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Did you find one? Tussocks are reliable for such a job, they also lack what we might call “aesthetic” qualities desirable for our verges. The Californian hair grass might be an exception. 🙂
Haven’t been able to secure another Red Rubin over here since posting this update back when, have any cropped up your way recently?

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In response to this observation, there has been more action on trimming the Wikipedia content down as per e.g the 2007 Wikipedia: “In Popular Culture” Content article. Do like the xkcd ref. 🙂
Take, for example, this revision of the page for What Are Little Boys Made Of before the section got chopped. This is the current page.
There are some interesting references that have been moved on, it’s possible to argue the items are all relevant because they satisfy certain criteria. In the olden multivolume hardcopy days, one was obviously restricted by physical media, here there is no such restriction. Wikipedans have become too encyclopedic! Having some of the most “important” references in popular culture now as links in the page below, does take something away from the article. Bring them back I say!
Edit: Having said that, references are a thing though, one can’t, for example, say something happened in a film without references. If the movie, or at least its transcript isn’t at IA or one of the official video channels that provide access to the film for everyone, the reference might be rejected. Snippets from movie reviews from syndicated sources might be acceptable as long as they are not behind an impervious paywall.

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Today, you can get them out of the jar.
Spray on is brilliant, forget about putting it to use in places like Lahore or Delhi until at least the folks over there get back on their bikes/carts/rickshaws, and stop burning coal. In doing that throws up a whole new bunch of issues though. 😛
Yeah, those hounds still have your address and will not let go of that bone. Fair to say with spam from some ebay sellers, you can redirect it to sp**@**ay.com.
Edit: Oh, here’s the link to the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition we spoke of years ago. 🙂

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Haven’t seen SACDs or the players over here much at all, mostly because of a slightly limp impetus to go looking. Don’t recall them occupying the prime spots in any of the shop display windows either, funnily enough. They might have benefited from an ad campaign of Coca Cola magnitude geared really set the market on fire, and as things have turned out in latter years, likely to have set a lot off punters to the wall no doubt. 😛
It’s good they are in a cupboard, safe and sound and if the cupboard remains in good nick, soon to be collector’s items. A pleasant prospect for future fossickers. Termites decimated the cupboard in the top shed here, which necessitated ordering in replacement shelving, and if you have to ask, yes, metal. 😛

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Some very good ideas from here:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/thegeshow/top-10-coolest-uses-of-solar-panels
The first link is gone, there’s this one in Chile or another in China for example. The one in the Sahara has its critics. 😛
Good idea with the bins though, get them enough power to trot away at COB to unload at the local disposal centre. Might be a thing. The outdoor urinals now popular in Europe could flush by the power of the sun as well, in fact an aesthetic integration into an attractive water feature would brighten up the environs for the delight of all. 🙂

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A fine collection indeed! Still back in primordial 768p here. 😛
Explored the Fetch range a little, they have a good range of content in the guide. Currently watching The Fall on a TV app though, as waiting for the providers to fix the bugs in other TV apps which make them almost impossible to use. Well into series 3 now, it’s beginning to induce a little tedium, thus increasing the tension leading up to the celebrations of these screaming streaming bugs being silenced once and for all. 🙂

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Yep, no reason not to consider “partner” as just a short form of partner in crime, it has the same varied meanings. 😛
One who by some misfortune happens to come up short on the means of pants procurement ends up panting for shorts! We’re getting lazy too, here, the home shoes are always referred to as shoes, despite really being espadrilles. 😛

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Tried a hand at the MSN games Spades, the first thing was the old login is deprecated, now it’s either anonymous or only the MS account to login through FirebaseApp.
Fun, except the game screen won’t maximise in the browser and there’s a bug in the sound volume slider. The chat icons take a bit of getting used to as well.

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Well, at least the government is showing signs of interest, else, if these don’t get an airing at all, the catchpenny gen pub will start freaking out about cover-ups! 😛
Rats, they lost the original film, would further analysis have revealed more? And -er- what are we to conclude if the deer hairs didn’t come from the suit? 😛

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How did Wayward Pines go?
Don’t recall the original BBS client used in the early nineties – might have been MajorBBS. Navigation, economy, and ease of use got so much better with Blue Wave in the way it processed the quk and rep files. Hyperterminal also had its uses. 🙂
Over here, they are also referred to as SLOs, (Subaru Legacy Outback), perhaps for the next gen-ers “station wagon” sounds even more back_in_the_day. Would your mum be happier with stationary wagon while at rest, and mobile wagon when in motion?

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Which one made it to pole position?
Can stock folded, sad as was a subscriber. The Splashy image was purchased for a couple of bucks, presumably the rights to the image don’t change.

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A C++ job to emulate a cmd console when prompting for input might be fun as well, along with the additional “Proper” case task for an extra sugar hit? It’s possible an old Dossite can be convinced after all! 🙂
It’ll want testing, thus the next step is to cautiously broach the bounds of temerity of any willing tester over at AFKMods. 🙂

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No detailed or convincing explanation of how spice worked from memory, there was a short history of its use though.
The IMDB seems to be more “popularity” based, how would your average Joe react as opposed to yer regular discerning critic. The RT score for Extreme Measures is slightly below the IMDB score, as some parts of the film took on a rather shaky direction. Gene Hackmann vs. Hugh Grant went the way of chalk vs. cheese and the interplay of the goons in the plot lurched it back into the doldrums of B grade schlock. The building tension and dialog kept the movie afloat, just.

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Okay, so found this:

Selecting text on Android and iOS
When it comes to text selection, you’ll notice some variation on smartphones, because different operating systems may not allow app developers to enable text selection features in the same way. But these techniques should work smoothly in the most common apps, like web browsers, document editors, and note-taking apps, for example.

On Android, a double-tap or a long press on a word will select it in its entirety. But if you then want to select more words on either side of the first one, keep your finger pressed down and drag it around the screen. You can also tap and drag the blue handles that appear at the edge of selected text to extend the selection character by character.
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When you select text, a pop-up menu will appear above it: Pick Select all from this menu (you may have to tap the three dots first) to highlight all the available text in a particular area. This might include all the text in a chat message, a field on a web form, or an entire document. This pop-up menu also gives you access to Copy and Share options you can use to move the text somewhere else.

A little involved perhaps, is that what you do?

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Got a WHEA uncorrectable bugcheck – looks like it points to the Standard NVM Express Controller of the newish (PCI connected) SSD. After booting the event log showed this:

A fatal hardware error has occurred.

Component: PCI Express Endpoint
Error Source: Advanced Error Reporting (PCI Express)

Primary Bus:Device:Function: 0x1:0x0:0x0
Secondary Bus:Device:Function: 0x0:0x0:0x0
Primary Device Name:PCI\VEN_1987&DEV_5019&SUBSYS_50191987&REV_01
Secondary Device Name:

Might also be related to the recent Intel firmware upgrade, so we’ll just have to sit back to see how this evolves. 🙂

Edit: With all this blah-hoo regarding specifications, all you get from Windows is some error occurred. When these devices report an error, it usually filters through as just an “error”. Sure, the more error checking there is, the slower the system is, and the more wear on the H/W, can we at least get a little more breakdown i.e. parity (R/W), CRC (dust & heat) or a tiny hint of any SMART errors?
Apparently a SMART test is run each boot, no problems so far – at least as far as the percent reliability of SMART permits it. 😛

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From the way it was worded one can imagine the new chargers magically detect whether the device is “compatible” or not and charge accordingly. No? Oh well, just another one for the disappointments rack.
Can always select one word and copy/paste it, the code doesn’t present a way of selecting a group of words (at least with finger swiping), unless there is a trick.
The battery drain on this one is still significant when used more frequently.

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Is it possible the new chargers that claim fast charging with compatible devices can wreck the batteries on very old phones?
The old tablet had the power button just around to the right of the micro USB outlet, which made disconnecting with the left hand and powering off with the right quick and easy, the A8 has the power on switch on the left and at the other end, really good for two left hands.
Still searching for a way to select, copy and paste text from these forums, at the moment it all makes like an impervious WOT. :p

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What’s an ambient car?
How annoying, maybe scanreg.exe or another reg cleaner?

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Done with regedit, try this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/removing-invalid-entries-in-the-add-remove-programs-tool-0dae27c1-0b06-2559-311b-635cd532a6d5
Some of the programs in subscription have of late developed a tendency to want their users to click buttons rather than use the pull-down menus. Even if you end up using just the buttons, they won’t provide an option to hide the menus for whatever reason. On the other hand, clearing the clutter of useless buttons, gets a nice ribbon of wasted space – as mentioned here:
https://forum.emclient.com/t/repositioned-search-box
https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/127184-top-ribbon-whitespace-hide-common-actions-buttons
it’s fair to say that from the programmers’ perspective, these issues aren’t as easy as they first appear. 🙁
Edit: The HP did nag for a BIOS upgrade related restart a few weeks back, and after declining on 3 or 4 occasions, it then rebooted without prompting for saved files in N++. This time, it again prompted for a BIOS update, which went without a hitch – and without rebooting. Cool, … if there is a black screen or BSOD next restart, we’ll have a good indication as to the cause. 😛

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If there ever will be a fine satirical magazine like MAD on the stands again, yep, worth a thread. Still searching for humour, there are some stalwarts in isubscribe. Websites anyone? ComicsUK definitely worth a lookover, love the funny folks:

Seriously considering American Bystander, more my cuppa, 8 mags at $20 each cost a fair bit more than MAD reruns, with possible extra cartage for international customers.
Another funny thing happened today, purchased a 4L container of fish emulsion fertilizer which fell ever in the back of the ute during transit. Only a small quantity leaked out, unfortunately enough to soak the side of a fine hessian bag and some toilet mats. Despite the rubber tonneau, there’s bound to be a fishy odour around there for a while. 🙁

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