Funny things happen if you add a second disk with a live Linux install to to your existing Red Hat install – the system gets confused with double LABEL=\ and starts hissing, spitting and boots into the wrong Linux install among other things 😉
The solution to this (thanks to
Petty people petty politics Less said about it the better… Pretty people pretty photos Had an impromptu photo session with a friend of ours – Two photos have come up displayable BUT I don’t have permission to… … now now don’t let your imagination run awry they are both close-ups and not….
Pointers – I vaguely remember my CSc friends saying that Pointers in C were a pain, today I finally got to reading about them (really) am still wondering why, I presume ignorance on my part and expect one of the pointers to stab me in the back when I am not looking… But once again
Yippeee!! Today I compiled and ran my first (and totally useless) PHP extension, It is a stand alone .so file which implements a function called spit(), It just spits back whatever string you pass to it as a parameter. It took me all of 20 min to do it… Now I am kicking myself for
Click here to see the 230 pictures which I took at the LB/2003 Some pictures there have a counter part in other peoples camera like this and this in Jeremy’s album here and here 🙂 There may be more of such out there – if any of you have got them please post URL BTW
I am sure everyone has read all about LB/2003 and how wonderful it was here, here, here, here, here and here so nothing more to write about it except my own personal teeny weeny ego trips and treasured moments which I gleaned form the conference. The most elating moment was when just before the first
Slides done and sent Clients informed for the last time Packing done – thankfully Swati travels light(er) Tickets Confirmed We are already to board the train
No Make-up No Filters No Artificial lights No Posing No Post processing (nitpick – resized!) Just a 100% natural candid portrait. LB/2003 is now just round the corner, stress levels are high, patience running low and things are working perfectly fine as planned 😀 Check out the first schedule of talks. We leave for Bangalore
Finally a somewhat displayable picture which would not have been possible at all using my older camera!! Surya Kiran the aerobatic team of Indian Air force performed over the city airport as a part of finale for the National Air Race. These shots, an example of extreme zoom, were taken from our roof top. Airport
Finally grabbed enough time to read through the complete manual of my new camera. Till now I have managed to take usual pictures (read mostly auto settings) with success BUT have not been very successful with macros (results have very poor DoF) low light (results with poor focus and lots of noise). Tried a bit