I saw an interview with him last night on the local news. One thing mentioned in the interview (that wasn't discussed in the article) is that a primary motivation for him to finish school so quickly was a desire not to burden his parents or himself with any debt. He has younger brothers (can't remember the exact number) and didn't want the cost of his education to negatively effect their ability to go later. I am sure he missed out on a lot of the "college experience" but with the cost of tuition nowadays, not sure I blame his desire to get it over with as quickly/cheaply as possible.
No offense, but I don't think you completely read what I wrote. There is no doubt that Camera RAW adds a lot on top off dcraw, no where did I say otherwise. My only point was that a large part of the "reverse-engineering" necessary for Camera RAW to even exist was not done by Adobe. Credit given where credit due.
While raw formats certainly allow for a great deal of flexibility during the post-process stage, I think Ken Rockwell (http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/raw.htm) has a point when he says to just shoot JPG and get it right the first time. I have thought about shooting in RAW before but have never had the time or energy to deal with it. Do whatever works for you I guess.
While I don't think your evaluation of the effects of the standard is necessarily wrong, I do think your estimate of the amount of "reverse-engineering" Adobe needed to do to support different raw formats may be off. That's because, as far as I know, much of the support for these formats is actually handled by software that Adobe didn't even write. Instead, it was written by Dave Coffin (http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/index_en.h tml) so he could edit the images from his Canon digital camera in Linux.
Actually, if you want maildir support, you don't have to go with qmail. Postfix does it as well. While I haven't used qmail so I can't compare the two, Postfix is very easy to configure and get up and running. I gave up on sendmail after two weeks when I couldn't get it do what I wanted. Postfix on the other hand took me maybe four hours to completely install and configure to my liking. It also has the same benefits of qmail from a discrete module standpoint -- definitely not the big behemoth-all-in-one that sendmail is. Anyway, check it out at here. An article that I found to be helpful when getting started was here.
I have DSL with a static IP and was planning on doing this exact same thing. The thing I can't understand is why two (or one for that matter) nameservers are required for hosting your own domain. Maybe I am just being dense, but it seems that the only reason for a local nameserver would be if I want to resolve network names internal to my network. Or is it for resolving www.mydomain and ftp.mydomain? If it is the latter, I should be able to run a mail and web server on the same machine as the nameserver, right? Then, all I need is a machine to do secondary DNS (i.e., my ISP -- for a fee of course) and I am golden... yes, no, maybe so? Are there other ways of doing this?
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Take a look at Arcade At Home. On the left hand side is a link for "Cabinet Pics". It leads you to a page that shows at least fifty people doing just what you said -- building there own arcade machine all built around a PC and an emulator (usually MAME because of the huge number of games it supports). They all use real arcade buttons and joysticks (dials and trackballs even) that are mapped to keyboard commands. Playing a machine like this that is done right would be no different that sitting in an arcade pumping quarters. If you don't want to go all out, you can just use your PC and get a good controller (not a gravis pad or sidewinder that is) like the HotRod.
The reason all the games are from Capcom is because Capcom is the only company so far to release their older video games into the public domain. All the other companies (including those who make the classic games you mentioned) haven't released their games even though they are fifteen or so years old and obviously are no longer generating revenue. If you want to play the classic games you mentioned, Ultracade is not what you want anyway, check out MAME at Vintage Gaming or Arcade At Home.
I am amazed at the continuing effort of people to push their responsibilities to others. We don't have the time or the energy to get to know the children under our care, so lets get Company X to do it for us. I don't have time to teach my children about right and wrong, so lets install blocking software to prevent them from ever seeing wrong. With all freedom comes responsibility. If people were living up to their's, there would be no need for programs like these.
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I saw an interview with him last night on the local news. One thing mentioned in the interview (that wasn't discussed in the article) is that a primary motivation for him to finish school so quickly was a desire not to burden his parents or himself with any debt. He has younger brothers (can't remember the exact number) and didn't want the cost of his education to negatively effect their ability to go later. I am sure he missed out on a lot of the "college experience" but with the cost of tuition nowadays, not sure I blame his desire to get it over with as quickly/cheaply as possible.
No offense, but I don't think you completely read what I wrote. There is no doubt that Camera RAW adds a lot on top off dcraw, no where did I say otherwise. My only point was that a large part of the "reverse-engineering" necessary for Camera RAW to even exist was not done by Adobe. Credit given where credit due.
While raw formats certainly allow for a great deal of flexibility during the post-process stage, I think Ken Rockwell (http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/raw.htm) has a point when he says to just shoot JPG and get it right the first time. I have thought about shooting in RAW before but have never had the time or energy to deal with it. Do whatever works for you I guess.
While I don't think your evaluation of the effects of the standard is necessarily wrong, I do think your estimate of the amount of "reverse-engineering" Adobe needed to do to support different raw formats may be off. That's because, as far as I know, much of the support for these formats is actually handled by software that Adobe didn't even write. Instead, it was written by Dave Coffin (http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/index_en.h tml) so he could edit the images from his Canon digital camera in Linux.
Actually, if you want maildir support, you don't have to go with qmail. Postfix does it as well. While I haven't used qmail so I can't compare the two, Postfix is very easy to configure and get up and running. I gave up on sendmail after two weeks when I couldn't get it do what I wanted. Postfix on the other hand took me maybe four hours to completely install and configure to my liking. It also has the same benefits of qmail from a discrete module standpoint -- definitely not the big behemoth-all-in-one that sendmail is. Anyway, check it out at here. An article that I found to be helpful when getting started was here.
I have DSL with a static IP and was planning on doing this exact same thing. The thing I can't understand is why two (or one for that matter) nameservers are required for hosting your own domain. Maybe I am just being dense, but it seems that the only reason for a local nameserver would be if I want to resolve network names internal to my network. Or is it for resolving www.mydomain and ftp.mydomain? If it is the latter, I should be able to run a mail and web server on the same machine as the nameserver, right? Then, all I need is a machine to do secondary DNS (i.e., my ISP -- for a fee of course) and I am golden... yes, no, maybe so? Are there other ways of doing this?
Take a look at Arcade At Home. On the left hand side is a link for "Cabinet Pics". It leads you to a page that shows at least fifty people doing just what you said -- building there own arcade machine all built around a PC and an emulator (usually MAME because of the huge number of games it supports). They all use real arcade buttons and joysticks (dials and trackballs even) that are mapped to keyboard commands. Playing a machine like this that is done right would be no different that sitting in an arcade pumping quarters. If you don't want to go all out, you can just use your PC and get a good controller (not a gravis pad or sidewinder that is) like the HotRod.
The reason all the games are from Capcom is because Capcom is the only company so far to release their older video games into the public domain. All the other companies (including those who make the classic games you mentioned) haven't released their games even though they are fifteen or so years old and obviously are no longer generating revenue. If you want to play the classic games you mentioned, Ultracade is not what you want anyway, check out MAME at Vintage Gaming or Arcade At Home.
I am amazed at the continuing effort of people to push their responsibilities to others. We don't have the time or the energy to get to know the children under our care, so lets get Company X to do it for us. I don't have time to teach my children about right and wrong, so lets install blocking software to prevent them from ever seeing wrong. With all freedom comes responsibility. If people were living up to their's, there would be no need for programs like these.