Last year I bought myself a Canon 300D Digital Rebel (US) / Canon EOS 300D (EU) and I’ve been learning slowly technical terms (exposure, shutter speed, ...) and how to use it.
Some weeks ago, I finally decided to buy a new lens to play with. I spend quite some time reading articles and reviews, and ordered a Canon 70-200 f/4L USM on B&H. Shipping has been quick, it only took two days to come from NY. I missed the UPS guy yesterday because I was at work. Today I worked from home so I’ve been able to catch him.
I haven’t used it much yet (just checked it worked) so, I’ll say the same things that I read on multiple boards : it’s big (approx 20cm long), quite heavy (approx 750g) and … it’s white (I don’t really care, though it’s not really the same color as the camera).
Stay tuned for first pictures 
Well, not yet, but that’s not too far.
Two days ago, I started working on the experimental xorg-modular ports tree hosted by lesi (Dejan Lesjak, co-maintainer of x11 ports). I’ve done quite a few things, but I’m not going to detail everything here because it would be pointless. So, there are still some things to do but basically most of the work is done (see TODO list). You can also have a look at my tinderbox to see what is currently broken and what is ok.
I’ve been talking with linimon who said that portmgr was planning an exp-build to see the effects of a LOCALBASE/X11BASE merge. I don’t see xorg-modular happening in ports before this is done (having Xorg 7.1 installed in X11R6 sounds a bit silly, to say the least). So we still have some time left to polish things.
Following recent discussions, it seems that the CNAME is not going to happen because my arguments aren’t strong enough and I’m tired arguing and begging. I’ll keep maintaining bsdblogs and planet but I’ll stop advocating blogs to developers.
So, for the record, here are teh links (note that you can use either planet.xbsd.org or bsd-planet.droso.net):
Seeing there was quite a few people asking for a Google Earth port, I spent a few minutes to write it and added it to the Ports Collection. Following the commit, there has been quite a long discussion about issues with Google Earth on FreeBSD. To summarize, you need:
- linux_base-fc4 and linux-xorg-libs installed (no other linux_base and no linux-XFree86-libraries),
- GL acceleration, easy with nvidia driver (just remember to set WITH_NVIDIA_GL=yes), I don’t know about anything else.
I’ve also committed a port for OpenBSM after rwatson asked if somebody wanted to do it on #bsdports.
Well, I’m finally done with MFC’s. Most noticable commits :
- fix rc.d/sshd with sshd installed from ports (link)
- fix rc.d/amd with amd installed from ports (link)
- allow rc.d/ntpd to use custom flags (link)
- fix current issues with rc.d/jail (link)
- synchronize rc.subr with NetBSD (link)
I have some ideas about what I’ll be working on later.
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