Southampton
A few snaps from around Southampton City Centre.
Spending Christmas and New Yerwith my girlfriend’s folks in Christmas in Pécs, Hungary. Spent most of today in the town, wading through the snow and drinking hot coffee and brandy in a café.
Wandered a bit further south today, mostly to visit Le Corbusier´s Ronchamp Chapel “Notre Dame du Haut” But we saw some other quite interesting things on the way including some classic French cars in remarkably good condition.
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…
Seems we had to put up with Donald Trump, Brexit and Coronavirus all in one year! Here in Havant on the south coast of England, we are now in what our Government describes as a coronavirus Tier 4 area. Personally I don’t mind staying at home. I have enough food, half a bottle of decent-is…
Through the Austrian Alps > Kufstein I managed to get sunstroke driving through the Austrian Alps. So we stopped at the strange but beautiful little town of Kufstein so I could take on some fluids and recover for the next leg of the journey. Other days Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 You are here:…
I 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…