A Little More Web Kipple
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 reading “WhoPlayer”So it looks like my Raspberry Pi 5 pre-order is about to ship via Pimoroni.
I’ve managed to snag an 8GB model along with the official power supply and the new fan-assisted case. When it comes to the latter, it’ll be interesting to see just how loud and obnoxious the fan actually is.
And, of course, just how much dust it collects before I get around to playing with it.
Another little YouTube find – the old BBC 2 Firecracker Ident, except every time a firecracker goes off the video suffers from VHS generation loss.
On occasion, you may find that you need to join – or tile – two or more JPEG images into a single image and that you need to do so without the usual JPEG degradation that comes from saving an edited JPEG again and again and again. Fortunately, under some circumstances, there is a solution – JPEGTran from the Independent JPEG Group.
Our sample images are two tiles taken from The Map Project – in this case map Yorkshire Sheet CLXXIV.SW, a 1950s map of south-west York in the United Kingdom.
Very true.
McBain: The Movie is a lost 80s action classic. What little footage remains has been spliced together below for your edification.
cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC kit running Kubuntu 21.10.
Continue reading “cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC Kit”Visual Mutterings has quite a nice guide to Yorkshire’s Blake’s 7 filming locations. It sounds like an entirely successful trip!
From the chap who brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas a few months ago.
A fun little 43 seconds exploring the idea of Uber for Zombie-killing.
