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Merry Christmas 2024
ByGarfWishing you a very merry peaceful Christmas, followed by a happy, successful New Year. Creating this year’s card This year we wanted to do something a little different. So we decided to deploy Stable Diffusion open source artificial intelligence to generate the main image. Unfortunately AI is not good at drawing signs. So that was…
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…
FAQ | Journal | Linux | TechnologyCoppermine “batch-add” hangs
ByGarfJust occasionally one stumbles across a small but very annoying problem, that takes ages to hunt down a fix. However, when you do stumble across the solution, you find it was just one tiny mistake – that should never have been made in the first place. On our site http://www.garfnet.org.uk/coppermine we use a special Coppermine…
Hey, Hey, Rise-Up
ByGarf“Hey, Hey, Rise-Up!” released on 2022-04-08, is Pink Floyd’s first new song since 1994. It will be used to raise funds for humanitarian causes associated with the warin Ukraine. It samples Andriy Khlyvnyuk, a member of one of Ukraine’s biggest bands, BoomBox, singing in Sofiyskaya Square in Kyiv, in a video clip that went viral….
Road trip to Hungary, part 4
ByGarfThrough the Austrian Alps > Kufstein I managed to get sunstroke driving through the Austrian Alps. So we stopped at the strange but beautiful little town of Kufstein so I could take on some fluids and recover for the next leg of the journey. Other days Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 You are here:…
London Golf Show – arrival the night before
ByGarfMy girlfriend was working for the London Golf Show and asked me if I’d care to join her in for a few days ad take lots of pictures of the show. Naturally I agreed. These are a few snaps as we arrived the night before the show began, at the Excel Centre, London.
