Look Mum No Computer’s analog synth cover of Walking in the Air from The Snowman.
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Harrowdown Hill / Thom York (2006)
Thom York’s catchy 2006 polemic on the Iraq War and the death of Doctor David Kelly. For a music video that first premiered on a mainstream commercial TV station, Harrowdown Hill turns out to be bloody difficult to find in any quality better than ‘potato’. Indeed, the version above – while still not proper HD and occasionally raked by compression artefacts – appears to be the best one currently available and its hidden away on director Chel White’s Vimeo page! The version on XL Recordings YouTube page? Just a squidgy mush!
Current Mood
Right now, a foot or so of snow – and the deep quiet that it would bring with it – feel tremendously attractive.
Dr Who on Holiday / Green Day, The Timelords, Dean Gray et. al. (2005)
I’ve managed to become rather obsessed with this Holiday / Doctorin’ the Tardis / Other Bits and Bobs mashup from the mid 00s. It’s pulled from the American Edit mashup album and the whole thing comes together far better than it has any right too…
The Setting Sun – A Loch Bay Timelapse
A timelapse of the setting sun over Loch Bay, Skye. Shot via drone in the autumn of 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!