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Le Corbusier´s Ronchamp Chapel “Notre Dame du Haut”, France.
ByGarfToday we drove down to one of my favourite places, Le Corbusier´s strangely beautiful Ronchamp Chapel “Notre Dame du Haut”, France. Camera: Olympus C2500L
Escape to Hong Kong II – Kowloon
ByGarfWandered into Kowloon today, camera at the ready. I’ve always been particularly fascinated by Canton Road, where there are tiny shops packed to the ceilings with engineering bits, bearings springs etc. And other emporia with distinctly amusing names.
FAQ | Journal | Linux | Site Blog | TechnologyDidn’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…
FAQ | Journal | Linux | TechnologyOk so I installed Ubuntu but I hate the Gnome desktop?
ByGarfIf you want a version of Ubuntu that looks & feels like more like your familiar Windoze XP then try the free upgrade to Kubuntu. Kubuntu uses the KDE desktop. IMHO KDE is loads nicer and much more feature-rich than either Windoze or the Gnome desktop. As well as being highly customisable, KDE makes extensive…
Escape to Hong Kong – Mui Wo beach
ByGarfI needed to get away from things for a while. Fortunately an old pal had a spare room in his basement, in his house on one of the outer Hong Kong islands. Today we went to Mui Wo Beach, about 1 km from his house.
Electronics | Freebie | Journal | Radio | Retrospective | Sounds | Technology | Vintage Radio EquipmentShortwave radio recordings
ByGarf“Shortwave radio recordings” is a small collection of recordings of various HF and VHF transmissions. These have been hanging around since I recorded them using my Icom IC-R20 radio scanner back in the mid-late noughties. I’m not sure how much interest these will be to other people. But considering Garfnet’s 30th anniversary is only just…
