On my return from work today I managed to get some shots that I’ve wanted for a while. These would be awesome as an HDR but I didn’t have my tripod so maybe another time!
Lewis
Archive for January, 2009
Winter Sun
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Morning <_<
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Gutted. I was up at 7:30 this morning to see if I could get out and get a sun rise shot. Every day I drive past great sunrises on my way to work and thought I’d get up early on Saturday to get one. I get up, take a look out of the window and see a bit of blue sky on the horizon so I thought I’d get dressed and venture out. What a waste of time! 
No sooner had I walked out of the door, a load of clouds shot over the horizon and promptly rained on my parade, literally
Maybe next time!
Lewis
Wordpress only offers full size image on upload
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
I host my own Fedora 10 server that I use for this blog and recently noticed that when I uploaded photos using the Photo Uploader, they were not resized and I was not offered a thumbnail, medium or large size, only ever the full size. I investigated to see what the problem might be and it seems that Fedora isn’t shipped with php-gd installed by default so image resizing simply doesn’t work.
As root, a quick:
yum install php-gd
service httpd restart
did the trick and my images are now resized properly at upload time!
If you find you can’t upload at all, something to check is that the apache user has relevant permissions to your upload folder!
Lewis
Morning Moon
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009I didn’t manage to get a shot yesterday, a server failure at work meant I didn’t get home until late on! Alas, here’s today’s photo.
Lewis
Scarborough Castle
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Hugs Bear
Sunday, January 11th, 2009A photo for Kym. The teddy she got for me on our first Valentine’s Day together. I Love You Kym. x
HDR Type R
Saturday, January 10th, 2009I decided to get out and buy that Sigma lens today and while my girlfriend was in the shower I took this shot. It’s an HDR image so taken at various exposures and merged to produce this:
-Lewis
Disabling NetworkManager
Friday, January 9th, 2009
I found NetworkManager to be a bit too big for its boots in Fedora 10 and it gave me absolutely no control over my resolv.conf, overwriting it every time I so much as thought of doing anything with my network interfaces which infuriated me so much that I chose to totally remove it from my system. My /etc/inittab is set to 3 so that it doesn’t boot Gnome and hence is pretty useless to me.
If you want to disable NetworkManager in Fedora 10, there’s two ways you can do it:
yum remove NetworkManager
Which totally removes it. Or you can just disable it:
chkconfig --level 35 NetworkManager off
Now, once you’ve disabled NetworkManager you might find that when you boot your system, none of the interfaces will start automatically and you have to call ifup eth0 every time you reboot. Bit of a pain right?
NetworkManager used to be responsible for bringing the interfaces up but now it’s disabled so you need to put something in its place. The default network service in Fedora is disabled by default (that job is supposed to be done better by NetworkManager) so once you’ve disabled NetworkManager, you need to re-enable network:
chkconfig --level 35 network on
Et voila!
A reboot now should allow all interfaces configured to ONBOOT=yes, to actually boot at start automatically.
-Lewis
