Welcome to my little corner of cyberspace. Here you can find a little information about me, Garfield Lucas and GarfNet, the site I have helped to develop since 1995. GarfNet is a heavily involved with the Open Source movement and I am believer a firm believer that you , the user, not the large corporations should choose what you run on your computer.
I just had quite a busy couple of weeks updating all the tables in our “Reference Tables” section. This is the part of the site where we put all the boring but occasionally useful stuff, such as battery sizes, radio frequencies, internet radio streams and an assortment of other tabulated data that comes in handy…
Skip preamble and launch Units Converter applet Another GarfNet software project snatched from the grave, this is a complete rebuild of the original GarfNet Unit Converter. The main feature of the new GarfNet converter applet is that it is bi directional. Whatever “Quantity:” box you use, the conversion will automagically appear in the other box….
Skip preamble and launch DoF calculator applet now. Welcome to the latest rework of the GarfNet Depth of Field Calculator. It is based on quite an old JavaScript application that appeared on the web back in the mid 1990s. I rewrote and extended it in the mid 2000’s. Consequently, it was looking rather old and…
Skip preamble and launch METAR applet now. This is a modern rework of a very old PHPWeather project that we eventually abandoned nearly a decade ago. I built this new version in PHP/MYSQL pretty much from scratch, albeit with a lot of help from PerplexityAI. Its main emphases are speed and simplicity. Basically it collects…
Do you remember Macromedia Flash? Now, thanks to the canny lads and lasses at Ruffle, Flash is back! To celebrate Garfnet’s 30th anniversary, we thought it would be fun not merely to reinstate the Flash presentations we used to host here, Only this time we’ll fix it so that readers can watch them on any…
As you may have noticed, quite a lot has changed here on Garfnet over the last few weeks. Biggest change of all is the decision to dump Joomla as our main CMS in favour of WordPress. I will go into more detail about the decision in another post. Suffice it to say that WordPress is…
Welcome to Garfnet. This site is currently undergoing a fairly major re-design and upgrade and some parts currently don’t work as well as they should. Sorry about that. I’m working on it as fast as I can.
1995-08-18 to 2013-08-18 Editors note: quite a lot of this article is obsolete. The site has changed quite a lot since 2013! GarfNet is penguin-powered and full of unixy goodness! Yep! we’re “open source” and enjoying every moment of it. GNU/Linux is serving us so well that there is hardly a whiff of the mighty…
Editor’s note 2018-01-01: Coppermine has been deprecated and we are no longer actively adding to it, nor are we accepting content on it from third-party users. The following text is kept here purely for historical purposes. We’ve been using Coppermine (a free, open source PHP/MYSQL gallery & database system) for several years here on GarfNet….
Welcome to the most boring and pointless page on the Worldwide Web. Sincere apologies to Sir Tim, who would no doubt be severely disappointed… And special apologies to those who clicked the “read more…” link. There is no more.
