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traveling camera gear
traveling camera gear
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We put together some of our gear for filming and thought it might be interesting to see what gear other people carry with them filming when trying to travel light!
freedom! (131 of 365)
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Wow. My first laptop! And I have wiped off XP and installed Ubuntu Linux and have been playing all evening and it is cool cool cool. And sexy. The only thing I’m worried about is battery life, but there are settings to try changing.
And now I promise to not blather quite so much about my computer situation.
Our View When the Power Was Out
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Around 7:30 PM on Thursday evening during the deluge, our electric power went out. This meant we had no electric lights, no television, no computer, no Internet, cell phones with low battery, and no water except the water in the hot water heater.
Jim lit two oil lamps with wicks and brought out his flashlight and battery lantern. We sat on the patio furniture and listened to WAFT on the battery radio. Around 9:30 PM we went to bed with thankfulness to God that we had a comfortable bed in a comfortable house.
I was asleep when the electric power was restored around 1:30 AM. We are very grateful to the Colquitt Electric Company’s employees for all their hard work. Now I’m up on Friday morning getting packed for our trip to Atlanta.
It is NOT raining outside my window. The sun is shining. We have electric power. God is good all the time. All the time God is good. 
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Gee, and I am always complaining about the amount of gear I carry for my underwater photography…. obviously it can get worse
I’m interested to see the gear you need to carry for underwater photography.
blather away! I am very impressed with your Ubuntu installation; I bow to your open-source geekiness and wish I could do that as easily as you’ve done!
Woot. Ubuntu rules. My only advice is never upgrade the distribution, always reinstall
(from experience and much pain caused by several failed upgrade attempts :s)
knitsocks installing ubuntu is generally very easy, if it’s your thing give it a go some time
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The installation itself, on the laptop, was super easy. I did do an install on my desktop, and I was fooling around with partitioning stuff, and dealing with a video card that Ubuntu didn’t quite like, and that was all a bit tedious.
You can try running Ubuntu off of a live CD, so you can see if it plays nicely with all your hardware, and if you think it’s something you can learn to use (You can!); I recommend the book Ubuntu Linux for Non Geeks as a resource.
Of course, now I am getting all crazy hardcore and learning to type shit in the command line and all. Sudo bash. Eeeeeek.
it never occured to me to put a different OS on my computer – you rock! and the ability to run a test off a CD is a very clever feature.
i’m w/ you on the love my laptop thing; i got one about a year and a half ago, and i don’t think i’ll ever go back. congrats!
Sorry to hear that your power was out
hope the flooding dries up soon!