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Oregano is really tough, there’s a patch of it which has been regenerating each spring for many years now, at least 15 IIRC.
That’s a pity, an idea is to intersperse the cover with something slightly unpalatable, the nightshades for example. The younger leaves on a local species (probably this) growing under the pines here are actually quite gentle on the feet, prickles are felt more on the onset of maturity in drier times. If they keep walking on it, try a sweet-smelling deterrent like Houttuynia or Lesser Swine Cress.
Which of the wildlife causes the most problems? Over here the black wallabies are usually fine except in colder and drier times when they tend to destroy bark on shrubs and young trees.

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Got one of them downstairs, we simply had to diversify. 😛
So the CyberPower is in place, runs nicely – apart from a bit of a hiccup on boot probably from the loose USB connector plug.
Another thing, the PC rebooted immediately after shutdown last night, do recall an adjustment of voltage thresholds cured this a while ago on a downstairs rig. In the meantime trying out the solution from this thread:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

And setting the value of PowerDownAfterShutdown to 1. 🙂

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Dragon32 bowing out after all this time, wow. Is mlox a better alternative to Mash these days?
A scripter wanted to know How to detect if webcam is being used?
No answer, looks like each implementation of the USB Video Class (UVC) camera has its own virtual space from which one can hardly see into, other than through Windows Settings, as seen in Which application is currently using my camera on Windows 10? and Open webcam settings dialog in Windows
Only way through is low level interrupts on data streams, some interesting related OSR threads Feasibility of write a webcam driver for cheap webcam and What is the “Correct” way of blocking external usb connection (flash drive, WPD, etc) in 7+?

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Ah gotcha, it’s here, and yes, OpenMW is on the list! 🙂
Have you seen this one for Usenet, more than a billion posts in there apparently.
And there are almost 15 billion videos on YouTube, – no walk in the park for your average video archivist. 😛

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It also has some cool taglines:

From Outer Space They Came – Meteor Borne, Meteor Strange!
Stranger Than Anything Science Had Ever Discovered As Thrill Crowds Upon Thrill!

Looks like a fun crowd, could this have been the official trailer for it (minus the Cheezy movies bit 😛 )?

Rogue Agent is one of those flicks equipped with a potent payload, a potency which depends on the spoiler effect, or how much is known of the movie beforehand. Half the fun is the guesswork at the beginning, so recommended on the basis of that.
Blood Diamond is a disturbing film displaying levels of violence on par with any from the horror or slasher genre. Although the pattern of the occurrences of action and chase scenes and their duration/outcome seemed contrived and formulaic, the character and drama of this ripping good story was not. DiCaprio as the lead held it all together, his accent was convincing as it was consistent, yet controversial it seems. The question on that for any dialectologist is how it matches up to typical Zimbabwe/Rhodesian lingo and how much it could it vary from Afrikaan.

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Turns out the Mastering CMake files there are just TOC, and Martin/Hoffman’s version have non-functioning links. Better to just get it from CMake. 😛
No corrigenda since 2003? They have indeed upped the standards! And news group comp.std.c++ dead?
Interesting link on file system limits, thanks. Because the IA has well over 200 pb of data, the operation of extracting their offline info becomes … interesting even on a machine with ReFS. 😛
IA retains some old AL links, the actual files for Miscellaneous and Downloads are missing, do remember attempting to edit the AHK version of HTML Sundry Tips … and getting a Cloudflare bounce when posting. Worked today, but the intended updates back then have quite slipped the mind. 😛
Also came across the Previous Morrowind Patches, are those still current?

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Not too many comments in there either, also a Reddit thread with similar. The Miniot wheel is what we want:

Really want to splash out on a Michell:

A cute timelapse sonification of a supernova “bowl”:

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For Oblivion interiors, they include objects (or paths) deemed to have the property of casting a shadow, “casters” if you like. Interiors have a similar canonical list for shadow receiving, the above lists are from users, so may not be complete. There are also types for interiors, and some of those, Skill for example, won’t make any sense as far as shadows are concerned. 😛
Ditto above for Oblivion exteriors. 🙂

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The hallmark of a bad movie: while the director’s away, folks wander around the set wondering what’s to play! 😛
Have been reading old newspaper reviews of past series that were once available on our state channel. Apparently they don’t have a long holding period, so a lot of good stuff missed is gone until the lazy Susan (hopefully) brings it round again.
The subscription based Cult Cinema Classics have amassed quite a collection as well, streaming through YouTube is not a bad experience as they keep ads to a minimum in long vids, (mostly.)
The Knight of Cups is a mood piece steeped in watery reverie, fancy, and mystery, the mystery being how the audience can gird their dendritic loins around Rick’s mystic travails. A loosely spun narrative which unfortunately tied these neurones in knots, your mileage may vary. 🙂

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The tables are barfed again, will resolve tomorrow. 🙂
Fixed – the borders for the tables have gone even though “Visual” has them.

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It can be changed with WS_TABSTOP, see here, implementation may not be straight forward. The comments in How can I set the control’s tab index? explain things a little better.
Have you got a portable DVD player? If any issues with that, just copy setup files to HDD, else try transfer to flash drive instead 🙂

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Yes, can get Tubi on Fetch. so will give it a whirl!
Completed The Darkness, not bad, although one can imagine folks making movies in Iceland have a hard time keeping the cold out!
Midnight Special never did deliver the genre of sci-fi these eyes and ears prefer, yet it works quite well as movie, with some genuinely stunning visuals. A bit less of the cannonball runs and volleys, and more … sci-fi please. 🙂

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Ooh, the language will be a thing – are there libraries for them?

Tab doesn’t work properly in pages with a tab control

It’s a bit cryptic, typically one transfers the focus of one control to another control on a form with CTRL-TAB. A tab form or page is itself also a control, thus the user may not expect the change in focus. And, depending on the tab order, the focus could switch to another tab, or a control in another tab, so you’ll want code for the tab to be activated with the contained controls shown, along with the one with the focus. Here’s a little V1 AHK script where CTRL-TAB selects the next tab:

WS_CLIPSIBLINGS := 0x4000000
DetectHiddenWindows, On
Gui, +LastFound -MaximizeBox -MinimizeBox +OwnDialogs HWNDguihWnd
thisguiW := floor(A_ScreenWidth/2)
thisguiH := floor(A_ScreenHeight/6)

Gui, Add, Text, vText Center x0 y0, Tab1
GuiControl, Move, Text, % “x” thisguiW/3 “y” thisguiH/3

Gui, Add, Tab2, x0 y0 w%thisguiW% h%thisguiH% vTestTab gTestTab HWNDtestTabhWnd, Tab1|Tab2|Tab3

Gui, Show, w%thisguiW% h%thisguiH% Hide

; Calling GetNonClientDim with testTabhWnd is useless
tabguiH := thisguiH – GetNonClientDim(guihWnd)
tabguiW := thisguiW – A_LastError

tmp := A_ScriptDir . “\” . “logo.png”
urlDownloadToFile(“https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/logo.png”, tmp, “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.67 Safari/537.36 OPR/87.0.4390.45”)

sleep 120

loop, 3
{
Gui, Tab, %A_Index%
picH := LoadPicture(tmp, GDI+ w%tabguiW% h%tabguiH%)
if (picH)
{
Gui, Add, Picture, x0 y0 w%tabguiW% h%tabguiH% glogo %WS_CLIPSIBLINGS%, % “HBITMAP:*” picH
gosub logo
}
}

ControlGetPos,,, w, h, Static2, , % “HBITMAP:*” picH

msgbox % “Pic width ” w ” Pic height ” h “nthisgui width " thisguiW " thisgui height " thisguiH "ntabgui width ” tabguiW ” tabgui height ” tabguiH

Gui, Show, w%thisguiW% h%thisguiH%, Test

return
TestTab:
GuiControlGet, tmp, , TestTab
GuiControl, , Text, %tmp%
Return
logo:
GuiControl, Move, % “HBITMAP:*” picH, % “x” 0 “y” (thisguiH – tabguiH) “w” tabguiW “h” tabguiH
Return
Esc::
GuiClose:
filerecycle %tmp%
ExitApp

GetNonClientDim(Hwnd)
{
If WinExist(“ahk_id ” Hwnd)
{
VarSetCapacity(rect, 16, 0)
DllCall(“GetWindowRect”, “Ptr”, Hwnd, “Ptr”, &rect)
W := NumGet(rect, 8, “int”) – NumGet(rect, 0, “int”)
H := NumGet(rect, 12, “int”) – NumGet(rect, 4, “int”)
VarSetCapacity(rect, 16, 0)
DllCall(“GetClientRect”, “Ptr”, Hwnd, “Ptr”, &rect)
W := W – NumGet(rect, 8, “int”)
DllCall(“SetLastError”, “UInt”, W)
Return H – NumGet(rect, 12, “int”)
}
else
msgbox Problem with Tab!
}
/* Written by Masonjar13

Downloads a file from a URL to a local file.

Parameters:
—————
url: url to download from

fileDest (optonal): local path to save to (defaults to script
folder with name of file from the url)

userAgent (optional): a valid useragent string to be used during
the http request

return: caught error message
—————

Example:
————
urlDownloadToFile(“https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png&#8221😉
————

*/

urlDownloadToFile(url,fileDest:=””,userAgent:=””){
if (!fileDest) {
splitPath,url,fileDest
fileDest:=a_scriptDir “\” fileDest
}
if (!regExMatch(url,”i)https?://”))
url:=”https://” url
try {
hObject:=ComObjCreate(“WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1”)
;hObject:=ComObjCreate(“Msxml2.XMLHTTP”) not reliable
hObject.Option(9) := 0X0800
;Msxml2.XMLHTTP
;hObject.AddRequestHeaders($hRequest, “Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9”)
;hObject.SetRequestHeader(“Pragma”, “no-cache”)
;hObject.SetRequestHeader(“Cache-Control”, “no-cache, no-store”)
;hObject.SetRequestHeader(“If-Modified-Since”, “Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT”)
hObject.SetTimeouts(0,30000,30000,120000)
hObject.open(“GET”,url)
if (userAgent)
hObject.setRequestHeader(“User-Agent”,userAgent)
hObject.send()

uBytes:=hObject.responseBody,cLen:=uBytes.maxIndex()
fileHandle:=fileOpen(fileDest,”w”)
varSetCapacity(f,cLen,0)
loop % cLen+1
numPut(uBytes[a_index-1],f,a_index-1,”UChar”)
err:=fileHandle.rawWrite(f,cLen+1)
} catch e
return % e.message
}

The AHK logo is now stored here, ever since a rather stricter regime of Cloudflare settings has taken hold over there. 🙁
Ehm, anyway, back to C++. 😛

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The tab issue is super old and they were problematic back then, in AHK there are now three types of tab, the second tab came in 2007. In C++ it really amounts to what styles and attributes are applied.
If they meant MWEdit rather than CS, is it able to display AI package windows?
Will definitely want specifics for the search, is it regex based?
Sounds good. 🙂

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The PC time was a day out (weekday correct – calendar date wrong) which explained a BIOS settings mismatch, and the Solitaire Events not playing nice, now fixed. 🙂
The setting in SB commander didn’t stick after reboot, even after stopping the service, so now trying out “direct mode” for the soundcard, seems a little more promising.
And ew, a few repairs on some of my tiny Oblivion mods due. 🙂
Sounds like a challenging game, with quite a few mods out as well, would “Tamriel in Minecraft” be of any use?

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Haven’t seen yours, do recall the localised versions over here, especially “Turps” Turpie and Emdur who made it fun to watch.
LMAD never took off in a big way over here, so ended up LMADICI (In 101).
TTFAW is on the list! Many of these older movies end their journey in IA, TTFAW is offered in OGG format at 367 mb, so not bad for 360p format over ~90 minutes. The MPEG4 version is well over twice that, could there be a noticeable difference?
Many newer movies uploaded to IA are 1080p, which can be a pain to stream through average bandwidth. There would be many IA subscribers willing to downgrade to 720p for improved buffering no doubt, unfortunately 720p is not on the IA table at this time.
The interrelationship of the two young male leads in Murder by Numbers lends a bit of ballast to a generally empty and scatter-brained affair pf a movie. The matter of fact way Sandra Bullock enters the drama might play to her impressionable character, but doesn’t make sense at all in reference to the unravelling of a rather disturbing chain of events in this bleak and undeveloped story.

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Huh, interesting, glad it was of use. 🙂
Cloudflare wouldn’t let me get on to NexusMods, because the time on this desktop was not updated for the end of daylight saving. After changing it and clearing cookies, still required a bit of doodle-foo for the thing to like me again. 😛
Back on the machine with the soundcard, forgot all about the dread 5.1 setting. 😛

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You’ll want to watch the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies first without the dubious overlays of 21C “brush”. 😛
Think I saw that last century – anything with Jesse Ventura is bound to have a few good bangs. 🙂
Reason for including WOF is because many of their prize showcases back in the day were stunning, even the envy of some involved in department store displays!

Here’s a short video of someone shopping for a Ceramic Dalmation!

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Something (probably me) tripped the cord onto the sleeping 1200 VA 720W Eaton UPS: 5S1200AU, thus won’t power on means it or the batteries have kicked the bucket.
Yep, two batteries, and not cheap through the official, alternatives include the ones at Amazon, manufactured in Taiwan if it were ever a thing, whereas the provenance is Vietnam for this or this.
Anyway, the securing screws on the UPS don’t conform to anything on hand, and the bum software support from Eaton are enough to tip the scales over to a hopefully, better product.

And shock horror, could have got it for considerably less with free delivery through …. Amazon! So, to relieve the pain, ordered a second for another family member. 🙂

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OTOH, we’re bound to get close and personal to a bunch of Walrus issues which don’t involve Vault-Tec at all. The first and most obvious, is that Walrus is not a fictional brainchild of a game-creator, although there is no reason why it should not have a readable, rollicking and ropable counterpart in myth. One for the thread! 🙂
Got a CloudFlare blech on this site, https://www.sure-green.com/suregreen-gardening/suregreen-plant-protection/suregreen-mesh-and-netting.html
Same with you? Succumbed to temptation and posted at Reddit

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