I’ve not had a chance to watch all of them, but I watched a segment called “Photowalking“, with a San Francisco photographer. It’s great to see the work, and how he does things. My only criticism of it would be Robert Scoble not having a microphone on himself. Questions from behind the [...]

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I was reading over my usual list of blogs on Friday, and Neill posted a bit of a “reflection” and more of a plan on the future. It’s interesting to see some of what he wants to do, and what he has come to the conclusions on. It seems he’s finally settled into [...]

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Today, I woke up feeling terrible. For the last week or so, I’ve actually been waking up tired. Not the normal “first thing in the morning” tired… but physically tired. Probably due to the hours I’m working, and I should take a break. Today I got a chance. I had the [...]

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I can’t but help think there is a funny cartoon just waiting to pop up behind this story.

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A few weeks ago, we went to San Antonio Zoo for a day trip. I have finally had a chance to go through, and upload some of the images from the trip. This is one of my favourite images. There are more here.

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I have been curious about building “the ultimate Linux Desktop” for a while, but one of the requirements would be support for my Nikon D70s. As I shoot in RAW format, and that is usually propitiatory per camera manufacturer (Nikon is NEF), some special software is required, so I googled for “Linux Nikon RAW”, [...]

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While I know there are plenty of documents on how to defeat spam with Postfix and various tools, I’m still quite amazed at how effective two options are. They are:

smtpd_sender_restrictions = [...]

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Just jumped onto Freenode, and saw a wallop pop up from christel. She’s a freenode staffer mentioning something about sending condolences, I was a little baffled until I read this. Rob Levin, the administrator from Freenode, was sadly hit by a car whilst riding his bike, and later died in hospital. A [...]

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This is more of a reference for myself because I keep forgetting it. The command last is used to pull up the login history for the active account. This is a handy little command to see if your account has been a little more active than it should have been (though any good [...]

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The other day, I somehow stumbled across a video of a Dell Optiplex GX520 being turned off by a cell phone. Most amusing. I even tried copying it for some giggles with the guys at work (I was bored after all). Usually I don’t post silly things like this, but I [...]

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