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Lancashire and Lancaster walkabout

ByGarf created2002-03-31 23:592025-02-06 20:37 updated2025-02-06 20:37 Digital pictures, Journal, Photography, Travelogue

Lancashire and Lancaster walkabout with friends and clients who live in that part of the world.

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Lisbon, Portugal, day 14
ByGarf 2005-09-092025-02-06

Today we caught the train down to Lisbon Beach, Portugal. Very pleasant it was too.

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Portsmouth from Portsdown Hill
ByGarf 2017-06-192025-02-06

Testing out my new old MTO 1000mm lens that I recently found cheap on eBay… You can find out more about the massive MTO 1000mm that I used to take these shots, here.

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GarfNet METAR viewer
ByGarf 2025-09-282025-11-25

Skip preamble and launch METAR applet now. This is a modern rework of a very old PHPWeather project that we eventually abandoned nearly a decade ago. I built this new version in PHP/MYSQL pretty much from scratch, albeit with a lot of help from PerplexityAI. Its main emphases are speed and simplicity. Basically it collects…

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Infrared retrospective
ByGarf 2025-12-212025-12-21

I just sent a spare µ4/3 camera body off to Protech Photographic in Crowborough to have it converted to “full spectrum” for Infrared work. Meantime, I thought it might be fun to go back over some of my earlier IR stuff, captured off somewhat lesser cameras. My earliest adventures into IR date way back to…

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Upgrading Ubuntu 9.x to Kubuntu 9.x
ByGarf 2009-09-012024-12-06

Firstly, as ever, please back up anything that is important – as you would with any major upgrade on any computer system! Then you can either use the Synaptic package manager or in this instance it is probably quicker to install from a Terminal window. First you need to ensure the system is fully up…

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My Ubuntu sound system suddenly stopped working. Can I restart it without rebooting?
ByGarf 2009-07-092024-12-06

Sometimes your Ubuntu sound system can stop working. Often this is caused by a media player plugin in your web browser. You might also notice that your computer goes very slowly and that if it is browser-related, then the browser will perform at a snail’s pace! As a Linux user, you will no doubt consider…

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