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Osaka Japan

ByGarf created2009-04-21 23:592025-02-06 17:14 updated2025-02-06 17:14 Digital pictures, Japan, Journal, Photography, Travelogue

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Decided to take a break from Hong Kong and spend a few days in and around Osaka, Japan. It rained quite hard today, so we took a riverboat trip. Also found some LED geese.

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Escape to Hong Kong – Fires in the Mui Wo Hills
ByGarf 2004-01-142025-02-06

Took a few snaps of large helicopters dropping water bombs on some bush firs in the hills behind my pal’s house in Mui Wo.

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A fully loaded Debian 13 system
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Now here’s something you can’t do with Microsoft Windows – install a fully loaded Debian 13 system in a single command. In this article we are going to install a whole shedload of applications all at once with a single shell command – albeit quite a long one! This is a quick and easy way…

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Arca desk clamp for a heavy smartphone
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I’m a clumsy clot and I’m always knocking my phone off my desk. OK it’s ruggedised and the floor is carpeted. Nevertheless, ruggedisation has its limits. Also my phone is a heavy old beast, weighing some 360 grams. That’s around 3/4 lb in “old money“. Which means that those flimsy plastic phone holders you see…

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Escape to Hong Kong II – Central
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Went into Central with my hots today. It was quite hot and we didn’t do much. But I did manage to grab a handful moderately good snaps.

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Hot Spots
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Garfnet has become a huge site with many component parts. Here are some of the more useful bits, complete with nice, short URL’s you can bookmark, scribble down on a stick-it note or (heaven forbid) memorise! All things Linux:- http://www.garfnet.org.uk/linux Depth of field (DoF) calculator:- http://www.garfnet.org.uk/dof Earthquake info:- http://www.garfnet.org.uk/earthquake International weather from 3000 METAR stations…

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Using VirtualBox to run Windows apps that will not run on WINE
ByGarf 2009-01-242024-12-06

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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