Yen (JPY) at Amazon.co.jp with a card denominated in a supported currency other than JPY (for example, a Euro-denominated card), the payment is converted from JPY to your local currency by your card company. In addition to the exchange rate, you may be charged additional foreign conversion charges and fees, which may increase the overall cost of your purchase.With Amazon Currency Converter, your purchase total will be converted into your local currency while you're placing your order. In many cases, your purchase will be less expensive than using your card to make the purchase in Japanese Yen (JPY), as we offer a competitive exchange rate that includes any charges or fees related to the conversion.
But I was curious just how good of a rate Amazon was giving me. So on a recent JPY8225 purchase, I got the Amazon.co.jp foreign conversion quote and then went ahead and made the purchase anyway using Japanese yen on an American credit card that doesn't charge a foreign conversion fee (CapitalOne):
Local price: JP Y8225Amazon.co.jp - foreign conversion into USD: $111.19
CapitalOne credit card: $107.24Amazon's rate: 73.97247954 y/$
CapitalOne rate: 76.697127937
XE.com listed rated: 76.7014
Conclusion: If you have a no-foreign-transaction-fee credit card, then it's about 3% cheaper to use your own card than to use Amazon's Currency Converter feature.
p.s. Today's date 2011.09.19 21:24 JST.
Continue reading Amazon.co.jp's foreign currency transaction feature vs. CapitalOne.
I updated my desktop a while ago to 10.7 and tried to fire up Final Cut Pro. I was still running a fairly old version of FCP6 since I hadn't found any good reason to upgrade to FCS 3.0 -- and with the new "unimproved" Final Cut Pro X, decided to stay where I was.
But my FCP wouldn't run. Strange. I decided to try to reinstall it, but the installer wouldn't work. A quick search of the internets revealed:
But my FCP wouldn't run. Strange. I decided to try to reinstall it, but the installer wouldn't work. A quick search of the internets revealed:
- FCP6 and 7 will run under Lion but won't install as the installer is based on PowerPC code.
- Lion doesn't include Rosetta, the PowerPC emulator
- You can install Rosetta from a 10.6 install disk
- Find OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard disk)
- Inside the "Optional Installs" folder is an "Optional Installs.mpkg" file. Click on that and select the "Rosetta" installation option
- Install Rosetta
- Install FCP 2 (ignoring the warnings)
- Bask in glory
Just kidding. Sort of. Apparently you can buy a kit that lets you attach SLR lenses to your iPhone. The "catch" is that the kit is pretty pricey at around $200.
When I first saw the picture I just thought, Why?!, though a small part of me did squeal, FUN! Then I saw the prime bokeh in some of their photos and drooled.
But still...
Via Cult of Mac.
My home network has two wireless access points operating on two frequencies. My main Airport Express which is operating on 802.11n in the 5 gigahertz spectrum and a Linksys WRT54G (dd-wrt) which is operating on 802.11g/b in 2.4 GHz land.
This allows me to have full-speed on my 'n' devices which can operate in the clear airspace of 5 Ghz while still allowing legacy devices on 2.4 Ghz. I wish I had the latest Airports which had dual tuners, allowing for both at the same time, but this is the cheap way to get the same effect.
Recently, I wanted to check on my WRT54G but forgot its static IP address. It's in bridge mode, which means that it's not serving IP addresses itself and is basically invisible to the network. Good for devices connecting through it, not good if you want to update its settings.
I was struggling with remembering its IP addresses and thought I'd have to basically try all the IPs (10.0.1.2.... ping 10.0.1.3... 10.0.1.4....) when I remembered a UNIX hack:
Karens-Neo-MacBoopPro:~ nakamura$ ping 10.0.1.255 PING 10.0.1.255 (10.0.1.255): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.0.1.35: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.957 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 10.0.1.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.409 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=5.339 ms (DUP!)
I pinged the network broadcast address (10.0.1.255) and all the devices on the network responded. The only device in the list I didn't recognize was 10.0.1.201. that was my router!
My mid-2009 MacBook Pro was starting to feel a bit old around the edges but we're on a multi-year replacement cycle at Yale and I wasn't going to get a new one soon. So I instead opted for an SSD drive upgrade/replacement.
I got a new 750 gigabyte (rotating) hard drive and used the MCE Tech OptiBay to mount an Intel 160 gigabyte SSD. So I have around 900 gigabytes of online data and my system and application boots are around 4x faster.
I used "Trim Enabler" to enable TRIM support for my Intel SSD on Mac OSX 10.6.8 (updated 2011.08: and MacOSX 10.7 Lion).
INTEL SSDSA2CW160G3: Capacity: 160.04 GB (160,041,885,696 bytes) Model: INTEL SSDSA2CW160G3 Revision: 4PC10302 Serial Number: CVPR11xxxxHF160xxx Native Command Queuing: Yes Queue Depth: 32 Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Medium Type: Solid State TRIM Support: Yes Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Highly recommended for all MBP owners -- if you're willing to give up your optical drive bay!
I had some trouble configuring denyhost on my Mac OS X 10.6 (user) machine as the instructions on the website @ http://www.denyhosts.net/faq.html#macos were wrong. Here is the correct configuration for denyhosts.cfg:
denyhosts.cfg # Mac OS X (v10.4 or greater - # also refer to: http://www.denyhosts.net/faq.html#macos # SECURE_LOG = /private/var/log/asl.log # SSHD_FORMAT_REGEX=.* \[Sender sshd\] \[PID \d*\] \[Message .* PAM: (?P.*?)\].*? # Mac OS X (v10.6 or greater - # - reversion to standard log format. No need to do log regex parsing. SECURE_LOG = /var/log/secure.log # zip down a bit to the bottom: #this work_dir worked for me, it's where the python install script added it: WORK_DIR = /usr/share/denyhosts/data #this lock_file worked for me although I had to create the directory: LOCK_FILE = /var/lock/subsys/denyhosts
and then for the file [daemon-control]:
############################################### #### Edit these to suit your configuration #### ############################################### DENYHOSTS_BIN = "/usr/local/bin/denyhosts.py" DENYHOSTS_LOCK = "/var/lock/subsys/denyhosts" DENYHOSTS_CFG = "/usr/share/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg" PYTHON_BIN = "/usr/bin/env python"
Hope this helps! This is only really necessary if your Mac is on the internet with a static IP and not behind a firewall or NAT router. 99.9% of home machines are ok because they are hidden behind NAT routers, it's mostly academic machines that are in danger.
Continue reading Configuring denyhost on Mac OSX 10.6.
If spam wasn't enough, my machines are also getting hit by hackers trying to get through the sshd port:
I've installed denyhost, let's hope that it can work to cut back on some of this nonsense.Jun 5 00:35:31 kyoto sshd[59150]: Invalid user prueba from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:32 kyoto sshd[59152]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:32 kyoto sshd[59154]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:33 kyoto sshd[59156]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:34 kyoto sshd[59158]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:34 kyoto sshd[59160]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:35 kyoto sshd[59162]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:36 kyoto sshd[59164]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:37 kyoto sshd[59170]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:37 kyoto sshd[59172]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:38 kyoto sshd[59174]: Invalid user postgres from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:39 kyoto sshd[59176]: Invalid user hadoop from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:39 kyoto sshd[59178]: Invalid user hadoop from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:40 kyoto sshd[59180]: Invalid user hadoop from 62.27.42.80 Jun 5 00:35:41 kyoto sshd[59182]: Invalid user hadoop from 62.27.42.80
Continue reading Hacker attacks as well!.
This is just for people running Mac OSX server. If your secure.log is full of spam like this:
Jun 8 23:02:40 media-lab com.apple.SecurityServer[55]: Succeeded authorizing ri ght com.apple.server.admin.streaming by client /usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServe r for authorization created by /System/Library/CoreServices/ServerManagerDaemon. bundle. Jun 8 23:03:40 media-lab com.apple.SecurityServer[55]: Succeeded authorizing ri ght com.apple.server.admin.streaming by client /System/Library/CoreServices/Serv erManagerDaemon.bundle for authorization created by /System/Library/CoreServices /ServerManagerDaemon.bundle. Jun 8 23:03:40 media-lab com.apple.SecurityServer[55]: Succeeded authorizing ri ght com.apple.server.admin.streaming by client /usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServe r for authorization created by /System/Library/CoreServices/ServerManagerDaemon. bundle. Jun 8 23:04:40 media-lab com.apple.SecurityServer[55]: Succeeded authorizing ri ght com.apple.server.admin.streaming by client /System/Library/CoreServices/Serv erManagerDaemon.bundle for authorization created by /System/Library/CoreServices /ServerManagerDaemon.bundle.
Then the problem is an overzealous servermgrd (server manager daemon). You can throttle it back by editing its preferences at:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.servermgrd.plist
Change the idlePeriod from 60 to 300 (the max). This will at least put 5 minutes between the spam messages.
Thanks to: macenterprise
Sorry for the long hiatus from this blog. After the tsunami hit in Northern Japan, I was in a tizzy of activity and then several other things happened after that. I should be posting more regularly from now on.
My blogs have been getting hit by a tidal wave of comment spam written in Chinese. I've had to turn off anonymous commenting.
You can still write in comments by logging in with any one of a number of authentication systems (Facebook, mixi, yahoo, MovableType, OpenID, LJ, etc. etc.).
A student asked me for books about sexuality in Japan so I began to think what a preliminary reading list might look like. Here goes. The first half is from my review essay "Chrysanthemum and the Queer":
- EMERGING LESBIAN VOICES FROM JAPAN. Chalmers, Sharon. New York: Routledge Curzon, 2002.
- COMING OUT IN JAPAN: THE STORY OF SATURO AND RYUTA. Ito, Satoru, and Ryuta Yanase. Melbourne and Portland, OR: Trans Pacific Press, 2001.
- LOVE UPON THE CHOPPING BOARD. Izumo, Marou, and Claire Maree. North Melbourne, Victoria: Spinifex, 2000.
- MALE COLORS: THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN (1603-1868). Leupp, Gary P. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
- BEYOND COMMON SENSE: SEXUALITY AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN. Lunsing, Wim. London; New York: Kegan Paul, 2001.
- MALE HOMOSEXUALITY IN MODERN JAPAN: CULTURAL MYTHS AND SOCIAL REALITIES. McLelland, Mark J. Richmond: Curzon, 2000.
- CARTOGRAPHIES OF DESIRE: MALE-MALE SEXUALITY IN JAPANESE DISCOURSE 1600-1950. Pflugfelder, Gregory M. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
- TAKARAZUKA: SEXUAL POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE IN MODERN JAPAN. Robertson, Jennifer Ellen. Berkeley, CA: Uni- versity of California Press, 1998, ISBN 0520211510, 1998.
- 0QUEER JAPAN: PERSONAL STORIES OF JAPANESE LESBIANS, GAYS,TRANSSEXUALS,ANDBISEXUALS.Summerhawk,Barbara, Cheiron McMahill, and Darren McDonald, eds. Norwich, Vt.: New Victoria Publishers, 1998.
- GREAT MIRRORS SHATTERED: HOMOSEXUALITY, ORI- ENTALISM, AND JAPAN. Treat, John Whittier. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Bad Girls of Japan, edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
- Queer Voices from Japan: First Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities Edited by Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker 2007.
- Queer Japanese Gender and Sexual Identities through Linguistic Practices Hideko Abe 2010.
My students in my Queer Ethnographies course are wild:
So I'm in my hotel in Tokyo, trying in vain to get my Kindle3 to connect to my shared Internet Sharing connection with my Mac so that I can get it to sync and download all my blogs for on-board reading. My hotel only offers a hardwired ethernet connection, so I have to provide my own wireless.
Argh! My Kindle just doesn't connect with my Mac. My iPhone 3 connects just fine.
Some browsing around reveals that there is apparently a bug in the Apple Internet Sharing feature -- some people think it has to do with the DHCP provisioning. In any case, it makes the Kindle and other non-Apple devices have problems connecting. Let's leave aside the fact that Apple only has WEP encryption in Internet Sharing. Lame.
To fix it, you have to connect your Kindle manually. It's best to copy the settings from a device that *can* connect such as your iPhone, but if not, here are generic settings:
DHCP: 10.0.2.100 <- change the last digit from what your iPhone displays, '100' is usually safe Mask: 255.255.255.0 Router: 10.0.2.1 DNS: 10.0.2.1
Thanks, internet magicians!
Continue reading Kindle3 won't connect to your Mac with Internet Sharing? ... solution!.
Am I the last person in the world to realize that DxOMarks has been benchmarking camera sensors for a while?
Click for the full report.
Now this is measuring just the optical performance of the imaging sensor -- which at this point is not everything. You have to consider the entire camera package and whether it does what you want it to do. For me, the video capabilities of the GH2 outweighed the poorer performance of its imaging sensor.
EOSHD has a stellar comparison review of the Canon EOS 60D and the Panasonic Lumix GH2: http://www.eoshd.com/content/460-Canon-60D-versus-Panasonic-GH2-Full-Review-Part-1
... Then the surprise hits you just how far ahead in technological and image quality terms the GH2 is. Virtually the only thing better on the 60D for video is the high resolution LCD with fantastic colour reproduction....
Read more...
NikonRumors.com has an interesting post where they suggest that the D7000 licensing agreement says that the AVC codec used in video-recording can only be used for "personal and non-commercial use." Tons of discussion on the post by contributors.
I am not a lawyer but it seems that the "personal and non-commercial use" applies only to the second part of the restrictive clause ("decoding") and not to the first part ("encoding"). But if you use the camera to play back part of a clip that you recorded as a professional (i.e., during a for-profit film shoot), then you're in violation of the decoding restriction on playing for-profit material, even if the for-profit encoding was kosher. Right?
Can other people check the fine print / licensing agreements of their digicams or DSLRs to see if there are similar restrictions? What do you think of such end-runs around free use of our equipment?
Continue reading Link: Nikon D7000 videos only for "personal and non-commercial use?.
One of my students told me about Jes Sachse:
and check out her collaboration with photographer Holly Noris in "American Able" - a spoof of American Apparel: http://hollynorris.ca/americanable#h39067524
Darn you Jason Romero.....
Previously, I was content in separating my photography and filmmaking equipment into separate cognitive and physical categories. Still cameras took great photos, but they weren't fit for video work. Video camera took great video, but couldn't take exhibition quality photos. But then Jason had to destabilize that by posing a question about the latest generation of digital cameras.
After much soul searching and time on DPReview and other sites, I've come to the conclusion that there is a 95% solution. It isn't perfect but it's pretty darn close: the Panasonic DMC-GH2H.
It's a micro-four-thirds (MFT) DEVIL (digital electronic viewfinder, interchangeable lens) camera that happens to shoot fantastic 1080p video. I already own a MFT camera, the Panasonic DMC-G10 which I'm fairly pleased with -- especially because I can use all of my classic lenses on it with inexpensive adapters.
But what convinced me that the DMC-GH2 was the 95% holy grail was:
- External microphone in (albeit 2.5mm) with recording level bars and manual audio level controls. No live monitoring via headphones, though.
- 1080 / 24p recording. AVCHD at 24 Mbps (which is decent, same as HDV) onto SDHC/SDXC cards.
- No cap on video clip length, unlike the Canon EOS series. While a 10 minute maximum on video clips is fine for documentary / live action work, it doesn't work for ethnographic video where sometimes you want to document an entire ritual without pause, especially if you a filmmaker+anthropologist at the same time and can't operate the camera when taking notes.
- Flip out LCD monitor with touch screen. This allows touch-to-focus control and obviates much of my concerns about the SLR form-factor for extended video shooting.
- Seeing the test video clips (below). Wow.
Here are some clips on Youtube shot with the DMC-GH2. Click on the thumbnails to go to the full-size shots, and watch them in HD. Beautiful.
Continue reading Panasonic DMC-GH2 for video.....
I have a little Neat Receipts Travel Scanner that I originally bought for my Windows netbook when I'm travelling. It's so cute I wish I could use it on my Mac ... and not under VMWare or BootCamp.
Neat Receipts would sell me their bloatware for the Mac for $80. I looked for a cheaper option... My favorite, VueScan, unfortunately doesn't work with it.
Then, I saw a forum post that said that the Neat Receipts was actually a rebadged PlusTek M12 scanner. I went to their website and downloaded their M12 installer for the Mac (PlustekM12Series.dmg BETA dated 7/2010), clicked on the installer and ... the installer crashed with a Rosetta error, of all things.
On a hunch, I opened up the installation package (right click on it and select "Show Package Contents") and found inside it two other sub-installation packages (opticslimM12Digiscan.pkg and opticslimM12Support.pkg).
I installed those two installes one-by-one and rebooted, and presto, my Neat Receipts scanner works just fine as a PDF or JPG/PNG/TIF scanner under Mac OSX natively using the DigiScan application. Yippeee!
Continue reading Info: Neat Receipts scanner on a Mac - no problem!.
Well, this picture of an exploded Pentax Spotmatic F is not quite the opposite, but you know what I mean (blowing up the camera instead of objects in front of the camera).
There's something about looking at this image that makes me feel both exhilarated and terrified at the same time. Exhilarated by the thought of all these pieces having been constructed, assembled, and working together to produce an image. And terrified by the incredible complexity of something that seems so simple, which is the closest I've come to a personal understanding of Kant's sublime. I can't imagine how it would feel if I had any intimate knowledge of this camera, rather than just a vague sense of its importance.
P.S. Here is a video of the scene I'm referring to in case you haven't seen it before or would like to see it again.
Very randomly, I was checking a link of someone who wrote me, they had this link on their blog: The Manic Thrift Store Shopper.
An easy way to spend hours of your life that you'll never get baack.
Over on Pixiq.com there's a great article on the mechanics of the human optic system and analyzes the eye as if it were a high-end camera system, including an answer to the age old question: What is the ISO (aka ASA) of the human eye?
[Via Gizmodo]
I was giving a friend some advice on digital recorders and came across a mention of the RedHead windscreen in one of the reviews for the Samson Zoom H1. Judging from the video, it seems to do a pretty amazing and incredible job. The windscreen is available for other digital recorders too and in other colors as well.
Co-blogger Jason recently queried why I had written off using a DSLR as both my still photo camera and video camcorder in fieldwork. My pat answer up to now has been while there are some strong pros, there are some definite cons:
Pros:
- Beautiful video. The sensors are much larger, much better bokeh, brighter lenses.
- Interchangeable lenses.
- One less device to carry or forget to bring batteries or memory cards.
Cons:
- Audio: Most DSLRs have really atrocious onboard mics, low digitization rates, and no option for external audio (such as XLR jacks or even plug-in-power). They rarely have adequate mic monitoring (onboard displays or live monitoring via headphones) and usually only offer automatic gain, no manual gain option .
- Form factor: The SLR form factor is really designed for one form of eye-level shooting and not for live action.
- Autofocus: Some DSLRs cannot autofocus while video recording.
- Auto-Aperture: Some DSLRs cannot adjust the aperture while video recording, this makes lighting changes in a single clip difficult. Others cannot adjust the aperture in a stepless fashion, causing visible artifacts during adjustments.
- Zooming: OK, power zooming is generally evil, but everyone does a slow zoom once in a while, and not having a power zoom is a (major) pain.
- Sensor: Because almost all SLRs are single-sensor, you get color mosaicing from the Bayer filter.
- Shutter: Most DSLRs use an electronic rolling shutter when shooting video, unlike the mechanical shutters on dedicated video cameras. This can cause strange "jellyroll" effects on tall objects that move quickly across the screen -- or during fast pans.
Rebuttal
Audio was one of the killers for me, since I do my own camera and audio. I usually have an external mic or two in interviews, feeding back into my camera. I've done dual sound using a flash recorder, and it isn't ideal. I prefer having a strong onboard sound option.
Interestingly, some DSLRs are now getting external audio options. The Olympus Pen E-PL2 (micro 4/3) has external audio through the SEMA-1 option, it provides for a 3.5mm plug-in-power jack. The higher end of the Lumix series such as the GH2 have 2.5mm audio mic jacks. And the higher end of the Canon EOS series also have 3.5mm audio jacks. Still, no real-time headphone monitoring (I think).
After the jump, I look at some specific cameras from the Canon EOS and Panasonic Lumix (micro 4/3) series. I'm interested in those two as I own older models in those series and can swap lenses.
I have to say, I'm not 100% convinced -- but like many things he has asked about before, Jason has gotten me thinking seriously about this.
Continue reading DSLRs as video camcorders - pros and cons.
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