Month: August 2019
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Setting up a second swap partition for Linux [1]
In my last post I waxed lyrical about the merits of the Linux file system and how it is possible to have two swap partitions. Today I am setting up just that in my computer. It has an existing SSD with 100 GB available for swap, and due to an upgrade on the other computer,…
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Linux has the best filesystem ever 🙂
I’ve been in the IT industry for something like 30 years (longer if I was to include the time in my secondary education) and in that time I have used a few operating systems, starting with Apple DOS 3.3, UCSD P-System, CP/M, Acorn MOS, Macintosh System 6/7, Netware, MS-DOS, Windows (since 3.1), macOS and Linux.…
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Tamron AF 70-300 Di LD telephoto lens for Canon EF-M?
UPDATE: Since first writing this I discovered I can get the EF-EOS M adapter from Canon for $199. Although having to add this to the camera won’t really help to make adding lenses to the EOS-M affordable, it would give me the option to use the telephoto lens from my existing EOS 600D with the…
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Python Scripting [6D]: Layer Sidecar Duplication & Renaming for NZ Rail Maps 4
Since we last looked at this topic a couple of months have gone by with everything working as expected when the duplicate script is used, both for duplicating sidecar files for layers that are the same size as the original and ones where the destination layer has been increased in size. The former is the…
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Python Scripting [4D]: Exif Based Image Renaming 4
After testing the Exif renaming script for the past couple of weeks I have added a piece of code to check for collisions and rename any file that collides with an existing filename. With Exif data, the most likely cause of a filename collision is when a camera is set to shoot continuously and it…