[BUGS] making photos and toor access

[Andrew Reilly]

Hi Jonathan, 

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:03:50 +1100
jonathan michaels <jlm at caamora.com.au> wrote:
> 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'm still using a Nikon Coolpix 5700, which I bought before
D-SLRs really became affordable.  It's nice, but a bit slow
compared to the SLRs, and you can't swap lenses, of course.
I've been thinking about SLRs for a year or so now, but haven't
taken the plunge.  Apart from anything, I've become used to the
slightly smaller size of the 5700, and am not sure that I want
to go back to carrying around the full-size kit.

Re: access: plug it into a USB port and it looks like a
FAT-formatted DA drive full of JPEGs.  Alternatively, put the CF
card into a USB reader and ditto.  I don't know if open source
image programs know about Nikon RAW format, but I don't shoot
them anyway: JPEG is good enough for me.

But note: I actually use my Mac laptop to manage my photo
library, so I don't know how good the OS photo management
or editing software is.

> 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.

I don't understand this.  What are you doing that needs a lot of
root access?  I sudo about as often as I always have.

On the odd occasion that I know that I'm going to do a bunch of
stuff as root, then I "sudo bash" and get a root shell.

> anyone come across/have a faverite way of using root access
> tools without needing to typein teh passwd

I have to say that that sounds like a really bad idea.  The
closest that I'd get to it is leaving a terminal open with a
root session logged in, for a while...

> as a side issue any
> other (than google) text based, or easily accessible
> (typing in teh url at the commandline) search engines

There probably are, but have you tried yahoo's search?  It
seemed to work about as well as google, when I've tried it.  I
don't use it myself, though: google has been good enough, and
it's built into my web browsers (safari and epiphany).

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew


-- 
Andrew