It’s rather pleasant living opposite Southampton Common. Always lots to see and photograph, especially on a nice warm summer’s day like today. These shots were taken using a tiny Lumix DMC-LX1 digital camera. Pretty good results, I think, all things considered.
More astute observers may have noticed that GarfNet has changed a bit lately. You may also have observed that some features are missing and some don’t work at all. We’re really sorry about this. Trouble is that Garfnet is currently upgrading its main CMS (content management system) from Joomla 1.0.x to Joomla 1.5.x. This task…
Today we took a wander into Honk Kong hopped on a tram and took a look at the Museum of Coastal Defence. Then we went on to Tung Lung. Tram ride was fun too. I managed to grab a seat right at the front of the top deck, and took lots of photos. Shame it…
We’re busy replacing a customer’s ageing Sonos distributed sound system with a Linux Media Server (c/w SAMBA for remaining Sonos kit) c/w these tiny Linux-powered SBCs (single board commuters) as replacements. Granted, this is merely a prototype. This unit is based upon a Raspberry pi 4B c/w 8GiB RAM, a capacitive touchscreen and an external…
In this article I will attempt to address issues upgrading to KDE Plasma 6 from Plasma 5 that I have encountered lately. This is not an exhaustive list. But having undertaken a number of Debian 12 (“Bookworm”) to Debian 13 (“Trixie”) upgrades recently, these are the KDE issues that cropped up for me. I thought…
I found myself in Hong Kong in Christmas 1998 and early January 1999, and decided to treat myself to a new camera. My first half-decent digital, an Olympus C1400L. These are some of its results…
