Monday, October 19, 2026

Crash! More machines? No, fewer. A new/old laptop with NetBSD 11.0

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 Other than 1 homebrew machine I built and installed NetBSD, much of my experience is taking an old Windows machine and running BSD, or usin...
Friday, September 25, 2026

The 3rd Degree in Baltimore's Grid System

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 A few years ago, I had an artist friend draw 4 Baltimore City maps for a historic trail guide. The original versions date back to the 1960s...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Relayering the onion for PDF reversal from ODG to Scribus

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 You can make a layered PDF from a LibreOffice drawing, at least obliquely. Exporting to PDF from LO does not capture the layers in the sour...
Sunday, August 9, 2026

QGIS 4.0 to 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 in July heat with NetBSD 11.0 hot off the digital press

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 Around the first of Jul 2026 I was building QGIS 3 or 4 on 3 NetBSD systems, 1 fast, 2 slow, in order to check that each worked with Postgr...
Monday, July 20, 2026

QGIS 3x3 on NetBSD 10/11 + PostgreSQL 14/16/18

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  Started making QGIS version 3.44.8 early June 2026 on NetBSD processors jump ahead: $ ps auxww | head -2 USER        PID %CPU %MEM      VS...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Forward with QGIS 4 and NetBSD 11 and more

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 A week ago, based on a tip from Greg T, I build QGIS 4.0 on a NetBSD 10.1 system. It worked, after arranging the work-in-progress snapshot....
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Delaminating the Onion, OGR style

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 After I learned about geospatial PDF documents with layers of GIS "goo" embedded I've tried out maps and similar graphics for...