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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:

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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 little too much of kiddies’ natter.
Completed all of the Blindspot episodes – there was the feeling the team were battling to get to the 100th episode. Amidst the formula driven and very B-grade fare, there were moments of tension.

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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:

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$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 companies in the United States despite having no mention in the world list.
The Certificate Transparency edict makes use of distributed ledgers which contain details of issued certificates. Wonder if it’s possible to say trace the existence of an expired certificate all the way back to its issuance in year dot (~2012)?
There’s this, Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven’t Found Them which brings in the question if we ever found these aliens, would we still have the need to believe them? Do have a sneaking suspicion that they will end up in a special category of our animal kingdom. The other question is, if we never believed in aliens, would we ever still to want to find them, other than to prove belief is bluff, Everest is surmountable or history is bunk etc.. The elephant in the room is the alternative perspective, when the same question can be relayed to the other side: Why Would Aliens Ever Want to Believe in Humans and Why They Still Haven’t Found Us?

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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 power troubleshooter which isn’t available in the CP anymore. Never fear, it’s still in the hive, and the gui is revealed by running msdt.exe /id PowerDiagnostic.
Of note are the errors highlighted in red, USB Device not Entering Selective Suspend where good answers to that question are in short supply. As everything in this desktop is now working as intended, we infer that or Powercfg is either reading stale logs or running a dodgy event trace. Else it could be UEFI, system or other hub/controller/USB drivers not towing the line as per the horse’s mouth. No need for panic stations, demystification is at hand along with the promise of reverse.
There’s also another golden oldie, ASPM Disabled, Microsoft likes it and the Gigabyte B860M supports it up to L1.2, but it’s switched off by default because of potential system stability issues. Leave it and love it. 🙂
Another horrendous user error logged in the report is disabling the NVIDIA High Definition Audio in order to hear all dulcet tunes from the SB 1500 instead.
So, to enliven, inspirit and elongate the thread, would you be interested in sharing energy consumption on the System76?

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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 Event 7031 followed later by Event 61456, as well as switching the UPS port connectors.
Earlier that day there was Event 225:

The application \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files (x86)\APC\PowerChute Personal Edition\dataserv.exe with process id 11220 stopped the removal or ejection for the device HID\VID_051D&PID_0002\7&36b985e7&0&0000.
Process command line: “C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\PowerChute Personal Edition\dataserv.exe”
List of affected devices:
HID\VID_051D&PID_0002\7&36b985e7&0&0000

Around 15 minutes prior to the freeze was an app hang logged with DLLHost, same again 15 minutes on.

The program dllhost.exe version 10.0.26100.9549 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.

On checking the Security and Maintenance panel after reboot, the active item was something like “reset USB device” with a button attached. Clicking the button made it go away.
And directly after was the big one:

The description for Event ID 14 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\Video3
CMDre 00000002 00000200 00000000 00000005 0000001b

The message resource is present but the message was not found in the message table

Now what is most intriguing is the reboot Event 6008:

The previous system shutdown at 16:47:42 on ‎22/‎10/‎2026 was unexpected

That time was the time of the first DLLHost hang, thus things were already in a pickle without any obvious tell-tale signs.
Good news is that the event log and the system have been very quiet and well behaved since the reboot. 🙂

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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. 😛
Decompiler Explorer looks to be incredibly useful, a kind of VirusTotal of decompilers. 🙂
Mentioned Microsoft Phone Link as an alternative to Pushbullet on the other thread, of course Google Messages has been on the tablet since year dot, never realised there was Google Messages for Web, doh.
Edit: Following RCE patches in the news:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cve-2026-109618-cve-2026-109619
Cleantalk are sure to be on it. 🙂

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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 with the grey!

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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 little.
APCupsd and NUT wouldn’t recognize the device – many many hoops to be hurdled before a glimpse of any success in connection whatsoever.
Edit: Nice article on how it is setup:
https://microchip-mplab-harmony.github.io/usb_apps_device/apps/hid_basic_remote_wakeup/readme.html
Also, the APC PowerChute Serial Shutdown is a complete basket case, so downgraded to the old APC PowerChute Personal Edition, around tenfold in option range.
Unfortunately Personal Ed. requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2, and during its installation would you believe the much larger NET 3.5 popped in from Windows Features and demanded a guernsey as well?
Commands exist to get the battery ID from
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
In this case, do
powercfg -devicedisablewake "HID Keyboard Device (003)"
USB Selective Suspendsetting is enabled in the current power plan; there may be a good reason to disable it.

Had an issue with Pushbullet not transferring messages over to the PC, problem found to be the SMS sync setting in the Android app switched off, likely due to Android activity on inactive apps. Apparently, no inactivity exclusion lists available for Android OS.
Windows Phone Link looks like a reasonable alternative to Pushbullet, one gotcha is as soon as it’s all setup and running, MS will begin charging, just as they did with Teams (free). 😛

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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. 🙂

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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:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ot8rah/hibernate_mode_is_being_abandoned_by_most_distros

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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