Entries written in August 2008

Written August 25, 2008 in photography

Brandon and I photographed the Northgate Music Festival this past weekend. Brandon and I created a group pool on Flickr, and Dana will eventually get his pictures up there too.

If your band played in it, or you’d like a high-res copy or print, please click the contact …

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Written August 20, 2008 in Uncategorized

This summer’s sucked around here. We’ve had a drought for most of the summer, and if you look at the current US drought maps, we’re in an area that’s experiencing the most severe level of droughts. Water use has gone through the roof and the utility companies are putting drought …

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Written August 19, 2008 in apple

Download Squad has posted a list of free alternatives to Photoshop.

Out of them, only GIMP runs on OS X. Anyone got alternatives that are focused on Mac?

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Written August 11, 2008 in punditry

This is all it takes to knock down a site running IIS. And you have to have a complex URL filtering tool in place to keep it from happening. It’s not secure out of the box, it’s not secure without some work, and even when your site isn’t running …

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Written August 8, 2008 in reading list

I’ve been doing a lot more writing than reading over the past few weeks, and none of that writing has been in this blog. Sorry about that. Money coming in takes precedence over just about everything else, including cleaning and having a life.

Here’s what actually did manage to rise …

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Written August 5, 2008 in howto, linux, opensuse

This has worked on OpenSuse 10.3, Fedora 9, and all recent versions of Ubuntu…

Problem: Audio doesn’t work when the machine is docked in a Dell dock.
Solution: You need to enable the IEC958 Switch in your Volume Control application.

HowTo:

  1. Click Computer, More Applications, and Voume Control
  2. Click Edit, Preferences, and check

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Written August 3, 2008 in meta, photography

With some recent equipment upgrades (thanks, eBay!) and a few loaners from friends, I’m getting stared the shooting again.

The basic gist: If you need pictures taken for an event (please, though, no weddings) or to commemorate an engagement, birthday, or other event in the College Station area, drop me an …

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Written August 1, 2008 in punditry

Kottke’s feed linked today to Smashing Telly’s post of a youtube video in which an architect experiments with allowing a computer to generate solutions to a hotel design. The conclusion is that the computer’s designs, even though they’re using a genetic algorithm to ‘breed’ better designs as time …

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