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Palazzo Pisani Moretta (15 th century), Venezia, Italia
For Macro Mondays theme "Contraption." Definition given in the assignment: "A piece of equipment or machinery that is unusual or strange" and "...is often overly complicated." ;-) HMM!
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No not pretty and neither was a full day yesterday with Apple Support. Because of a required update on my iPad that wiped out my iPad, I had to install a new operating system on my iMac, which I use here for Flickr and pretty much everything else but watching movies on my iPad. Then we had to sync the two computers. 7 hours with 4 different techies.
I'm here and that's wonderful and maybe things will fall into place now.
The photo is a detail from the wall outside Mission Inn in Riverside, CA.
Paris Vélib Service (Vélib is short for “Velo Liberte” or “Bike Freedom”) is a city-wide bike rental service. With plans for 20,600 bicycles available on 1,451 stations, it is the largest bicycle rental project in the world.
See more info at www.en.velib.paris.fr/
I place my notes, tips, tricks on Velib on my Veliblog: velibobsession.blogspot.com
Renting a Velib bike
These bikes are fun to rent and ride but, depending on how long you are in Paris, you may just want to buy a bike and lock it up outside where you are staying. I love the Velib system but it is more appropriate for short-term point-to-point transportation. If you're in Paris for more than a few weeks it may be more useful to buy a 100 euro bike at Decathalon (along with a good lock). Buying a bike is also better if you plan to ride more than just 30 minutes each time. Having said that I still like this system and use it often to get from place to place more quickly.
UPDATE (25 October 2007): The system now accepts American Express and JCB cards that do not have the EU smart chips! Good news for visitors that do not have an EU bank card.
UPDATE (28 October 2007): Be VERY careful out there... I'm sad to write that the the first fatility involving a Velib bicycle occurred on 18 October in the 13th arrondissement. This is first fatility since the service started July 15 2007. Marthe Coppel-Batsch, 59, a prominent Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, was struck by a truck near the corner of Boulevard de la Bastille and quai de la Rapée. The accident was caused when the driver of the truck could not see the bicyclist due to the "blind spot".
While the majority of Paris bike lanes are dedicated to bikes, there remains many that are shared between bikes, taxis, and buses. Riding in these shared lanes is tricky and I've found myself having to compete for space with very large vehicles that do not always see the bike riders well if at all. Bike helmets are not required nor used in Paris and perhaps they may catch on as there have 4 fatalities now involving bicyclists each year. www.liberation.fr/actualite/societe/285982.FR.php
UPDATE: With the transit strike over, bikes are now being repaired more quickly...
The French transit strike increased ridership but conversely resulted in many bikes not getting repaired. Twice while going to rent a Velib I found many bikes in the stands that were broken. The strike made transporting the bikes to the repair depots difficult resulting in many broken bikes being left in the stands.
So, WATCH OUT for flat tires, broken chains, bent wheels, etc.
The interface is a bit confusing... but it works (eventually) and you can rent a nice bike very cheaply.
Paris Vélib Service (Vélib is short for “Velo Liberte” or “Bike Freedom”) is a city-wide bike rental service. With plans for 20,600 bicycles available on 1,451 stations, it is the largest bicycle rental project in the world.
THE BIKES
The sturdy grey bikes come with a metal basket on the handlebars and are heavier than standard bicycles, built to withstand heavy use. In line with the program's green image, Vélib‘ maintenance staff get around town on 130 electrically assisted bicycles. A barge with 12 stops along the Seine will pick up bikes in need of major repairs. Cleaning staff drive electric vehicles and use rain collected on the roofs of JCDecaux offices
Shimano (brake systems)
Prowheel (core hardware)
Nexus (gear shifts, cables, etc)
The bikes are 3 speed “roadster”-type bikes.
I had some luck as when I arrived at the Jaures station as there was a ratp truck unloading new bikes. I spoke to the RATP employees and found out there are currently about 13,000 bikes in place right now with plans to have 20,600 by the end of the summer in 1,451 stations. The bikes just arrived a few days ago (on the 15th of July – right after bastille).
I walked down to the Jaures Vélib station and rented one! It’s a pretty cool bike; a bit particular looking but no one seems to mind riding them. I road it about 30 minutes and it did well. It’s not meant for comfort so watch out for bumps in the road and cobblestones. It has 3 speeds so is fairly flexible. It also has lots of illumination so seems fairly safe at night (I’ll try it tonight and see how it goes).
You have to buy a Vélib pass first:
Daily card is 1 euro
Weekly card is 7 euros
1 YEAR is 29 euros
To get the 1 year card you have to go online and sign up and get an “abonnement”. Most people visiting Paris will probably want to just get a bike for 7 days then check it in/out as needed over the 7 days.
UPDATE: I've found that I can get the Velib yearlong form online and link it to my metro pass by mailing in the form (along with a check for 29 euros and an authorization for 150 euros) to the Velib HQ outside Paris. Once this is done I can much more easily get a bike by just passing my navigo card over the sensor! The process to get the Navigo metro card linked to the Velib system is lengthy and requires several forms to be filled out (very very French).
The three choices do involve a 150 Euro “deposit”. That is, if you don’t return the bike within a certain amount of time you will be charged 150 euros.
There is a 13 point legal summary that you must accept to obtain a Vélib pass (one of the annoying features is having to read through the entire legal acceptance form on a small screen) NOTE: I have since found that you can "skip" the entire text. Another issue is that when you pay with a bank card you have to switch to a different interface screen. The Main interface (a color plasma screen) for the details of the bike pass then the smaller LCD screen for the details of your bank card. But, it’s very similar to the RATP and SNCF machines used to get metro and train tickets (at least in the complexity of the user interface).
To get the 1 year card you have to go online and sign up and get an “abonnement”. Most people visiting Paris will probably want to just get a bike for 7 days then check it in/out as needed over the 7 days.
Either of the three choices do involve a 150 Euro “deposit”. That is, if you don’t return the bike within a certain amount of time you will be charged 150 euros.
The first two options can be done right at the Vélib station. There’s not a person there so you have to use the interface.
Payment:
You can use French bank card and it looks like most ATM cards will work as well. I tried using my navigo and it worked great! I also used my Bank Card and it worked also. You can also use your navigo card (your metro pass which you can obtain free from www.navigo.fr/ - you’ll need to upload a photo and provide a French address – use the address you will be staying at even if it’s a hotel; the navigo card will arrive in a few days so do this before you leave)
UPDATE: The Velib system now accepts American Express and JCB cards that do not have smart chips! Good news for foreign visitors who don't have an EU smart card...
Language:
The interface says it’s in French, German, English but these languages don’t work yet (I guess they have not translated the interface so these buttons don’t do anything). So, you’ll need to read French but it’s not that hard and there are always people around willing to help. The RATP employees say there are plans to include other languages (up to 8) but right now there are only 3 (and only French is actually working right now!).
UPDATE: During the 2nd week the interface was updated and is now working in English, Spanish, and French.
Once you receive an abonnement card you will have to select a PIN (code secret) that will allow you to use your card in other stations.
Once you process a payment, you select the stall number, then go push the button on the stall corresponding to the bike you selected. Then you just go ride off into the sunset! Then return the bike at any other station.
Once you have the pass and bike you are charged based on how long you ride it – simple. If you check out a bike and ride it for less than an hour and a half it’s free! But if you ride it longer you have to pay - A supplement of 1 euro will be charged for an additional half-hour, 2 euros for another 30-minutes and 4 euros for every addition half-hour after that.
Don’t forget to push the button on the stall to get your bike! I don’t know how many people I’ve seen try to “swipe” the paper bike ticket on the navigo interface!
SECURITY
The bikes come with a cable lock. This is passed around a pole or other object then connects into the frame of the bike. There is a small key that will release once the cable lock is snapped into place. I've had a little bit of trouble at first then realized that after clicking one end of the cable in place, to unlock it, you must also push the cable connector in a bit further to get the key to release. It's not the thickest cable and so I prefer to keep the bike in sight when locked (if possible). Theft is not yet a serious problem for the program but it does happen. If you happen to lose the key, call the emergency number listed on the bike (01 30 79 79 30) and someone will come unlock the bike for you.
RETURN
To return the bike just put it into one of the stalls. Make sure the slot is engaged. It will "click" into the slot, the light will go "yellow" then to "green" about 5 seconds later when the RFID system recognizes your bike as being returned.
If there are problems you can call Vélib’s emergency number: 01 30 79 79 30. This number is also printed on the bike's handle-bar.
JCDecaux
JCDecaux sponsors the project in exchange for advertising rights in Paris. JCDecaux is Europe’s largest outdoor advertising company. Like a similar scheme in Lyon, where 10 percent of the city's population has a subscription to the local sharing scheme, Vélib is operated by outdoor advertising giant JCDecaux, which is footing the bill in exchange for exclusive rights to 1,628 Paris billboards.
UPDATE: I've been renting one 2 or 3 times a week and it seems to work well so far. Theft has not been a huge problem so far but it does happen. The bikes come with a lock but it is not a substantial one and is easily cut. When I stop to eat somewhere I lock it up but keep it in sight. Right now they program is regarded with some pride by parisians so it seems including the appropriate marketing and presentation has some benefits. For example, the program was marketed outside of normal medial channels (outside of France). The support infrastructure is also highly visible with specialized electric vehicles, boats, and even uniforms for the maintenance personnel. This makes sense though given that the company financing it is JCDecaux (Europe's largest outdoor advertising firm).
The UI terminals: These are two-sided. One side is the main UI for renting a bike, the other is a map and a smaller interface for obtaining the balance on your bike by entering the ticket number.
There have been glitches:
1. Terminal's are sometimes offline so no way to get a bike
2. There are bikes available but the terminal doesn't know this (RFID system goes down sometimes) so it sends you to an interface to find another Velib station.
3. Sometimes the terminals will be rebooted remotely and will be unavailable for about 5 minutes while it reboots.
The UI is based on windows VB script and runs on the Windows XP embedded OS. The BIOS is Phoenix 1.14. The hardware is a 1.3Ghz Pentium III with 500MB memory.
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Each icon is a small painting, composed with very strict rules like a visual haiku: the size is 32 x 32 pixels, and the palette is 16 colors only. Within these constraints, the icon artist attempts to make a painting. A remarkable amount can be done within these limitations. I once won a bet about whether or not I could depict the Taj Mahal recognizably in an icon; see row 21, column 40. Or the sinking of the Titanic, row 22, column 18. Each icon here is independent save for a few that are intended to lie side by side (Hotel California, row 12, columns 11-12, and of course the kangaroos). There are a few 3-d pairs that require eye-crossing. The icons are presented in alphabetical order by title. You could spend hours examining each little painting individually. I’d strongly suggest you do something else instead. Image cannot be appreciated, if that is the word, except at the LARGE or ORIGINAL size.
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Somehow, this chaotic jumble of wires supplies electricity to a very complicated model railway layout. The wires feed into a control panel which regulates a very complex operating system.
52 in 2024 #16 - Chaotic
A crazy construction emphasizing the awkward and cumbersome functions of an outdated computer operating system!
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Have you ever heard of Gnu/Linux operating system? If not, it is is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution.
In short, an operating system which is free as freedom, where you can tweak it to something that very personal, and free as a free beer, well, most of it.
Ah, and yes, the mascot of the kernel, the brain of an operating system is Tux, the Penguin.
I want to be a MacPro.
So work had this iMac G4 in a pile of stuff scheduled to be destroyed. No one was sure if it worked or where it had come from. Someone said "A storage closet we think." So I asked if I could have it instead of it being wrecked if it worked.
The power plug was there so I fired it up and it had a locked install of 10.4.10 on it. A little terminal work later and I was in. What a find too.
800mhz PPC G4
768 MB of DDR
GeForce 4MX 64mb
1440x900 17" Display
SuperDrive (Squee!)
Whoever owned this before wasn't playing around when they bought it and totally topped it out. It's a slick little device, I'm getting Leopard 10.5.6 to throw on it now so some more current software will work on it. Can't believe they were going to scrap the little guy.
Otras fotografías de mi MacBook:
Devaluando mi Mac diciembre, 2006
Mi escritorio febrero, 2008
BlackBook agosto, 2008
Instalación de Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard agosto, 2009
Kamakura septiembre, 2009
Photo 18 in my 365 day challenge. I've recently been experimenting with different versions of the Linux operating system, including Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Puppy Linux.
My latest experiment is with ZenWalk Linux, and it makes my laptop run at lighting speed.
The photo is of ZenWalk shutting down.
Nikon D750. AF-S Nikkor 85mm f1.8g. SB-600 Speedlight.
f8 @ 1/1000 sec. ISO 12800. 7 September 2018.
The Operating System: Part of the problems with my old system might have been caused by a possibly dodgy copy of "systems builder" Windows 7 I obtained online since retail versions of the software were no longer available at the time. I've tried to use 10 a few times in the past but never liked it and always went back to Windows 7. I'll have to get used to it though since Microsoft support for 7 is scheduled to end in 2020. I was a long holdout using Windows XP, too, so what can you do. Progress marches on....
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with 5V Switched Mode Power Supply fitted inside a recycled DVD Player’s chassis. It runs on OSMC Linux operating system with Kodi media and video management.
This TT030 has been sitting at the bottom of one of those blue totes for a decade. No protection at all. Bouncing around during moves to and from Nevada, Maine, Oklahoma, and Texas and having all sorts of heavy items thrown on top of it for years. Aside from getting spectacularly grimy (as shown in the earlier photos, as I show my attempt to clean it up a bit), it withstood the abuse pretty well. The VME bus needs to be re-soldered, and it doesn't seem to be recognizing my external SyQuest SCSI drives; but these are the only things I've noticed.
This shot of the monitor shows the screen as being a little cluttered. This TT normally runs at 24-bit & a higher res. However, the Nova board and external graphics card need the VME bus, which needs to be fixed.
Note the time in the upper-right corner and the control panel. The FMC real time clock cartridge has a time set program, which only allows dates in the '80's and '90's. I can manually set the time in the control panel, of course, just didn't do it before this shot.
A satirical poke at Apple.
Originally I was going to call this "Salvador Dali's EyeCloud", then the hell idea came up so the working title then changed to "Dante's Eye Cloud from Hell".
Then I just shortened it to EyeHell.....
Maybe if I'm lucky Google will pick it up and use it as advertising for Android OS.
And, yes, no part of this was made with Apple software or hardware.
Royalty free music from Dig CCMixter.
Fun trivia facts:
1. There are 3 sets of eyes actually, two shots of mine from different times, and one of my wife's.
2. 6 eyes are show by revealing the footage at different in and out points.
3. This 40 second clip took over 20 minutes to render on my quad core i7 machine.
4. The firey background is actually some clouds in the sky that has their colour changed and that were sped up.