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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: on the deceased rig, and there may have been issues of drive enumeration on the old system which have somehow bled onto the drive? He later showed me some issue of an extra ghost drive in the system, so if it wasn’t resolved then, it’s sure to be fixed now. 🙂
Famous last words. 😛

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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. 😛

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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 venturing in murky waters it seems. In explaining the above, somehow the Gigabyte bootloader and consequently the Windows Boot Manager got corrupted, so the C: lettering of the M.2 SSD got changed.

The rig also has a permanent non-bootable 3.5 in. sata drive, maybe in such situations we can use it as an alternative boot with light weight windows:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/winpe-install-on-a-hard-drive–flat-boot-or-non-ram?view=windows-11
Or better
https://github.com/cmartinezone/WinPEBuilder

Had a Simplecom SATA 3.5 in. hard drive dock which is pretty much plug-and-play, and worked well. A few weeks back I pulled out the drive but left the station connected. Windows event manager logged errors for this, so disconnected the thing entirely. AI indicates it could have had a direct impact – although two clean boots later, it happened. Ghosts in the machine?
AI suggests in the UEFI to:

Locate CSM Support (Compatibility Support Module) and set it to Disabled (pure UEFI mode is required for modern NVMe boot routing).

and

Navigate to Settings > IO Ports.
Look for VMD setup menu or Intel VMD Controller.
Change it from Enabled to Disabled.

The AI scrapes a fair bit from this article, for good reason too. 🙂
https://rossmanngroup.com/symptoms/nvme-ssd-not-detected-bios

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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 these:

power lines shaped as animal sculptures supply electricity across austria

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Fascinating! Interesting comments as well, the last one from 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 recently, pretty much on a down-home vibe. Why yearn for benefits derived from monetary gain when all the wonder is right with us. Is this not enough? A slight drawback for the next generations is that youthful wanderlust requires coin, and more of it these days it seems. Outer space? Just don’t go there. 😛

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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?

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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 episodes was such that expectations of the resulting conflict were high. As it turned out, not all were realized. But then you’ll have to see it to confirm or deny.
Blindspot is another with shaky camera action, and is not recommended for nervous nellies or sufferers of PTSD and the like. It’s full of wham bam action sequences punctuated by wham bam revelations all metered out at machine gun intensity, yet despite a few light touches of hokeyness, it’s above average entertainment.

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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 apparently.
The cat here prefers to hang around, as her majesty considers the food to be … reasonable. In her younger days she was a little more explorative, a ramshackle shed over the road was a favourite haunt. 🙂 Does your cat occasionally miss an evening at home?

Yeah, in a Google page on Edge, the search button in a search box is now AI, so you have to press enter instead to get the “normal” search. 😛

Why bother reading the wrapper when it’s all on YouTube?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z2pge7NdyQQ

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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 getting the heave-ho in Linux as well:

Hibernate mode is being abandoned by most Distros. Why?
byu/wkup-wolf inlinux

Oh well. 🙁

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Great info on the site! 🙂
The Answers section is a bit odd on account of the thin detail in most of the questions – as of late most of those would get a fairly good quality response in the browser AIs.
What kind of vacuum tubes are you working with? There’s some good info at Antique Radios where it’s proposed the reliability of some may not be 100%.
Both have a great range – Mouser has more than double the sensor types than Digikey. 😛

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Just curious if Code Geass is available in other languages – take it there is an English dub?
Back to some of the other stuff – admittedly much of it is formula driven along with recurrences of familiar and recycled themes.
Treasure & Dirt offers a wide spectrum of character templates mixed together in a raw and cinematic setting of heat, rock, intrigue and violence. Very watchable, if outback noir is to one’s taste.
Everything is done in Pretty Hard Cases to make it a zippy, action oriented and entertaining procedural, yet somehow not enough to get it over the final hurdle. (For me, the magic combination of X-factor, gravitas and the lolly popping antics of Kojak does it every time!)
Right now, viewing back issues of Human Target (2010 TV series), a series of fast moving action adventure stories following on the premise and style of Mission Impossible as to its exploits and coverage. Can’t keep away from the snappy dialog and the surprising range of guest stars either. Oh dear. Edit: The shaky (hand held?) camera in the action scenes (trendy at the time) no doubt helped in papering over any possible fooh-pahs in the execution. 😛
Next on the list is The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, seems like it got a rather mixed reaction, will update how it goes. 🙂

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The kids love it, adults not so sure it seems:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqe37zrw2xo
Someone on a comedy show mentioned – The Hindenburg?

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Funny thing, after connecting the Windows account to the new PC, got a couple of Welcome to Windows 11 emails about a week on. Guess there is no way MS know how long you have been running the PC on a device only account beforehand, else the email could read something like “A Belated Welcome to Windows 11 (in case your initial experience was anything but…)”. 😛

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Wonder if they’ll ever get an explore-at_own_risk/no_particular_destination mode for robots? No doubt extra accommodation will be appreciated by travellers ending up in places like Timbuktu! 😛
AI is now doing the academic rounds and popping up in more esoteric areas such as astrophysics explaining things like
Why the Speed of Light Is NOT a Speed. Popped in a comment at Reddit.
Ever come across Meditation Sickness? A discussion on the radio revealed some rather interesting and surprising cases – there’s also a lengthier dissertation at YouTube:

YouTube also hosts a growing collection of BBC CrowdScience videos, all are very well presented and easily digestible. Recommended! 🙂
Edit, we did touch on Bigfoot a page back, just noticed Discovery had a series Bigfoot Took Her available on an FTA streamer over here. Not sure if the enthusiasm is there for the complete viewing, perhaps happening form an abridged? version/teaser, again over at YouTube.

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Excellent list of games, do the community features extend to participation – anonymous players joining in at any time for eternal ArchLinux Hall of Fame glory?
Yikes, the above keyboard lights link was retired, with the keyboard lights issue having undergone some resolution.
Windows now has native tarball support, albeit a bit wonky. In the site backup archives, the name of the homedir folder is duplicated in explorer, the content is not duplicated. Verified by 7-zip. 😛

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After a couple of hiccups here and here, the new machine is setup just about.
https://valid.cpuid.com/j2jys8n3
Our local Mr Fixit put it all together rather smoothly until I presented him with an old SATA drive that was thought to be okay – but had an invalid status with the read only flag permanently on. 😛
It sports the old SB soundcard and the black chassis of the old “Ob” machine to allay the full payload of the shock of the new. 🙂

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Yeah, there’s also an issue with using batteries (in either series or parallel) with differing DCIRs/Capacity/Voltage in torches, say, when things can get rather unstable.
Teetotaler then? Sometimes use it with meat here, do have a penchant f0r brandy puddings. 🙂
What are your thoughts on interacting with a world of L5 autonomous vehicles?
https://www.skeptic.com/article/driverless-cars-and-human-error
Big one for law and insurance, plus security overheads to guard against hacking attacks as well.
The Sinking City 2 has been just released; despite the improvements some prefer the clunky detective play in SC1. There is definitely a sinking feeling afoot at the prospect of enjoining such an adventure. 😛

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There’s a nice little article on sharpening:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sharpening/wiki/gettingstarted
Funny, some of the text displayed in the Google Reddit page snippets in search results are not found on the page!
Also found out that both sides must be sharpened if using for slicing.
Nice, it’s fair to say more details on some recipes would be a bonus- for example, muffing a detail on the Trojan Hog could make things rather messy. 😛
http://www.godecookery.com/incrd/incrd.htm#008
Willing to try your hand at porridge?

Home Page

Over here, treacle or molasses are sometimes used instead of sugar so extra salt isn’t required – not for the purists though. 😛

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Careful, He Might Hear You suffers from a once common Australian ailment – superb orchestration is rather too much over the top in covering the comparatively mediocre dramatic episodes that bedeck the narrative. Still, themes and motifs are consistent, and the happy ending comes as a pleasant surprise.
Seven Types of Ambiguity is a well-crafted and intricate story that translates well to this screening. Minor beef, the patching up of loose threads at the end runs a little over time perhaps.
Also streamed The Nest, a reasonably digestible affair on an arrangement involving surrogacy.
Saint-Pierre is no more or less than B-Grade formula, but allows for the chance on recouping some of the French that never was. 😛

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There’s one in the deep south still:
https://www.royalwarrant.org/company/mcilhenny-company
Have a bottle of the habanero somewhere – potent stuff. 🙂

The curious case of increasing capacity versus increasing voltage:

How to Connect Batteries in Series and Parallel

It seems fine conceptually, – then again electricity is a strange thing.

Do take care with alcoholic drinks in some locations as some distillers take cheap shortcuts:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/23/how-can-i-tell-if-theres-methanol-in-my-drink
Really nasty. 🙁

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