Archive For June, 2003
When you get new memory cards for your camera make sure you format them first. I took about 20 photos at lunchtime and one or two were good enought to go up here, but Linux refuses to see the card, saying, # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera /dev/sda1: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type [...]
The 717 has a histogram showing the composition of the image seen through the linse. I know what it represents, but wasn’t sure how to manipulate it or use the information it presented to me. This tutorial on EV Compensation certainly helps and provides example shots to illustrate!
Mark Goldstein has an excellent blog here. Although he does concentrate on the high end, where I have no chance of joining for a good couple of years!
Google led me here where they have instructions on making a simple water rocket out of a 50ml bottle. I originally found out abou all this stuff from The Jer Zone. Anyone reading this make one of these things?
phplist looks good. The list of features goes on and on! (via the comments on this post on Fuzzyblog!)
Woohoo! The 2003 Taste of Chicago starts today! Here’s what’s on today! The 2003 Taste of Chicago presented by U.S. Cellular will field a great line-up of food, activities and entertainment, June 27- July 6, 2003 in Grant Park, featuring many returning players as well as some great new stars. Taste-goers will step up to [...]
This is what I see if I look towards Chicago from the top of my apartment.. (some obvious and not well done manipulation done in the GIMP)
At the start of June Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs’ star player broke his bat during a game. Cork was discovered inside the bat, lending him an unfair advantage while hitting. I was there with Martina, and although I didn’t realise the full extent and implications of what was happening, I snapped a few photos. It [...]
Several copies of W32.Sobig.E@mm have made their way to the mail server at work. Luckily, there’s a simple Procmail recipe to stop it. The above recipes use the Procmail E-mail Sanitizer by John Hardin to catch malicios content such as this virus.
