[BUGS] making photos and toor access

[matti k]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:03:50 +1100
jonathan michaels <jlm at caamora.com.au> wrote:

> greetings,

G'day Jonathan,
 
> i've been a keen photographer all my life, i am now looking to
> move to the digital world, from my old analogue pentax and
> mamiya slrs with range of lens, std format and some med
> telephotos for teh spotmatic and teh (really nice) mamiya z. if
> it means anything thats what i am trying to reproduce, because
> of my neurological disfunction i have difficulties with most of
> teh "small" digital cameras and my hands have learned how to
> function in the 35mm handheld slr realm.

I can't remember what model Pentax camera you had but do know that if
it's K mount then your lenses will work with the newer DSLR Pentax
cameras, gotta love backwards compatibility! If they're screw mount
(ie: m42) then there is an adaptor available (The item you need is #
30120 Pentax mount adapter K, looked into this recently). Don't know
much about the other models.

> it is too hard to find a goodish developing, specialty printing
> service and even b/w develpoing is getting beyond me and my
> habitation. it looks like anything more than putting the film
> in ato teh slot at one end and getting the paper out the opther
> at some 60 min's is rated as 'specialty' these days (just an
> obs)

Yet to print anything, if you decide to go a Mac laptop then have a
look at http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/ ... otherwise wait for the
local places to have a special on printing, maybe?

> what sort of dslr's are you guys using and how
> compatible/usable are tehy in the berkeley unix world, what
> sort of difficulies are common ?? opinion, options, war stories
> would be appreciated recoomendations but more so not with a
> 'barge pole'.

I have an entry level Pentax K100D, the K200D/K20D are due for release
in a month or so. Pick up a K100D/K10D for cheap maybe? I'm using an SD
card reader to transfer to PC and then GIMP for anything else.

> ummmm, just a simple one i think, i have noticed that root
> access is getting to be more and more nessacery, currently i'm
> 'getting arround' this by using "slogin userid at hostname" even
> if its on teh desktop typign in teh passwd with sudo is getting
> to be a bit of a drag.
> 
> anyone come across/have a faverite way of using root access
> tools without needing to typein teh passwd, altavista drew some
> silly results and lots of advertising .. as a side issue any
> other (than google) text based, or easily accessible
> (typing in teh url at the commandline) search engines

just good old su(1) here.

Cheers,
Matti