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  • Escaping The Skylake 14nm Intel Architecture Circus

    Once upon a time, there was the Intel Skylake CPU architecture. Skylake was introduced in 2015 for the sixth generation of the Intel Core CPU. Using the Intel tick-tock cycle, it was the tock component, the tick being its predecessor Broadwell. Broadwell introduced the 14nm process node to the Core architecture and after Skylake, there…

  • Flatpak rollback to previous version of Gimp Beta

    I did blog this before, but I have this time around had a successful instance of using this, because in this instance the application concerned did have sufficient commits available to roll back a point release. This example is the beta edition of Gimp, which I have been testing on a computer for some months.…

  • Using Qgis Python Scripting in the NZ Rail Maps Project: 2 – Volumes Creation

    The second and third aspects of Qgis scripting used in the NZ Rail Maps Project are connected with Volume maps creation. In the Volumes website, static map images are used. Each static image is manually composed, by positioning the map in the composer layout window, and combining the selection of different layers, rotation and zoom…

  • PDF Editors For Linux

    This post is brought to you by the new Blogger interface Google has forced on everyone! Which is dreadful! The only way I keep my sanity editing posts on Blogger is to create the post in a separate editor (LibreOffice Writer in this case) and then paste the completed article into Blogger. There is much…

  • NZ Rail Maps: Using Gimp To Georeference Retrolens Aerial Photos [7]: Extracting Mosaic Tiles

    NZ Rail Maps: Using Gimp To Georeference Retrolens Aerial Photos [7]: Extracting Mosaic Tiles

    So I have been trialling the alternative overlay method with more files and have decided to redo all the mosaics for Auckland so far. This is a few days’ work but as there are already some issues with accuracy in some of the more hilly areas or where the embankment is raised, it is going…