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No mouse either?
Someone from Reddit suggested EasyUEFI as a solution, they do offer a free trial, wonder if things break as soon as it expires. 😛
Lawk a mussy, issues with the new HP already. First, the description had an external optical/DVD burner drive which was not included. They are sending one through, but it’s a wait, and they have accordingly updated the product listing to no optical drive.
Switching on, the audio was configured to a non-existent nvidia thingo, moving it back to realtek was fine, interestingly the product ad also had:

Windows 11 Pro (preinstalled with Windows 10 Pro Downgrade)

Actually, W10 was on instead, or if they meant it was, why not just say so. The machine met the requirements for W11 so the natural choice was the Update Assistant for the installation process. All went well, albeit a bit slow at 80% – 99%, so left it to go out for a spot of garden work. On return, a couple of hours later, the machine was on, no video, so hard reset, and the machine booted up to … W10 again.
Checked the event logs, quite a few reg corruption related errors, nothing about the failed update. Tried the Update Assistant again, good news the iso downloaded by the UA was not deleted, bad news, still had to wait a long time for the final 80% – 99% to complete. This time ok’d the dialog to reboot for W11, and yay, it worked.
Right now it’s powered off, though with an unresolved issue involving WU and the Realtek audio driver, probably related to what’s described here, so looking ahead there’s the promise of a bright future with liberal lashings of considerable pain. 🙂

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Ah, fair enough, and sorry, maybe just the directory listing if the .htaccess permits it, else try any of five methods of verifying a site built with WP listed here, there’s also a php script here.

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Heh, this next merry go round with the Ob machine was in a way, partially attributed to the cat.
Booted up the machine today, knowing everything was fine upon the startup up bell coming through loud and clear from outside the dwelling. Great! Some time later, in pulling up a video, instead of the usual blast of sound from the SBZ, there was rather muted output coming from only one speaker.
Tried the usual troubleshooting, and rebooted, no change. Oh dear, do remember a solution/workaround regarding channels in the closed Creative Labs forums, unfortunately the search facility on the archived page requires login which in turn produces a 302.
So, got around to checking the physical connections, in particular the phone jack to RCA on the amp, and … huh, the sound was there even when either of the left right channels was disconnected.
Then it all came back, there is a second pair of speakers located outside that were activated earlier today in order to listen to a radio show, the sound that seemed to come from the one speaker near the door was actually booming in from outside.. And, because the cat was inside sleeping, turned off the house speakers, something that is done only on rare occasions. So, no problem at all, which, in summation, is testament to the up hills and down dales one undergoes throughout the aging process, and will not likely improve over time! 😛

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Oops, just did a whoopsie with the landing page or (frontpage), they only allow 4 patterns for it. Chose the last pattern for it (no. 4 of 4). Why can’t we use the BBstylePack patterns or such?
Yeah, back to styles it is, and we want to find the pattern that fits. 🙂

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Apologies for the confusion, now it’s clearer what has to be done. As apparently there’s no way of allowing active comments to posts on the homepage, just have to edit this welcome page, and link to it from the homepage.
In the meantime, asked them why the test post never shows up in admin.
We’ll get there! 🙂

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A hazmat truck parked outside any fine dining establishment may impact on the comfort of patrons and ease of staff!
That thing is more than ten tonnes – the Frontier is hundreds of times more powerful, only around 30 times heavier. No bids from here either. 😛
Have you been to the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex? Presumably the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility is situated a respectable distance from the restaurants.
Interesting layout though:

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Definitely rest up. 🙂
Would Plugin Organiser help with the overwrites?
Might be best to hit the Twenty Twenty-Four forums as there doesn’t seem to be anyway of importing comments in the dialogue.
Before doing that, is there anything else we can poke them for?

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Jumped the whole hog and upped the PHP version from 7.4 to 8.2 (beta 8.3 may not work with plugins.) It may affect all things themes vs. classic BP, time will tell! 🙂

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Ooh, “Moderate Disqus Comments” is gone, did you help with that at all?
Pleas permit me to propose on absolutely no authority at all, it’s not pipDisqus, rather something off in BuddyPress.
Now having a go. 🙂

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It’s all a little odd, there’s this welcome page which is configured, and this welcome page now in possession of the lost comments, which is not referenced anywhere in the theme, or even admin.
If we run out of ideas, the WP help forums are sure to breathe new life into this sagging enterprise. 🙂

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Fly us to the moon, but please don’t leave us there, while all the hard working roadies for Nightwish end up totally Finnished!
Nina Hagen is quite a versatile performer when it comes to styles, for one there’s Flying Saucers:

Some others include Auf´m Bahnhof Zoo, Der Spinner and Alright Tonight, there was also a little unpleasantness after this – er – exhibition on set.
Edit: Here’s a nice one from Della:

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Nethered and dusted! 🙂
Remember Mahmud Ghazni? He’s the one who advertised services back in February 2022 when the site launched. Must be some kind of geek to catch us from his crawler script, is it possible Wget or cURL could detect the WP signature easily enough?
His portfolio looks impressive on first spec, a bit slow to load, hasn’t changed the copyright from 2021.
The first and third sites along with Finackle down the bottom are 404, the second and second last produce a mostly blank template, so yeah, very much in transition.

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Had a quick but fruitless trawl for “playable” TCG WP plugins, the most attractive looking one is the octgndev at wordpress.com, but of course we’re at least 12 years late, and things have changed considerably since then. Is there any chance at all with the Pokémon TCG SDK?
As for databases, wpdatatables is sure to do the job, though rather big, Energy Search will want a brush up, MTG Tooltips possesses certain charms. 🙂

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Well, for sci-fi reality, we want REAL flying saucers please! 🙂 The Syfy Wire site is updated frequently with what you might say middle of the road content spiced up a little for a target audience of upper middle nerds. 😛

Yep, for some movies and remakes like that Halloween where you know exactly where things are going to be in 30 minutes, including the effects of the extra exertion on your part, if a quick snooze doesn’t appeal, time to switch channels!

Hmmm (bloopers notwithstanding), Demon of Paradise is not listed in the Cultural Impacts …, should a reference be inserted in there?

Oh yes, along with Hitchhikers Guide, Red Dwarf is the the best sci-fi laugh-in out there, definitely go to see the repeats. Canned laughter provides extra vibrancy in outer space, too. 🙂

Much of the mystery of Red Riding Hood Trilogy was lost after viewing Part Three first, being under the mistaken allusion the stories in the trilogy could be seen in any order. The obvious analogy is reading a book backwards chapter by chapter, the extra cognitive power required to sort out events from the beginning have the effect of cementing the plot into memory rather well. 🙂

Blue Lights is a procedural modelled to a large degree on The Bill, with a greater focus on crime gangs. Sharp and perky interchanges keep you glued on what’s coming around the corner for these young, brave heroes.

Enjoyed Drive, consisting of a very earthly palette of themes underpinning a space electro pop driven score, the cinematography imbued with a style reminiscent of period and rather stylish sci-fi shoots.

If you like Jennifer Lawrence, you’ll like Red Sparrow, amazingly the full movie is free at Daily Motion: – fun fact, when embedding it here, it starts playing!

The TSA red carpet scene is on TikTok only it seems, and the full screen function opens a new tab to the source video, detracting a little from the full red carpet experience of viewing the vid!

@port_landia

Off Ya Go! #portlandia #fyp #fu #portland #portlandoregon #airport #portlandairport #air #fly #tsa #tsacheck #offyago #airline #flight

♬ original sound – PortLandia

Alternately, to view it here, turn up the resolution (ctrl mousewheelup) to suit, here it is around 200% in maximised window. Good luck in removing the pesky icons/symbols in front of the video, no hotkeys available for the job, might be something on the phone though.

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If Omega Mart is the future of shopping, Vegas here we come:

Occasionally get themed jars through donations over here, haven’t come across anything quite like the Amazon set yet. And the deadly nightshade jar is first choice for the safe and secure storage of extremely valuable comestibles in deterring sneaky light fingered kitchen visitors. 🙂

Interesting collection of oddities, funny, no recollection of anyone resurrecting or rebranding Mithridate for pandemic sufferers. 😛

Over here we have bitumen bandits, tar comes at a premium, thus such temptations – along with dreams of driveway makeovers- ultimately end up in the tar pit. 🙁

Some of the southern states, particularly Louisiana and Alabama raise alligators for their meat and eggs, plying them with “vegan” fare consisting of soy bean based pellets or similar. If it is available your way, might be inspiration for some snappy recipes. 🙂

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Lovely. 🙂
She might like to chew on something as well, it helps to alleviate pain. Shem loves bones. 🙂
Nothing like a good book though, for example, Heinemann make superb books, and there are a few publishers of leather bound volumes.

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On Bob Marley said

I did add breadcrumbs to the bottom of the forums a few weeks ago to help with that. 🙂

😛
Very good idea it was, thanks. 🙂

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Were they NSAID tablets? If she hasn’t used them in the past, there’s a chance of reaction given weak immunity. Bad luck. 🙁

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Thanks. 🙂
Will that fix in the template get wiped when upgrading the theme? Replacing the theme is sure to wipe any customizations made to it, so we may be better off ultimately implementing our own plugin. Which will be enormous fun of course. 😛
Yeah, sidebar isn’t a such a bad idea on the PC at least, especially if one can navigate the forum from it – if for example the current position in a reply is scrolled down the bottom. But then, navigational links could also go in the footer, thus it all winds up as six of one and half a dozen of the other really.
Style Pack has a new version- shall we go ahead?

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Yes, the mysterious dostips never had a feedback or announcement mechanism for status, so we’ll never know what happened on the day. 😛
Have you ever experienced browser burko with msftconnecttest.com? Happened on w11 Chrome with new browser tabs opening in succession to that address. If it was NCSI, how do the browser pages help I wonder?
Ahk’s cert has expired, it might now be in the repair workshop as the site now returns a SQL ERROR, so the link to this interesting class for unit testing may fail. “Harness” is also included in testing jargon these days.
Edit: AHK back!
What with the release of the Fallout TV series and updates to the FO4, things have go a little wonky at Nexus, undergoing a substantial demand on their servers. Understandable, as some of those mods are gigabyte sized.

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