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About GarfNet | Freebie | Garf Technology | General | Journal | Linux | Site Blog | Technology | Web ApplicationGarfNet METAR viewer
ByGarfSkip 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…
Merry Christmas 1996
ByGarfChristmas, a grim time for geese.
FAQ | Journal | Linux | TechnologySurely 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…
Digital pictures | Journal | LED | Lighting | Photography | Studio | TechnologyCheap but effective continuous studio lighting
ByGarfFor continuous lighting, one needs a light source that has good colour balance, uses power efficiently, is reasonably robust and does not present a health or fire risk. I am also a tightwad – interested primarily in “bangs per buck”. Whilst I love new technology, I am not prepared to pay silly money for it….
Digital pictures | General | Journal | Photography | Road Trip | TravelogueLangley Tavern and Lepe Beach
ByGarfWent out to the New Forest to visit my mother, in the little red MX5. While we were there, I took the opportunity top gather some images of Lepe Beach and the now dilapidated Langley Tavern. I also took a few snaps of my shiny new Eton S350DL multiband radio.
FAQ | Journal | Linux | Photography | TechnologyWhat about WEBP?
ByGarfJPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format for images has served us well for nearly three decades. But is is essentially a 1990’s format. Today we have better ways of compressing images. The most popular currently is Google’s WEBP (Web Picture) Format. Many modern websites use WebP as its default format for uploaded images that it…
