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Studio refurbishment
ByGarfFor reasons I won’t bore you with now, my wife and I need to be rather careful regarding respiratory infections. I did my last model shoot 2020-03-08, shut everything down pro tem due to COVID. Amongst other projects, I used the time-out to undertake a fairly major refurbishment of my studio. I wanted to get…
Southampton Common in the Snow
ByGarfThere was an unusually heavy fall of snow overnight. So I thought I would wander across to the Common and grab a few snaps.
Surely Ubuntu Linux is only for a minority of geeks & programmers?
ByGarfMinority interest? Yes. Only used by geeks & programmers? Not necessarily… Ubuntu is a minority interest insofar as it only has a fraction of the users that M$ Windows has. Moreover, despite great improvements in recent years, some configuration issues with Ubuntu are still a pain. However I disagree that you need to be a…
MGF at Ferrybridge power station
ByGarfMGF by the Angel of the North and by the cooling towers at Ferrybridge power station. Camera: Olympus C2500L.
All your base
ByGarfToday we take a little trip back in time to one of the internet’s oldest and most famous memes: “All Your Base”. AKA “All your base are belong to us“, this internet meme was based on a badly translated phrase from the opening scene of a video game called “Zero Wing“. The phrase first appeared…
Backing up using big, cheap hard disks and some nifty Unix tools
ByGarfWe all have our favourite methods of data backup. Certainly DVD is a good archiving and distribution medium. But for routine backup, I look for reliability, low cost, ease of use, high-speed, high capacity and redundancy – so I am not reliant on just one device. One of my favourite methods is a complete off-site…
