About Jan Dembowski

http://blog.dembowski.net/

I am a technology enthusiast who is easily amused.

Posts by Jan Dembowski:

µ[mjuː]-II Manual

One of my film cameras is an Olympus Stylus Epic DLX camera that I picked up on eBay. It was a good buy but I was looking for a copy of the manual. And today I’ve found out that someone uploaded a PDF of it on Flickr! Very useful.

2011 Trip to China

It’s amazing what can happen in a few months. The whole family and I went to China for 21 days and it was a great trip. In order we flew from JFK -> HKG -> PEK/BJS -> XIY ->PVG -> CAN -> Zhaoqing -> HKG -> TSA -> HKG -> JFK. In plain English we went to [...]

Olympus Stylus Epic DLX

Olympus Stylus Epic DLX

Okay, I like the new Olympus Stylus Epic DLX. The DLX portion has panorama and a quartz clock but aside from that it’s identical to the non-DLX version. I’m putting these into a set on my Flickr page, go take a look. For this photo I left the flash on (I normally turn flash off) [...]

Still a sucker for WordPress beta

I took the plunge and once again used SVN to switch from running WordPress 3.1.3 to 3.2 beta. The betas are usually solid and I test my nightly backups on a different server from time to time. Unless something really drastic happens to the WordPress repo, I’ll be fine with the beta. The new fullscreen [...]

Using IPv6

When IPv6 day came around, I installed Squid3 and a IPv6 tunnel setup on my in-house Linux server. I used the instructions from Ubuntu’s Wiki and made some minor configuration changes to Squid3 and that was it. You need to use version 3; version 2 of Squid lacks the right support. The tunnel broker I [...]

Waiting for my new toy

The film camera bug has hit me pretty hard. I’ve been using one of my Olympus Trip 35 cameras (see above taken last weekend) and have purchased an Olympus Stylus Epic DLX from someone on eBay. The new one is it’s way and should be here next week. You can read up on the Olympus [...]

Nikon GP-1

Sometimes you just like to know where you were when you took the photo. Luckily there are many options available for a DSLR and I went with the default Nikon solution. Last week on a whim I ordered a Nikon GP-1 for my camera. This GPS receiver plugs into my D300s and when it has [...]

Middle age? It took me forever to get here

As you get older, your habits change and you do different things. In the past I have spent a great deal of time building Linux servers and running my domain’s mail and spam filters, my own web servers for family web sites, ftp server, and sometimes hosting a game server. Linux and open source software [...]

Olympus Trip 35 manual on Scribd

While perusing blog posts about the camera, I came across a really good scan of the Olympus Trip 35 manual on Scribd. I got my manual from Trip Man for “why not?” but the online version is very handy. Click on the view in full screen button to make it really readable. You can also [...]