Cokin Hitech GND comparisson

Saturday, December 20, 2008 18:59
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After quite a few adventures between among GND filters and while my searches did not reveal much information regarding the potential differences among the GND filters (Lee and Singh-ray I assume cannot be compared here, since they are glass filters and the quality –and price- is top notch).Since I had more spare time, I moved on performing a few tests with both filters and additionally my new whibal grey card (used for WB settings while shooting).

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CakePHP and complex models

Thursday, December 4, 2008 14:15
Posted in category CakePHP
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How many times have you wondered how to bind together complex under ?
is powerfull framework which allows you to quickly and efficiently compile large projects in a snap of your fingers! It has a powerful structure which allows you to efficiently manage your data in the desired “layering” of the pattern.
One of the most powerful aspects of is the abillity to manage complex model associations such as hasOne, hasMany, belongsTo, hasAndBelongsToMany relations, this asscociations allow you to pull data from Join tables and attach “remote” on the fly to your current working model.
For example if you are working on a User model this model could easily be attached a Post model which in turn could be easily attached to a Tag model and the story goes on. Since my intentions in this post is not to analyze the internals of nor to introduce it to you (I believe the site covers all of the above in a very nice and human readable way…). My intensions in this posting is to discuss possible solutions and methods of solving problem when complex model associations are involved in a project.
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Back Online

Thursday, July 17, 2008 13:30
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After a short problem with our webserver we are back online, we apologize for the delay! :)
More posts coming soon! :)

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ArchLinux + SMP + X64 + Flash

Thursday, May 29, 2008 13:35
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So allot of you are experiencing problems with and architecture (I suppose you have installed for the system following the official Arch wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Flash_on_Arch64 ).



But yet even if everything went fine during the installation you experience problems such as the player dissapears after visiting enabled sites, or various crash messages in your dmesg queue.
I had to look around only to realise that the default nspluginwrapper package has a bug with SMP enabled kernels. So if you are using such a kernel and you are experiencing problems with player, please proceed uninstalling the installed nspluginwrapper and the nspluginwrapper-ubuntu package:

pacman -Rs nspluginwrapper 
pacman -S nspluginwrapper-ubuntu
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Compiz under Archlinux with NVIDIA 9500M GS

Monday, May 26, 2008 10:38
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So you got your new laptop with the new GeForce 9500M GS and you want to run Compiz?
After you have your server configured (If you haven’t already check the following article: http://pestilence.insert.gr/installing-archlinux-on-acer-aspire-7720g/ ) and ready for then you can proceed.
Before you proceed with installing or configuring anything from this, it would be wise to logout from your X session.
For this card (nvidia 9500M GS) nvidia’s 169.12 driver version (available in official repository) work just fine, them and them (check previous link).
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Installing ArchLinux on Acer Aspire 7720G

Sunday, May 25, 2008 18:46
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7720 specs:

  • Intel Core 2 DUO T9300 @ 2.5GHz
  • 4096MB DDR2
  • GeForce 9500M GS - 512MB
  • SATA 320GB Drive
  • Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
  • Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG
  • Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
  • DVD+/-RW Recorder / BluRay Reader combo drive

Installation

I went with the x86_64 Installation (which I also recommend, since this is a Core 2 DUO processor supporting architecture, and additionally includes 4GB of RAM which under 32bit operating systems requires tweaking).
After installing the bare system (download Image from site) I started installing the necessary tools for my hardware support.
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