Darren Watt

Holga Lens on Nikon D50, Southsea, Portsmouth

Darren — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:59:58 +0000

Took a while to get used to the small amount of manual focus available, been a long time since I've had to gauge exposure settings too. Still haven't worked out how to change aperture, putting it in aperture priority mode means it doesn't release the shutter. Full manual can't change aperture. Will look into it…

In album Holga Lens Testing, Southsea (25 photos)

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Embarking on clean install of Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and XBMC

Darren — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:17:04 +0000

I've been running on the XBMClive 10.04 since I got the HP Microserver, and for one reason or another it won't let you do a dist-upgrade. A few things have been irritating me about the install, like no reason at all blank video output after a few weeks uptime – so now there's a new Ubuntu LTS release it seems like a good time to upgrade.

Question is, which way do I go… install 12.04 server and then XBMC on top, 12.04 Desktop + XBMC, or the XBMCbuntu 11.0 ISO. Anyone done the upgrades recently?

http://xbmc.org/download/
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The Iron Lady – See

Darren — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:40:00 +0000

http://beta.2statereviews.com/movie/display/71688
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2StateReviews – The Iron Lady
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

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Melancholia – Don’t See

Darren — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:38:39 +0000

http://beta.2statereviews.com/movie/display/62215
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2StateReviews – Melancholia
Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer S…

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Heat – See

Darren — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:11:42 +0000

http://beta.2statereviews.com/movie/display/949
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2StateReviews – Heat
Obsessive master thief McCauley leads a crack crew on various military-style heists across L.A. while equally obsessive detective Hanna tracks him. Each man recognizes and respects the other's ability…

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Sniper Reloaded – Don’t See

Darren — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:53:46 +0000

http://beta.2statereviews.com/movie/display/58767
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2StateReviews – Sniper: Reloaded
Brandon Beckett (Collins), the son of the previous Sniper film's star Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger), takes up the mantle set by his father and goes on a mission of his own.

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Crysis 3

Darren — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:22:42 +0000

Crysis3 Minimum Requirements - Not your laptop

Minimum System Requirements: Computers that don’t exist for another 20 years?
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Download Crysis 3 Limited Edition – EA

Features: PRE-ORDER ON ORIGIN AND GET THE OVERKILL PACK AND UPGRADE TO CRYSIS 3: HUNTER EDITION AS A BONUS! ORIGIN PRE-ORDER OVERKILL PACK: • Overkill Pack – Includes the base game, all Hunter Edition…

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Set up first fully fledged EC2 instance for testing our apps today

Darren — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:54:46 +0000

Good start, and very interesting to see how this progresses…

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Holga Lens Testing on Nikon D50

Darren — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:01:48 +0000

This afternoon I excitedly unpacked my new Holga lens which came from the far east, using eBay. £12 is a bargain for anything that attaches to a camera, just takes a bit of time to get here.

A Holga lens is basically a plastic lens to make your expensive camera take rubbish pictures, like the ‘fairly’ successful smartphone camera app, Instagram, but without the technology. You end up with fairly fuzzy shots, darkened edges and a general retro look to the shots.

Only took a few shots since its apparent right off the bat that this thing needs A LOT of light, since the aperture is very small. Ideally I need a sunny day to test this thing out properly, but it’s Spring, it’s England, so it’s constantly raining.

Anyway – the few shots so far are here if you’re interested.
Holga Lens testing on a Nikon D50

Restricting your development Apache webserver to local access only

Darren — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:05:16 +0000

Easiest and quickest way to do this is to change ports.conf so that it contains:
Listen 127.0.0.1:80
… followed by a service restart.