Merry Christmas 1989
Chief engineer’s Christmas wishlist.
Original by my maternal grandfather, AR Bunday.
Original by my maternal grandfather, AR Bunday.
Our old server ran since 1995 with only a handful of reboots. Needless to say, it was not an M$ Windows machine. It was a FreeBSD box and it served us well. When our ISP said we could build our own server, we had two choices; 1. Windows 2003 Server with IIS (Micro$oft Internet Information…
Our little Christmas tree looks quite pretty this year. And we decorated it with a very long string of LED lights.
I was 12 years old when I built my first multi-band shortwave radio – a Radio Exchange Roamer Ten kit – as pictured above. After many nights surreptitiously listening to it hidden under the bedclothes so my mum never found out, I soon realised just how insular and generally pisspoor most our media is in…
Editors note: gOS was very shortlived. By 2011 it was gone. The new gOS operating system certainly would appear to up the ante in the ongoing war between the mighty Micro$haft and that pesky upstart Google. But is it any good and is it really Google? To find out, I just booted from the gOS…
Flora the Flowerpot Cat. Next door’s cat decided she liked kipping in a disused 25cm flowerpot on the dividing wall. She was a particularly friendly creature and loved having her photo taken.
Today, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Pécs Organ Factory, to take some pictures of the very fine work that goes on there.