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This article came about as the result of a support call.

I have always rather enjoyed plugging test equipment into a PC and capturing the readings.

Firefox running in Debian with KDE Desktop has a rather annoying bug, where it won’t open geo URI links using OSM (OpenStreetMap).

I just had quite a busy couple of weeks updating all the tables in our “Reference Tables” section.

Another little AI image generation project using Stable Diffusion, via perhance.org.

This was a little AI project to create a handful of hero images for our deprecated TV Sound Frequencies pages.

If you live in the UK and you want decent speed at an affordable price, then you need to establish whether FttP (Fibre to the Premises) is available to your property yet?

Went to try to photograph today’s solar eclipse.

Found myself on top of Portsdown Hill again today, with its magnificent views over Cosham, Portsmouth, Southsea, the Solent and 13 km+ into the distance, the Isle of wight.

As temperatures in Washington DC reach record highs in excess of 40°C, seven loyal Trump supporters have been hospitalised, due to the excessive heat.

Sandwiched between the suburban sprawl of Fareham, and a section of the 42 kilometres of perpetual roadworks also known as the M27 motorway, there is, or there will be, Welborne “Garden Village”.

[Jump to gallery | script] These are some almost SooC images BUT cropped square AND with left and right images swapped AND “alignment circles” at the bottom.

[Jump to Gallery] As part of my embryonic GNU/Linux digital camera project, I recently built a 3D camera module.

I thought it might be handy to make a small collection of web-based resources for outdoor photography and similar activities.

[Jump to gallery | scripts] This article documents my first experiments in producing red-cyan anaglyphs.

[Jump to gallery | script] These are some almost SooC images BUT with left and right images swapped AND “alignment circles” at the bottom.

[Jump to gallery | script] These are some almost SooC images BUT with left and right images swapped.

I visited the recently rewilded Knepp estate earlier today.

Today is my wife’s wedding anniversary 🙂 and she has a bit of a penchant for white storks.

[Jump to gallery | script to add exif] These are some unedited 3D SooC (straight out of camera) 1600 x 1200 pixel stereo pairs (3200 x 1200 pixel overall) from my recently constructed stereo camera module.

Found myself near Cobden bridge, in Southampton, armed with my recently converted , “full spectrum” Lumix DMC-GH2 Micro Four Thirds camera.

Following on from a discussion on a photographic forum who which I belong, an old hobby horse of mine raised its head again.

These are a few infrared snaps using studio lighting.

I suffer dreadful mental blocks at times.

This is the tale of yet another crappy British telecoms provider.

It was a cold but sunny day today.

Seems this time it’s Venezuela’s turn to have its infrastructure destroyed and its citizens blown to pieces.

Fora all over the worldwide web are buzzing that Windows 10 reached end of life, c/w cries of “…but, but, my computer won’t run Windows 11“.

End of year tends to make one reflect, and look back over the last year or so.

I am slowly becoming accustomed to infrared photography, with the “full spectrum” Lumix µ4/3 camera that by Protech Photographic recently converted for me.

Well today is Boxing day, and the sun just managed to struggle its way out of the clouds around 14:00.

Well, there goes another year – whizzed past even faster than the last one.

It’s Christmas Eve and my old Lumix DMC-GH2 has just been delivered back, Special Delivery, following its conversion to “full spectrum”, by Protech Photographic in Crowborough.

On one of the photographic fora to which I belong, there seems something of a panic with regard to AI photography taking over the likes of Instagram, Facebook et al.

I just sent a spare µ4/3 camera body off to Protech Photographic in Crowborough to have it converted to “full spectrum” for Infrared work.

Arne Haugrud was a fairly well known Norwegian pewter maker.

I found myself in my wife’s old hometown of Pécs, a small university city and former Roman settlement about 200 km south of the Hungarian capital Budapest.

These are some rather useful additional applications or features that are not currently in the Debian repositories.

Now here’s something you can’t do with Microsoft Windows – install a fully loaded Debian 13 system in a single command.

Regular readers will know I’m quite a Tandberg fan – especially arguably Vebjørn Tandberg’s greatest works, the Huldra series.

I don’t have a TV licence – I don’t intend to buy one either.

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.

Windows 10 officially reaches end of life 2025-10-14.

Skip preamble and launch DoF calculator applet now.

Skip preamble and launch METAR applet now.

How do I change my Google password is another of those frequently asked questions that customers regularly ask me.

Seems as if it were only the day before yesterday, but it is in fact thirty years to the day since GarfNet had its own domain.

Finally got decent fibre to the property (FttP) broadband here on Hampshire’s new high-speed “CityFIbre” network as retailed by local provider ‘toob’.

Question that comes up from time to time amongst the Android users I support is, “How do I change my email password in FairEmail?”

In this article I will attempt to address issues upgrading to KDE Plasma 6 from Plasma 5 that I have encountered lately.