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Slow CD / DVD Burning on Dell D820

Tagged with: — ondrej at 9:53 pm on Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Larry the CowI burned a DVD on my laptop, but it took ages :( The speed was between 0.5 – 1.3x; should be 8x. Arrrgh…
I was not able to enable DMA for the writer (TS-L632D). Fortunately I found a page with a solution.
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Downloading Photos With Canon 300D

Tagged with: — ondrej at 10:29 pm on Tuesday, December 26, 2006

It is quite clear that downloading photos from a Canon 300D digital camera is very slow. It contains a USB 1 port — new cameras have a USB 2 or Firewire port or they are connected to a WiFi card.
I tested the speed of the camera (one year ago, but maybe it will be still interesting for somebody) and I compared the results to a USB 2 Hama card reader.
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Photos from Australia, the first week / Fotografie z Austrálie, prvý týždeň

Tagged with: — ondrej at 2:46 am on Sunday, December 24, 2006

I prepared a (hopefully) nice xmas present for you :) Photos from Australia.
They are from the first week there — Melbourne, The Great Ocean Road, beautiful Kangaroo Island and Grampians. Enjoy :)
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Photos from UK, mainly Isle of Wight

Tagged with: — ondrej at 1:35 am on Sunday, December 24, 2006

I added photos from our weekend trip to UK. We spent the most of the time on the Isle of Wight. (Yes, the photos are from September. Mea culpa.) I also added some photos as my best photos.

Pridal som fotografie z nášho výletu do Anglicka. Najviac času sme strávili na Isle of Wight. (Áno, fotografie sú zo septembra. Mea culpa.) Taktiež som pridal zopár fotografií do výberu najlepších fotografií.

Back from Australia and New Zealand / Späť z Austrálie a Nového Zélandu

Tagged with: — ondrej at 5:10 pm on Saturday, December 23, 2006

I am at home already two weeks, but I did not have time to add any new post here. I was really tired first week, I slept everywhere. And the last week… I tried to pick out the best photos… and preparing xmas presents, of course :)
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Trip to Australia and New Zealand / Cesta do Australie a Nového Zélandu

Tagged with: — ondrej at 11:05 am on Friday, November 3, 2006

Yeah, we are leaving in 30 minutes :) 4 weeks in Australia and one week in New Zealand. I hope I will have time to upload some photos and write a few lines about our trip.

See you soon :)

Heh, o 30 minút odchádzame :) 4 týždne v Austrálii a jeden na Novom Zélande. Dúdam, že budem mať čas dať na web zopár fotiek a napísať pár riadkov z našej cesty.

Tak čoskoro :)

Preparing photos for a web photo album

Tagged with: — ondrej at 12:02 am on Monday, October 30, 2006

A few tips how to prepare photos for a web photo album:

  1. Make a copy of the picture that you would like to have on web. The following steps include instructions that will irreversibly change your photos.
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My best photos / Moje najlepšie fotografie

Tagged with: — ondrej at 11:29 pm on Sunday, October 29, 2006

A few days ago, I added a new “on the top of this page” link to my best photos . I hope you will enjoy them :)

Pred pár dnami som pridal novú linku (na začiatku tejto stránky) na moje najlepšie fotografie. Dúfam, že sa vám budú páčiť :)
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Ruby, DRb and Gentoo

Tagged with: — ondrej at 5:36 pm on Friday, October 27, 2006

Larry the CowThere can be a problem with the DRb system in Ruby on Gentoo and the IPv6 support.

If an application with DRb does not work and its error message is:

  1. Exception `SocketError’ at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:840 – getnameinfo: ai_family not supported
  2. /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:840:in `getaddrinfo’: getnameinfo: ai_family not supported (SocketError)

then it is necessary to re-compile the ruby package with the ipv6 support, even you did not compile the IPv6 support into your kernel (or it is compiled as a module but it is not loaded).
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Distributed Ruby

Tagged with: — ondrej at 5:26 pm on Friday, October 27, 2006

I am creating a prototype of a distributed application written in Ruby. Ruby 1.8 already contains the DRb framework, as a system for a communication of different Ruby processes, and the Rinda system too, as a naming service.
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