I always had rather a soft spot for geese. There used to be a small gaggle of them on the Cemetery Lake, on the Common, opposite my old place in…
This is a list of common ISO 216 (DIN 476) “A” & “B” & ISO 269 “C” series of paper sizes. Did you know that if you multiply the length…
…view of the world attracted contributors & readers from all around the planet. The New Millennium was a big project, undertaken on a shoestring budget. It resulted in a huge…
This is a list of common button cells, their equivalents, physical dimensions in millimetres, nominal open-circuit voltage and their mass in grams. Please note that battery voltage and capacity depends…
This is a list of commonly found lead-acid batteries with their dimensions in millimetres, open circuit voltage and their approximate mass in kilograms… Type Height (mm) Width (mm) Depth (mm)…
…a nutshell, everything we need is available by doing a simple “apt-get install ” from the command line. Once Linux is set up it is amazingly robust. And all that…
…Just in case anyone is wondering: after it the romanesco had completed its it’s tour of duty in the studio, we ate it. It was very tasty too! …
…have a sort of hedgehog highway behind the shed. And because we have no cats or dogs, they hedgehogs are free to pretty much come and go as they please….
These are the commonly used metric multiplier prefixes… Unit Abbreviation Factor (power of ten) Factor (number) Quetto q 1.E-30 0.000000000000000000000000000001 Ronno r 1.E-27 0.000000000000000000000000001 Yotto y 1.E-24 0.000000000000000000000001 Zepto z…
Editors note: these were our last Windows server builds. These machines were both upgraded to GNU/Linux in 2008, and MS Windows was completely removed. 2005-05-20 New MS Windows NT Server…
…rating 1/10 = hopeless! Events In a nutshell, we have purchased four Lenovo 3000C200laptop PC’s from eBuyer. The laptops performed abysmally under Windows Vista. So we replaced Vista with Kubuntu…
…broadcast stations near Southampton, England Aircraft frequencies, EU and UK Citizen’s Band frequencies, EU and UK Commonly used radio terminology PMR 446 frequencies Radio microphone frequencies VHF Marine band channels…
IBM is not one of Microsoft’s biggest fans, particularly after it was well-and -truly shafted in the OS/2 fiasco. So it seems very surprising that its subsidiary Lenovo refuses absolutely…
Potted history The New Millennium electronic magazine is ironically the oldest remaining part of the site – dating back to 1995:- https://garfnet.org.uk/new_mill/index.htm It was was an experimental but slightly dysfunctional…
A few snaps of my goosy friends on Southampton Common……
Christmas card 2010, “The Old Cemetery in the Snow.” The Old Cemetery runs alongside Southampton Common, about 800 metres from where I live and work. It is a beautiful and…
…come on. Located a few metres from the town centre, and set back a little from the main thoroughfare, Kyraly Utca, it is easy to miss as you walk past….
…could only get red ones. Or green if you were very rich. Today they come in lots of colours and they are brilliant fun to use with a digital camera….
…to have an excellent set of plugins called KIPI. Sadly the really useful ones such as resizing and changing format completely disappeared when KDE 5 came along. Screengrab showing BIMP…
Calais > Strasbourg Always had rather a soft spot for Strasbourg, with its strange dialect (Alsatian) and its complicated history. It’s also hope to the Council of Europe and the…
…But it is so bloody unreliable. Here it is yet again being towed away for warranty repairs. It’s the reason we set up MGFaulty.com – the “F” in MGF. 🙂…
…makes remind me of the speaker grille on my old Roamer Ten kit radio. So I thought it might be interesting to combine the two and capture a few snaps….
These are some frequencies commonly used by wireless microphones. Please remember that eavesdropping is illegal in some countries. This information is here purely for scientific and educational purposes only. 😉 …
