We're now tranferring the 72 WTC photos to Cryptome at full resolution, each about 1 MB. Due to the size we would appreciate a few mirrors being set up before we announce to ease the load on our new finicky server. If anyone can handle a collection of about 76MB, send me a message and I will provide a URL for the package when it is ready -- probably in an hour or two. Then the mirrors will be listed with the intro when announced. Brace for a long download of the set unless you got a T1. The intro explains how the crime scene was snapped. The photographer is not named, thank you for not fingering to whoever might be probing. Guiliani is very vindictive about leaks of info about his secret project.
This brings to mind something which would be a very cool project: Have a digital camera that public key encrypts the photos before storing them. Obviously the private key would be stored in some other safe place, so if the camera is stolen, no one can see what the photographs are. I'm sure Canon will never add this feature, but someday soon these things may be running Linux and may be hackable. Anyway, I can't wait to see the photos.
Not sure how *nix-savvy you are, John, but you may want to try out "convert." Wrapped in a simple perl or shell script, it'll take care of resizing to some reasonable level. 768x512 is sufficient for most casual viewing purposes, at least until monitor size/quality increases. -Declan On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:06:59PM -0700, John Young wrote:
We're now tranferring the 72 WTC photos to Cryptome at full resolution, each about 1 MB. Due to the size we would appreciate a few mirrors being set up before we announce to ease the load on our new finicky server.
If anyone can handle a collection of about 76MB, send me a message and I will provide a URL for the package when it is ready -- probably in an hour or two. Then the mirrors will be listed with the intro when announced. Brace for a long download of the set unless you got a T1.
The intro explains how the crime scene was snapped. The photographer is not named, thank you for not fingering to whoever might be probing. Guiliani is very vindictive about leaks of info about his secret project.
Agreed that reduced-size images are desirable. One or more of the mirrors are offering those, Parrhesia for example. We elected to initially offer the full size to not limit what can be offered by others and to feed those with terabyte maws. When image downloads jam shut Cryptome, which seems likely soon, we'll de-PATRIOT the bloat. And if I was *nix-savvy what would I need this suck-palace for. Declan wrote:
Not sure how *nix-savvy you are, John, but you may want to try out "convert." Wrapped in a simple perl or shell script, it'll take care of resizing to some reasonable level. 768x512 is sufficient for most casual viewing purposes, at least until monitor size/quality increases.
At 08:53 AM 10/4/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Not sure how *nix-savvy you are, John, but you may want to try out "convert." Wrapped in a simple perl or shell script, it'll take care of resizing to some reasonable level. 768x512 is sufficient for most casual viewing purposes, at least until monitor size/quality increases.
I built a thumbnail page leading to reduced-JPG-quality images from John's files; that's online at <http://www.parrhesia.com/wtc100301/>, with a temporary mirror at <http://daisy.parrhesia.com/wtc100301/>. That was finished last night, but my mails back & forth with John to coordinate the mirror were delayed by the need for some sleep. I left the image size alone because I couldn't find a good way to get convert or mogrify to do height/width-proportional scaling; maybe my fast read of the man page failed. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles@well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids
Greg Broiles <gbroiles@well.com> wrote:
I built a thumbnail page leading to reduced-JPG-quality images from John's files; that's online at <http://www.parrhesia.com/wtc100301/>, with a temporary mirror at <http://daisy.parrhesia.com/wtc100301/>. That was finished last night, but my mails back & forth with John to coordinate the mirror were delayed by the need for some sleep. I left the image size alone because I couldn't find a good way to get convert or mogrify to do height/width-proportional scaling; maybe my fast read of the man page failed.
mogrify -geometry 40%x40% wtcxxx.jpg I have made 40%-sized images; they'll soon be available at http://www.phonon.net/wtc/small/ -- Riad Wahby rsw@mit.edu MIT VI-2/A 2002
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