Escape to Hong Kong – Fires in the Mui Wo Hills
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Escape to Hong Kong – Kowloon
Kowloon
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Image processing using FOSS
I belong to several online photography fora. One of the questions that repeatedly pops up is “what image editing software do you use?” and “what alternatives are there to Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom?” In this article, I hope to demonstrate that high quality image processing is perfectly possible using FOSS (free open source software). I will also…
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How to upgrade from Ubuntu to Kubuntu (version 8.xx – Hardy)
Firstly 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 we make sure the system is fully up to date. Simply…
