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Wow, did they let on whether it was H/W or S/W? Hardware is usually the first cab off the rank as human bugaloos object to copping any flack on ISP brownouts at all. 😛
Email is a good channel.
Chrome on Android doesn’t have a persistent cache as default, thus shows blank pages unless there is connection, whereas on a PC browser, you have at least some idea of what you might be missing out on. 😛

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Sure, we could always try out the PostSMTP plugin and see if it helps any. Another alternative is Simple SMTP, might be a better fit if we are not going the way of commerce. Otherwise, plugins like YaySMTP offer a reasonable lifetime subscription, but will it make much difference?

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Did zoom help at all in the news clips, over here something like a 250% boost was required.

Funny thing with the Smeg Coffee maker (AUS version) today, the filtration now cuts out after around two cups in the 12 cup carafe, and will not resume when the machine is switched off and on again. The only time it will resume is when the unit is empties and refilled.
This also affects the descaling. A fascinating video of the process here where the filtration cuts out at about 1:35 to 1:40 in the video. Over to Smeg for this one. 🙂

On the radio there was a very interesting show about ADHD, must confess some of my earlier days might have deviated somewhat from the neurotypical, taking byte sized chunks from OCD, DD and ADHD, well past all that now. The upshot from todays show was that you could never self diagnose with the three types ADHD, it has to be performed by a professional. The journalist from the show has quite a following in TikTok – here’s a short video on what she gets up to.

@mattieunofficial

My #adhd #chorecharm bracelet fueled morning routine explained! Credit to @SailorJager for the system #adhdtiktok #adhdinwomen #adhdtok #adhdtips #adhdhacks #journalistsoftiktok #authorsoftiktok #morningroutine

♬ original sound – Matilda Boseley

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Good to see you back in! 🙂
No problem with logging in your end, as for some weird reason here, Google Password Manager happened to drop a different one in autofill. Did have a spare copy of the original, one which was used just before the site went down, now restored. Or perhaps Jay reset it, or something else – critters – no matter now at any rate. 🙂

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Shame came across as a little too disjointed, off-piste even, there was something missing in the character profile of the protagonist for it to work. But then again, as he is described by the other players as a bit of a weirdo, there’s the B-grade license immediately handed on a platter to the director. A fine film, if given a few extra edit passes. Exactly what content to snip and tweak were far beyond the capabilities of this unseasoned non-professional. 😛
Saw Poltergeist (from memory again for the third time), great to watch. What didn’t work was how or why the demonic “beast” which captured Carol Anne did not have anything to do with the restless bodies from the cemetery, at the end. Two seemingly unrelated supernatural phenomena, … or were they after all?
Of course, not only was the mirror flesh peeling face scene classic, it describes very well how I start up certain mornings. 😛

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Oh, have some with power buttons in the PC graveyard underneath, there are old Logitech, Laser, and Sky keyboards all from the noughties I think. Do remember posting a piccy of the nice looking Sky at AL, these days images on Google are buried, did happen to surf into a nice bit of banter re keyboards wayback. 😛
The foil Will definitely help, but will also look rather awful. Partially settled the issue by turning the aerial on the radio to face the other way. 😛
Fun fact: The radio is much closer to the microwave, which performs a much better job of killing the conversation. 😛

Btw, the APC software deposits this directory APCPowerChuteConfig in C:\ (Root) containing a file currentprocess.xml with a bit of data including proc id. Why, don’t ask. 😛

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After the October outage did something break the favicon appearing on other pages than the home page – or was it an issue before?
Hmmm – how odd, – as soon as a page in a multi-page topic like this one is clicked, the icon appears!
Edit: A new day, and the favicon is working for the whole site now – bar the wp-admin area. How does that work? 😛

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The buzzing from the sound chip is more related to a DPC latency thing, happens after playing something in a browser tab, and then switching out to another tab or application.
Because it happens only rarely, updating the driver may or may not necessarily be the fix. otherwise it’s turning off the AMD devices and disabling hardware acceleration.

Oh, those messages are emitted during the running of the hibernation wakeup script, which gives more credo to the arguments of the anithibernationists. 🙂
As a matter of interest, it does take a rather long time for Windows to sort out network issues after the PC has been switched off for months, and strangely, the effects of any human involvement don’t amount to much. Edit: Apart from putting the issue out to hang. 😛

Edit: Hmmm, the Realtek audio driver in the Windows Catalog is is an older version (6.0.9238.1) to the above, but the zip file (DRV_Audio_RTK_SZ_DTSC_W11_64_V6092381_20211115R.zip) must have come from somewhere like the ASUS ROGues.
Funny, the Windows Catalog has a newer version which hasn’t been included in WU yet, and an even newer one at ROGue’s, which links on to the protected content at My Digital Life. 😛

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Really? That’s a cool feature, must say it is bound to slow response times in large multi-user forums. Sounds tricky, and the styling will want preservation, i.e made WP Update proof as always.

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Right now, using a “low-impact” customer power plan, as for the keystrokes, unfortunately the Prodigy has no power button! The PC chassis is endowed with one hence an unswerving reliance on that. 😛
The power plan includes a hybrid sleep which keeps the fans spinning, followed by full hibernation after 60 minutes. Thing is, if it’s not hibernated by command, the rig does actually power up intermittently during hibernation, and, after around 10-15 seconds, (realising it’s “supposed” to be off) turns itself off again! Consequently, this poor user has lent himself to falling into the marvelous rhythm of shutting the “****” thing down once a day, an arrangement the machine and human can come to terms with, at least on an “equal” basis. 😛
Will be planning to surf the UEFI sometime, a minor tweak at best (said Nervous Nellie to Cautious Conrad.)

Moving on to other issues bouncing in on the spectrum, the first was an ongoing going issue with FTA digital from the antennae, “solved” by power reset on the amplifier. A friend suggested boosting the antennae signal which entails more spaghetti and expense so probably just have to live with it.

A slightly more disturbing occurrence is the effect of the new rig on the AM/FM radio reception at the other end of the room. The task now being what component in the PC is the cause – another use case it turned out to be a fan described in this old thread. In which case, here it could be the Cryorig QF120 LED Silent Series 120mm PWM Fan installed as an extra. These days many are pointing their RFI fingers at PSUs, the one here is a Cooler Master MWE Gold FM 650W Power Supply with about the same throughput as the one in the old rig.
To help diagnosing the issue (apart from spectrum analysers and the like) is what type of sound the RFI produces on the radio. Here it’s just a static buzz, not at constant pitch, as it modulates to the voices and music in broadcast. A site which offers different types of RFI sounds of computers is this, if only there were more samples from other components like fans and PSUs. In any case, a great resource for Sounds and Music! 🙂
Here’s a very good read-up on RFI

UPSing the ante yet again is the upstairs 1200 VA Eaton UPS: 5S1200AU, old (early 2017) so only the manual is hosted now, which does the job, sort of, except the USB unit control codes can no longer be read by the installed driver software, presumably because something got fried. Well, there are connect alerts (every ~3-4 mins) when a USB ommunication port is connected to the UPS. Hard to diagnose, as it started to do this while diagnosing software freeze-UPS back in ’21. One could re-install the driver at connect, and things would work, however the process had to be repeated every bootup. Regrettable, as Eaton Tech Support were very much on the side of accentuating the turn on/turn off/ install/uninstall approach, with little regard for other methods e.g. USB Analyzer.
And to cap it all off, attempted to register in order to become one of the family, rather miffed at the return email:

Thank you for contacting Eaton.

 

We regret to inform you that your request has been denied. Further inquiries should be directed to your Power Systems Administrator or your Eaton Contact.

 

Sincerely,

Eaton Access Request Management

🙁

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He’s quite attractive, and it’s on the list!
Yeah, sometimes there can be too much gross yuck, anything from Hammer (esp. Cushing, Lee, Reed) is worth a gander though. Why not try some from the Thriller series like The Colour of Blood or The Eyes Have It?
Don’t know how that was missed – Gillian Barber is great in these – on the list! 🙂

On FTA there is a Nicolas Cage festival, and last night they played Joe, much better than Dog Eat Dog, which, apart from one or two good scenes, was off.

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Spoke to a nice representative on the phone today, it was still very much “we are still looking into the issue”, and not much else. Did gently remind them we have a little more than a week to sort it – their calming reassurance turned out to be a catalyst for this current sinking sensation, a slightly less than wonderful feeling of slow, but inexorable submersion into a mire of bugs, flaws, feedback, customer service malaise and user unsupport. Do you get that as well?

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Ah, so toggling the Third-party cookies button actually adds the regex’d site root url to the allow list in Cookies, still don’t get the “No sites blocked” – don’t they just mean “This site not blocked” or is there still misunderstanding?
Thanks, at least we know Firefox is superior in this regard. 🙂

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Lovely, bookmarked for a rainy day, (which at the moment unfortunately do not present too frequently here).
Want to hear about a mystery? It centres around an area north of here by the name of, you guessed it, Mystery Bay. It’s regarding the disappearance of five men in 1880, details here. This is the area as it was in 1895:

All very mysterious. Would like to get the WikiMedia link to that on the page, is that doable? Also added some old newspaper articles and letters to the talk pages e.g..

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In the meantime, why not add it as a extra feature in the forum stickie? Seems like a good home, as it is for those coming to grief with special characters such as less_than ampersands greater_thans. 😛

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The Atlantis ride might have a spin-off “Clean-O-Ride” in so which, after divesting the garments, you are shot through scenic (but discreet) tubes that softly jet warm, bubbly water over the speeding torso. With the help of randomly positioned assortment of soft brushes, car-wash like. Which brings up the bronze, silver, gold wash options – you’ll know my selection by the size of my wallet. 😛
Pity about that first article – “No Image Available” now. What happened? But why step out of the vehicle, the amply limbed portbot will initiate an open_door request to your smart car, after which you will be gently transported through the foyer to to the welcome portal.
Love all of those in the second article, particularly the Santa Monica colours, yeah a nice feature would be a high rise parking facility accessed only by a Space Shot contraption. 🙂

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We don’t need no ejaculation, no more retching in the classroom – yeah. And btw … School’s Out!

And something for Halloween!

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There’s also Fluent smtp. When we choose the plugin, it’s a good idea to allow it (last post) through Admin.
No worries, yesterday was bad, Information Overload Day in fact. 😛
Will give them a tingle Monday, inquiring whether PHP mailing, email operability, and push notification issues work well in the shared arrangement. 🙂

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Rats, and yeah, all that’s coming up now when Classic starts is the splash screen followed by a big white blank gui in place of what used to be our wonderful conversations. No warnings, notifications, messages or alerts. 🙁

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Wouldn’t you know, as it turned out Post SMTP was already linked in above post, as your preference was not to follow on from there, assumed you wanted to try another method.
Sorry for the ramble (just above) about the client, pretty sure encryption is just for the client here- was under the illusion that it would spill over into other addresses at Stearnvault. Yeah, if Post SMTP can fix the SSL issue, great.
The email issue leads to a more general malaise of unreliability which might include BBPress notifications, the site going to “sleep” at certain times perhaps. Hosting of Stearnvault is a shared affair, after all. Gotta give the outgoing hosting service a call again. 🙂

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