TMN ZTE MF632

The Broadband ZTE MF632 only works under Mac OSX 32bit. To use under Lion you need a 64bit driver, that portuguese cell carrier don't have. don't try to install the software that comes with the ZTE it will corrupt the Mac OSX. So i have found the updated driver and built a new install package. Also compatible with Mountain Lion 10.8.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/340441/ZTE%20Connection%20Manager%20Lion.mpkg.zip


Enjoy

CR2 RAW Thumbnails

The CR2 file is a RAW format from Canon cameras. To open this file you need  to have a software capable to handle it, like photoshop or lightroom. But when organizing folders and files on windows explorer by default don't show the thumbnails. Canon have a codec for this but only work under Windows XP, Vista and 7 x86 - 32bit.

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0039964.asp


For people, like me that are using 64 bit windows the codec don't work. Thanks to God the is a free solution. Microsoft have made a Camera Codec Pack that is avaliable to 32 bit and 64 bit windows versions:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829

After install, the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack enables the viewing of a variety of device-specific file formats in Window Live Photo Gallery as well as other software that is based in Windows Imaging. And also viewable in Windows Explorer.

No need to restart!

Input List

I'm a freelancer live sound engineer, and one thing that really matters is to be organized and prepare the show. Make sure everything works before the band come to stage to make sound check. And talking about organization i want to share a basic thing: The input list.





To Print, Adobe PDF:
PDF

To Edit, Microsoft Excel Template:
XLT

Enjoy and make good sound!

Linux Debian NTP Time Server

To provide a time server (ntp server) for internal network is very simple:

#su
enter your password




To install the ntp server software:
#apt-get install ntp ntpdate

then edit the configuration file:
#nano /etc/ntp.conf

On file, change only this settings:

For all clients, for example, on range - 192.168.110.0 - 255 have access.

# Clients from this (example!) subnet have unlimited access, but only if
# cryptographically authenticated.
restrict 192.168.110.0 mask 255.255.255.0

In this line put your reliable external ntp server. Just search google for a good one.
In this case i'am using the legal time server in Portugal. The Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon is the provider of correct time. The Time zone is WET (Western Europe Time) with +00:00 hours of time zone offset. http://www.oal.ul.pt/

There is another one the NTP Pooling Project located at http://www.pool.ntp.org.
The NTP Pool is a collection of over 220 NTP servers distributed over the world.

# If you want to listen to time broadcasts on your local subnet, de-comment the
# next lines. Please do this only if you trust everybody on the network!
#disable auth
#broadcastclient
server ntp02.oal.ul.pt
server ntp04.oal.ul.pt


safe (control + x, and yes to save) and exit.
To update time on server just do this:

#ntpdate ntp02.oal.ul.pt

restart service
#/etc/init.d/ntp restart

then:
#ntpq -p

That's it!

To configure client:
On Linux client go to Gnome "date and time" and put the ip of your server.
On OSX open "system preferences", then date & time and put the ip of your server.
On Windows go to "date & time" on control panel and put the ip of your server under internet time.

Simple!