things that only i could care about

Lightroom roundup

I’m sure it’s not possible to own a Mac, shoot in RAW format and not have heard of Adobe’s Lightroom software by now, and there’s no way I’m going to attempt a review when others have had preview releases for months. What I will say is that if you do run OS X 10.4.x [...]

OS X 10.4.4 and Canon EOS 350D RAW files

As has already been noted, OS X 10.4.4 now supports non-US EOS 350D cameras: I’ve confirmed the European variant, and TK has commented that the Japanese model is also supported.
Greg Tebbut sent me an extract of the Raw.plist file, which shows that simple name based aliasing of cameras has now been addressed:
<key>Canon-EOS Kiss Digital N</key> [...]

revised ssh/ipf blocking on netbsd

Update 08jan06 @ 08:05: After sending this link to Hubert he came back with a change to get the sed lines inside the shell, so I’ve updated the post to reflect this as it’s a far neater solution.

Ok, I couldn’t resist the challenge after Hubert blogged about my pop-before-smtp script, so here’s my rather ugly [...]

fun with pop-before-smtp and ipf on netbsd

I’ve not bothered with POP before SMTP authentication before but since v1.38 the script can take an optional config file that allows it to watch different log files in an easily customised fashion, which is great as I was wondering what the most efficient way of blocking automated ssh attempts was. I didn’t want [...]

moderation backlog

My sincere apologies to both Kyle and Phil who left comments weeks ago that were pending approval: it seems as though the email that should have notified me that comments were waiting was swallowed whole and never made it to me, but I shall check things more regularly in future. And here I thought [...]