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Merry Christmas 2002
ByGarf2002 Christmas card. by Sarah Keen.
Synthetic stupidity – or one man and his cabbage…
ByGarfLike quite a few photographers, I have been flirting with AI (artificial intelligence) digital imaging. Regular readers may even have spotted my Synthetic Stupidity gallery dedicated to the fact that at the moment, publicly available AI graphics tools really aren’t particularly good – even though they are quite good fun to play with. In fact…
Collecting a New MGF
ByGarfThe old MGF was very pretty but incredibly unreliable. Eventually after a fight, MG Rover swapped it for a new one. Today we went to collect it. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
The Big Russian – my MTO 1000 mm catadioptric lens
ByGarfThis is by far my largest and longest focal-length lens. Rumour has it that the MTO 1000 mm catadioptric lens was “standard issue” to KGB surveillance operatives during the Cold War Era. MTO itself also has an interesting history. Seems it started out by making the huge glass reflectors for Russian anti-aircraft arc-lights. It made…
FAQ | Journal | Linux | TechnologyHow to make (K)Ubuntu play copy-protected DVD’s, and…
ByGarf…and Windows Media, Skype and GoogleEarth One of the problems with (K)Ubuntu (and many other Linux distributions) is that it will not play commercial, copy-protected DVD’s and a number of other proprietary file formats, out-of-the-box. There are complex legal and ethical reasons for this. However, many users just want to play their files and watch…
About Joomla
ByGarfEditor’s note: this article was written when GarfNet first changed from a hand-written HTML site to a CMS driven one. Sadly, Joomla failed us in many ways, not least the fact we went through several soul-destroying upgrades that took longer to sort out than if I had coded the site by hand. Today we use…
