Author: Duncan
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Using a D750 as a webcam over USB
As I contemplate switching to full time work-from-home (after the pandemic, since my employer is now open to the idea), I’ve been looking at my current video conferencing setup – a Logitech C920 and a HyperX Cloud II headset – and wondering whether I can do something better without spending a lot of money. I’ve […]
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Oil change
As happens every year, Blue Opal’s oil needed to be changed. The club doesn’t have the vacuum pump any more (a replacement is coming), but I was able to borrow a small brass pump (archive) that did the trick. Very simple to use, just had to get the depth into the sump correct; I ended […]
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A foggy day in Dun Laoghaire
Sunday was a bright sunny day a few hundred metres from the shore, but the shoreline was swathed in a bank of fog that appeared to stretch from Dalkey to Howth. While walking past People’s Park, I turned around and noticed the light angling from the roof line. Waited a bit for a pedestrian, and […]
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Facebook export – Bits to Fix: 2012/2013
Photos exported from Aslana’s Facebook page.
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Colour-cycling a Christmas Star
A few years ago, at a Christmas market in Germany, I bought myself two pack-flat cardboard stars. They’re meant to use a specific light fitting, but in 2019 I bodged them on top of some simple bedside lamps from Woodies, and in 2020 I hung one using a USB cable that was connected to a […]
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Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) – bridge mode
After my adventures in getting the IP address of the router to change, I discovered that the unit won’t keep DHCP disabled. You can turn it off (since I wanted to do DHCP from the Pi-hole), but if you reboot the router it gets turned back on. Since two DHCP servers on the same network […]
