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ByGarfApologies to readers who had difficulty accessing this site between 2007-07-12 & 2007-07-20. We suffered several simultaneous technical issues including a cock-up on the part of British Telecom and a hard disk failure in the GarfNet server. We also had some essential maintenance that needed doing, including to upgrading the operating system and various content…
FAQ | Journal | Linux | TechnologyHow to upgrade to “Goosebuntu” – a fully loaded (K)ubuntu 7.xx (Gutsy) system
ByGarfNote this applies to Ubuntu 7.xx and may be out of date. For Ubuntu 8.xx please visit:- http://www.garfnet.org.uk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=136&Itemid=58 These are my favourite (K)ubuntu applications. The name “Goosebuntu” is not entirely serious – it is just a name we coined in the office. However the following apps will turn a standard Kubuntu installation into something really…
Synthetic stupidity – or one man and his cabbage…
ByGarfLike quite a few photographers, I have been flirting with AI (artificial intelligence) digital imaging. Regular readers may even have spotted my Synthetic Stupidity gallery dedicated to the fact that at the moment, publicly available AI graphics tools really aren’t particularly good – even though they are quite good fun to play with. In fact…
Why I still quite like Micro Four Thirds
ByGarfAbout a decade ago, I decided to go “mirrorless” – basically abandoning my heavy old Pentax DSLR and going for a system camera that is smaller and lighter. At the time I considered the new Fuji mirrorless offerings and micro four thirds. Problem was that at the time Fuji raw files would not work in…
Digital pictures | FAQ | Journal | Linux | Photography | Studio | VideoManaging a large image library with Piwigo
ByGarfI like taking photos. Trouble is that I’m a tad trigger-happy with the shutter button. Over the last few decades I have captured around ½ million of my own digital images and about 33,000 scanned from 35mm neg. On top of that there are around 45,000 edited/retouched images – not to mention a thousand or…
Digital pictures | Electronics | Equipment | FAQ | Journal | Photography | Technology | VideoRepairing PTZ IP camera
ByGarfOur Floureon pan tilt and zoom external IP camera has shipped a bit of water. It lives on the south west corner of the building and gets battered by the strong south westerly prevailing winds we have here. So I took it off the wall this morning and dismantled it on my work bench. General…
