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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
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. 😛
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
APCPowerChuteConfigin C:\ (Root) containing a filecurrentprocess.xmlwith a bit of data including proc id. Why, don’t ask. 😛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 antihibernationists. 🙂
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. 😛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 RFIUPSing 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.
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. 🙂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..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. 😛
We don’t need no ejaculation, no more retching in the classroom – yeah. And btw … School’s Out!
And something for Halloween!
How odd, does the game database create a local copy which requires constant updating? Is that configurable at all? Haven’t played it, is there an easy how-to somewhere?
Checked some browser favourites, apparently a few more have moved on to a more restful place: 🙁http://www.freewareseek.com
http://www.freeware-guide.com
http://games.on.net
http://forums.ubi.com
http://planescapetorment.wikispaces.com
http://www.shsforums.net
http://www.freewareseek.com
http://www.demonews.com
http://www.pseudodictionary.com
http://rockwisdom.com
http://www.topica.com
http://www.pmpoetry.com
http://creativequotations.com
https://pixabay.com
http://www.mudcat.org
http://www.bestclipart.com
http://www.serverfiles.com
http://freewareasylum.com
http://bassflava.com
http://www.littlemusicclub.comPretty good, thanks!
Along with the black box you could have the text “hover to reveal” or similar – depends how long the text is of course. Any chance it could it be placed on the menu?Something that old to be still behind a paywall? Does it come through on IA?
As a matter of interest, they screened the original Friday the 13th last night. The first 45 minutes came across as a thin, run of the mill chain of events, turned out to be the right formula for the bunch of shocks that ensued. 🙂There’s quite a bit going with it, because obviously there has to be a button that triggers the event.
Here’s a recent thread where Milan has commented. There is still this fork of an early Tom Braider iteration, very old and now read-only. Tom Braider had the following code for WP 4.5:`<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Tiny Spoiler
Plugin URI: http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/tiny-spoiler
Description: [spoiler name=”top secret”]shows/hides this text[/spoiler]
Version: 0.2
Author: Tom Braider
Author URI: http://www.tomsdimension.de
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* adds stylesheet
*/
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{
echo “<style type=’text/css’>
.spoiler { border: 1px #000 dashed; }
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.spoiler legend input { width: 30px; }
.spoiler div { margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; height: 0; }
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* adds javascript
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{
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?>`Do you think we could zhuzh it up a bit for good effect?
How old is the dog btw? Probably enough years between us to get a pet thread up in any case. 🙂
Tried going into the app settings for Yu-Gi-Oh – could be something stuck in the content cache or something. Also other problems revealed here. 😛
Cool! What got you onto that – reviews are very positive, and Deviant has a page as well.Did play The 7th Guest once, found it to be well presented and very playable, do remember consulting a hint sheet towards the culmination of the mystery. It’s still playable, of course, and if the rig has no CD drive, try an emulator for the Wayback version, or even the special ed on offer over there.
Do you use Chrome on there or the inbuilt browser. Not a frequent user of Chrome on the Android, so haven’t tested the limits enough for any helpful assessment. On the PC, the cache “self manages” on Chrome and Edge so that manual intervention hasn’t been required for years. As a consequence of intensive browsing episodes, cookies could do with some trimming after a while. 🙂Yeah, there’s still issues with EE even after all this time, a major improvement would be to adjust the angle of view in the interaction area. By how much, and too how much it would or should impact gameplay and quest progression is more a question for a dedicated patch team than some random modder. For no other reason than a complete decompilation, followed by considerable restructuring of the game engine code. 😛
Another little quirky thing bobbed up regarding Windows and DirectX immersion, if you run Disk Cleanup during an active game, the cleanup progress bar window will flash in and out of the game screen until Disk Cleanup is complete. Even when the cleanup progress is moved off screen, the game doesn’t quite run how it should.If it is this one with Charlie Brown, the music hits the right spot. 🙂
Anything with Dustin Hoffman is worth a gander, and Rain Man is a super bonus in the event the Vegas itch ever gets the better of us and our card counting mates!
Streaming all the series of Departure, it’s great if you like quick plot development, crash porn, and well dressed people strutting around being very much up to speed in solving important cases. (Quite interesting as well.) 🙂
Right at the beginning Underwater gets straight into the slushy and squelchy D & D action with little fanfare, it takes the liberty of assuming one is already familiar with the layout of the vast water catacomb. Could not resist the desire to leave the movie halfway through, but not before hearing this joke. 😛
This one isn’t Charlie Brown related, but it’s nice. 🙂
(Leaving that one bee-hind);
What did the fish say when it ran into a wall? Dam! -
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