Aliens ate my shed
Slightly off-the-wall experiment with a pair of broken mannequins and some cheap but effective RGB LED lighting.
Editor’s note: Things have changed since this article was published. Today’s Debian installer is excellent and many of our desktop and laptop machines now run Debian “stable” branch. We have also found that in many cases Debian runs faster on old hardware than Ubuntu. Currently the editor’s own laptop is running Debian “testing” branch. Yes…
Garf Technology is something of a ‘lifestyle business‘. This is where one is more concerned with doing things ‘well‘ & enjoying it, rather than trying to make a ‘fast buck‘. Or as a more sceptical observer might put it: somehow I manage to get paid to do my various hobbies! I love it! Sometimes I…
Long Live Ukraine – a collection of Ukraine-related video-feeds, hyperlinks, newsfeeds, artwork and memes. Webcams Pictures A few of these are humorous memes. The rest serve as a painful reminder us of horrific human tragedy that is currently unfolding before our eyes. I plan to add to them as the conflict progresses. Links Links …
End of year tends to make one reflect, and look back over the last year or so. As I did so, my “inner six-year-old’s” mind wandered onto the subject of my favourite camera lens. Problem is that I kinda like them all and I’ve had a lot of fun with them. My favourite lens is…
Is AI, a serious threat to artists? Or yet more IT industry bullshit? I’ve been in the IT industry for many years. I still look back with some amusement at a teacher who told us, a class of 8-9 year olds, that computers were, “Modern labour-saving machines“. Having spent most of my working life either…
Editor’s note: We became so sick and tired of Joomla’s bugs and upgrade issues that we eventually dumped it altogether in 2018, in favour of WordPress. It actually took less time to move to WordPress than it did to perform yet another Joomla upgrade “migration”. Upgrading from Joomla 1.0 to version 1.5 must be one…