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Merry Christmas 2004
ByGarf“We’re getting out of here” – 2004 Christmas card. Geese photographed by the Cemetery Lake, Southampton Common.
Digital pictures | Electronics | Garf Technology | Journal | Linux | Photography | Radio | TechnologySonos alternative
ByGarfWe’re busy replacing a customer’s ageing Sonos distributed sound system with a Linux Media Server (c/w SAMBA for remaining Sonos kit) c/w these tiny Linux-powered SBCs (single board commuters) as replacements. Granted, this is merely a prototype. This unit is based upon a Raspberry pi 4B c/w 8GiB RAM, a capacitive touchscreen and an external…
Reintroducing Storks to Britain
ByGarfFollowing on from my post about Szofi and Macus, seems people all over Europe are cheering for them. They’ve become storky superstars! 🙂 Meantime back here in old Blighty, storks’ 360,000 year archaeological relationship with Britain came to an end several centuries ago, when it seems they were hunted to extinction. However, there currently three sites…
FAQ | Journal | Linux | TechnologyMy shiny new 20 TB Ultrastar hard disk
ByGarfI 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…
Lisbon, Portugal, day 12
ByGarfToday we went to Estoril.
Digital pictures | General | Journal | Nature | PhotographyStag Beetle Larvae in my garden
ByGarfI decided to a bit of work in the garden yesterday afternoon. As I was clearing away some of the dead wood from some old tree stumps round the back of my shed, I came across these wee beasties. They were massive. Unfortunately they were a tad camera-shy, but before they curled up, they were…
