HDR with chdk and Ubuntu

I recently purchased a Canon PowerShot sx40 hs. It didn’t take me long to install chdk, an alternative firmware available on Canon’s PowerShot line. One of the features I was most interested in was bracketing. Bracketing is the technique of taking a number of pictures of the same subject with different settings. Once you have a number of…

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PXE Booting Ubuntu from an iSCSI drive

The Plan This will serve as a guide to booting Ubuntu (XBMCbuntu in my case) from an iSCSI drive. The Result The boot process for my XBMCbuntu machine follows these steps: The BIOS is configured to PXE boot. The PXE boot process launches iPXE (formerly gPXE). iPXE connects to the iSCSI drive and launches GRUB which is installed…

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Configuring Untangle for Xbox Live

Recently I replaced my home router with an untangle box. Untangle is a Linux server that replaces my home router with an enterprise-grade UTM system. After I had completed setup of my untangle server, I sat down to relax on my Xbox 360 and was greeted with this message: Your NAT type is set to…

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Multitouch in Ubuntu via ginn

Preamble… I recently purchased a 2011 Macbook Pro. Not long after, I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty which came with a shiny new Unity desktop. I quickly noticed that while Unity supported my multitouch trackpad out of the box (Kudos Ubuntu team!), there was no way (at least that I could find) to configure the gestures…

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