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How good is Ilford XP2?
I’m a very amateur photographer – I like the results of taking photos enough to have developed an interest in the process. To this end I still use a 1970s vintage Pentax MX, which has forced me to learn a little something about the interaction of shutter speed, aperture and film choice. I use Kodak [...]
In: Photography · Tagged with: 35mm, black and white, exposure, film, Ilford, Pentax MX, Photography, xp2
No! Please don’t do it!
There are some highly entertaining examples on the net of command line program output, but it’s great when you’re doing some system maintenance in Linux on your own machine and a gem unexpectedly crops up: :~$ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart [sudo] password: * Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server dovecot Warning: Last died with error (see error log [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: command line, dovecot, funny
Synaptics touchpad, SHMConfig, xorg.conf and Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
EDIT – Please note that this post only refers to the 64 bit version of Ubuntu. Some significant changes have been happening to the X server over the past couple of releases of Ubuntu. One of the most noticeable alterations has been the removal of the xorg.conf file from the default Ubuntu install (edit – [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: 8.10, ibex, intrepid, SHMConfig, synaptics, touchpad, ubuntu, xorg.conf
FirstClass. On 64 bit AMD64 Ubuntu.
For my OU course in Web Applications Development, I have to use a piece of software called FirstClass, from OpenText. Thankfully the nice people at OpenText have packaged up a version for Debian and Ubuntu, version 8.315-2 (one major release behind Windows admittedly, but perfectly usable). If you’re using a 32 bit version the install [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: amd64 64 bit, firstclass, libqtmt, Linux, ubuntu
Amarok, Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10, Bluetooth and Sony MBR-100 Audio Receiver
As we all know Amarok is the best music player in the world, and it’s free. It’s only available on Linux at the moment but the devs are working hard to port it to Windows. Anyway I digress. I wanted to explain how I got Amarok playing on my laptop, accessing my music collection on [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: alsa, amarok, bluetooth, gutsy, Linux, mbr-100, sony, ubuntu
RT73 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
If you’ve used the Ralink RT73 chipset under Ubuntu for any length of time, you’ll know that the default drivers aren’t yet perfect (some supporting evidence). Some may have had more success, but in my experience they drop out regularly and transfer rates are pretty mediocre. The modules used are the rt2x00usb and rt73usb. These [...]