A Thing Of Beauty VIII

Brutalist concrete of old Yugoslavia inspires new generation. Other stops on the tour include the spectacular Sava Centar, a conference and performance venue which seems to have taken its interior design cues from science fiction, mixed with classicist and modernist styles. © BBC

Protection & Detection

In the video, it says Bitdefender in the upper left corner and it looks like a real-time global monitoring system of Internet traffic identifying threats. CNN

A Thing Of Beauty V

Specifications HP ProBook 6475b Processor AMD A6-4400M Graphics adapter AMD Radeon HD 7520G – 512 MB, Core: 686 MHz, Memory: 800 MHz, DDR3, 8.947.1.1000 Win7 Memory 4096 MB , 1 x 4096 MB PC3-12800 Micron Tech Single Channel Display 14 inch 16:9, 1600 x 900 pixel, LG Display LP140WD1-TLD2, TN LED, glossy: no Mainboard AMD… Continue reading A Thing Of Beauty V

A Thing Of Beauty IV

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

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!

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