April 2009 Archives

Recently i purchased Canon PowerShot S3-IS. Its a good camera but lacks raw picture format support in it. But now i find a way to get the raw support in my camera. CHDK Firmware is now available for some Canon P&S digital cameras. This firmware hack supports the following features:

If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for more expensive SLRs. That includes live histograms, depth-of-field calculation, under and overexposure highlighting, and -- best of all -- shooting your pictures in RAW. The secret is CHDK, an enhanced, free software replacement firmware.

In this post we present useful photographic techniques, tutorials and resources for various kinds of photography. You’ll learn how to set up the perfect environment and what techniques, principles and rules of thumbs you should consider when shooting your next perfect photo. This round-up isn’t supposed to be the ultimate one – please feel free to suggest more useful articles in the comments to this post.

There are several important decisions for organizations preparing to migrate from Network Information Service (NIS) or NIS+ to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Similar yet simpler challenges are experienced by organizations that are embracing LDAP as a naming service for the first time.

I spent a fair amount of time debugging a bizarre net-snmp issue yesterday, and learned a TON about how net-snmp is implemented. While reading through the net-snmp code, I came across a number of macros similar to the following: DEBUGMSGTL((”mibII/udpScalar”, “Initialising UDP scalar group\n”)); The first argument to the DEBUGMSGCTL() macros contains a token name, which can be passed to the snmpd daemon’s “-D” option to get verbose debugging data

The problem? Not only is there no indication that any crime was committed, the investigating officer argued that the computer expertise of the student itself supported a finding of probable cause to seize the student's property.

The challenge isn't creating the heat; it's engineering a bacon structure strong enough to withstand the stress of a 5,000°F bacon plasma flame.

This is the thirteenth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lectures twenty and twenty-one on parallel algorithms. These lectures cover the basics of multithreaded programming and multithreaded algorithms.

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