useful photography tools

Some handy tips from my friend Dennis: ExpoDisc (white balance/warm balance filter) white balance reference cards capture one noise ninja More software Nik Multimedia software kodak software (digital roc, digital sho, digital gem) Articles Nikonians on white balance TidBITS on Editing Photographs for the Perfectionist In the TidBITS article, the author, Charles, points out a …

finding venues to play

i’m often asked for the names of venues for musicians to play in. i have a small list of my own, but it hasn’t been maintained lately. however, there are several great resources out there: venues in San Francisco from the Red Devil Lounge venues along the west coast (CA, OR, WA) from BAB News …

HOWTO run SASL with Postfix on Debian

HOWTO run SASL with postfix on debian. this authenticates using saslauthd, so it checks against your standard user/password database (aka uses PAM). 0. install some packages (apt-get install):postfixpostfix-tlssasl2-binlibsasl2libsasl-modulelibsasl2-dev 1. edit /etc/group, adding posfix to the sasl group (use vigr):sasl:*:45:postfix 2. ensure /etc/default/saslauthd looks like this:START=yesMECHANISMS=”pam” 3. make postfix not chroot. in /etc/postfix/master.cf, change smtp inet …

Installing WebObjects 5 on Linux

I installed WebObjects 5.0 successfully on debian 2.2 (testing). Here’s what I did: * download jdk 1.3.1 from sun and put it in /usr/local — available from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download-linux.html * install webobjects after renaming the files (they were mounted as all lowercase for me) using install.sh * set up my NEXT_ROOT and PATH environment variables in …

MySQL, PHP and Apache on a Raq2

Originally published 11 October 1999 ** update 12 March 2000 ** ** these instructions have been tested with the following versions: ** Apache 1.3.9, 1.3.11 and 1.3.12 ** PHP 3.0.12, 3.0.14 and 3.0.15 ** MySQL 3.22.27 and 3.22.32 ** in step [8], i was able to use --with-debug with MySQL 3.22.27 ** but not with …