Archive For May 23rd, 2005
Do and don’t battery table – great article explaining how to get the most out of your NiCD, NiMH, Li-ion, and lead-acid batteries. I wonder how many people maintain their car batteries correctly? Apply topping charge every 6 months. Occasional discharge/ charge may improve performance.
Now that I have a Canon camera in my dirty little hands I’m looking for books, and online documentation. Mainly because I have a German manual, I ordered the Canon EOS 20D Magic Lantern Guide, and followed it up with the following two books by Bryan Peterson: Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with [...]
Nikon on Linux – useful guide to getting your Nikon D70 working with a Linux system, and the steps required to get them into a state the GIMP can edit. He has some useful scripts I might modify for use by my Canon 20D and Panasonic FZ5! Not sure about the auto-rotating. I like to [...]
In this email to the ILUG, Justin Mason posted a very good overview of Debian package management. It covers all the usual suspects such as apt-get, apt-cache and dpkg, but also a few others I didn’t know about. A little light reading later perhaps? (While you’re waiting, you might like to poke a penguin!)
