Baby pie scootering through The Frangipani Grove.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
I've found that it's easier to have the backlight set to "on always" in the main menu and to rely on the backlight level screen to turn it on or off. This is quicker since backlight level adjustment is accessed by a short press of the power button while the backlight duration configuration item is buried in a submenu.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
I like Apple products. But sometimes ownership can be a pain. This is the second time we've been hit by the vertical pixel wide strip of stuck pixels. I hope the next screen replacement fixes the issue.
Contrast this with my 7 yr old Dell Inspiron 8600 with the 1920*1200 pixel screen. Beaten up, but still soldering on flawlessly.
Contrast this with my 7 yr old Dell Inspiron 8600 with the 1920*1200 pixel screen. Beaten up, but still soldering on flawlessly.
Monday, February 7, 2011
The new toy :-). Brimming with old world charm... When was the last time you saw an RF device with an external antenna? My kids thought it was a walkie-talkie.
A Gilsson active antenna and Garmin bike mount came in the same package. Figured that the Gilsson would be a potentially useful gadget to have under heavy tree cover. This was one reason why I chose the 62s over the Oregon 450. Now to take it to the great outdoors!
A Gilsson active antenna and Garmin bike mount came in the same package. Figured that the Gilsson would be a potentially useful gadget to have under heavy tree cover. This was one reason why I chose the 62s over the Oregon 450. Now to take it to the great outdoors!
Installed Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit into my old Dell Inspiron 8600 over the Chinese New Year weekend. Took a while to work out the BCM4306/2 wireless driver (bc43legacy) because of a bug in the firmware installer package. Anyway, I now have a working installation of Maverick on a 27GB ext-4 partition on my little 120GB hard disk.
Turns out that http://www.rawtherapee.com/releases_head/linux/ does not offer a 32-bit build for RawTherapee and that the Maverick package doesn't like EOS 550D raw files... So that left me with no choice but to compile the program from source. It turned out to be relatively painless thanks to the superb instructions located here. Use the suggested "branch_3.0" option. Just change the line that had "drslony" in it to your own home directory name or you will get an error from the tar command.
Took quite awhile on my old machine, but finally:
Turns out that http://www.rawtherapee.com/releases_head/linux/ does not offer a 32-bit build for RawTherapee and that the Maverick package doesn't like EOS 550D raw files... So that left me with no choice but to compile the program from source. It turned out to be relatively painless thanks to the superb instructions located here. Use the suggested "branch_3.0" option. Just change the line that had "drslony" in it to your own home directory name or you will get an error from the tar command.
Took quite awhile on my old machine, but finally:
RawTherapee compiled, installed, and build written to /tmpNice...
Why is it that all new laptops and computer displays come in 16:9 aspect ratio? Laptops aren't just for watching movies. I miss the old 1920x1200 or even the 1600x1200 displays. 16:9 aspect ratio screens just aren't great for the rest of us who work with documents, spreadsheets and CAE tools. Here's hoping that the industry will come to its senses and end the infatuation with "full HD" screens. We need more vertical pixels.
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