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Some of the photos I take, to get the subject large enough in the frame I have to use electronic zoom. I don't have money for a nice zoom lens. I tried using an adapter for one of Dad's zoom lenses but it sometimes gives me issues. So I use a 4x zoom - which basically cuts off 3/4 of my sensor then expands the picture to full size (I guess by some sort of averaging math to create the discarded pixels)

Is there anything I can do in post to get some of that resolution back - even if it made up. I am a Linux user, so a workflow in GIMP would be great, or any other Free/Libre software you might suggest?

(Solved) This will be used in CLI mode to do some tiny programming and text file note-taking. Having WiFi would be nice. The price has got to be CHEAP. ARM is ok.

OP decided to kill windows on the Timberborn machine and go with Debian.

root@cube:~# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 116G 41G 70G 37% /

Is it time to clean up?

I have developed an 'esoteric' programming language - Floating Point Tiny !

You may have seen "Tiny" in Haiku Depot. Floating Point Tiny is a big brother to Tiny - replacing integer line numbers with double sized floating point line numbers, and doing math and comparisons in a double width floating point stack.

Floating Point Tiny is an RPN based language. You can find the C source and the manual at:

https://github.com/pentalive/FPTiny

To the kind person who put Tiny in the Depot for me - do you want to do it again?

Floating Point Tiny is an RPN based esoteric language and is the big brother to Tiny (an integer version.) The source and documentation are available at https://github.com/pentalive/FPTiny

"Floating Point Tiny" does not quite roll off the tongue as well I would like. A better name would be appreciated.

Updates - Formatting, one more small information.

I have been hunting documentation and trying things in my .emacs file for 2 days now..

The type of message that appears at the bottom of the screen, one example is "Save the file ? (y,n,! ...." On my system it is dark blue on black. Also "Modified buffers exist..." dark blue on black - hard to read. What face is that?

Here is what I have tried so far:

(custom-set-faces
  '(mode-line ((t (:foreground "white" :background "blue" :weight bold))))
  '(warning ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(error ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(success ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(default ((t (:foreground "white" :background "black"))))
  '(minibuffer-prompt ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(shadow ((t (:foreground "yellow"))))
  '(completions-common-part ((t (:foreground "yellow"))))
  '(completions-first-difference ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(default ((t (:foreground "white" :background "black"))))
 )

describe-face for another prompt with the same coloring says it is the default face. So I tried changing that from the M-x prompt but that turned my screen white on yellow.

The mode-line line works - my active mode line is white on blue.

Does it matter that I am running emacs in a tty instead of the GUI version?

[Solved Empirically] I have loaded this up on my machine and I seem to be getting good frame rates, but I am working under Fluxbox, a really light weight window manager. I would like to run KDE instead. It's a little heavier. Will that make a difference to Minecraft? Will minecraft work better if I am running with a server on another machine? (logic would say that with some portion of the work happening on that other machine the client should not need as much processing power)

Or is it just useless to worry about all this?

--Update Ok, I have re-installed the machine on KDE and tried it both against a server and a local game and both seem to run just fine, just an occasional double place but not a big deal.

I have a machine who's mission is to run FreeDOS. It will do this most of the time, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to get it connected to a modern network to transfer DOS files out to my 'production machine' If DOS is like Windows the system clock ticks local time, but usually Linux likes UTC time - so this may be an issue that needs resolving too.

UPDATE - For now I have Debian in multi-user mode. I have set Grub to remember what I chose last so reboots from FreeDOS are hands free after ctrl-alt-del (Just like if FreeDOS were the only OS here) I have set the clock in Debian to run on the local timezone too, Thanks over_clox. Please continue to recommend your favorite distro.

I was attempting to capture the full moon tonight using my Canon EOS R50 mounted on a tripod. I had a telephoto lens attached to the camera via a Canon adapter, as this lens was originally designed for my father's Canon Digital Rebel and had an incompatible mount for the R50.

While zoomed in on the moon to fill the frame, I observed an unexpected behavior: the camera appeared to automatically zoom the image back out. I was under the impression that the camera itself lacked the capability to adjust the zoom setting, but the viewfinder clearly indicated a change in magnification

Update: In case it is important, the lens has image stabilization built in, but I have it turned off as it lets me set focus and recompose better.

I am thinking of starting a project and I am looking to see if there is any interest. This will be an interpreted language that is very much like the language used in the HP41C, except you get labels to jump to (to avoid needing to renumber as one does in BASIC) and named variables instead of registers. The interpreter would interpret text source code directly, and would be capable of producing textual and numeric output

It will be a pretty big undertaking and I would rather only do it if there was a 'market' for it. The program will be distributed under an open source license.

Anyone?

(Solved) by going to a one display only setup, needed the 2nd monitor for other things.

What causes spurious random lines between rows of characters in Konsole or other terminal emulators? The lines go away if one simply moves the window, but as soon as one begins sending characters to the tty they randomly come back 2-5 lines on the screen in random locations. Debian 12, 2 screens, One at 100%, the other at 75% (I think - I don’t seem to be able to open display settings right now)

I am a long time Linux User, KDE user. I want to try out BSD, but I am having a hard time getting it installed.

I tried the latest version of FreeBSD but it seems to come without X or Wayland (Or any of the other graphical bits) and I can't seem to get the graphical part working.

Nothing yet has been done with the machine, so, if anyone can recommend an easy-to-install - that works out of the box in full graphics where I don't have to mess with modelines like 2001. I would love to try an OS where there are not too many cooks in the kitchen.

I will be installing it on a Lenovo Ideapad.