Author: Ian

I think I have found one of the problems with my media box aka an epia M something or other (mini-itx motherboard). The machine has been crashing after a few days of encoding tivo output as real video. I unscrewed everything and plugged the tv card board directly onto the motherboard and it has been up since the weekend. So it looks like it is the riser card that flips the tv card 90 degrees that is to blame. Now the question is how to get another one. For reference the sound card still sucks.

Just tried to take some photos of the lightening storm that is going on. I had 400 iso film in the camera from the shoot I was doing at the smithsonian. I started doing exposures at 10 seconds. then opened up the fstop to f27 did some more at 10 seconds then moved onto 15 and 20 seconds. We will see if any come out.
I have been working for the smithsonian the last couple weekends. I took about 8 rolls last weekend and 8 rolls yesterday. I get the photo credit on any pictures they use. I will probably take an afternoon off and go visit them to make copies of the CD’s since they are keeping the negatives. I did run a couple rolls through for my self so those will go online as soon as the as I get them back on scanned.
This was cool. I worked mostly in the Scotland section of the smithsonian. I moved between about 5 stages taking pictures of who ever was on stage. I got to see Brian McNeill, NPR’s Fiona Ritchie, Alasdair Fraser, Fiddlers’ Bid, The Singing Kettle , Johnny Cunningham, Wrigley Sisters, Battlefield Band, Alison Kinnaird, Dougie Maclean and others

I am waiting on my P200 finishing compiling image magick. I was ready to load the latest and greatest photos and then I noticed it wasn’t adding the caption. So I am going from the source rather than the rpm that came with suse.
I used to think my P200 (its actually a P233. I discovered that other day) was a fast machine. It was faster than my 486 (which is now switch off) but I am sitting here waiting for the compile to complete wondering if it is time to upgrade my file server. I just dropped a second 120 Gig hard disk in it the other week and pulled out a 60 gig . Can you belive that it was made in NOV 2000. I wonder what I paid for it then. I think I bought the drive thinking that I would never need to by another one. Yeah that was till I started scanning images at 22 megs a file.

Well that Mac ad, the one where the girl goes on about rescuing christmas, you know the one that was on some kind of drugs but they wontsay which ones. Well its all bull. I plugged in my photo printer and expected it to work, you know just like in the Ad. Well bollocks I spent 30 mins trying to find the driver cd then another couple minutes downloading the driver from the web after failing to find the driver CD. Then it wanted me to reboot. So I rest my case the ad is bull. I am still happy with laptop 🙂 It has been my mobile dev environment for the new code that went live on projectphotos a couple days ago.

What do you do when you hear that the country you live is on a high terror alert? Well I went and climbed the Hancock building in Chicago. Sorry probably in bad taste