The August 2010 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Research, Writing, Typography, and Design using Linux and presented by Rob Oaks.
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I made two photographs on my way back from Salt Lake City last night. I was leaving a friend’s house after dropping off some items for the SLLUG meeting tomorrow night. While descending the avenues, I passed by Memory Grove near 9th Avenue where I stopped for an amazing sunset.
Here are several. The first two are the pictures I made last night and were made on my Nikon D300 camera. The first is looking out at Antelope Island to the West with my Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 G ED lens and the second is a view of the Utah state capital and the sunset taken with my Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8 DX Fisheye. (All images Copyright © Marc Christensen, All rights reserved.)
Spent an evening in downtown Provo with Michelle and some other models getting some great shots in before sunset last month. A mix of blue skies and overcast made for an interesting day with a variety of shooting conditions. Thanks to Michelle Steph and the others who made the event. I’ve posted a few images from that shoot along with this one.
My first use of the new Adobe Lightroom 3 film-grain simulation. I really like the texture and feel it gives the photo. It adds depth and character to black and white images. In the future, I’ll be taking a look at using it with cross-processed images to enhance the faded photo on film look. Stephanie is always a great model to work with.
This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on content/web filtering with Dan’s Guardian and presented by Kerry Cox, CIO, Mountain Medical.
From dansguardian.org:
“DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.
DansGuardian is designed to be completely flexible and allows you to tailor the filtering to your exact needs. It can be as draconian or as unobstructive as you want. The default settings are geared towards what a primary school might want but DansGuardian puts you in control of what you want to block.”
With the latest round in the Adobe vs. Apple, Adobe has responded with ads in the Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Times and also posted an open letter to Apple in which it outlines what it believes are the “rights” of individuals reguarding the web and who controls (or doesn’t, or shouldn’t rather) it. If you missed it a couple weeks ago I posted my thoughts on what I feel the real reason for Apple not wanting flash on the iPhone and iPad are here in “Steve Jobs’ thoughts on flash and the Real reason there’s no flash on iPhone” continue reading…
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Revisiting your photography archives, weeks, months or even years later will help you find great shots overlooked in the initial review.
A lesson we often learn in life the hard way is that contentment from everyday objects is fairly ephemeral. Things come and go, ice cream cones occasionally end up on the side walk. As we learn from one of the greatest movies ever made, The Princes Bride, we all must “Get used to appointment”. On the other hand, there are times in life when we are presented with opportunities and happiness which we should grab immediately, like when I found I had taken this picture of Matthew and Nate, taken nearly 3 years ago while browsing my photo archives.
The Salt Lake Linux Users Group is looking for a presenter for this month’s meeting. The preferred topic is filtering and proxying using Dan’s Guardian on Linux.
Looking over the stats for the last few years, it’s interesting to see what the most popular posts have been. Here’s the top 5:
I definitely need to write more technology related posts. I have a few drafts that I’ve been working on related to some DIY projects I’ve worked on including some detailed posts on moding a T-Amp, and designing a power supply for it and some wood working projects I’ve done. Hopefully I’ll find some time to publish them this summer.
Engadget covers Steve Jobs’ latest “Open Letter” on flash here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-publishes-some-thoughts-on-flash-many-many-thou/ in which he covers various reasons for Apple’s stance on flash.
(In a related note, they’re stance on “lower quality” from third-party tools completely is bogus. I’ve seen plenty of crappy applications grace their store that crash regularly and are *completely* lame.)
In my opinion, the so-called reasons are all secondary and meant as a smoke screen to hide the real reason Apple doesn’t want flash on the iPhone or iPad. I’ll explain what I believe that reason to be here: continue reading…
This month’s meeting will be on Networks security with Wireshark and some other tools, possibly scanrand and Nmap. Craig Kelly has volunteered to do the presentation. We’ll have a small private network with a few systems and a hub running as well as the wireless network. We’ll follow and analyze IRC traffic and some other protocols as well.
Tonight’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be an introduction to Mono. See the mono-project for more information.
After a month off, we’re starting off the 2010 year for the Salt Lake Linux Users Group with a meeting on Hudson, an extensible continuous integration server, presented by Stephen Shaw of Novell.
Hello everyone!
This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be an introduction to Linux and a basic overview of what it is. It will be a great opportunity to invite people who would like to know about what Linux is and get started. Please bring some people you would like to introduce to Linux.
For this month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting I’ll be presenting on SUSE Studio. The announcement follows:
Our Aug., 2009 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting is this Wednesday. Nilson Beebe will present on a new math library and decimal arithmetic. We decided to postpone last months topic till this month so no one missed his great talk. Should be very informative.
The June 17, 2009 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Blender a free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GPL presented by Christian Horn.
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This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will about a consumer Network Attached Storage device.
This month’s meeting will be presented on Parrot by Stephen Weeks:
Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic languages and a very nice set of compiler tools. I’ll be walking through the steps of implementing a compiler for Parrot from the ground up, using scheme as an example.
