Author Archives: Donncha

Playing Catchup on Photography Links

As usual, Mark’s been busy. He linked to a number of articles I didn’t see until this afternoon for obvious reasons! Oh, expect a few photos from Gugan Barra over the next few days. Got some great snaps out there yesterday!

  • PhotoPermit – I talked about this before, what rights have you got on the street? How does taking photos of people make you feel? Have you been accosted and confronted by an angry passer-by for taking their photo? They want to hear your war stories here!
  • Digital Sports Photography Tips – good compilation of links!
  • teleconverters, Are they useful? – lengthy article, look at the images if you’re in a hurry. Good comparisions between zooming and cropping in Photoshop vs the TC.
  • Vivid Light #37 is out! Goody!
  • Timecatcher.com – stunning photos!

Moving to Fedora Core 2

I arrived into work on Friday morning to find my machine hung and in need of a reboot. With some regret at the lost uptime of my desktop machine I flipped the switch on the case and watched the bootup. Disaster! The 2 drives on the first IDE channel failed to show! After much cursing and general worry I tried again and this time the BIOS booted fine! Woohoo!
This morning, almost the same thing happened. I checked my mail, loaded up the dozen tabs I needed for a fix of information in the morning and suddenly my browser died. Then went Thunderbird. At the same time my machine got a lot quieter and I guessed I had disk problems again!
I brought it back to life again and managed to get everything off it and used the opportunity to install Fedora Core 2.
I installed apt from freshrpms.net but fedora.us looks like a better apt-ge trepository, if for no other reason than it has “Window Maker” rpms! Gnome and Nautilaus were way too slow on my humble machine!
If you’re upgrading from an earlier RedHat release, make sure you update the fonts your apps use. I copied over my Mozilla and Thunderbird directories and they still used “serif” and “sans serif”. Once I updated them to the “Bitstream Vera” versions, as well as the monospace font too, everything looked much better! Now to download the xmms mp3 and mplayer rpms!
Later … Freshrpms has xmms-mp3 and mplayer. Fingers crossed that both repositories can co-exist!
Later Still … It seems to be fine. Don’t forget to install the Freshrpms GPG key too!
Hmm.. Why wasn’t my sound card detected?

Girl Playing, Courtmacsherry – POTD July 17th, 2004

Jacinta and I were down in Courtmacsherry on Sunday afternoon last. It was an eventful afternoon, shortly after bumping into Micheál Martin we came to the point of the headland we we walking on.
Walking carefully, aware of the steep grassy/rocky slope down to the thundering sea below we watched in amazement and horror as a little boy, hardly more than 4 years old walked up with a small dog on a long lead. He carried the dog for a short distance with the lead dangling dangerously around his legs.
We stood still watching him approach, and as he dragged the dog down the slope by the light in the picture. His sister and brothers appeared shortly afterwards with a very unworried looking father trailing the group! We walked on a little but watched as the father rested on the ground while his kids ran amock on the slope! *gulp*

Even The President Stands Naked Sometimes

Scott Rosenberg has an excellent and alternative take on Fahrenheit/911. Moore may bend the truth sometimes as does “the other side” but it’s the fact that he’s rebelling against the presidency in the US that’s important. He’s commiting “lese majeste”.

When the throne holds an ignorant, incompetent, profligate pretender, lese majeste becomes a patriotic duty.

Pringles Dippers Shocker!

Ohmygod! It would seem that there are problems with the new Pringles Dippers being advertised on TV with duck billed platypusses (is that right? platypussies maybe? Ah, thanks Kevin for this!) swimming behind several beautiful and not-fat young people. I’m not suggesting that eating Pringles will make you fat, but there’s even less chance of it happening with the dippers as there’s less in the box! Good luck trying to fit a dipper+dip into your mouth too. Maybe a little too big for a single dip?
Some people just hate the advert!
And finally, check ateed.com for the music to the ad. It’s loaded via a flash animation so I couldn’t download the music. Maybe someone going through a proxy can get the URL?

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