Escape to Hong Kong II – a bite of dum sung
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This is the fourth article in a series of case studies illustrating the difficulty one has purchasing a PC in the UK without being forced to pay a “Microsoft Tax”. We use Linux on all our PC’s and have done so for several years. Therefore we do not need, nor should we be forced to…
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GarfNet METAR viewer
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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Didn’t you use another Linux at one time?
Editors note, as of June 2024 this web server, and indeed most of our web servers now run Debian. As do many of our desktop and laptop machines. In 1995 our ISP set us up on a server running FreeBSD. Then in 2005 we built our own server, moved to Linux and chose a ‘live…
Escape to Hong Kong – Mui Wo beach
I needed to get away from things for a while. Fortunately an old pal had a spare room in his basement, in his house on one of the outer Hong Kong islands. Today we went to Mui Wo Beach, about 1 km from his house.
