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Happy Halloween Hangover! Due to excessive exorbitance re acquisition this merch won’t cure it:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4551294553/hangover-kit-halloween-hangover-kit
Potential hairdresser names.
Last bit of election humour before mid-terms:

Both of those are excellent movies, sure to have seen them sometime back, memory is a bit short on the details, so pencilled in for future viewing on Tubi of course. 🙂
Saw this one on local FTA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_Me_(2022_film)
Good moves and scares in there, perhaps spoiled a little (for aged viewers in particular) by a…[Read more]

If it comes to joining the queue for the latest Weird Al merch, I’m first in line bud!
Election humour, from Texas this time:

$100 or so per night for a small double room at the Angel and Royal doesn’t sound too exorbitant, no doubt special discounts willingly lavished on special visitors bedecked with cherub regalia.
Trinity House is more like a state corporation, is there a parallel on the US?
Curious that Shirley Plantation is the oldest in the List of oldest…[Read more]

Took the opportunity of reviewing the new rig’s power consumption in generating the following report with the terminal command powercfg -energy:
https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/energy-report.html
If any settings in the report are adjudged by the system to be out of whack, user is prompted to correct them by running the deprecated…[Read more]

Funny thing installing the latest WinMerge beta when it got to registering the shell extensions. A system freeze.
Looking at it later, could have been an after effect of any of or all of this involving APCupsd uninstallation and installation of PowerChute Personal Edition (and an upgrade from an older to a newer legacy of that product, an earlier…[Read more]

Agree, Discord has always emanated vibes of a discordant hue and cry, which, funnily enough, is intended and expected behaviour. 😛
YouTube’s thumbnail cdn url ytimg.com doesn’t resolve to a navigable page, would it make any difference for it to be so? Found this one in an old file:

Want the thumbnail blown up to fill the page? Use maxresdefault.…[Read more]

All the Logitech keyboards purchased locally have ended up with non-functioning keys, like the spacebar. No matter how the touch of the keystrokes went down, Logitech have spacebarred this user for good! So, onto a new keyboard – it seems of late the AULA F98 Pro V3 has gone on sale, yet the general reaction is warm, so we plunged, and came up…[Read more]

The new rig also kept waking up from the Back-UPS RS 900G hibernation. The device descriptor may or may not have had Remote Wakeup:
Device Status: ...
...
Remote Wakeup Enabled

And Windows may or may not have been picking it up, in which case manually re-allocating the UPS connection to another USB slot seems to have settled it down a…[Read more]

Bit of a song & dance with a bad socket today, Have to say Windows safe mode has come a long way since the clunky 640X480 days of yore. Most of the devices in Device Manager are marked as bricked, because as we know, it’s safe. 🙂

It’s now back and the logs only give up BugCheckProgress: 0x00040049.
The original C: Drive SSD was installed with Windows in late July. Mr Fixit added in an old Working SATA (not the faulty one above) in early August. There exists a 2GB dump dated that day in LiveKernelReports which most likely relates to that enumeration of that drive. It was I:…[Read more]

Couple of years back Boris did take the ENB forums offline due to spambots and scrapes. No matter, all the content is amazingly preserved (minus image links) at WayBack, including some old posts courtesy yours truly here. Still not absolutely convinced ENBoost did anything much other than boost player confidence. 😛

Mr Fixit came back with the drive H/W as okay, after reseating and re-installing the drive. Will pick up the rig next week. Not 100% sure of the health of the drive as some programs exhibited a little glitchiness – could be a memory thing too.

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
sfc /scannow

As we know, continued use of hibernation is…[Read more]

Ever found the safety features on some power boards overkill? Here’s an example, but there was an easy solution this time. 🙂
When very young, was inspired by the different designs and implementations of power poles. Some of note in this country, Britain and notably, France. Nothing compared to…[Read more]

Fascinating! Interesting comments as well, the in 2020 warns of the downsides of using SF6 in the breakers. Not too hot on electrostatic loudspeakers unfortunately.
The copper foil sheets would make a difference for shielding as well – Marantz comes to mind for that.

This I Don’t Believe

He spoke on the radio…[Read more]

Aw snap, something happened to the Micron 3400 SSD. Not long after resume from hibernation Windows detected an error, after which the PC would boot up to the BIOS. No boot device found. No idea what the cause is – other than a power spike which got through the UPS or too hot from a fan fail?

Good sc-fi is sadly lacking these days – and more Black Mirror please!
There are bound to be some good horror shows at IA, time to get a list up. 🙂
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, is recommended if for nothing else but its epic style and presentation of Tolkien-like heroes. The atmosphere encompassing the build-up through the first few…[Read more]

Very interesting – the full 1995 article is at the archive:
https://ia601801.us.archive.org/21/items/statistical-crystallography-a-practical-method-to-quantify-toxic-effects-on-spider-web-patterns/Statistical%20Crystallography%20A%20practical%20method%20to%20quantify%20toxic%20effects%20on%20spider%20web%20patterns_text.pdf
It all started in 1948…[Read more]

Further eruptions of shenanigans, now with hibernation – Hibernate Resume: How to wake on USB keyboard and not on USB mouse?
It’s personal preference really that nudging a mouse should wake the system. If the mouse is configured to wake the computer, the pointer can sometimes be lost due to the weird handling of the power state.
Hibernate is also…[Read more]