A Little More Web Kipple
Possibly my favourite ever Doctor Who death – the man-eating chair from 1971’s Terror of the Autons. It’s great fun with 70s Doctor Who remaining true to it’s nature – spending almost 30 seconds on inflating a plastic chair – and, as always, Roger Delgado remains the consummate professional through out.
I’d have watched that.
469 additional map images of Bedfordshire from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series.
Interesting places covered this update include:
BOINC is a software system for “volunteer computing”: it lets people donate time on their home computers and smartphones to science research projects. It has been used by about 50 projects in many areas of science, and has run on millions of computers.
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A couple of bits of The Young Ones ephemera I’ve stumbled across.
The first, a trailer – with a trailer – for the first season of The Young Ones.
(Pinched from here!)
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!)
I’ve just added 575 map images of Dorset from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series to the map project.
Interesting places covered in Dorset update include:
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.
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.
Fortunately, QEMU is fairly easy to download and compile ourselves.
Continue reading “Building QEMU 7.0 on Raspberry Pi OS”And another 2026 map images from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series:
Interesting places covered in Lancashire include:
Interesting places covered in Warwickshire include:
