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Secret Sauces….
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TPMG visits Canadian National Exhibition (CNE)
This is a bit of a backlog clearing job. The Toronto Photography Meetup Group recently visited The EX (Canadian National Exhibition) in Toronto. I thought it was a good chance to try out my Lens Baby Composer Lens and do some weird black and white pics. Here are a couple of the good ones….. The…
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A couple of test shots with Minolta Rokkor 50mm/f1.2
So the other day I had a bit of time and decided to paint the back of my Rokkor Lens. The lens originally had a Monilta mount, but with a lot of patience and tons of sanding I’ve modified it to fit the Canon EOS mount. The only thing that bugged me about the conversion…
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gksudo: Or how this old dog learned new tricks :-)
Okay if you know about gksudo, fine. I just found out about it a little while back when I was trying to run ethereal. You see under Ubuntu (and a lot of other Linux distros) the concept of root user has been removed. There is no root (well there is, but you can’t access it),…
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How to change the default command line text editor in Ubuntu….
I love Ubuntu, but there is one thing that really bugs the hell out of me. The default configured editor in Ubuntu is nano, a Pico clone. I hate Pico, therefor I hate nano :-). So how would you go about fixing this and changing the default editor to vi (or vim): Issue the following…
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Apples and Oranges…..
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TechPosters: Technical Posters and Cheat Sheets for the NERD in you…..
Title says it all…..head over to TechPosters (kinda slow right now) and snag your favourite cheat sheet/reference card. There are also more of this kinda stuff over at Cheat-Sheets.org as well.
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Toronto Buskerfest 2009…..
Okay so chronologically this post should come before the Airshow post, but hey better late than never right? Anyways, I had a couple of days off in august and decided to check out the Toronto Buskerfest again this year. For those of you who don’t know, since its inception the buskerfest has featured hundreds of…
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Canadian International Air Show…….
Celebrating Canada’s centennial of flight and it’s own 60th anniversary, the CIAS roared across Toronto’s skies last weekend. It was a great show and it was made even more special, since it also marked the return of U.S. Navy Blue Angels to T.O. I was there on Saturday and came away with the following images………