The Young Ones Ephemera

A couple of bits of The Young Ones ephemera I’ve stumbled across.

Trailer

The first, a trailer – with a trailer – for the first season of The Young Ones.

(Pinched from here!)

Sellout

And in the second, a Friends Provident advert from 1990, Vyvyan and Neil sellout long enough to try and flog us insurance and investment products whist running around a supermarket.

(Pinched from here!)

Channel 4’s Turnover and Profit

Channel 4’s turnover and post tax profit from 1993 to the end of 2021 (the last full year currently available), both in absolute terms and adjusted to 2021 prices via the BoE inflation calculator.

Chart data points can be rolled over to provide more information.

Turnover

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Building QEMU 7.0 on Raspberry Pi OS

***NEW: Building QEMU 8.0 on Raspberry Pi OS***

The Introduction

And spring 2022 brings us another major release of QEMU – in this case, QEMU 7.0, available in all of its tar.xz’d loveliness directly from qemu.org.

Whilst the Raspberry Pi OS‘s package repository remains the fastest, simplest way to get QEMU onto your Pi, Pi OS’s Debian lineage often leaves it trailing the cutting edge – in the case of QEMU, the packaged release for Raspberry Pi OS (version 2022-04-04) is version 5.2 from way back in December 2020.

QEMU can be installed via the Raspberry Pi OS package manager – or via ‘apt install’ on the command line. Alas, the version offered is several years behind the latest release.

Fortunately, QEMU is fairly easy to download and compile ourselves.

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