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Losslessly Joining JPEGs with JPEGTran
The Introduction
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.
The Images
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.
cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC Kit
cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC kit running Kubuntu 21.10.
Continue readingPeriod Sites in Period Browsers – An Update
Well, it’s been a little while since I last added one of these to my little retro internet project but… welcome to Windows XP Home x86 with Mozilla Suite 1.0 which is now on Period Sites in Period Browsers.
I have also taken the opportunity to renovate the the various tag pages and add a lot more information to them! Why not go and take a look!
Disabling Windows XP Ballon Tips
And it’s time for an aide-mémoire for a fact that seems to be disappearing into the ether.
Windows XP bubble tips can be disabled by:
- Opening Regedit
- Navigating to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
- Creating a new String value of ‘EnableBubbleTips’.
- Setting this value to ‘0’.
- Restarting Windows.
Apple Digital Sales
Apple’s European DSA Recipients of Services Report (Archive.org) turned up in my RSS feed and it has some quite shockingly low numbers! Whilst personally I prefer a real book over an e-book, I was very surprised to find that Apple has less than 1 million monthly e-book purchasers across the entire EU! And the tvOS and watchOS user base feels incredibly low as well!
Jamie Zawinski’s notes on the early days of the Netscape/Mozilla Transition
Continue readingOn January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my “department”, such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from “clienteng” over to the “website” division. For about 48 hours I thought that I might end up writing a webmail product or something.
That, uh, didn’t happen.
Jamie Zawinski
Retro Directory
Retro Directory is a listing of retro computing orgs, museums, podcasts and youtube channels. I knew about a few of these but most are a complete surprise to me!
My own little bit of retro computingness can be found at Period Sites in Period Browsers.
BOINC in Retrospect
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.
continuum-hypothesis.com
86Box config for RedHat 4.X
Recently I’ve been playing around in 86Box (build 3.7.1 for MacOS to be precise!) with 1997’s Red Hat Linux 4.2. After a little fiddling I seem to have got it mostly working – with one major caveat; I have had real issues with getting X/FVWM to work with any other display resolution than 640*480. Should I come up with a solution I shall, of course, update this page.
