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Lisbon, Portugal, day 10

ByGarf created2005-09-05 23:592025-02-06 17:14 updated2025-02-06 17:14 Digital pictures, Journal, Photography, Travelogue

Today we went to Lisbon, Castle and took a ride on the Tram.

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Long spring weekend in Paris, day 2
ByGarf 2004-05-292025-02-06

Decided to take my new girlfriend and a Fuji S2 Pro to Paris for a long weekend. Today we wandered around Notre Dame and its environs. Camera: Fuji S2 Pro.

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120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens, in action, on Portsdown Hill
ByGarf 2024-01-052025-06-04

Regular readers may know that my 2023 Christmas project was to make this 120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens fit on my µ4/3 cameras and actually capture some pictures with it. Unfortunately, at the time, the weather was too wet to take the thing outdoors. Fortunately by early January the weather became…

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Trying to buy a PC without Windows part 4 – eBuyer
ByGarf 2009-08-092024-12-06

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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Road trip to Lymington in the MGF
ByGarf 2000-08-202025-02-06

Road trip to Lymington and across the New Forest in the MGF roadster.

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Microsoft’s biggest ever outage, caused by Crowdstrike
ByGarf 2024-07-192025-02-06

Today our planet is suffering what appears to be Microsoft’s biggest ever outage. Seems the culprit is a piece of buggy “security” software provided by a company called Crowdstrike. Or is that Clownstrike? It sends Microsoft Windows computers into a never-ending boot loop, from which users cannot escape, without going into “safe mode” and removing…

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Image processing using FOSS
ByGarf 2022-03-062025-08-18

I belong to several online photography fora. One of the questions that repeatedly pops up is “what image editing software do you use?” and “what alternatives are there to Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom?” In this article, I hope to demonstrate that high quality image processing is perfectly possible using FOSS (free open source software). I will also…

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