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Thanks for the H/U. 🙂
Once in a blue moon you might find a local Office Solutions company eagerly and beaverly bending over backwards in offering a disk/file copying service, thus once done & dusted, and armed with the shiny new copies in hand, creating ISOs is not one breathe less – nor greater than – a cool summer breeze. Not to gainsay the possibility of monetary gain by instead purchasing the game through the outlets of today cannot – and will not – be underestimated! 😛
Fallout aside, we’ll always have Paris Morrowind. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the cobwebs, mould, and gathering dust found on the free Morrowind distro acquired -er- just yesterday are currently undergoing a thorough Formula 409 makeover! 🙂

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The skiff looks nice for half-baked, the skiff’s scullion will be ensuring the fish will be fully baked. 🙂
🙂 Ah, the Wayback face of Microsoft (long loading):

After setting up a Windows 3.11 VM, came across Basil’s WordPress website Blog. Posting a comment first got a nonce bounce, following posts never got through, so saving the comments here:

Thanks for posting this very well presented walkthrough.
Tony’s VMWare site now here, (file link working):
http://web.archive.org/web/20200123030303/https://vmware0.tripod.com/
In my case, set up this in VirtualBox version 7.16 (recent):
https://archive.org/details/CE55E93BC43C767067BD371EFB97259FE20BC97FB09055AF7BCFD3BA374B1824
Could never get the network going, the ipconfig on the VM was never anything like that on the host. Then this came up in Google, fantastic, will try sometime.
The March of Progress: VirtualBox now requires VT-x/AMD-V enabled in the BIOS/UEFI, despite it being disabled by default in the GUI.

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Or sucking the poor critters up into huge freezer trawlers? Certainly a possibility if we are far enough down into the atmosphere where liquids occur, and in a nicely positioned de-pressurized giant super-dome so that things aren’t completely squinched by the overpowering gravity. A construct something akin in magnitude though complete opposite in composition and behaviour to the Red Spot of Jupiter. 😛
Edit:, Hmmmm, might be possible for enough in air to be pumped into the atmosphere of the dome to increase its buoyancy – not sure.
Good news that WebCrawler is still alive, providing a snappy response to queries. Made a personal copy of the front page of Aliweb, the Web’s oldest search engine, because of the sheer age of the category items. The site is © 2009, however the search index was modified much earlier, not long after 9/11 probably, thus most of the links are either re-directs or down the gurgler. And – er – believe it or not, Cagles is still going strong. 🙂
The mystery of the original gaming zone before MS took over continues, posted here on it – could it be some of Sierra’s content might have been borrowed by certain parties?

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It’s amazing how much of a high degree ads and promos have been given a free reign with their dastardly wrecking balls. 🙂
That’s a UK list, the variation in locale is just amazing, the Australasia variants like the one here don’t, confirmed also in Wikipedia. It’s also down to what they define as “support” – the Tab A may very well possess the means of supporting the feature, the support being activated when and if the chip is actually installed, otherwise the support is present, albeit in an inactive state. 😛
Could try the rabbit hole of getting an external NFC to work (or without?) with the phone, with Lava or through the mobile hotspot, plenty of choice at ShopNFC it seems, cheaper alternatives with RFID at Ali Express. 🙂

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Thanks for looking, will keep an eye out for things here in case something turns up. 🙂

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After all, WordPress is bound to have its limits, too, and so haass our sanity! 😛
About 10 years ago opened up an account with the Latvian based Complaints Board for some reason, never filed a complaint, so consequently no idea what the reason was.

How will my issue be resolved?

The process is structured as follows:

• We send your complaint/review directly to the company
• If the company is customer-oriented, they will respond to you in some way (either through our website or via their own communication channels)
• If their proposed solutions satisfy you, you can mark the complaint as resolved to improve the company’s rating.

A very good idea. Wonder if they keep a secret list of baddies that might interest the larger sellers, Amazon, Ali Baba, eBay etc.

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Think that should work, thanks. 🙂 Even after considerable use, these fingers are still thumb drums on the A8, which may not be helped by the 1080p res.
So amid unspeakable and unmitigated horror and chagrin came the revelation the A8, (like the old 10.1) doesn’t sport an NFC chip. The shock realization came by not in the attempt to install and use Tap and Pay, but LinkedIn verification of all things. They actually require US/Canada/Mexico NFC passport/Gov ID as well, and after a quick check in the desk drawers found absolutely no trace of such documents whatsoever. And doesn’t look as if one could drop the device down to the local shop and get an NFC “upgrade” either. Shucks, someday it’ll have to be a cheap phone just for the NFC stuff then. 🙁

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Thanks, certainly worth a look. 🙂
Meanwhile, in between times, inserted a cheap but convenient link up top for quick searching, hope it suits. 🙂

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Seen that twice already, it’s in my top 10 of all time! Often pondered if there was ever going to be a cinematic melding of Blues Brothers and Men in Black, well, ahem, it all eventually came to pass as Men in Blues:

Deep Blue Sea declared itself a crock five minutes in with the crappy ocean caustics lapping around the Aquatica facility, turning out (contrary to some opinions) to be a bloody disgusting free for all mess with bloopers abounding throughout thick and fast. Yet, the sound effects and the shrieking and freaking kind of held you to the watery and jaw-zy action willy nilly. 😛
Death Proof is a highly unbalanced movie, the first half or or so there’s a terrific evolution of character and dialogue leading up to the lap dance, and then all of a sudden things go blech. Then (spoiler alert) there’s a new set of girls to adjust to, but their ship’s masting turns out to be a winner. 🙂
Edit: Funny how the smiley pokes its way out of the spoiler. 😛

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A family member has passed on some links with a political bent including one for this guy whose antics have landed him in court opposite rather powerful and colourful opponents on several occasions. Also in the invidious predicament of riling up Joe Hildebrand, someone who comes off as generally being tolerant and of good nature. Still, Jordie is one that likes a bit of street theatre and fun, so we’re on common ground there, wonder where he will be 15-20 years on when his youthful looks and charms have all fled?
Of interest as well is this author and economist, Yanis Varoufakis, and his last work, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 2023, also read by him. Here’s a snippet from that books:

From factory owners in America’s Midwest to poets struggling to sell their latest anthology, from London Uber drivers to Indonesian street hawkers, all are now dependent on some cloud fief for access to customers. It is progress, of sorts. Gone is the time when, to collect their rent, feudal lords employed thugs to break their vassals’ knees or spill their blood. The cloudalists don’t need to deploy bailiffs to confiscate or to evict. Instead, every vassal capitalist knows that with the removal of a link from their cloud vassal’s site they could lose access to the bulk of their customers. And with the removal of a link or two from Google’s search engine or from a couple of ecommerce and social media sites, they could disappear from the online world altogether. A sanitized tech-terror is the bedrock of technofeudalism. Looked at in totality, it becomes apparent that the world economy is lubricated less and less with profit and increasingly with cloud rent. And so the delightful antinomy of our era comes into focus: capitalist activity is growing within the same process of energetic capital accumulation that degrades capitalist profit and gradually replaces capitalist markets with cloud fiefs. In short, capitalism is withering as a result of burgeoning capitalist activity. It is through capitalist activity that technofeudalism was born and is now sweeping to power.

Does all this matter to the way we live and experience our lives? It certainly does. Recognizing that our world has become technofeudal helps us dissolve puzzles great and small: from the elusive green energy revolution and Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter to the New Cold War between the USA and China and how the war in Ukraine is threatening the dollar’s reign; from the death of the liberal individual and the impossibility of social democracy to the false promise of crypto and the burning question of how we may recover our autonomy, perhaps our freedom too. Today, to own our minds individually, we must own cloud capital collectively. It’s the only way we can turn our cloud-based artifacts from automated means of behavior modification, that poison our social reality, to automated means of human collaboration and emancipation.

And, being an obedient and faithful technoderf (typo intented), went and proposed an idea to make the names of all deleted Wikipedia articles accessible, downside is they don’t like it much for the sheer bulk of the undertaking, upside is that it would take a little pressure off Wayback resources.
Edit: Oops, they do have a deletion log!

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Really quite amazing how Reddit has taken so much of the life out of other communities, CodeProject for instance. They have an annoying habit of archiving many conversations, of interest to us perhaps, but not to them, not as bad as Microsoft Answers though. And the length of some threads can be cumbersome too, not as bad as Youtube where some have millions of comments. There’s a limit of around 750 replies to each YT comment (OP comment can have 3K? comments) which can make it very interesting, and a challenge for spambots to cause havoc as well. There’s also a YT community post with more than 92 million comments, no idea how the OP would process all these.
The accounts section of Software Informer had an old email address that couldn’t be removed, so after contacting them, they fixed it so it could be changed. No problems with them personally as never used their app for which they have been criticized in the past. Funny thing is, as soon as it was fixed, and the password was changed by me, got one of these Google Critical Security Alert emails: “Some of your saved passwords were found online.”

Some of your saved passwords were found in a data breach from a site or app that you use. Your Google Account is not affected.

Dispensing with the remote possibility the email is referring to something else happening elsewhere (the last GCS Alert received was back in ’21), interesting as to how exactly they come to that conclusion by what had just occurred, and from what their snooping bots log.

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Ah, yes you mentioned that last month, in that case try Fallout 3 instead? Rename that and try it on on the Linux. not sure the best way to get it all setup there in the first place, Proton, Wine, or an RDP based exercise like WinApps for Linux or WinApps.org (site doesn’t exist 😛 ). At least FO3 doesn’t have GFWL any more. 🙂
The xEdit script checks for all that in Windows, but yep, what happens in Linux when setting or even creating a mod with GECK? If everything is already lower case there shouldn’t be an issue, unless the game or creation engines do something nice like converting things to proper case, for instance.

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Actually somewhat of a bum steer,

This branch is up to date with NimrodPSI/MWEdit:master

Just an example of forking a project, we could do that, or simply start a “new” one. 🙂
Sorry about Github, it’s just all our repos are in there. Hate having to foist something like that on an unhappy subscriber. Other web clients like Gitlab would certainly be fine, the only reason for being lothe to use them is simply opening up more accounts. Gone down the rabbit hole of opening too many accounts in the past, not so many recently, fortunately. If there is a convincing argument to open an account in an alternative client, then why not?
Isn’t the current build of MWEdit 32 bit? Think we will be in a world of pain trying to pass 32 bit structures to and from a 64 bit framework.
Give me a bit with VS, there are a few things that want to be done concurrently, like actually setting up and playing MW. 😛

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Great movie, slight issue with the ages, in RL Cruise is 25 years younger than Hoffman, so younger brother is a bit of a stretch. OTOH under appropriate lighting Hoffman could have passed for 45 and Cruise 30, otherwise the make-up folks appeared to have little concern. Like most, one suspects. 🙂
Watching Guilt Series 3, spicy dialogue and intriguing character interplay, and all very Scottish, recommended.

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Welcome to the Vault, @AlfrescoD, 🙋‍♂️ do hope your stay here will be pleasant and fruitful 🍒. Best way to get started is to engage in a friendly chat by responding or creating a topic in the discussion forum, there’s also Projects and Blogging for more focused avocations, if anything in the sanctum feels out of place just holler over here in forums. 🙂

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1.1 fixes a few bugs and logging, there’s also an explanation on Github of why cmd isn’t real good with anything but lower case. Using such languages is a bit like operating vintage cars:

A welcome invitation to any players of a lightly modded Fallout NV install …

RSVPs for such auspicious occasions are still under construction. 🙂

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Ah, Pocket keep a cached copy of sites that have moved on, a costly exercise which explains it. Side-alley stuff like The Bored Hoard provides a refreshing alternative, here’s one:

The 10 Best Time Wasting Subreddits

Never used these sites personally, notwithstanding their marked improvement on the webrings of old. Always use search engines, and if something juicy crops up, yay. For bookmark management Raindrop.io looks tempting though, as the current state of the bookmarks here is shoddy at best, and somewhat outdated from lack of use.

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On moving down to the South Coast around 2K joined up with this ISP and dropped them in 2007 for some reason, probably cost. The next provider was gotalk, and left them in 2010 as the service delivery dropped when they were taken over with focus more to mobile plans. Thus the provided email addresses also got nixed, these days it gets interesting when using one of those to sign in entities such as Scribd where upon there returns something like:

Check Your Email: To protect your account, we’ve sent a verification email to ol******@**ne.com. Please click the link in that email to verify your identity. To learn more, please visit our FAQs.
Didn’t receive an email? Check your spam folder, or send again.
Not the correct email? Use a different email address

Not the correct email means signing up for a new account, so any info stored with the old one is lost, thus contacting them is the last resort, which by the looks of that page doesn’t help too much. What ever happened to webmaster or admin @suchandsuch.com?
History on the web is changing too, when Google stopped caching pages, there is now more encumbrance on IA than ever before. Did sign up with Furl way back, will anything like that come back again?
Also had an account with Shelfari, IIRC there never was a merging of accounts into Goodreads, understandable of course if there were millions of them.

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From The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings:

Playing an improvised finale, Fry produces crude, cartoonish images of himself and Leela. To a simplistic yet sweet bansuri tune, the created Fry and Leela kiss and then walk into the distance hand-in-hand.

An alternative ending is for Fry to walk into the distance hand-in-devil robot hand? Like the idea, and the wealth of possibilities abounding for an appropriate operatic motif. 🙂
Now streaming another more recent spy drama in the Bond tradition is The Night Manager. Although Le Carré may not approve of the Bond association (as he referred to him as an international gangster), the protagonist often succeeds by engaging in rather thuggish activities, if you don’t mind. Like a Bond film it flicks around various worldly locations, as well as stitching important events in the story through flashbacks. The finery, competent acting and stunning locations sometimes reveal a rather bony lattice of plain in the screenplay, which takes the edge off a fabulous show, still recommended, and can’t wait for the second series. 🙂

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Logged on to the Final Fantasy forums after 8 years, there’s something funky about that install as performing any actions from saving stuff on your profile to navigating to another page gets one logged off! Very quiet now, there well may have been a first post for 2024, a final post in subsequent years may not be out of the question, and the fantasy of the assimilation of FF Forums into Wayback could turn out to be no more than an irksome reality. 🙁
A little further back signed up with the Wrox forums regarding info on good programming books. Never made that post though, and a few years later it was death by a thousand spambots, bad luck packages like Cleantalk for vBulletin weren’t around then.
And the blech NewEgg account protection again, well meaning of course despite reviving for subscribers the ancient conundrum of Humpty Dumpty, and was he over protected? 😛

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