Day: February 14, 2008

14Feb

From Fedora to Debian

14 Feb 2008 pbenavent Leave a comment

I upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 without problems… ’till the day mplayer doesn’t run anymore. A very competent guy from Red Hat who’s working at our office told me to use livna repos … I told him about how upset I feel about livna repos vs. freshrpms repos, they both does not run very well together

I believe him and I try livna repos… then begins the show: hal-daemons stops, autorun needs hal-daemon… and don’t want to remember that hell. I know what to do: to get disable livna, also freshrpms, uninstall and reinstall hal-daemon (just in case it helps) and so on,…

Since I have been a Red Hat devoted users since Red Hat 7.2 (passing through all Red Hats 8.0, 9s, and Fedoras) I thought some other distro deserves a chance… so I keep my home and I install Debian. I also keep a server running CentOS, if you don’t know it, try it.
I’ll post more in a not too distant future but my first impression is that everything is clean, well organized, a little bit more fast, and quite different, I mean, there’s no /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ or apache configuration file is under /etc/apache2/... and also their start up script is different but, time to learn, which is always good to keep us alive

14Feb

Finally Olympus E-510

14 Feb 2008 pbenavent Leave a comment

I’ve bought a Olympus E-510 instead of E-410. There were three main reasons:

  1. Great discount plus 100€ refund from Olympus (yet waiting for it)
  2. Stabilization
  3. Grip

Grip really doesn’t make a difference but is a plus. What really decides me is the discount, it makes affordable to pay the difference and buy the camera with the stabilization

I’ve done a few photos and also I’ve attended a workshop instructed by Olympus teachers. There I’ve got the chance to use the E-3 camera (professional camera from Olympus). Olympus divide their lenses in three groups:

  • Standard Lenses: the ones that you gonna find in your kit, the one that I use, such a 14-42(1:3.5-5.6) and the 40-150(1:3.5-4.5)
  • Pro Lenses: pro stands for professional: in that workshop I test the 8mm(1:3.5 Fisheye) and the 12-60(1:2.8-4.0) with SWD (Supersonic Wave Drive)
  • Top Pro Lenses: as you may assume this are the top lenses, for professional use. I test the 7-14mm(1:4.0), and my Good! I flip with the 150mm(1:2.0) in the studio photos, even more that with the 300mm(1:2.8) outdoors.

You may see a couple of photographies at pbenavent’s Flickr, there’re just a few of them…