Author Archives: Thomas Jansson

Completely silent and powerful workstation, spring 2013

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Thomas Jansson

Someone in my close family needed a update for a workstation primarily used for emailing, browsing, audio and light video editing. The computer was never used for any 3D demanding games, so no separate GPU was needed, provided that I … Continue reading →

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YABI – Yet Another Boids Implementation (simulation of flocking animals)

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Thomas Jansson

Just before I started my paternity leave I saw a documentary about flocking animals and how these can be modeled in computer simulation. I found it very exciting and eagerly thought I could implement a simulation in a days work. … Continue reading →

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Photography: Channel mixer RGB values equivalent to traditional B&W film

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Thomas Jansson

I have a Nikon D90 DLSR and and from time to time I want to convert color photographs these into B&W photos. I use the open-source and completely free GIMP to edit the pictures and do B&W conversion.
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Silent gaming PC build, September 2012

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Thomas Jansson

Introduction
My old workstation and gaming PC is now 6 years old and it is beginning to feel slow. A few weeks back I set out to build the replacement and my main objective was that it should be silent, but … Continue reading →

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Automatically saving Flash 10 video files marked as (deleted)

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Thomas Jansson

There was a time when it was easy to save flash videos played in browser to the hard drive on a Linux machine. All the files were visible in /tmp directory. However recently Flash 10 changed this and has deployed … Continue reading →

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