Posted by Doug
Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:04:00 GMT
A friend from
#photography picked up on my interest in
PhotoContests and created a page to list all the current contests. I feel like I need some kind of reminder of what the current contest topics are. I haven’t submitted any photos to any contests yet. I really want to start doing this as an effort to improve my photographs. If you know of any good sites that run contests or know of any open contests feel free to add them to my
PhotoContests page. I’ve also setup a
Photo Contest vCalendar with the same information if you calendar program can grok that.
Thanks,
Fufie!
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Posted by Doug
Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:25:00 GMT
One of my goals for this year is to win an on-line photography contest. There are a couple sites I’ve been following:
dpchallenge,
Fred Miranda,
Worth 1000. The contests are intimidating. All of the photos are very, very good. The challenge topics are vague. I see the challenge and don’t know what to do.
I found this forum post titled
Win a Ribbon! First, it starts with the assumption that you know how to take a technically good photo. The real problem is what to photograph. This post is a good description of what separates an average photo from a prize winning photo.
For me, a life-long engineer, it’s hard to think right-brained. That’s a lot of what this photography hobby is about: stretching my artistic and creative side. So, stuff like this post is good for me.
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Posted by Doug
Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:45:00 GMT
I’ve been wrestling with my firewall last night and today. At home I use a
ThinkPad running Debian Linux and Shorewall as my firewall/router. I know I could buy a dedicated firewall/router unit for less than $100; but I really like having full control over my public network interface. For instance I use my
ThinkPad to do
VPN-like tunneling from my work.
Anyway, for some reason it quit working Thursday night. After more than a few hours of mucking with it, I finally fixed it. Turns out my shorewall configuration had
IP_FORWARDING=Keep. This told it to preserve whatever IP forwarding that had previously been configured. So apparently, my configuration had enable IP forwarding at some time outside of shorewall. I don’t know how my IP forwarding got disabled.
However, setting
IP_FORWARDING=on in my shorewall.conf fixed the problem.
As an added bonus, I got aggravated enough typing in IP addresses of my home
LAN that I finally setup an internal
DNS. It’s always bothered me typing
ssh 10.0.1.1 but never enough to actually do anything. Now I can just type
ssh gateway.
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