My lastest sourced laptop from the scrapheap. I grinned the surface down by hand, to bear-metal and as I suspected/hoped – I found raw aluminum (Al 13). The top-coat of some sort of plastic was hiding the share beauty of undiluted and pure metal. I used two different grains of paper P80 and P120. I… Continue reading A Thing Of Beauty IV
Category: Technology
Bvd Of Broken Dreams
Due to a large number of reasons (including tremendous loss, unbelievable actually) I happen to know this for a fact. But don’t despair! There will always be culture and as long as there is culture and art, there will be… life! Picturing the back rubber cover of my used to be trustworthy: 1TB – Time… Continue reading Bvd Of Broken Dreams
In LAN We Trust!
Sourced from the scrap heap, literally (grovsoprummet) – 1 (one) 300 MBbit WiFi router and 1 (one) 100/10 MBbit 8-port switch. They both are of the brand Netgear and the power adapters were included. I’m just saying. Hardware (HW). And I for one am loving it. Over-and-out (almost). Let’s not forget the complete alarm system*… Continue reading In LAN We Trust!
UN Should Be (At Least) 5 AI:S
Right?
Vertical Deeparture
At the bottom of the Mariana Trench near Guam. In 1960, the Bathyscaphe Trieste descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench near Guam, at 10,911 m (35,797 ft; 6.780 mi), the deepest known spot in any ocean. If Mount Everest (8,848 metres) were submerged there, its peak would be more than a mile beneath… Continue reading Vertical Deeparture
My Machines Are VI + I
The collection is growing slowly but steadily… now they´re seven of them, but one of them will not boot correctly or in an orderly fashion. Hence, six + one. A non-bootable machine is a malfunctioning machine and therefore not a machine in the true sense of the word. If you are not functional then you… Continue reading My Machines Are VI + I
Tokyo Cathedral 0
This is one but there is another in Tokyo above ground. The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (MAOUDC), a 6.3 km long system of tunnels and towering cylindrical chambers that protect North Tokyo from flooding. Picture: BBC
Some Say
Actually most people say that it is the most beautiful aircraft ever to be constructed. I concur and the noise its engine makes is… nothing but magical. The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. Many variants… Continue reading Some Say
Merlin
A magnificent machine – powering the equally magnificent Supermarine Spitfire. The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litres (1,650 cu in) capacity. Rolls-Royce designed the engine and first ran it in 1933 as a private venture. Initially known as the PV-12, it was later called Merlin following the company convention… Continue reading Merlin
Repairs/Upgrade
The machines… I found three identical laptops (actually five but the other two were a different model) in various conditions. I’m assembling them into two working ones: WIN10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Yes, it is a lot of fun!