PhotographyBLOG has the scoop, and links to several previews of the camera. Looks very impressive! It could be the camera I’ll upgrade to next year! (I can always dream can’t I?)
There’s plenty being said on the Sony Talk Forum too!
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Pics from NY
Google Calculator .. what's the answer?
Great! Google knows the answer to life, the universe and everything! (Thanks Pron!)
So, who do I call for a Linux license?
Kevin Lyda attempted to license his several Linux installations at home from SCO. He didn’t do too well however. Maybe the lawyers are more clued in than the sales staff?
And for completeness, Kevin emailed the BSA wondering when they’d be enforcing the SCO licensing requirements.
The lights are flickering..
and my monitor just flickered. I’m on the 38th floor and out of here before I have to walk down a long flight of stairs! New York and elsewhere were caught in a huge power-cut just an hour or so ago!
A Few Tips for Writing Useful Libraries in PHP
A few? There are 20 tips here. Excellent reading!
Thought of the day
It never rains but it pours.
It’s been a busy 2 days. 🙁
Russell on Schwarzenegger
Russell Beattie doesn’t pull any punches critizising Arnie. Ahem, I have to agree with him, but as I can’t vote in California, it doesn’t bother me too much! (200 standing for the election and counting according to the paper this morning, including a 100 year old woman!)
Movies for your pleasure at Pocket Movies
Just visited PocketMovies.net again after a long hiatus. There’s a plenty of goodies to download! Loved the Happy Birthday one, it’s cute! 🙂
Posting from 2.6 . . .
Err, wow! I just booted into Linux 2.6 and am shocked at how speedy everything is. The mouse cursor acts like it’s on steroids. Browser windows pop up really fast. The GIMP loaded quickly.
I loaded 3 photos from the baseball game on Sunday into the GIMP. Each is 2560×1920 pixels, or between 1.8MB and 2.2MB in size. I ‘auto-corrected’ the colour on each to build up a large cache and the system is responding well. The auto-correction is quite intensive, both in CPU and memory terms. If I had done that while running 2.4 my machine would have ground to a halt while the images swapped in and out of memory (I also have Moz FB, xchat2, MGT, and Kmail open)
Another test – when working on the GIMP and large images, if I swap desktops it takes a few moments for the images to swap out and my browser and mail client to come back in. Not now! The images take about 1/2 second to redraw, and moving back to my browser desktop I can start typing here again immediately.
Of course, it’s not a completely fair comparision. I’m using the open source Nvidia driver, not the propreitary one I used before. I’m going to get the propreitary one working next.
(Tested on an overclocked 300 -> 500Mhz PII, 300MB RAM)
Almost forgot – I’m recompiling the kernel as well..