Monthly Archives: August 2005

Buying a camera

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Ok I am so far! I am buying a camera.

I spent many hours surfing the net reading reviews and comparisons. That was a hard work that showed me what camera I want. Finally I found that there are three cameras that come in closer selection:

Canon EOS (Digital Rebel) 300D
Canon EOS (Digital Rebel) 350D
Nikon D50
Most probably the camera I will buy is the Nikon because of the price. Nikon costs about 450Eur the canon 300D about 500Eur and Canon 350D about 700Eur.

I really want a SLR camera because something small that I can have always with me I already have namely my Trust 910Z.

Now I have to raise money from somewhere. Magic would be nice here 😉

Photos in Warsaw

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I have added some photos taken in Warsaw. You can find them here.

I added too family meeting documentations (as almost all images they lack caption I hope to find time to add them later on).

The first meeting was at my aunts Magda (sister of my father) and the second was at my uncles Witold (brother of my mother). Have fun watching 😉

Also some images of my nearly brother Boleks car and a party with Boleks friends are there too.

Vacation but no time

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As you can see I do not write very often at the moment. Imagine why, yes, vacation.

As you know I am in Warsaw currently and because all my family lives here and I have friends here too I do not have much time.

Sure my granny or my parents would say directly the contrary, they would say that I spend all my time at my laptop doing “something”. Sure I spend some time at my machine but that is only because I am taking a lot of images and have to postedit and select them. Trying to stay up to date with e-mail and news too becomes very difficult then, as writing blog entries does.

But finally after getting many times on my father nerves we finally finished selecting and postediting the photos I made in the Gdynia week. The gallery is finally online here. I hope you enjoy the images.

I do also hope that I will get some Warsaw images online in the coming days. It still stays a challenge looking through imaginary, removing bad and crappy shots, cleaning some of them up, converting to the right format, uploading to my sever and adding to the gallery. It is a pretty long process and also time consuming so that the gallery does not get cluttered and looks like a dumpster. I will do my best. I hope that at least my family will like the imaginary. (if so please write me a comment 😉 I will really appreciate it as always)

Security discussions

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I just had a discussion with my father and with my granny about security issues ignated by the previous post.

My father and my granny say that one should not spread the information about a vulnerability and the way it may be exploited. One only should say that there is one and that one should change something and what to change.

I think in the contrary that when I do not tell how to exploit a big security hole no one will give it trust. Everyone will say that it is only a hoax and not truth because fixing the potential security hole is very expensive (to fix the security hole from the previous post you need to spend 100Eur or more).

I ask you for comments and statements about that. Also links to pages dealing with this problematic.

Lock bumping

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Yesterday on HackADay there was a post linking to lock bumping. A very interesting technique for opening most of the current door locks.

It is a security vulnerability that is so severe because it is so terribly simple that it looks nearly like magic. A guy inserts a self made key into a lock, hits it with the head of a screwdriver and the lock pops open. Having only 10 most common bump keys you can open about 90% of the current door locks.

You can see a full video about lock bumping on the Toool home page here recorded on WTH this year. There is also a list of locks that are not vulnerable to the bumping attack.

I really encourage you to check if your door lock is vulnerable and get a new one if you can. The only real problem is that there are not many good lock under 100Eur level. But everyone knows how much security is important for him.

Catching up

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Since the morning today I am working on getting all the images I have online. I want to do it before I start reposting my blog entries that are on my laptop. It is really not so easy as it seems. The images I get from my camera are all way too big for web so I have to downsize them. Sadly iPhoto does not have (or I am blind) an easy batch option for resizing images. I got a program called Downsize for that. I really ask myself why all that useful little stuff has to cost money. 20$ here 20$ there … every little tool costs money. I am a poor student I do not have the money to pay every little tool I get and that nags suck badly and test time outs even more. I would prefer if the programs were free and there were donation buttons on their pages. I am really sure that the time I start working and have some pennies left I will donate money to every vendor of a useful program I use that is free and has a donation button. You may hit me on that later 😉

Ok I finish uploading the images and then I start to add all the blog posts that accumulated here on my disk 😉

Arrived in Warsaw

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Finally my family and me arrived in Warsaw at the house of my granny. We arrived yesterday at about 21:00 or so.

All the way to Warsaw I was hearing a classic Rock collection that Daniel recommended and it was really good.

Somewhere on the way we made a stop to get some food. We landed in a pretty nice old “Herren Haus” called Dworek Sople it looked pretty nice and the food was also good. The only downside was the loud street, otherwise I could recommend it not only for a short stop on the road but also for staying longer. I will post a scan of their brochure later.

Pre liftoff day, my new watch

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Today was a real lift off day as I know it in my family. First we were at the beach near to here to get some sun (my mother and my aunt Dana are going there every moring). At 10:30 we were back at home to eat the second breakfast. Then I left with my grand mother to the city for shopping getting a clock back from the clockmaker and buying nutrition stuff at the grocery store so nothing really exciting for me beside the fact that my granny bought me a really nice simple clock I catched in the eye some days ago. It is a simple Casio MTP-1142 but not using a clock for a long time and always being afraid of loosing the wrist watch I decided that it was the right thing to wear. At first I wanted to buy the watch by my self but my granny heard about it and wanted badly to buy it for me because she still needs a present for my upcoming name day (we get presents, that day, similar to birthday).

I really love that wrist watch! It is simple in design and does what it has to do. Just like a macintosh 😉

After shopping we had late lunch and my granny, my mother, my brother and I left for shopping at the coast to get some presents for birthday’s of my friends in germany. You may be eager now what I bought. *GG*
After that shopping tour we got back home and visited my aunt and uncle in the house near by. That way the evening ended and I am sitting now on my bed. Tomorrow we are leaving to Warsaw. I really hope that when I get there my Internet communication improoves and I will be able to document my blog entries with pictures, links and similar.

For now gn8 gf8 … I need to catch some sleep before driving 300km in 5hours (yes that takes really so long on polish roads but I will poast the exact numbers tomorrow night if communication channels allow)

Sea view

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I am currently siting in the gardent of my aunt and uncle in Gdynia. It is a very beautifull place with a view to the sea. I am looking at the see and daydreaming. This beautifull view is crying at me that I take a photo and make it last for eternity. Sadly I can not make a braindump so you will never get the impression I get from this view. You will have to be happy with an image from my Trust noname digital camera. It is better then nothing. 😉 (here you can find more images taken from the garden)

I tried to continue my work on deBlog but the view stopped me from that and I decided that watching the view was more importaint then working.

Garczyn and Olpuch

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Some minutes ago my mother, my brother and I arrived back in Gdynia in the house of my aunt Dana. We spent the whole day in Garczyn and then in Olpuch.

Garczyn is a very small village with some houses, fields, a lake, a church and a cemetery. On the cemetery there are many graves of Esden-Tempski family members. We washed the new finished tomb and posed some plastic flowers so that it looks a bit more colorful.

We also were talking with the grave digger so he takes care about the graves.

There is also a chapel built for that is full now.

It was a very interesting excursion in the history of our family.

The rest of the day we spent in Olpuch at the house of my uncles Leszek. His wife, daughter, son and goddaughter were also there.

First we spent some hours at a lake that is in the area. Very nice warm and clear water. Beautiful simply beautiful.

Then we ate late lunch that took a lot of time was very tasty and flavored with witty discussions about everything and everyone.

After the lunch my uncle showed me his camera and photos he made with it. Very nice camera (a porsche compared to mine but I am happy I have a camera… time will show.. you know 😉 ) the images were also pretty impressing. I took also some images with it. That was marvelous… sigh.

The day ended pretty fast and we left back to Gdynia and so we are here at the end of the day…. good night.

You can see gallery for Garczyn and Olpuch to see how it looked like.