The Largest Digital Photo

Gigapixel writes to point us to what is claimed to be the largest digital
photo on the Net, at 8.6 Gigapixel. It is a composite photo of the ""Parete
Gaudenziana,"" a fresco painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari, dated 1513. This fresco
is in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in the convent of Varallo
Sesia, diocese of Novara and Province of Vercelli, Italy. The site uses Flash
to let you explore the fresco over a zoom range of more than 180 to 1. The
photo is made up of 1145 images, each 12.2 Mpixel and 16 bits per color
channel. Read on for more technical specs of the photo.

Photo Shots: 1,145
Computed Data: 84 Gigabyte
Computed Pixels: 13,982,996,480
Color Depth: 16 bit per channel

Cropped Image Size: 8,604,431,000 (w. 96,679 x h. 89,000) pixel
Image Size before the final crop: 10,293,864,000 pixel (w. 103,560 x h.
99,400) pixel
Size on Hard Disk of the 3x16 bit final image: 51,625,586,000 byte

Size of Photographed Scene: 10.80 m x 9.94 m (35.43 ft x 32.61 ft),
corresponding to 107.35 m2 (1155.37 ft2).

True Scale Resolution: 227 dpi
Pixel Density: 80 pixel/mm2
Linear Pixel Density: 9 pixel/mm

Hard Disk space dedicated to 16 bit computing: 1.8 Terabyte
Ram: 16 Gigabyte
Processors: 4 x AMD Opteron(TM) 885 Dual Core 64 bit

Shooting on January 30, 2006
Shooting time: 13 hours
Computing time: 3 months
Final Image generated on June 15, 2006


Reference:
http://www.haltadefinizione.com/
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/10/29/2239224.shtml

這次學校簽的微軟 CA

聽說今年度學校跟微軟簽的 Windows 和 Office 的 CA，包含了學生的部份！
會發給每個人一片正版 Windows 和 Office 光碟片。

Ubuntu 6.10 也出了，一片最新版也只要 $3.99，自己下載也行。
大家一起換成 Ubuntu 吧！

http://www.ubuntulinux.org

The End of the Internet

使用 Google Reader 閱讀完所有條目之後
會連到一個頁面 http://www.google.com/reader/next?go=noitems
上面寫著 Congratulations, you've reached the End of the Internet .
點進 End of the Internet. 就會出現

The End of the Internet
Congratulations! This is the last page.
Thank you for visiting the End of the Internet. There are no more links.

You must now turn off your computer and go do something productive.

Go read a book, for pete's sake.

大致上翻譯是這樣：

網路的盡頭
恭喜!這是最後一頁。
感謝您光臨網路的盡頭。這裡沒有其他連結

你現在必須關掉你的電腦並且做一些有生產性的事情

看在老天的份上，去讀本書吧！

orz~

--
Pete 意指 Saint Peter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter

另外，原來這個 Easter Egg 早在 9/26 就被 Digg 了