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Kew Gardens

ByGarf created2000-09-03 20:002025-02-06 17:22 updated2025-02-06 17:22 Digital pictures, General, Journal, Nature, Photography, Travelogue

Spent the day at Kew Gardens in London with some friends.

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My shiny new 20 TB Ultrastar hard disk
ByGarf 2022-01-282025-08-18

I recently purchased a new 20 TB Ultrastar hard disk that UK supplier Scan Computers has on special offer. The Ultrastar range is descended from IBM/Hitachi’s DeskStar series, has a five year warranty and it is considered a high-end high-spec product, intended for heavy server and NAS use. It is a helium filled disk and…

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Is the New Millennium available in an archive?
ByGarf 2009-06-292024-07-18

Yes. Fully searchable archive currently lives here http://www.garfnet.org.uk/new_mill

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A very near miss
ByGarf 2023-01-272025-02-06

Seems during the wee small hours of this morning, our little blue planet had a very near miss, as we narrowly avoided a collision with a speeding asteroid. At 2023-01-27 00:29 UTC, an asteroid codenamed “2023 BU” came within about 3,589 kilometres of the planet’s surface, around the southerly tip of South America. To put…

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Merry Christmas 2004
ByGarf 2004-12-252026-01-14

“We’re getting out of here” – 2004 Christmas card. Geese photographed by the Cemetery Lake, Southampton Common.

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En route to Ronchamp Chapel
ByGarf 2001-08-132025-02-06

Wandered a bit further south today, mostly to visit Le Corbusier´s Ronchamp Chapel “Notre Dame du Haut” But we saw some other quite interesting things on the way including some classic French cars in remarkably good condition.

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Vista woes might lead us to better things
ByGarf 2007-07-312025-04-13

We bought a couple of IBM Lenovo 3000C200 laptop PCs in 2007 May. These are fairly average 1700MHz laptops purchased from a UK supplier called eBuyer for around 300 quid a throw. These came preloaded with the basic version of Windows Vista. To describe Vista’s performance as dismal would be understatement of the year. Problems…

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