Xarg blog Archive

I spent the afternoon preparing myself psychically to stick my clumsy fingers into my digital camera. I bought the eclipse solution (pure methanol I think), the pec-pads, the spatula (no Wendy's here in london) and finally worked up the nerve to risk destroying my favorite toy. All in the interest of getting rid of a little dust.

In the process of figuring out how to clean the camera myself I ran across the best article summing up the joys of owning a DSLR camera.

On the plus side, the Boots down the street has a Fuji Frontier 370 now and can make reasonable prints for 15p (about $.22) each, with a second set half price. I am actually finally getting some of the photos I never took the time print and am finding I like having them on paper rather than just in the computer.

I realized while cleaning out my office that as best I can tell it has been 10 years since I first installed linux. I found my slackware 1.0.2 boot floppy (the other 40 floppies got tossed some time ago), which was released in Septemeber 1993. I think it was installed on a box with a 20MHz 386 and a 80MB seagate st296n. I had used SCO Unix before that (Oh, the shame) and still remember being amazed at how much easier it was to install than SCO and that all the things I remember from BSD were there and just worked.