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"Why digital camera sensors don't need to be big" by Tony

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:40:51 +0000

Well Said Ariel. All makes perfect sense to me and the other message boarders. The same can not be said of the author of this column. Where I come from ‘Rambling’ does mean a BSer so he has aptly named himself as right Rambler here :D.

"Why digital camera sensors don't need to be big" by Ariel

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:32:47 +0000

after all this puzzling, the simple logic- the amount of light depends on your lens diameter. with the FF sensor,all gathered light falls on the sensor which covers the spacial andle, divided by your f number

With the APC sensor, only the cropped amount of light falls on the cropped sensor, divided by your f number, resulting in the same energy on the sensor per steradian of angular coverage in both cases

FF lenses are not slower assuming identical sensor sensitivites.

"More fcgi" by mmo

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:53:28 +0000

So you solved the gcc bug?

"Why digital camera sensors don't need to be big" by Mark

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:23:36 +0000

What a load of rubbish. A small sensor is simply a cropped version of a full frame. The narrow field of view therefore acts like a magnified focal length. However, this makes nigh on any difference to the f stop of the lens being used. The reason why the concept of F Stop multiplier is not accepted is because it isn’t true. What a load of rubbish. Trying to make your theory hold with the teleconverter impacts is not correct because a smaller sensor is simply a cropped effect and not really a focal multiplier. Back to school for you me thinks.

"Trac setup" by Anime News

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:05:28 +0000

I’ve been using it with SQLite… But with this handy tutorial maybe it’s time to move to postgres :)

Thanks mate.

"SMS alert system" by Jack Morley

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:47:25 +0000

Have a look at www.totext.net as well. I’ve been usign these guys for some time now to do the same sort of this – server alerting and whatnot – must admit that they’ve been great for me so far :)

"Trac setup" by Sean Tierney

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:21:04 +0000

Graham, thanks for the tutorial. For a truly “it just works” setup experience check out the JumpBox for Trac/SVN-> http://www.jumpbox.com/jumpbox-for-tracsubversion-software-project-management

1min install and fully portable.

sean

"Software for Python presentations" by andre.roberge@gmail.com

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:10:49 +0000

Have you looked at Crunchy?

http://code.google.com/p/crunchy

if you prepare your slides with ReST and convert to html, then it’s a simple task to add markup to identify doctests or other code that could be run by Python – right in your browser.

"Software for Python presentations" by Dalius

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:30:50 +0000

I agree with you that ReST is the key here. You can use pygments for code highlighting (you just need to google for ReST directive). I think it is not very hard to make slides using ReST (I think people already do that – the ones who shown their presentations using FireFox or similar Mozilla based browser must use ReST for this task).

I agree with previous commenter – we are waiting for your presentation from EuroPython :)

"Shared sign-on across web applications" by Qiang

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:39:07 +0000

your comment on mod_auth_tkt ‘Unfortunately it still doesn’t allow you to redirect users when authorization is required.’ is wrong.

you can specify a mod_auth_tkt directive in apache conf file like the following:

TKTAuthLoginURL http://www.example.com/login

which will redirect user to login if the url is protected.