So I finally made my decision on a camera. I settled on the Canon EOS T1i (500D). So far I love it! I went to the “Rose Garden” down by NCSU and shot a little bit this afternoon after having to work all day (on a Saturday). This little guy came out pretty good, though upon reflection I should have stopped a little higher for a little more DoF. Live and learn I guess.
I had half-heartedly thought about submitting one of these to an online photo contest but ultimately I decided that I need a bit more experience before I take that step. That’s a post for another day, however.
Photography dragonfly, insect, nc, photos
I’ve been interested in photography at various levels for some time. I dabbled a bit in college with 35mm film but never really got into it, mainly due to cost. Without access to your own darkroom developing film can be an expensive proposition.
I’ve been doing a lot of research about dSLR’s lately in prep to buy myself a dSLR. I figured I’d detail my thoughts from a relative newbie’s perspective. First a little bit on my parameters and intentions.
My budget is roughly $1000, I’m looking for a reasonable advanced camera that I can use as a learning tool. The goal is to learn more about the technology of photography (hopefully dragging the art out of me kicking and screaming) as well as taking better pictures. I’ll mostly be shooting sporting event type activities, (disc golf, kids in the backyard, etc) family stuff, but I do want to do a little bit of artistic photography. Several of the new cameras have HD video as a feature. While this isn’t real important to me, it’s a fun thing to play with.
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Photography, Ramblings, technology canon, dslr, nikon, Photography
I’m on the hunt for a good password manager for the iPhone. But there’s a slight catch. I’m looking for something that works with fedora. I’d like to be able to sync it locally as well. There seem to be couple of things that will sync “to the cloud” but that seems to be a horrible idea for passwords.
Anyone have suggestions?
Ramblings, Sysadminery, technology fedora, iphone, passwords
We are currently going through an ITIL implementation. It’s had it’s ups and downs and philosophically I don’t really believe in it (certainly not in our implementation), but it’s had a few successes and a few failures. Without droning too much about it, to make any ‘production’ change you have to file an RFC that gets reviewed by a management team. There is a relatively recent DNS attack that involves using root zone recursion to DOS a target server. We’re vulnerable to being used in this manner. It really doesn’t affect us much as that our servers handle the requests fine, but we’re assisting in a DDOS and that’s not good. For us the fix is pretty straight forward, because of some historical decisions we have to allow recursion for certain ips, so I need to segment things off into a tighter view and eliminate recursion there. This is a pretty straight forward change and one that I would do without a second thought (after testing). Due to our current climate of process I have to file an RFC, which is fine, I’m not real happy about it but I’ll live.
However my RFC was denied not because of any technical reason, not because of any concern over the technology, the implementation, or the timing. It was denied because I didn’t put the correct information into the details page and because my dates were wrong. I’m all for doing process right (when it makes sense), but does it make sense to derail a security fix for 4 days because the form was incorrect? Especially when there exists a forum in which you can be asked to clarify anything regarding your RFC.
Now when security takes a backseat to process, your organization has truly begun the decent to failure. This may indeed be the straw…
Sysadminery itil, process
I’m fairly picky when it comes to how I manage my personal data. I like a fair amount of separation between things but I want everthing accessible. Quite a while ago I moved my domain (for email, etc) over to google apps. I can’t really understand why anyone with less than 3 or 4 thousand users would run their own mail servers, but that is a post for another day. Since I’ve been a user of google apps for a while I’ve been looking for a good way to manage my calendars. I’ve never been totally happy with GoogleCalendar especially when compared with iCal. I’ve used both spanning sync as well as busy sync, but I never got enough use out of them to warrant paying for them. Throw in the addition of my iphone and I just wasn’t happy with how things were setup.
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Ramblings, technology iphone, sync, technology
