A timelapse of the setting sun over Loch Bay, Skye. Shot via drone in the autumn of 2023.
Monthly Archives: November 2023
Automatic Logon for Fedora Core 5
In the unlikely event that this is useful for someone else – an automatic logon for Fedora Core 5 can be set via editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf and setting the following values
[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=<Username>Go! Go and have fun automatically logging into your nearly 18 year old operating system!
cat /proc/cpuinfo for a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Model B Rev 1.0
cat /proc/cpuinfo for a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Model B Rev 1.0 running Raspberry Pi OS. It feels oddly sparse when compared to my NUC7PJYH NUC (Pentium Silver J5005) though I suppose that’s a RISC verses CISC thing…
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xd0b
CPU revision : 1
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xd0b
CPU revision : 1
processor : 2
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xd0b
CPU revision : 1
processor : 3
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xd0b
CPU revision : 1
Hardware : BCM2835
Revision : d04170
Serial : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Model : Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0
Next goal is to find time to try and get ESXi onto it…
Sometimes a Dyke is…
Whist poking around on the BBC Genome website trying to find out the original airdate for Band of Brothers I wandered across this rather surprising warning…
FOLK as ROUGH as IRON Filings – Omnibus (1971)
And the BBC Archive has coughed up a lovely spot of old industrial folk music from the early 1970s. It’s certainly worth a listen and it’d be nice if the entirety of that edition of Omnibus somehow managed to make it to iPlayer…
Grabbing just the original files from Internet Archive objects
Time for another little magic spell that I need to jot down before I forget it. And this time for the Internet Archive’s command line tools.
Occasionally you’ll want to grab an object but you won’t want any of the Internet Archive-derived products. This can be done via…
ia download --source=original <object name>And there you go – a whole bunch of bandwidth and disk saved!
WhoPlayer
As has been more than adequately commented on elsewhere, almost* all of the existent Doctor Who library has hit iPlayer – with the classic episodes, when queried by get_iplayer, reporting an expiry date of 2028-11-01T05:59:00+00:00. So that’s plenty of time to be thoroughly overwhelmed by choice!
*except for An Unearthly Child as – apparently – the writer’s son has issues….
Continue readingHMS St. Vincent Takes In Sail
An interesting little bit of history today; one of the few surviving bits of film of a British warship under sail to be taken while she was still part of the Royal Navy.
First laid down in Devonport in 1810 and launched just before Waterloo in 1815, HMS St. Vincent – a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line – managed to hang on as an armed training vessel until she was scrapped in 1906.
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