Written March 8, 2008 and published in Photography | 0 Comments
Got my new lens today and so I started shooting random stuff. I’m now looking at macro lenses to get really close up. I might try these shots again with the kit lens as it is better for close up, seeing as the new lens is 30mm fixed it’s a wide angle lens. Good for sunsets on holiday though!
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Written March 7, 2008 and published in Photography | 1 Comment
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Written March 7, 2008 and published in Photography | 0 Comments
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Written March 7, 2008 and published in Photography | 0 Comments
The trailing lights are from the LED on the front of my external hard drive. FUN!
Written March 6, 2008 and published in Photography | 0 Comments
So today I got my new camera.
A Canon 400D (Digital Rebel XTi) DSLR. It is, in a word, AWESOME! I’m pretty crap at the moment because there are soo many variations. My first assignment is to take a picture of trailing car lights on a busy road. Then I will post up the results. I might have to fight the urge to Photoshop these images, but then again they do look better after Photoshop (or in case at the moment Adobe Lightroom).
There are photos that I took experimenting with the Macro setting. Loving the bury background with shallow depth of field. More to come soon!
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Written March 5, 2008 and published in Random | 0 Comments
For those of you who I have not told about this. Here is what to do to speed up browsing in Firefox. This will only work on broadband connections.
1. Open a new tab in firefox and type in about:config
2. In filter type pipe and you should have 3 results. Double click the top and the bottom to turn them to ‘true’ set the middle one to 20.
3. Right click anywhere on the list and select new > integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and give it a value of 0. This sets the initial delay for showing web pages to zero.
4. Right click again anywhere on the list and select new > integer. Name it browser.cache.memory.capacity and give it a value of anything above 8,192. This is the memory that firefox will use in kb so I’ve set mine to 15000 but you can set it as high as you like.
Close and restart firefox and there you go! FASTERFOX!
Written March 5, 2008 and published in Degree Stuff | 0 Comments
I have just finished creating the slides for the summative assessment. Adapting from the formative slides, a few are the same but most have been edited or completely changed. A few new sections have been added in, the most funny of which is the ‘Scenarios’ slide. Detailing a series of events about the txt alert part of our concept works. Taken in 5 minutes with a camera phone and a further 5 minutes Photoshop time, they’re not the best work I’ve done but I think the rough edges adds to the charm of the story.
Flo also wants us to create a sentence to describe our project so I might add that in to one of the first slides. The very first tag line I came up with seems to work ok in this context so here it is again.
“Real-Time Route Planner: Saving The World, One Stop At A Time”
Here is the presentation. I have to say thank you to Fraser Ferguson for stepping in last minute and being an actor for us.
Written March 5, 2008 and published in Degree Stuff | 0 Comments
I have just completed my contextual studies essay! I wrote about the peer-to-peer network and how the government has no idea what they are doing with regard to trying to shut down illegal file sharing. I left out the illegal part mostly and focused on comparing the monitoring of data to the tapping of phones and how similar legalities have to be applied to a ‘web tap(?)’ and therefore rendering it totally useless… even if it were possible in the first instance.
Feel free to view my essay here.
Written March 4, 2008 and published in Degree Stuff | 0 Comments
888888;">The following is an essay I wrote as a polemic as part of a Contextual Studies elective.
888888;">Peer To Peer is an internet distribution network allowing users to share content without using dedicated servers or utilizing bandwidth. The users share information directly with each other using a centralised ‘tracker’ which directs the relevant information to the correct recipient.
888888;">‘Such networks [contain] audio, video, data or anything in digital format, real-time data such as telephony traffic is also passed using P2P technology.’
888888;">(Wikipedia – 2008)
888888;">Many small businesses use peer-to-peer to keep distribution costs low as constant downloading from web servers results in high server costs for the client and slow download speeds for the customer.
888888;">‘10Mbps connection on a 3GHz Xeon server is priced at $324 per month.’
888888;">(www.thewhir.com/)
888888;">The VoIP telephone services such as Skype also use peer-to-peer networks to enable phone calls over the internet for free for this very reason.
888888;">So why then is there so much controversy over the use of such technologies? If there are so clearly so many benefits why is the government so adamant about stricter regulations, more stringent monitoring and new legislation meaning ISPs have to track the content? Read more…
Written March 3, 2008 and published in Degree Stuff | 0 Comments
Today started by playing around with various databases to be able to connect, retrieve data and add data. After a few teething problems (me not knowing anything) I was able to add information to a database and retrieve it. Yay.
Dave and James kindly worked out a way to simulate the journey planner. From that I was able to use the database to contain names of stations and whether they are ‘on’ or ‘off’, to show if there are delays as it would in the concept.
I introduced a form to change the status in the database to simulate a real-time update.
Then I used a lot of ‘if’ statements to display an image instead of a station name depending on the status of that station.
Here are a few screen shots.
