Archive For November 30th, 2004

Star Wars Trailer

I’m not a fan of Star Wars, not at all, but the trailer (8.6MB .mov) for the next film looks quite good! Thank you Conor for pointing that out to me!

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Garret's got a 20D!

Garret’s busy with his 20D this week. He’s taking portraits, something I’d like to do more off, luckily, here’s some tutorials to get me started. He linked to this Carier Bresson article too. To read.. Now, how do I justify spending €2000 on a camera and lens kit to myself? No, seriously – how?

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PHP Shm Caching

Matt points to a PHP script that uses shm memory to cache data. I rather use the filesystem to cache data – disk access is an order of magnitude slower than memory accesses but the operating system is generally clever about caching filesystem reads in memory. I would presume that the algorithms used are more [...]

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