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Last day of my vacation leave previous summer was wonderful – blue sky with few white clouds, warm but not hot, just excellent conditions for bike trip. We (me & my dad) have chosen one of the longest of our favourite routes. When we were going back home just before dusk we’ve seen unusual cloud [...]

500 ml rosé wine, or even white zinfandel.300 ml red wine, not too dry -- Fiore Strada's tempranillo is awesome.50 g sugar or 10 g splenda5 chopped strawberries, as ripe as you can get them, or 2 small or 1 large nectarines or peaches.80 ml of orange ... [More] flavored vodka or 40 ml of triple sec5 ml orange flower water.Put it all together and shake in a sealed container. Let it sit a few hours in the refrigerator if you can and enjoy. [Less]

I’ve recently updated my site. Its now wider to support images with size of 1000 pixels on long edge (thats the size I’ll be using now), navigation links have been moved from sidebar below post contents, gallery is now part of photoblog section and I’ve added an archive which contains list of all my photoblog [...]

0: {IMG:DSC08844_photoblog.jpg} 1: {IMG:DSC08852_photoblog.jpg} 2: {IMG:mju_005_img10_photoblog.jpg:Olympus mju II, Konica VX 200}This year spring is late, really late. April ends soon and we had barely few days with more than +10 degrees Celsius. As ... [More] usual first signs of spring in my garden are crocuses. Yeah, you are probably bored with flower photos and especially crocuses which I post every year. Sorry However there is something special [...] [Less]

$ glxinfo |grep -i renderer OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset $ DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo |grep -i renderer OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV620 $ xrandr –listproviders Providers: number : 2 Provider 0: id: ... [More] 0×83 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:Intel Provider 1: id: 0×54 cap: 0xd, Source Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:radeon $ xrandr –setprovideroffloadsink 0×54 0×83 $ xrandr –listproviders Providers: number : 2 Provider 0: id: 0×83 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 3 associated providers: 1 name:Intel Provider 1: id: 0×54 cap: 0xd, Source Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 2 outputs: 3 associated providers: 1 name:radeon Google for more. [Less]

After over a half year break I’m back with some… old photos. I don’t have much time for photography these days so I’ll start posting images from my digital archives (and I promise to keep posting them more often than once for 3-6 months ). I hope you will enjoy this little time travel. For [...]

When vacant Blitz-bombed lots were still a thing: tiny wildflowers. —@GreatDismalI was thinking this morning about how many great moments slip through the cracks, cracks in horrors and tragedies like the London Blitz, cracks in our own attention ... [More] , moments that go unnoticed, the little changes leading up to a change in season. @GreatDismal flowers growing on slate roofs overrun with moss. And our of the cracks in a stone wall 300+ years old—<a href='https://twitter.com/strixus>@strixus</a></blockquote> Even the replies go there. Cracks. Things pushing up where we imagine they have no business. I sometimes write about a fictional world that doesn't have a lot of room for cracks, metaphorical or otherwise. What would your life be like without any cracks? [Less]

My Thinkpad T400 had very low speakers volume. Turns out there is a way to bump volume up using hardware modification. T400 uses AN12946A audio amplifier (located right to touchpad, just under bios battery – remove keyboard bezel to get access). See ... [More] T400 schematic for details. AN12946A has selectable gain modes using SP GAIN 1 (pin 27) and SP GAIN 2 (pin 28). By default T400 uses +13dB mode (which is lowest possible). We can easily switch to +19dB mode by lowering SP GAIN 1 (pin 27) logic level (see AN12946A datasheet) and leaving SP GAIN 2 (pin 28) high. SP GAIN 1 (pin 27) uses 10k resitor for pull up. We are lucky – pin 26 is GND, so the solution is – solder AN12946A pins 26 and 27 together. Result – speakers volume is better (not great though). I had to use 100% volume before, now about 80-85%. [Less]

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