Change in the wind

I haven’t been exactly that active writing this blog but hoping to get more active at that. Anyways, though that it would be good to update visual theme of the blog to get more clear view of content. New visual theme of this blog is called DePo Masthead and persons behind it are Derek Powazek and Noel Jackson.

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Best Photo Organizer?

Lifehacker writes asking what would be best tool for getting your photos in order. What it would be? I have been using different ways and software to do things depending on what kind of computer I find myself using. I have photos in portable hard drive so I can edit them at different computers.

I mostly use directory structure like this:
Photos –> 2007-01-28 –> name-of-event

As for software, I find Adobe Bridge quite nice. While it lacks some things compared to more advanced photo library managers, it’s still very good tool especially when using build-in Adobe Camera RAW Converter to tune photos to better.

Some people (including one contact who is doing advertising photography) recommend Aperture over Lightroom because of much better image quality but I haven’t had opportunity to test both with same RAW image files. Should try, if I get possibility to have some time with some Mac.

Picasa looks nice but I haven’t used it much because I find easier to have directory-based photo library instead of collection-based. Maybe that is just because I have really big amount of photos. For some people, XnView could be useful tool for organizing smaller collections of photos (it even has build-in RAW converter). Anyway, I would recommend to try different tools to find what is best for each task.

Little bit more about things to do with photos.

Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget to Do

Tom Adelstein writes about mistakes that many system administrators do when they forget to do important things. Some would say other things, but here is his list:

1. Forgetting to Delete a Former User’s Account
2. Forgetting to Regularly Search for Rootkits
3. Forgetting to Use a Trouble Ticket Tracking System
4. Forgetting to Set Up Technical Documentation and Creating a Knowledge Base
5. Forgetting the Risks of Flash Memory Drives
6. Forgetting to Manage Partial Root Access
7. Forgetting Courtesy

Article has more details together with examples of mistakes. Read it and learn how things could be done better.

Don’t be afraid, Linux isn’t just for geeks

USA TODAY columnist Andrew Kantor writes about his experiences of trying Ubuntu Linux.