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Happy New Year 2023
A friend on Facebook posted a meme depicting this year 2023 as an ominous fog enveloping a wooden rope suspension bridge, of which we can only see the first few uninviting joists.… Read the rest.
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A great week-end it was
I took these photos while we toured the western and southern parts of the island last Saturday. I avoided using the Nikon D300, because it was in the way too much to be fun.… Read the rest.
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Cité Vallijee views
When we were in Mauritius in 2018, I planned the photographs below but could not make them. This year, they are the first pictures I took on our trip.… Read the rest.
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Papi, 12 September 2022
My father passed away, just one month short of his 96th birthday, which would have been three days ago. We were shocked by how quickly his health deteriorated in the weeks leading to his death, then we became hopelessly hopeful when he had a fleeting reprieve.… Read the rest.
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Debian Linux, kernel 5.19, and crypttab
A Debian Linux system, running kernel 5.19 with Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) encryption, sometimes fails to boot from the suspend state, with the error message: Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device.… Read the rest.
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The FG-20 must go
Another week, another series of tests with film. View of airship hangar from across the road View of airship hangar from car park Historic piece in Farnborough Business Park Regardless of their questionable compositions, these pictures are rather good for being shot on expired film.… Read the rest.
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Hit and miss
The results of my film development are still hit and miss. Here are samples from yet another roll that was started in 2018 and finished just this month.… Read the rest.
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Two-finger scrolling in GNOME
For two-finger scrolling to work consistently in GNOME Wayland, I have to place one finger on the touchpad before the other.… Read the rest.
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Solving error 1962 with Debian and UEFI on IdeaCentre K430
When setting up Debian Linux (Bullseye) on my Lenovo IdeaCentre K430 computer, I encountered problems related to UEFI. After the installation, the system did not boot and displayed the message Error 1962: No operating system found.… Read the rest.
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How to preserve custom /etc/resolv.conf entries with DHCP in Debian Linux
In Debian Linux, when a network interface is configured to obtain an IP address automatically, the DHCP client utility writes the values received from the server over the content of file /etc/resolv.conf.… Read the rest.