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Happy July 4
ByGarfHappy July 4 to all our American friends, celebrating the fact their ancestors had the good sense to rid themselves of our awful Royal Family. Here in the UK, it’s General Election time again. For some strange reason, it was called for 2024-07-04. Hopefully the results of this election should be cause for celebration here…
Aircraft HA-MDT and HA-MAM spray insecticide over Pécs
ByGarfAnother warm afternoon in Pécs.as a pair of very noisy biplanes buzzed overhead for an hour or two spraying insecticide over the city. Their purpose was to kill mosquitoes. The aircraft were single-engined, twin-winged PZL-Mielec AN-2R, tail numbers HA-MDT and HA-MAM. They looked and sounded like something that belonged pre-World War 2. However, they were…
A very near miss
ByGarfSeems during the wee small hours of this morning, our little blue planet had a very near miss, as we narrowly avoided a collision with a speeding asteroid. At 2023-01-27 00:29 UTC, an asteroid codenamed “2023 BU” came within about 3,589 kilometres of the planet’s surface, around the southerly tip of South America. To put…
Latest BBC HLS Radio streams
ByGarfEDITORS NOTE 2025-01-22. BBC changed its streams, yet again. Consequently, most of the BBC of the streams on this page no longer work. New streams that do actually work can be found at:- Internet radio player URLs Following the fiasco at the end of last week, when the BBC killed all its HLS internet radio…
Debian Digital pictures Electronics Equipment FAQ Journal Linux Photography Studio Photography Technology ZoneminderUpdate: Raspberry π4 8GB for Zoneminder part 2
ByGarfFollowing on from my last article, this is Raspberry π4 8GB for Zoneminder part 2. Now I have had time to set it up and test it for a while. Firstly, I decided to abandon the ARM64 version of Ubuntu on π because it seems slow and clunky. Basically it seems the current beta ARM64…
Road trip to Ely
ByGarfI found myself in Cambridge, giving an IT course. The weather was pleasant and war, the countryside interesting and i had a nice new MX5 to drive. I also had Fuji S2 digital camera on loan form a client. So I took myself off to the beautiful city of Ely and its environs, whilst taking…
