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🙂 It’s a beauty!
Although the Australian cicada provides a different template for sound, would it ever make it on the Marvel or DC stage? A question which no doubt can deliberated over the following background calls.

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Any idea of the grape variety? Could be the muscadine which has many cultivars apparently.
Vinegar is a really good descaler, for total clean Sodium Metabisulphite came to mind, briefly, as it’s very unpleasant to work with. It requires absence from the room while it is bubbling through the pipes after which it has to be all flushed out with water, making it totally messy and over complicated. A working video might attract a certain Youtube crowd. 😛
Christmas in July perhaps? Could also be a novel way of stocking up with XMAS gear now, for the crowd pleasing effect of putting all those items on sale when the season actually arrives!
Replacing a lavender planted last year which died most probably because of insufficient sunlight (it was a wet year), a Blueberry Lavender “Ruffles” has been put in a slightly sunnier position nearby. Thing is, despite it being bred for Australian (think sunny) conditions, there’s only about half a day direct sun available, the rest is filtered, so hope it’s enough.

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Yep, only a very mild interest for the Amityville Horror, so one viewing was enough. It was publicized extensively though, MAD’s Calamatyville Horror was better.

Faintly remember seeing Piranha, will keep an eye out!
“Steven Spielberg called the film “the best of the Jaws ripoffs”” 🙂

The FTA Interview with a Vampire completed last night, it comes as a slightly different angle to the vampire mystique, apparently water isn’t so bad, and they are susceptible to (spoiler) opiates & arsenic. Still, a well told story, and could indeed be worth a second viewing – in twenty years time. 🙂

Portlandia skits bring back memories of MADTV, esp. anything art/food/entertainment:

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Problem with streaming app.
To facilitate troubleshooting, here’s a wish: include in Task Manager option (or Sysinternals?) to prioritize a specific browser tab internet quota, so that other internet consuming processes are (semi) suspended. At the time of last check, there were scripts in AHK that have come close, else Nirsoft might have something – more research required!

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Boot is surprisingly well behaved the last few days.
Now it’s this logi m350 crumbum of a despicable wireless mouse button not working. All is not lost, as someone suggests a small spray of lube on the joints:
https://kevinmatsunaga.com/repair-logitech-pebbles-m350-mouse-buttons/
Logitech have lumped all kinds of different problems with a bunch of possible solutions. If nothing else, it saves space for extra content on their web pages. 😛

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Noticed in that wpbeginner link the first few user comments refer to posting in tabs which have remained “logged in” when logging out has occurred on another tab. Has that happened to you at all?
Also, just as a general rule of security here, I de-activated wp-phpmyadmin as it has vulnerabilities when not used. Posted for clarification here.

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Got some mushroom solar lights in the garden which all need new batteries, got the batteries, now all that’s required is the time to do them. 😛
🙂 Over here there’s a local-community.org hub which can double as a lost/found noticeboard. Apart from one item several years ago, there have been sporadic reports of pets (mainly dogs) going missing, and consequently found. Might be an idea for the local government to hand the baton over to the post office or even the public library to handle lost/found property matters. It’s probably been done before, and hasn’t worked. 😛
Entanglement is a mystery- the distance was discovered to be over 1200km – how much can it get to?
Been busy in the garden preparing for a dry season(s) ahead, along with the manual control of weeds, especially renegade blackberry growth. Fun. 🙂

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Did you end up seeing it? If memory serves, it was forgettable, the comics were much better – and Gerber’s Destroyer Duck was a hoot!
Yeah, the grindhouse element puts a damper on any schlock comedy. what would make me giggle is the insertion of canned laughter where inappropriate. 😛
Northwater was brutal, a stark reminder of how challenging life an be without the conveniences of today. No repeat viewing here.
Right now, streaming Clean Sweep, it’s quite polished, so hoping there will be a second series. Not so with Wayward Pines – it kind of dragged on for too long, with a gloomier outcome than one might have expected.

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Great tip, thanks, found a short guide here: https://www.washington.edu/doit/tech-tips-troubleshooting-windows-linux-live
Each power on it either

Boots, shows the Windows log, freeze/lights out on keyboard after 2-3 secs

Boots, shows the Windows log0 and “Preparing Automatic Repair”, freeze/lights out on keyboard after 2-3 secs

Boots, shows black, then reboots

Also, when navigating the UEFI menu, it can freeze randomly.
So, yep, how do we know whether it’s the CPU chip, or something else on the mobo (the memory is fine I think). Once the machine is booted, it is fine for hours on end (mostly)!

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😛 Spoke too soon, something might be going a bit wonky in the circuitry, placed an enquiry at asrock for either confirmation or good news, either of which will cheer up this poor soul, if it comes back all of a froth and bubble with a nerdy computer joke. 😛
Edit: A little bit worse today – replied the post over there (can’t edit them) – it only seems to boot up to Windows when it feels like it after 5 or 6 attempts. 🙁
Might be looking at the W11 machine up here in that case.

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Mad feedback lifted from Teams:

Interesting ending directed to the farms, it could lead into a parody of Animal Farm with Rock Farm as an alternative title. Maybe there’s a lava thief, or a rival rock faction, or a coming cataclysm which will hurtle the poor rocks out in orbit of a dying sun.
Yarn to make the rocks yawn for.
Rolls disembarked or disenfranchised? There’s a possibility of a rival clan on the other side of the planet. Who might they be? Could be the Rolls! It’s going to be the Rocks versus the Rolls in a no limits Rock and Roll rollout of the planets greatest rockup!
And the heroes of the pandas could be none other that popular team of five- the Bam-Fu Pandas? Some proficiency in the ancient art of Bam-fu required to haul those unruly rocks and rolls in order, no doubt.

Over here we have Rocklea Road.

An idea that might even lead to the exposition of a Big Rock Candy Mountains theme in verse!

Oh, the buzzin’ of the bees in the cigarette trees
The soda water fountain
Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings
In that Big Rock Candy Mountain.

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Oh yes, ran chkdsk last month, and the ST1000DM003-1CH162 passed with flying colours! 🙂
From memory, this is the first error as such, there have been bootups to blank screens (no errors) in the past, so it’s good idea to backup, like voting, early and often. 😛

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You know, this PC is itself a relic. Turned it on and got a Disk Read Error, Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot, which didn’t work. Then tried later, and it’s as if nothing bad happened.
So, for the Seagate drive, downloaded the legacy SeaTools, because, you know, everything here is kind of legacy now. But there you go, the program wouldn’t initialise because it couldn’t get past the “USB: Scanning for supported drives”. Silly bods included an exe.config xml file with SHOW_USB as True, flipping it to False in an editor would never make the compiled exe change its evil ways unfortunately. 😛
So, ran SeaTools ver 5, hey, this is so much better. Ran a quick test, with a pass. Might run the extended tests, however the feeling is it’s more like a component of the controller not getting enough power on cold start. There’s no test for that in SeaTools as such – looks like the tech isn’t here yet.

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Yes, from Virgin Interactive (Prince of Persia, Earthworm Jim, Resident Evil, Flight Unlimited)!
Played it back then, it was pretty good. Now, there’s the re-issue, just extract the files into a directory like C:\Guest and run. If that doesn’t work, try it from Old Games, for extra options try it with an MS-DOS conf file and run it through PrgLnch.

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Sharktopus; and the never to be released spinoff: Jabberjaw Grows a Tentacle. (wouldn’t be technically correct since octopuses only have arms. But hey, it’s SliFi right?)
Cheap set looks spiffing enough, looks like you are starting a collection, how about a dice bath bomb?
The ozemail email address is finally downstream, took ages to change it in existing accounts, what with Google’s password management clunky at best, and weird setups at the places holding the account. The most annoying thing was the import not working as it should. 🙁

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Not quite a relic yet, the UPS purchased for the downstairs PC is getting on in years, and doing rather well. As for the place it came from, not so. Turns out they went belly up the very year the unit was purchased, and all of 5 years to learn of the plight of Warehouse1. 😛

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Ah yes, thanks, do have an account with the old SysInternals, but what happened to the old forums?

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Zelda is getting better all the time it seems. Over here the ABC State Channel runs a weekly game review show mainly for kiddies, but adult kiddies like yours truly get a buzz out of it as well. This is their review of it – not region blocked over there at all?

Honestly, it’s looking more and more like the game of the decade, what a shame they aren’t going to have a port for other platforms.

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How odd, if it does happen again, troubleshoot the server-side cache by shooting a PM over here so the site cache can be cleared. Else it could be something awry with the client-side caching, an area which isn’t currently under focus (yet).

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