I am currently studying the possibility to change my current desktop computer for a laptop. This is the first time I am looking at these powerful laptops, as I now only use cheap laptops for small office use (email, web etc.) when traveling.
My aim is now to use a laptop for my daily tasks: picture [...]

Sony has recently published an updated firmware for the DSLR-A700 camera.
Changes since oldest v3 firmware are:

The choice to select auto exposure bracketing (single & continuous) with 3 shots in 2 EV steps has been added.
The choice to turn [Off] the High ISO NR feature has been added.
Improvement of the image quality in high ISO setting.
Improvement [...]

I have received a brand new USB card reader.
At first sight, everything was working well “out of the box”, but when I have checked the log files, I could see the following lines repeated very frequently:

Jun 1 08:22:08 athyr kernel: [ 1412.134045] usb 6-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3

I [...]

I am in the process of moving all my services (including this website and my mail server) to a new host (actually a virtual server). Until now, almost all of them were (hum, are… see below) hosted on my home server on a DSL line.
The aim is to ease maintenance, reduce power usage, and avoid [...]

My girlfriend received an iPod nano video for Christmas.
As for music, it works fine with rhythmbox from experimental rebuilt against latest libgpod library.
But I can’t find any Linux software which would allow us to transfer pictures. I have tried gpixpod, but it seems the iPod is too new as it doesn’t even detect it. iTunes [...]