Arstechnica has a nice little interview with John Romero about some of his early work on 3D shooters. And if you enjoyed that, then I’d also recommend Masters of Doom.
Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter
Author: ChrisC
Stupid Girl / Garbage (1996)
It had been a while since I’d properly listened to any Garbage and I’d forgotten just how catchy some of their early work was. Fortunately, Stupid Girl happened to show up during some of my weekly Top of the Pops viewing and prodded enough tired memories to the surface that I now know what I’ll be listening to this afternoon.
A Flight Over Winscar Reservoir
Winscar reservoir and the east end of the old Woodhead Tunnels
When Daffodils Attack: 1981’s The Day of the Triffids come to Blu-Ray – Episode One
Quick Links
Introduction
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
Episode Five
Episode Six
The Blu Ray Package
Starring the Computer
Starring the Computer is a fun – if somewhat geeky – site recording the use of various computers in films and television. As long with the usual suspects – such as the Apple Macintosh SE and the Commodore 64 – they have some more obscure devices, such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 pictured below. It is really worth a look.
The Wheel at Saint Sampson’s Square
It looks like the giant ferris wheel is back in York!
Though I’ve not yet been around it, Saint Sampson’s Square does feel like a good spot for it.
When Daffodils Attack: 1981’s The Day of the Triffids come to Blu-Ray – Introduction
Quick Links
Introduction
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
Episode Five
Episode Six
The Blu Ray Package
The Giant’s Quoit, Porthoustock
There are two Giant’s Quoits in Cornwall; the first – and most famous – is the table-shaped Dolmen better known as the Carwynnen Quoit found just outside of Carwynnen near Camborne. The second is an odd-looking rock formation found next to the road between St. Keverne and Porthoustock. This post is about the second of these.
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lspci and the Pimoroni NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5
A little later than expected – and, oddly, after my NVMe Duo – I’ve finally managed to get my Pimoroni NVMe Base mounted to a Raspberry Pi 5 and get an OS installed.
Retrieving the Time Machine Estimated Full Backup Size
Another handy little magic spell for MacOS Sonoma’s Time Machine tool is…
log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info | grep "Estimated full backup will"
…which – when entered into a suitable Terminal instance – will print out Time Machine’s recent estimates of the storage costs of a full backup…
2024-05-02 06:46:35.507588+0100 0x3c5be8 Info 0x0 291 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated full backup will contain 3113124 files (8.91 TB) from all sources
2024-05-02 07:46:49.802454+0100 0x3cd657 Info 0x0 291 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated full backup will contain 3113163 files (8.91 TB) from all sources
2024-05-02 08:46:57.526626+0100 0x3d611b Info 0x0 291 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated full backup will contain 3113223 files (8.91 TB) from all sources
2024-05-02 09:47:03.731963+0100 0x3e04eb Info 0x0 291 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated full backup will contain 3114585 files (8.91 TB) from all sources
2024-05-02 10:47:35.409635+0100 0x3ecb04 Info 0x0 291 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated full backup will contain 3116304 files (8.91 TB) from all sourcesAll very useful when shopping for a new target disk of if your monitoring your storage growth.