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Day trip to London

ByGarf created2005-12-07 23:592025-02-06 17:14 updated2025-02-06 17:14 Digital pictures, General, Journal, Photography, Technology, Travelogue

Day trip to London to see the lights..

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USB Type D
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Having all become familiar with USB C, seems the USB Group has just announced an even newer and faster connection standard, to be known as “USB D”. Of course, like all new Universal Serial Bus connectors, it will be completely incompatible with all previous USB standards. To guarantee incompatibility, the new connectors will be circular….

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Himeji Castle Japan
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Day trip to Himeji Castle, photographed by my girlfriend Zsuzsi.

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I’m a big fan of WINE and an even bigger fan of CrossoverLinux. This is the commercial implementation of WINE by CodeWeavers. For many Windows apps it works very well indeed. In many ways I prefer it to using a virtual machine (VM) because firstly one does not have to start a VM just to…

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A thread on a photographic forum to which I belong started me thinking about using gobos. I always liked the idea of a proper gobo projector, but for a modifier that I would likely only use occasionally, I didn’t like the cost. So I decided to have a look around to see if there were…

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I’m often amazed by the money some Hi-Fi buffs spend on their systems. I’m something of a tightwad, and I took a rather different approach. This involves mixed tech – or as I prefer to call it, “appropriate technology“. I run one of these. It used to be an Acer Windows box, but all that…

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