Berbaloikah nilai ringgit yang kamu bayar pada photographer?

Berbaloikah nilai ringgit yang kamu bayar pada photographer?

Pernah tak kamu terfikir berapakah keuntungan seorang photographer? Pernahkah kita terfikir apakah mereka benar2 mengaut keuntungan hasil dari gambar-gambar yang mereka ambil? Berbaloikah dengan apa yang kita bayar terhadap photographer yang kita pilih utk perkahwinan kita? Jom kita tgk apakah benar photographer2 ini benar2 mengenakan harga yang mahal atau tidak..

Saya mmg sgt pandai dalam matematik, saya akan tolong kirakan utk anda.. Katakanlah photographer yang anda pilih mengenakan charged RM1500 kepada kamu dengan package “terbaik dan termurah” iaitu dengan memberikan:

1. Custom album 8×12 cristal laminated bernilai RM300
2. Sticky album berserta 100pcs 4R fully edit picture bernilai RM100
3. Frame 8R bernilai RM20
4. Unlimited shoot and burn in DVD biasanya 300 gambar

Totalnya adalah RM420 Itu belum lagi campur:

1. Duit bil tepon utk telefon pengantin bernilai RM10
2. Duit bayar back up photographer bernilai RM200
3. Duit minyak pergi ke rumah pengantin, pergi hantar custom album utk print bernilai RM50 So, nilai modal setakat ini ialah RM420+RM260=RM680

Biasanya, photographer yang mengambil upah sehingga RM1500 mempunyai gadget kamera seperti

1. D700 beernilai RM6100
2. 14-24mm bernilai RM5820
3. 24-70mm bernilai RM5760
4. 70-200mm bernilai RM6950
5. Flash SB910 bernilai RM1650
Total gadget ialah RM26280…

Tahukah kamu, setiap petikan pada DSLR adalah bernilai kerana DSLR D700 hanya mampu mengambil gambar sebanyak 150,000 keping sahaja. Maka selepas itu, photographer terpaksa menukar shutter system yang bernilai RM1400. Maka, jika dikira dalam matematik, setiap kali photographer memetik shutter, nilai sekeping gambar ialah 1 sen. 1 sen jer pun, bukan mahal sgt, tapi, photographer tak pernah pun terfikir nak simpan duit utk menukar shutter system, bila tiba waktunya, mmg “sakit” jugak nak keluarkan duit sebanyak RM1400.

So, RM1500- RM660=RM840… so, keuntungan photographer tersebut ialah RM840. Memang banyak untung kan? RM840 dalam sehari. Tapi kamu silap, selepas sahaja photographer ambil gambar kamu, kebiasaannya, photographer memerlukan 3 minggu bersamaan 21 hari utk edit gambar kamu. So, RM840 bahagikan dengan 21 hari, nilai keuntungan photographer tersebut cuma RM40 sehari.

Berbaloikah?

Jadi, photographer tersebut memerlukan 657 hari untuk mendapatkan kembali modal gadget yang bernilai RM26280. 657 hari? Berbaloikah? Itu pun kalau photographer tersebut sentiasa dapat “job”. Apakah kamu fikir perkahwinan berlaku setiap hari? Nak harapkan job byk pun perlu tunggu cuti sekolah. Itu pun belum tentu dapat, persaingan kini sangatlah hebat. Terlalu ramai photographer2 kini berlumba2 mendapatkan job. Adoiiiii…

Pernahkah kamu terfikir kesibukan seorang photographer? Biasanya, photographer sudah mempunyai pekerjaan tetap yang bekerja dari Isnin sampai Jumaat. Apabila menjadi photographer, masa yang sepatutnya diluangkan utk bersama anak isteri pada hari Sabtu dan ahad, kini terpaksa dikorbankan hanya utk jadi photographer yang hanya bernilai RM40 sehari?

Berbaloikah?

Tahukah kamu utk meng”edit” gambar memerlukan mood? Dan biasanya mood itu akan datang pada waktu malam. Dan photographer sekali lagi terpaksa korbankan waktu tidurnya setiap malam hanya utk berikan gambar “terbaik” utk kamu abadikan “seumur hidup” sedangkan kamu tidak “membayar” dengan nilai sepatutnya………

Maka, jika kamu rasa nilai RM1500 dan keatas itu sangat mahal bagi kamu, fikirkanlah “pengorbanan” photographer yang bersusah payah bersengkang mata hingga sanggup melupakan keakraban antara anak isteri mereka pada setiap malam malah di hujung minggu hanya utk memastikan setiap gambar yang diambil mampu menjadi kenangan utk kamu “sepanjang hayat”…

PS: Kamu boleh ke Kedai Kamera E-Poh utk jadi photographer agar kamu sendiri yang tangkap gambar perkahwinan kamu... 0195459353, call la dia..

Kamu boleh share pic ni tanpa pengetahuan saya, sharing is caring, caring is loving, loving is cari penyakit kalau nak tambah bini...

huhuhu

Towards higher availability

In this post I’ll demonstrate how easy it is to setup open virtualization system with hypervisor and management. oVirt is based on Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization manager (RHEV-M) and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor (RHEV-H).

Some oVirt Information

oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.

So lets start with installing some prerequisite packages:

[root@ovirt-manager ~]# yum install -y wget postgresql-server postgresql-contrib pgadmin3 java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

Next we’ll add new repository for ovirt:

[root@ovirt-manager ~]# wget http://www.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/fedora/16/ovirt-engine.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d/

Final step is to install actual ovirt-manager packages:

[root@ovirt-manager ~]# yum install -y ovirt-engine ovirt-engine-setup

Now we have all needed packages installed and we can configure manager.

[root@ovirt-manager ~]# engine-setup Welcome to oVirt Engine setup utility HTTP Port  [8080] : HTTPS Port  [8443] : Host fully qualified domain name, note that this name should be fully resolvable  [ovirt-manager.demo.local] : ovirt-manager.demo.local did not resolve into an IP address User input failed validation, do you still wish to use it? (yes|no): yes Password for Administrator (admin@internal) : Warning: Weak Password. Confirm password : Database password (required for secure authentication with the locally created database) : Warning: Weak Password. Confirm password : Organization Name for the Certificate: Demolab The default storage type you will be using  ['NFS'| 'FC'| 'ISCSI']  [NFS] : Should the installer configure NFS share on this server to be used as an ISO Domain? ['yes'| 'no']  [yes] : yes Mount point path: /install Display name for the ISO Domain: install Firewall ports need to be opened. You can let the installer configure iptables automatically overriding the current configuration. The old configuration will be backed up. Alternately you can configure the firewall later using an example iptables file found under /usr/share/ovirt-engine/conf/iptables.example Configure iptables ? ['yes'| 'no']: yes  oVirt Engine will be installed using the following configuration: ================================================================= http-port:                     8080 https-port:                    8443 host-fqdn:                     ovirt-manager.demo.local auth-pass:                     ******** db-pass:                       ******** org-name:                      Demolab default-dc-type:               NFS nfs-mp:                        /install iso-domain-name:               install override-iptables:             yes Proceed with the configuration listed above? (yes|no): yes

After this setup might take while, but in few minutes you should get output like below:

Installing: Configuring oVirt-engine...                              [ DONE ] Creating CA...                                           [ DONE ] Setting Database Security...                             [ DONE ] Creating Database...                                     [ DONE ] Updating the Default Data Center Storage Type...         [ DONE ] Editing JBoss Configuration...                           [ DONE ] Editing oVirt Engine Configuration...                    [ DONE ] Configuring the Default ISO Domain...                    [ DONE ] Configuring Firewall (iptables)...                       [ DONE ] Starting JBoss Service...                                [ DONE ]   **** Installation completed successfully ******       (Please allow oVirt Engine a few moments to start up.....)  Additional information:  * There is less than 4 GB available free memory on the Host. It is  recommended to have at least 4 GB available memory to run the RHEV Manager.  * Keystore already exists, skipped certificates creation phase  * A default ISO share has been created on this host.    If IP based access restrictions are required, please edit /install entry in /etc/exports  * The firewall has been updated, the old iptables configuration file was saved to /usr/share/ovirt-engine/conf/iptables.backup.074609-01032012_1691  * The installation log file is available at: /var/log/engine/engine-setup_2012_01_03_07_44_46.log  * Please use the user "admin" and password specified in order to login into oVirt Engine  * To configure additional users, first configure authentication domains using the 'engine-manage-domains' utility  * To access oVirt Engine please go to the following URL: http://ovirt-manager.demo.local:8080

If you get database creation error, please check the database installation log. If there’s lines saying “Peer authentication failed for user “postgres”" please change authentication method in pg_hba.conf to trust and restart your postgresql-service and run installer again.

Next step is install ovirt-node (Hypervisor). It’s really simple and straightforward. Just get latest iso from http://www.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/binary/ and boot your hypervisor machine with it, install to local disk and do basic configurations: This shouldn’t take long, there is only few things to do. Select disk where you are installing, type root password and go.

Next thing to do is install more hypervisors and connect them to ovirt-engine. I’ll write another post about this with basic configuration examples. Try oVirt today, it’s really competitive alternative for VMware / Citrix and it’s totally open source

Reference :

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools

http://www.ovirt.org/

http://blog.jaurola.fi/

Beza Antara Fungsi UV Filter, CPL Filter dan ND8 Filter

Banyak jenis sebenarnya filter lens yang ada untuk lens kita.Kalau nak diringkaskan bolehlah kita bagi pada3 jenis filter ni; uv,cpl dan nd8.Filter ni bukan setakat menapis cahaya yang direct datang pada lens,tapi ia juga boleh membantu untuk bagi hasil art pada gambar.Terutamanya kalau nak dapat gambar pemandangan yang cantik.

UV Filter

Ni Filter yang biasanya dapat bila kita beli lens.UV Filter ni simple saja fungsinya.Tapis sinar UV dan protection pada lens.Kalau kita beli lens tu,jangan kedekut nak beli uv filter terus(kalau tak dapat free).Nak elak calar pada lens yang baru beli tu.Harga murah mahal pun tak apa.Ada dua jenis,slim dan biasa.Bezanya nipis tebal saja.

RM25

CPL Filter

Polarizing filter biasanya orang guna untuk bagi gambar efek gelap pada langit.warna langit biru tu timbul terang. Ada juga kalau untuk tangkap gambar produk macam jam tangan biasanya.Bila ambik gambar jam,kurang lah efek pantulan cahaya dari cermin jam tu.jadi boleh nampak detail jarum dalam jam tanpa ada pantulan.

cpl biasanya lebih gelap warnanya dari uv filter

Awan pada langit lagi menyerlah

credit gambar: http://braendan.blogspot.com/2009/01/bw-kasemann-ksm-cpl-filter.html

ND8 Filter

Neutral Density filter (ND filter) adalah jenis filter yang digunakan untuk tangkap gambar air terjun,salji. Ia sebenarnya nak kurangkan amount cahaya yang sampai pada sensor camera.Jadi boleh tambah efek halus pada foto disamping baiki tone.

ND8 berwarna hitam. RM65

Credit gambar:http://www.foxsaver.com/public/picture/66481617

Yangni gabung cpl dan nd8 filter.

Itu lah sikit info pasal jenis filter dan fungsinya.Review jenis biasa-biasa sahaja.Hope dapat bantu korang dapat brief idea sebelum membeli filter.

Tips Shooting Outdoor Photography

Tangkap gambar outdoor ni cantik sebenarnya.Gambar pemandangan mahupun gambar potrait, part warna dia yang best tu.Naik semacam.Tapi part yang susah sikit bila kena bayang-bayang terutamanya time matahari terik.Nanti gambar jadi macam ni

Perasan tak ada bayang-bayang daun,ranting dan pokok pada muka subject.Isy2.Tak cantik macam ni.

Solution Pertama:

Cara yang senang sikit,orang pakai reflector lah.

Yang mana terlindung dengan bayang-bayang pada model tu, boleh lah kita cover dengan reflector.Dia pantul balik cahaya kena dekat model.Nampak natural sikit. Nak tengok beza pakai reflector tak?

Gambar kat atas tu saya ambil dari istock.Cute sungguh!

Orang sekarang suka buat outdoor wedding shoot kan. Memang nak lah pada benda ni.Senang kerja. Reflector ada 5 warna yang ada fungsi-fungsi dia sendiri.Kita explore lah nanti baru nampak bezanya.Kalau nak cari reflector, cari yang boleh lipat dan biarlah ada beg dia sekali.Sebab benda ni kan kalau dah buka,mak aiihh.Pernahlah hari tu customer datang beli reflector ni dengan saya.Kitorang cuba-cuba buka nak test,fuh besar sungguh.

Solution Kedua:

Kalau model/subject menghadap matahari boleh tambah cahaya kan.Tapi nanti dia silau pulak.Terkebil-kebil jadi dia. Kat sini kita kena main dengan kedudukan angle. Try cuba bagi matahari tu 135 degree dari model kita.Sipi-sipi belakang.

Lukisan tak cantik tu biasalah kan.Haha!!

Itu sudut kalau tangkap gambar potret orang.Kalau tangkap gambar pemandangan seperti persekitaran rumah misalnya, disarankan biarlah matahari tu berada belakang kita pulak. Boleh naik contrast warna sekitar rumah tu seperti warna rumput dengan awan.Itulah penangan matahari.

Itu sahaja kali ini.Korang mesti ada buat outdoor jugak kan.Share lah cara korang pulak di bahagian komen ok!

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 16 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 16 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.

2 Installing MySQL 5

To install MySQL, we do this:

yum install mysql mysql-server

Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:

systemctl enable mysqld.service
systemctl start mysqld.service

Run

mysql_secure_installation

to set a password for the user root (otherwise anybody can access your MySQL database!):

[root@server1 ~]# mysql_secure_installation




NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!


In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user. If you've just installed MySQL, and
you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.

Enter current password for root (enter for none): <-- ENTER
OK, successfully used password, moving on...

Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.

Set root password? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
New password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Re-enter new password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
... Success!


By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!

Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!

By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
- Dropping test database...
... Success!
- Removing privileges on test database...
... Success!

Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!

Cleaning up...



All done! If you've completed all of the above steps, your MySQL
installation should now be secure.

Thanks for using MySQL!


[root@server1 ~]#

3 Installing Apache2

Apache2 is available as a Fedora package, therefore we can install it like this:

yum install httpd

Now configure your system to start Apache at boot time...

systemctl enable httpd.service

... and start Apache:

systemctl start httpd.service

Now direct your browser to http://192.168.0.100, and you should see the Apache2 placeholder page:

Apache's default document root is /var/www/html on Fedora, and the configuration file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Additional configurations are stored in the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory.

4 Installing PHP5

We can install PHP5 and the Apache PHP5 module as follows:

yum install php

We must restart Apache afterwards:

systemctl restart httpd.service

5 Testing PHP5 / Getting Details About Your PHP5 Installation

The document root of the default web site is /var/www/html. We will now create a small PHP file (info.php) in that directory and call it in a browser. The file will display lots of useful details about our PHP installation, such as the installed PHP version.

vi /var/www/html/info.php

Now we call that file in a browser (e.g. http://192.168.0.100/info.php):

As you see, PHP5 is working, and it's working through the Apache 2.0 Handler, as shown in the Server API line. If you scroll further down, you will see all modules that are already enabled in PHP5. MySQL is not listed there which means we don't have MySQL support in PHP5 yet.

6 Getting MySQL Support In PHP5

To get MySQL support in PHP, we can install the php-mysql package. It's a good idea to install some other PHP5 modules as well as you might need them for your applications. You can search for available PHP5 modules like this:

yum search php

Pick the ones you need and install them like this:

yum install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-eaccelerator php-magickwand php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-shout php-snmp php-soap php-tidy

Now restart Apache2:

systemctl restart httpd.service

Now reload http://192.168.0.100/info.php in your browser and scroll down to the modules section again. You should now find lots of new modules there, including the MySQL module:

7 phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a web interface through which you can manage your MySQL databases.

phpMyAdmin can be installed as follows:

yum install phpmyadmin

Now we configure phpMyAdmin. We change the Apache configuration so that phpMyAdmin allows connections not just from localhost (by commenting out the stanza):

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf

# phpMyAdmin - Web based MySQL browser written in php # # Allows only localhost by default # # But allowing phpMyAdmin to anyone other than localhost should be considered # dangerous unless properly secured by SSL Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin # # Order Deny,Allow # Deny from All # Allow from 127.0.0.1 # Allow from ::1 # Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from ::1 # These directories do not require access over HTTP - taken from the original # phpMyAdmin upstream tarball # Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Allow from None Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Allow from None Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Allow from None # This configuration prevents mod_security at phpMyAdmin directories from # filtering SQL etc. This may break your mod_security implementation. # # # # SecRuleInheritance Off # #

Restart Apache:

systemctl restart httpd.service

Afterwards, you can access phpMyAdmin under http://192.168.0.100/phpmyadmin/:

8 Links

• Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/
• PHP: http://www.php.net/
• MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/
• Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/
• phpMyAdmin: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

How To: Instal Asterisk Painlessly on OpenSUSE 10.3

This took me some time to figure out… here you go.

1. Add the Telephony network repository in YaST2. The URL is http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/telephony/openSUSE_10.3/ …

2. There’s a bug in the deps for Asterisk with mISDNuser (the version in the repository is more recent, but is “uninstallable”) that will block the install process… so as a workaround, first, type zypper install zaptel. Then download mISDN-1_1_5-3.5.i586.rpm and mISDNuser-1_1_5-2.4.i586.rpm and install them with rpm -ihv mISDN*.rpm.

3. -Then- you can install asterisk with zypper install asterisk.

If I have the time, I'll provide configuration details later...

P.S. - Don't even try using the freepbx RPM -- it's busted pretty badly. Not sure why it is, I'll figure it out later...

Related:

• Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
• Asterisk Hacking
• Configuration Guide for Asterisk PBX
• Asterisk for Dummies
• Asterisk Telephony Solutions: Installing and Customizing Asterisk 1.4

Yes, those are amazon links. Why? Bandwidth’s expensive, this article’s getting a lot of reads, and I don't want to 'beg' with a tip jar. Thanks for clicking!

IPMI / STONITH howto with Pacemaker

With Dell kit of 1950/860 and newer, I’m using the built in IPMI-over-LAN in the BIOS for stonith instead of messing with DRAC5 or more complicated means. It’s easy to configure on it’s own IP and it just plain works.

First, a security note with people who have their machines on a “public” network: You’ll want to disable or set a password for the ‘null’ default user for ipmi. This may be done for you in recent versions of dell firmware, but it isn’t on some older stuff. Also, IPMI v. 1.5 doesn’t do encryption by default; you’ll want to make sure you set an encryption key in the bios settings and then use that when you connect (with the lanplus interface, and I have no idea what the syntax is with the stonith resource agent…) or you’ll be sending your authentication information “in the clear”. Since you need to have ADMINISTRATOR permission to reboot the machine as far as I know, you will want to make sure you have this secured… or anyone who’s sniffing can power your machines off at will.

You can test the sequence by using ipmitool. ipmitool -H (ip address) -U (user) -a chassis power cycle should cause your server to reboot after you enter the password. Please test this first.

Now all you need to do is add a configuration to your cluster. Using the pacemaker clm command line tool, just go configure primitive (host)-stonith stonith:external/ipmi \
params hostname=(host) ipaddr=(ip address) user=(user) passwd=(password) interface=lan. Double check your stonith resource agents to be sure of the syntax. ( crm# ra meta external/ipmi stonith )

You’ll want to add constraints (out of the scope of this document, since it depends on your cluster design) so that a host won’t have it’s own stonith running on it. Although I’m thinking that a game of stonith-based russian roulette would be kinda fun as a computer art installation someday.