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Update – Laptops Direct
ByGarfWe eventually did hear back from Laptops direct. Amazingly, its sales team openly admits that it ignores the Microsoft EULA! So nil penguin points! But if there were a category for honesty then it would get plenty of penguins! The emails are in reverse order and since I guess the sales person is just “following…
Escape to Hong Kong II – Macau with my friends
ByGarfCaught the catamaran to visit the former Portuguese colony Macau today, accompanied by my friends and hosts.
More infrared photography
ByGarfWell today is Boxing day, and the sun just managed to struggle its way out of the clouds around 14:00. As luck would have it, my variable infrared filter actually arrived from Shenzen late Christmas eve. So, following on from my early IR adventures on Christmas Eve, I thought I’d pop out to our backyard…
Around Havant with a Risespray 7.5mm lens
ByGarfI rather like Micro Four Thirds. Currently I have three µ4/3 bodies and a collection of both dedicated AF (autofocus) and adapted vintage MF (manual focus) lenses. Trouble with µ4/3 is that whilst we are very well catered-for in terms of long lenses, there’s a bit of a vacuum in shorter ones. So I decided…
Debian Digital pictures Freebie General Journal Linux Modular Camera Project Photography Shell Scripts Studio Photography Technology3D square stereograms and BASH script
ByGarf[Jump to gallery | script] These are some almost SooC images BUT cropped square AND with left and right images swapped AND “alignment circles” at the bottom. These 3D square stereograms were captured with my recently constructed stereo camera module. This is part of an ongoing project to create a modular GNU/Linux digital camera system…
Vista woes might lead us to better things
ByGarfWe bought a couple of IBM Lenovo 3000C200 laptop PCs in 2007 May. These are fairly average 1700MHz laptops purchased from a UK supplier called eBuyer for around 300 quid a throw. These came preloaded with the basic version of Windows Vista. To describe Vista’s performance as dismal would be understatement of the year. Problems…
