Random Bits from Boredom

The Nikkor 135mm f/2.8 AI was released ~1979, and whilst it seemed to have been shadowed somewhat by its 105mm f/2.5 AI-S sibling, still had...

Phone cameras have steadily been improving over the last decade but one issue for serious photographers has been the ability to obtain full ...

Ensuring your delivered code is memory leak free is a standard concern for C/C++ developers and valgrind is a great tool to assist. One pr...

The 2022 facelifted Mk4 Focus, announced in Oct 2021 , replaces the orginal Focus Mk4 (2018-2020) - only available in Europe - is to be the...

The fedora packager manager takes care of all your dependancies but how do we deal with user compiled binaries and misisng dependencies?

Having documented other people's difficulties with replacing their Herman Miller Aeron gas lifts , it was finally time to do the same fo...

Fedora 32 introduced debuginfod which is meant to provide dynamic debug symbols to debugging tools. The problem I've found is that usi...

Having access to dev OpenShift 4.x cluster that you control is invaluable - Redhat now provides this ability through their Code Ready Conta...

At work we are getting pushed into a hot-desking setup and each member of staff is being moved onto a thin client ThinkPad. Of course a thi...

Whilst audacity is a well known and simple sound editor it has some limitations when compared to digitial audio workstations (DAWs): this ...

With the Thunderbolt enabled laptop there are now more options available to integrate with your different workspaces; a docking station is ...

The Dell XPS 93xx (2020/2021) line with its Intel Iris XE integrated graphics has a native Debian developer edition available directly and i...

One of the great things with electronc devices in previous years was the ability to replace/repair items but also importantly as the device ...

Batch modifying the exif metadata on your images (NEF, DNGs, jpegs ....) in Windows can be a little painful. Exiftool is a great tool tha...

DisplayCAL has been a great free tool to partner your hardware colour calibrator, like your DataColor Spyder etc. However installing this ...

I have been running VMware, and in particular VMplayer 12.5.x, on my aging Sandybridge (circa 2010) i7-870 desktop for many years and over m...

If you find that ffmpeg is no longer able to use your NVidia's card for hardware decode/encode after an OS or software upgrade, ensur...

Emulation for old games, particularly on Linux, can be a bit of a difficult area to navigate. Whilst there are nice standalone setups like ...

Whilst revisiting Street Fighter on PC and Nintendo Switch I wanted to get a joystick. Hori make 2 joysticks, the Real Arcade Pro V (aka ...

The Topping brand has put out various well received budget Chi-fi units over the last few years, and of interest to me, with various USB en...