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Stuff people say to photographers

2012-02-08T08:06:39Z

I am not even a full-time photographer, but lots of these things sounds lank familiar. I just had to share this video. It´s all about the typical stuff people say to you when you do photography.

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Crowd Accelerated Innovation

2011-11-27T20:40:59Z

Just ignore the evolution part, but the rest of the talk is really great. Check it out!

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Why are you here

2011-11-26T09:27:24Z

Just a shoutout to any visitors. I know I am really supposed to update this site a little more, but my life is just so hectic for the last couple of months, I really did not have time to do it. The funny thing is, I have noticed the site is getting lots and lots of visitors, and most of the traffic comes from people browsing with Firefox. (Amen!) I don´t know if it´s because of the linux tips that I have that everybody comes here, but it kinda strange. I want to ask you, how did you get here and whate were you looking for? Would you be so kind to send me a message on the contact page and let me know? Thanks!

This site is pulling so much traffic, I am going to put some adsense ads up.

The ultimate way to clone a disk with Linux

2011-04-25T19:26:42Z

Note to self. use dd to clone a mounted live linux operating system.

Primary drive is internal and secondary us external USB for intance:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024000

The destination drive must be bigger or identical size. If you are moving to a larger size drive, then create identical partitions eg sda1, sda5 and sda6. (thrUse dralconfix etc to see how partitions are setup or run mount from shell.)

then run the following commands:

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=102400
dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/dev/sdb5 bs=102400
dd if=/dev/sda6 of=/dev/sdb6 bs=102400

Took less than 60 minutes cloning 80Gig to 120 Gig external. When disk was placed in laptop, it booted up perfectly. i am now working on it.

IMPORTANT. If you are moving to bigger partitions, remember that dd made an exact clone, and the filesystems on the new drive will still think they are the old size.

use df -h to check this. When I ran the command the first time, the old sizes were reported.

after resizing, this is what mine looked like:

Filesystem            Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              20G   12G 7.1G 62% /
/dev/sda6              86G   48G   38G 56% /home
tmpfs                 948M     0 948M   0% /dev/shm

For example, the /dev/sda1 which is the root partition reported 12G size and only 35MB free. Synaptic did not want to install any new stuff, and that is why. It was still thinking it´s on the smaller drive.

I had to resize those partitions to the correct size, by using resize2fs /dev/sda1 20G

After doing both sda1 and sda6, all space was allocated and I could go on and install the new packages with synaptic with no further problems because I had 7.1 G free.

NOTE: I only told the partitions their actual size by doing this, because they still thought they were small partitions due to dd making such a complete clone. So don´t think if you resize a partition into a size you don´t have that there will appear some magical extra space.

Something for the geeks

2011-04-24T20:01:40Z

It was once said that real programmers code in COBOL. I watched Tron Legacy last night. It was good. They showed some linux commanline, which is offcourse an instant recipe to look super geeky and realistic if you make a movie. Anyways, I am sick in bed, and found this on the net.

If you call yourself a programmer, and maybe a hacker, or a geek, then you have to read this.

About World Cups, Madiba and Invictus

2010-06-11T14:50:55Z

I just watched the movie by Clint Eastwood, Invictus. If you have not seen it and you are South African, then you better get it. If your are not a South African, I am sure you will still find it amazing. Morgan Freeman and Matt Daemon are two A grade actors and they did an amazing job with this film. I am inspired. The movie did trigger a thought process, and I watched it deliberately on the day the FIFA World Cup started.

How to sort many photos into folder names according to date

2010-05-30T15:36:50Z

So there I sat with about 700 photos in one folder, all unsorted and oddly named, some with spaces in the names and some with no EXIF data at all. I could not find a quick solution on Google, so resorted to creating my own.

Everything is Okay!

2010-02-04T01:01:49Z

Somebody sent me an email with a link to this video during the night. Not sure if it was a kind of spam, but this is certainly the best spam I've seen. I just had to share this:

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Movie: Faith Happens

2009-12-05T02:38:28Z

We watched a movie last night called Faith Happens produced by Side by Side productions.

I don't want to do a full on review of the movie, but I did have some thought about it and want to share it here.

All in all, I think the movie is awesome and the true life stories of those people are gripping. Almost anybody can associate with that.

Here's some constructive comments from my side to the Producers:

Moving Contacts data from one PDA to another

2009-09-18T03:07:45Z

As some of you know, I have been using a HTC-Universal (Actually Imate-Jasjar) for some time. At a stage, I tried various flavours of Linux on it including openmoko etc. It turned out that the guys have not put so much into development, and so I unfortunately hed to fall back on Windows Mobile 5. Recently, I upgraded and got a shiny HTC Touch Pro2, or Rhodium as some people call it. I sat with the daunting task of moving my gazillion messages and contacts to the new phone.