January 11th, 2009
If you use legacy lenses you will notice that some of the values are missing in the exif data. Focal length being one of them. You can add some of these with the help of the exiftools [1]. The program is probably available through your distributions repositories.
Examples
To ...
Posted in Linux, Photography
January 4th, 2009
Not sure about you but I'm getting quite tired of the WinXP look and am not in the business to upgrade to Vista. Yet, I want my PC to look better, not so clunky. Especially since I now run my meanwhile ancient laptop on Windows again.
Look Ma, ...
Posted in Windows
January 2nd, 2009
Last night I read on the New York Times Blog that JP Magazine will shut down. It was also announced on JPG Magazin's ownblog. That is indeed very sad news.
JPG Magazine is/was my favorite photo magazine.
Read the articles here
8020 Media to Shut Down and ...
Posted in Photography
December 29th, 2008
Adorama [1] offers a a series of phototips to the interested photographer. By now it has 3 parts. The first part [2] took place in the last quarter of 2007, the second part [3] in the 2nd quarter of 2008, and part 3 [4] started in the ...
Posted in Photography
November 28th, 2008
In an attempt to tighten things up I moved some content from my former site sjmk|dot|net to my foKuspoint site and then closed sjmk|dot|net.
Posted in Linux
December 15th, 2005
A couple of days ago I wrote that there is a driver for RTL8180 based wlan cards available. With SUSE 10 it's already build into the kernel. Yay! I learned about this through the SUSE Laptop mailing list. Read on.
How To Get Started
First I uninstalled ndiswrapper so ...
Posted in Linux
November 14th, 2004
Setting up a Wacom tablet with the help of Sax2 does not always work out so well. Some manual work might be necessary.
Tablet Specs
Wacom [1] Intuos^TM^ Graphire Tablet
Model: GD-0405-R, Serial
First Steps With Sax2
You can do two things here: set up everything manually, or start out with Sax, ...
Posted in Linux
October 3rd, 2004
Yet another popular choice to get wireless networking to work is the open source solution NdisWrapper.
If you happen to have a wireless card with the popular chip sets RTL8180 [2] or ADM8221 [3] you will have not much choice when it comes to drivers to get them ...
Posted in Linux
June 14th, 2004
There are several ways to get your RTL 8180 card to work on your SuSE laptop. The easiest way to do so is via the commercial Linuxant driver. This solution is relatively independent from the used Kernel. Another solution is the open source NdisWrapper, which will ship ...
Posted in Linux
