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Maybe some of you are playing EVE Online on Linux like me. If so, you maybe have noticed that there is no mining macro for Linux nor any easy macro recorder. There is a way around that. At first I have to tell you that this is not easy. You must have at least a little bit coding knowledge.

The first thing you will need for a mining macro is that you need to be able to moveclickdrag and drop your mouse from code. If you know a little bit about coding you will also know that moving the mouse in Linux from code is no candy. But we don't need to fight against x11-dev and so on. We can simply use the Java class "Robot".

The "Robot" Class allows us to make a lot of things with the mouse natively from code. Exactly what we need for coding a mining macro.

To make it more comfortable we need a little helper tool which creates the whole java code for us.

The helper tool should record our mouse-movement and clicks and create from it a compilable java file. There are a couple of ways how to create the helper tool. You can code it in any language and with any toolkit you want.

If you're done with recording your mouse actions, simply compile your script with "javac miner.java" and run it with "java miner". That's all that you will need to do.

And last but not least: This auto mining tool is a separate entity from EVE and EVE is "sandboxed" in Wine. This is probably not the best Eve macro but works well for anyone using Linux.

Having played EVE Online over the years, the author shares his experienced with the gaming community. Some of his contributions are found at http://www.strategyfreaks.com/games/eve_online/

Xsi Rebel - Great Macros... Poor Medium To Long Range Autofocus

I picked up this camera two weeks ago at a local store. Overall, it's a solid camera. Color reproduction is wonderful, it's quick, low noise with high ISO, and terrific macros. The camera is blazing fast. Please refer to the other posters for the good points of this camera.

Now I'll discuss the shortcomings. The major one, which has been referenced to in various forums such as dpreview and a few online review sites is poor Auto Focus. Not all cameras are affected, but mine was. If you shoot at an object from w/in 10 ft, it has trouble over 50% of the time picking up the autofocus point and often selects the wrong point. If you use center focus, it gets pretty close but final image is still a bit blurry. It becomes a bit sharper w/ the live view autofocus system. When I took some outdoor pics of some animals, I couldn't quite lock on what I was interested in. Even when taking shots of people outside w/ a prominent background, it seems to have trouble deciding if it wants to focus on the person or the background. I'd say that 20% of my shots were actually in focus and those look wonderful. The remaining ones had the focus off. So I'm gonna send my camera to canon for repair. I went to best buy and tried out a 40D and the focus was rock solid. If you get a good camera, kodus to u.

XSi Rebel - Are You Looking For a Good DSLR that Does Not Break the Bank?

I sold my beloved Nikon D70 after four years of use. I still miss it. I purchased a D40, but it never felt right. Picture quality was good, better than the D70, but I had to go through menus to do most everything (changing white balance, ISO, formatting the card, you name it), whereas the D70 had dedicated buttons. That makes all the difference in usability. Besides, the D40 does not even autofocus with my beloved 50mm 1.8 lens. Are you kidding me? I returned the D40 after 3 days of use.

I was lookind at the D80, 40D, the D300, the XTI, and this one. All good cameras (at the end of the day, they all take excellent pictures). it's the usability/sweet price/new features factor that counts. 40D and D300 are expensive for me (not a pro). The XTI is getting old (still good though, and very good price). The D80 is very good, a bigger brother of my beloved d70, but still old: no sensor cleaning, to highlight tone priority, does not ship with a bundled VR lens. You are basically buying a 2006 camera in 2008. I did not like that.

I found this XSi Rebel at Circuit City. It felt right in my small hands. It had most of the buttons I need to make changes quickly. I still have to go to a menu to set my custom white balance (the D70 had a button for that). Same thing to format the card (button combination on the D70). Auto ISO is not as smart as Nikon's implementation. Other than that, the camera is excellent. All the other buttons are there. It has an RGB histogram (very important; it lets you see if you are clipping individual colors). Picture quality is great. Very little noise (Canon's CMOS sensor is cleaner than Nikon's CCD on the D80), very pleasing skin tones (I take lots of pictures of my daughter and wife).

If the D80 had the same 2008 features as this one (highlight tone priority, self-cleaning sensor, bundled VR lens), I would have gotten that one. It's still a great camera. This one is just a 2008 camera with features found in the semi-pro 40D and the pro 1DS.

I'm very happy with it.

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What Does Macro and Auto Macro Mean?

I don't understand how it works on a digital camera. Is it important to know how to use it? Does it affect the pictures that you take?

Macro means you can take close-up pictures. Auto macro means you won't have to set anything like a switch to get a close-up picture.

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