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Didn’t you use another Linux at one time?
ByGarfEditors note, as of June 2024 this web server, and indeed most of our web servers now run Debian. As do many of our desktop and laptop machines. In 1995 our ISP set us up on a server running FreeBSD. Then in 2005 we built our own server, moved to Linux and chose a ‘live…
Hong Kong in the Rain
ByGarfSpent the afternoon wandering around Hong Kong in the rain. Despite the gloomy skies and the poor light, it still manages to be such a strangely photogenic city.
Angel Close-ups
ByGarfBought my girlfriend this little angel fairly thing. Thought I better grab a few snaps before I gave it to her.
MGF in France
ByGarfWandering around Alsace, France in a new MGF. Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.
Surely Ubuntu Linux is only for a minority of geeks & programmers?
ByGarfMinority interest? Yes. Only used by geeks & programmers? Not necessarily… Ubuntu is a minority interest insofar as it only has a fraction of the users that M$ Windows has. Moreover, despite great improvements in recent years, some configuration issues with Ubuntu are still a pain. However I disagree that you need to be a…
Light meter
ByGarfThese days almost all digital cameras offer excellent light metering, The old fashioned “light meter” has become a “thing of the past” to a large extent. Nevertheless they do still have their uses. For those still wishing to flirt with light meters but who don’t want to fork-out to the £100 or so that a…
