The Finn - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Duh? (Score 1) 443

by The Finn on Thursday May 28, 2009 @01:22PM (#28125973) Attached to: Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film

you know you're shooting with 400 speed film. throw a polaroid back with 400 speed polaroid film on your medium or large format camera, and _with the same lighting and exposure settings_ take a polaroid shot. it develops in a minute or so, and you can see if you need to adjust, how your shadows are coming out, if your framing and composition is OK, etc. it's like a very slow LCD back.

Comment Re:this is very exciting (Score 1) 135

by The Finn on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @09:05PM (#27681769) Attached to: Designing DNA Circuits To Brew Tastier Beer

you've obviously never used the whitbread (wyeast 1099) or Fuller's ESB (wyeast 1968) strains. both are incredibly flocculant.

Submission + - 10 years of pkgsrc!

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The Finn

on Monday October 29, 2007 @09:22PM

The Finn writes: "10 years ago — on October 3rd 1997 — the pkgsrc software management system was created by Alistair Crooks and Hubert Feyrer. pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection, was intended primarily as a packaging system for NetBSD. Derived from the FreeBSD Ports system, pkgsrc became a success story. Today, pkgsrc is a cross-platform framework, running on the BSDs, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, many Unix derivatives, and even on QNX and Windows. [...] We continue the anniversary celebrations with a series of interviews: developers and users of pkgsrc and of related systems give insights into the history, the concepts, the problems and the future directions of packaging systems."

Submission + - Army's and Air Force's use of drones growing fast (sybpipe.com)

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mi

on Thursday July 05, 2007 @05:56PM

mi writes: "An article on USA Today concentrates on the turf-war between Army and Air Force over the procurement and the use of the unmanned aircraft (drones) — some of them so small, they are launched by soldiers by hand. Even more interesting, however, are the sheer numbers of the devices in active use, and their growth rate."

Submission + - Slashback: AMD's deceptive Barcelona benchmarks (vnunet.com)

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pete314

on Thursday July 05, 2007 @05:32PM

pete314 writes: "AMD is denying that it posted deceptive server benchmarks on its website that were designed to make its upcoming Barcelona processor look better than Intel's quad core Xeon. Instead the company claims that it is flamed over slides that were posted earlier this year, and that were accurate at the time of publication. The chipmaker also acknowledged that the information by now has been outdated and promised to have it removed.

The controversy started with a blog posting by ZD Net's George Ou, who dismissed the undated AMD server benchmarks as deceptive for comparing a 2.66GHz Intel chip and outdated benchmark results with a 2.66GHz quad core Opteron, even though AMD will only ship a 2.0GHz model when Barcelona ships in August."

Submission + - Solaris ZFS filesystem has been ported to FreeBSD

Submitted by

Derkjan de Haan

on Saturday April 07, 2007 @11:23AM

Derkjan de Haan writes: "The Solaris ZFS filesystem has been ported to FreeBSD. Here is the commit message: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current /2007-April/070544.html"

Submission + - Canadian doctors threaten lawsuit over RateMD.com

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shadowspar

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @02:16AM

shadowspar writes: "Following in the footsteps of RateMyProfessors.com, RateMDs.com allows people to submit anonymous ratings of and comments on their doctors. Some of the comments have apparently raised the ire of the Canadian Medical Association — in addition to claiming that Canadian users could be sued for libel, they have asked for the removal of "libelous" and "defamatory" comments and for "the names and IP addresses of more than a dozen individuals" who posted them. The operator of the California-based website has refused, saying he won't surrender any information without a court order."

Submission + - Veterans Administration going to Vista

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12, 2007 @11:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: Veterans officials have put Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system, Vista, through its paces in the past nine months. De Sanno said Vista's security features are significant enough to call for an immediate agencywide upgrade.

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