After a few small glitches and problems I have Debian Testing running on my desktop machine at home.
The install process is a lot easier than before and really, I have/had only 2 problems. One was with setting up X – The “generic mouse” entry which pointed at /dev/input/mouse/mice or something didn’t work so I commented that out. The detection of my monitor worked, but it generated mode lines which were a little conservative. I couldn’t get more than 1024×768 on a 19″ monitor! That was easily solved by copying the values from my FC2 install.
The locale setting is a bit screwy too. I tried to get it to understand the Euro symbol by choosing ie_IE@euro (or similar) but now ‘”‘ becomes “#” and “|” becomes “>”! I’m sure there’s an easy fix, and changing the locale settings seem to fix bash/screen sessions but not X. More work to do there!
Anyway, xmms with mp3 support was installed by default, but I noticed mplayer wasn’t there. You can download mplayer packages for Debian here, makes things simple to install!
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Digital Darkroom with the GIMP
I can’t believe I never came across this page before. I probably have, but it reminded me to check my colour-depth, and I’m running at 16bit! ugh!
House Guest
Yesterday morning I helped Owen bring some stuff in from his car and when I turned around to close the door a cat was sitting outside the porch looking in curiously at us!
He purred with pleasure as I rubbed him, and when I came home later he was curled up in a ball on the doormat!
He disappeared this morning into the garden and beyond so I don’t know if I’ll see him again. If he’s back this evening I’ll check with the neighbours if they recognise him.
Sebastião Salgado – Guardian Unlimited
Last Saturday the Guardian featured the photographs of Sebastião Salgado. A URL was included at the bottom of the article but it also appeared on delicious too. Take a look at this Guardian Unlimited feature too and enjoy the great photos!
Post Processing by Sam Javanrouh
Here’s a write-up by the author of daily dose of imagery on how he “fixed” an image of a grain silo. What he did is admirable because there was very little contrast in the original photo. I wouldn’t have manipulated the sky so much(I’ve done it myself, so I recognise an attempt to bring out detail that just isn’t there!) but the silo and water is a great photo!
Forty Hours Behind Bars
Theo Rigby was arrested and held for 48 hours for taking photos in New York. He was there covering the RNC and followed a protest march..
I was thinking of going the New York in March, but maybe South America would be safer for a photographer? I have a chance to go to Ecuador too. Where’d you go?
Street photography on Wikipedia
The SP list started work on a Street photography page on Wikipedia. It’ll be a great resource once it’s filled out as there’s a lot of talented people behind it.
Developing Photos That "Pop" – part 3
It’s Photoshop specific but useful nonetheless.
Using Levels and Curves to Adjust Tonal Range, Contrast, and Brightness are concepts that transfer easily to the GIMP. (via Mark)
The size of dot files and directories
Have you ever tried du -csh .* to find the size of all the hidden files in your home directory? It never works properly for me as I think it only counts the size of the .* files in each of the named directories.
Anyway, the following solves that problem and shows you where all those thumbnails have been generataed by gthumb or nautilaus.. 🙂
for i in `ls -A`; do du -sh $i; done
38.113.198.9? Are you there? eh what?
Oy! Whoever’s at 38.113.198.9 is causing a bit of a stir here …. he hit this server yesterday with 34K hits. I wouldn’t mind if it was a sensible bot that was archiving stuff, but no, he has to visit some pages over 100 times just to make sure he has the correct content!
Anyway, he won’t see this post as all he’ll see if he comes here is the following:
go away and stop hitting this server – email donncha_@_linux.ie if you want access again.