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Skyscraper is an 21C. update on Towering Inferno, never a dull moment means there’s enough to keep one awake until the end is nigh!
FTA are offering all 8 seasons of Homeland, quit after the third, not bad, especially when unadulterated (with a dash of adulteration) spy soap is your thing.
There’s a really tense, well constructed build up to a fairly run-of-the-mill bog standard culmination of events in Playing Nice, other possibilities might have been in the pipeline for the creators, no doubt all the better ones demanding no less than considerable yakka.
The_Thomas_Crown Affair is exciting to watch, with side attractions and divagations a-plenty including this 1898 game featuring the Schliemann Defense to the Ruy Lopez opening.
Soundtrack includes The Windmills of Your Mind, not the Muppets version from the next decade if any were wondering:

It also had the following fine track:

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Definitely getting a welcoming Linux vibe, the main drawback as a Microsoft Solitaire Collection junkie, how so for this little red rooster to go cold turkey?
Is there light at the end of the tunnel even after Microsoft Solitaire Turns Off Keyboard Lights, a new feature which could even be related to another thing.
A High Performance power plan has always been set in Process Lasso while Solitaire runs, else tournament time is incorrectly evaluated. Again, after the last MS update, the power plan will not reset to the previous plan as it did before. Pretty sure it’s not an issue with Process Lasso, but might post over there later given a positive response from MS to above.

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The border protection folks have done a pretty good job of keeping citrus greening out of the country, so don’t think it was the cause as there was no discolouration in the last fine crop of oranges. Can never be absolutely sure though. 🙁
Beauty berries are … beautiful, and our feral deer would certainly go party on them. Unusual as a deciduous subtropical – haven’t seen any in nearby nurseries to date.

There is a will and intention one day of getting close and personal with Big Spotty, in the meantime the urgency is to attend the so-named “Old Grump” tereticornis down by the dam as he/she has not had the best from our current weather behaviours. Not even half the height of Spotty, closer to half the girth perhaps.

Acquired an attractive Lemon Sherbert Coleus (or Plectranthus) from North Queensland- it has a marvellous fragrance and taste.

Also eager to procure Cremnus, another aromatic and hairy plant.

The brass “nozzle” sprayer on this garden hose gets very sticky to turn in adjusting for fine spray, tried various greasy/oily lubricants, even Tri-Flow with hardly any improvement in the twist. The connecting parts which are visible look clean, can’t speak for the other parts. Various denizens of GoogleLand say soak the thing in vinegar to clean before applying a silicone based lube, as it won’t wash away too quickly in the rain.

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No doubt Linux would be better, provided it won’t get barfed by clumsy keyboard-fu this way. 😛

Ah, the fans are now managed entirely by Pop!_OS in the then Linux partition – perfect when there is no automatic bricking. Do get the picture now, my own particular folly is a penchant for skimming over poorly documented stuff:

Replacing WinRing0 in Fan Control with PawnIO

There was also Turn On or Off Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist in Windows Security, regrettably no link in that article to another one entitled Turn Off Windows for Good. Might have been a more entertaining read? 😛

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Time has moved on, and even though the Ryzen still hasn’t got a sound card, it’s not off the list. 🙂
Windows has been pretty good overall, the major updates keep most of the user settings from the previous now, however there were some oddities introduced:

Some of those issues in the OP are due to the Service Host (svchost.exe) chowing through the hosts file at Windows logon. It runs after hibernate resume as well, did post a query to MS for confirmation, both post and answer has since vanished. Ran it around to the Bitsum Gurus, no answer usually means, or implies insufficient information.
Well, this CPU figure of 8.38% looks more to be throttled by the restraint of I/O operations (e.g. searching through RAM blocks and writing data back to RAM according to types and encoding etc.) than just plain cpu cycles. The issue is, the CPU is supposed to be going flat chat in a critical thread, yet you could play Skyrim or such (offline) concurrently, where game performance isn’t optimal, but fine nonetheless. It’s all down to the CPU architecture and grade of DDR RAM, and the Windows handling of them, an intricate and complex rabbit hole indeedy deed!
Did you ever receive any feedback from Microsoft regarding the fans on the s76? It’s common knowledge that Windows performs many BIOS updates silently, which could mean certain settings get overwritten unfortunately. 🙁

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Sigh, same issue again as in the OP, so responded to the thread again.
Also, Thermaltake pulled Outervision’s Supply Calculator licence, thus we’re off to a new Wizard with ScareGPU, Tin RAM, and the Cowardly Drive in for an OEM recalc. 😛

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How did the choc fudge cake go?
😛 And a dalek’s eyestalk to hold the carafe! 😛
That’s a rollicking good old fashioned icing set, and oh, a picture is just what’s required to titillate the tastebuds for sure!

Obtained a packet of donut peaches or Ondines, being a popular store brand over here. Not quite as tasty a regular peaches, a good grower for a harsher climate, so an Angel/donut peach tree is on the list for autumn.
If trying your hand in the making of sourdough bread, apparently a SCOBY culture is required. There’s a fair bit of preparation in this Hibiscus kombucha cake with SCOBY already in the kombucha. Just ensure the flowers aren’t from either Hibiscus rosa-sinensis or Rose of Sharon. 😛
It’s awful when things leak. Up here over winter, knock up much of the chicken and fish preparations in covered casserole dishes to go in the stove. No matter what, there is leakage during the cooking which ensures a hard carbonised crust on the dish for a big clean up later. Have never found one which doesn’t. Foil and the like might reduce it some, more waste going in the skip though.
Also looking for a roasting dish for our handy little oven, the stores here mostly focus on plugin ones, some of which look quite nice. They all possess the plastic electrical contacts and whatnot that would unfortunately make a very nasty mess in the oven if we are not careful.
Haven’t scoured the Nordic range yet, will soon. 🙂

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Wow, the ellipsograph describes a beautiful geometric move however, and there was a couplet from Ovid that begged inclusion!
As a matter of interest regarding St. Francis and the following extract from this article:

On 24 December 1223, he organised a midnight mass that included a re-enactment of the event, with villagers playing the parts of Mary and Joseph and a rag doll as baby Jesus. St Francis even brought along an ox and a donkey to complete the image of Jesus being born in a barn. The aim was to educate and inspire the villagers of Greccio about the celebration of Christmas – not just as a historical event, but as something real they could imagine and believe in.

There’s some debate as to the actual circumstance of birth, many think it was a house, most likely a well tenanted one.
Went ahead and purchased two of these Elevated Trampoline Hammock Beds – the young dog is sure to appreciate the Oxford fabric, the old dog, well, he may not like the idea of having to climb into one. 😛

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Hallelujah, got something working re counter with a modified .htaccess file in OldSite and a php script that writes a hit to a file each time the page is accessed. For a better breakdown of bot visitors, see Simple visitor counter, not sure if his code handles blockers though.
No matter, all that’s required now is for some PHP to read a file and display it into a meter box in the html somewhere. Easy enough?

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Funny how everything is going to Discord. Why don’t they make everything Discord anyhow – a Discord browwer, Discord OS, Discord apparel, watches, jewellery and other paraphernalia, Discord car – or even – a Discord government? And most importantly, a plug & play connector device. (hey – where Dis Cord?)
On the subject of discussion sites closing down, say farewell to the AMD community forums, there be a few who are not happy about the loss of that considerable knowledgebase.

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Sounds good. 🙂
Just installed VS2026 along with the Linux and embedded development with C++ component, will be interesting – give me a bit.

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Yeah, OpenMW is a must. Just run Morrowind from a Network drive to get no mouse at the options menu, and a big buzz out of the speakers. A cold start is the only way out of the system freeze which is subsequently missed entirely in the Windows event log. 🙁

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There’s a long wait before svchost.exe frees up other processes on the Ryzen, so boosted it a little with the help of this from W10 forums. The value in the registry setting for SvcHostSplitThresholdInKB was increased from the 380000 default to 600000 (6GB) RAM. Not the full 8gb as other process won’t get a look-in. 😛
Reminder to self: In case internet drops, get a FAT flash stick to update the TUF B450 mobo for the rig.

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Thanks. Funny they are not wont to provide a list of “safe” hit counter sites, or even provide a safe hit counter themselves for sandbox purposes, which can be optionally blocked by their own software. A couple of bucks for each use could even go towards the upkeep of their own site. They also block Google Analytics by default apparently.
On the other hand, plugins like ZDN Adblock Detector are overkill, all that’s required here is a script that adds a number to the counter when an ad-blocker is detected. When it comes to other visitors like bots and crawlers, perhaps a project for Cleantalk, a counter on the page for all guests, welcome and otherwise. 🙂

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That’s an amazing set – it’s all at IA in pretty good MP3 format, just in case we miss out. There was a 2020 vinyl release of the Ballad of Champions at Discogs, out of stock at the moment.
Funny thing, posted on this Reddit thread saying Armory Crate works well enough on the Ryzen machine. Ding dong, ding dong works like a song because it was uninstalled a year ago now, Doh! 😛
It was all about the lights on the keyboard not returning after power-on, once upon a time not a necessary typing requirement. These days the finger memory gets fuzzed by using different keyboards. 🙁

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Yep, been on The Chunnel, it’s worked out very well considering the traffic volume and a few issues. Materials are the major issue deep in the ocean as the pressures are tremendous – things could easily go the way of Oceangate. 🙁
That’s an amazing collection right there, and a good chance most of the movies ending up at the IA for our viewing pleasure! Songs too like Dinah and an old Beiderbecke number revived thus:

Let’s not forget Mickey Mouse in the comics, one who has fortunately recovered from his early suicidal escapades. 😛

As it’s such an incredibuild we must keep an eye out for a video of assemblage – something for an up-and-coming Rubiks Cuber no doubt. He’s moved from Github to Codeberg interestingly, which is better? The buzzword in that thread is gravity so will the alternatives ever imbue us with enough escape velocity?
By contrast, did you know the manual for The Useless Machine is free of charge?

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As a matter of interest relating to this thread, came across the Android Internals::A Confectioner’s Cookbook, a work of some consequence which contains among other things an expanding Android Device Database. On that page is listed the rather venerable Samsung Galaxy Star Plus with a system snapshot taken back in 2013. Here’s a listing of (most of) the Samsung internal processes pulled from there:

class=com.osp.app.signin.SamsungService
com.osp.app.signin/.AccountAboutPreference filter
com.osp.app.signin/.AccountHelpPreference filter
com.osp.app.signin/.AccountPreference filter
com.osp.app.signin/.AccountView$AddAccountView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.AccountinfoView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.AgreeToDisclaimerView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.ChecklistInfoPopupActivity filter
com.osp.app.signin/.CommonInfoPopupActivity filter
com.osp.app.signin/.EmailValidationView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.HelpAboutActivity filter
com.osp.app.signin/.HelpPreference filter
com.osp.app.signin/.NameValidationWebView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.OpenSourceLicenseActivity filter
com.osp.app.signin/.OspAuthenticationService filter
com.osp.app.signin/.OspReceiver filter
com.osp.app.signin/.PasswordChangeView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.SignInView$ActivateAccountView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.SignInView$ReSignInView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.TnCView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.UserValidateCheck filter
com.osp.app.signin/.UserValidateCheck filter
com.osp.app.signin/.UserValidateCheck$UserValidationPopupActivity filter
com.osp.app.signin/.VersionPreference filter
com.osp.app.signin/.WebContentView filter
com.osp.app.signin/.WeiboInfoWebView filter

com.osp.app.signin.action.SAMSUNG_ACCOUNT_SETUPWIZARD
com.osp.app.signin.action.ADD_SAMSUNG_ACCOUNT
com.osp.app.signin/com.msc.openprovider.OpenContentProvider
com.osp.app.signin/com.msc.contentprovider.SamsungServiceProvider
com.osp.app.signin/com.osp.contentprovider.OSPContentProvider
com.osp.app.signin/com.osp.app.pushmarketing.PushMarketingReceiver filter
com.osp.app.signin/com.osp.broadcastreceiver.StdBroadcastReceiver filter
com.osp.app.signin/com.msc.sa.activity.RequestAccessTokenActivity filter
com.osp.app.signin/com.msc.sa.myprofile.MyProfileActivity filter
com.osp.app.signin/com.msc.sa.myprofile.MyProfileWebView
com.osp.app.signin/com.msc.sa.selfupdate.SelfUpgradeReceiver filter
com.osp.app.bigdatalog.BigDataLogReceiver filter

Proc com.osp.app.signin:
Apk com.osp.app.signin:

** Database info for pid NNNN [com.osp.app.signin] **
Connection pool for /data/data/com.osp.app.signin/databases/osp.db:
Connection pool for /data/data/com.osp.app.signin/databases/openData.db:
Connection pool for /data/data/com.osp.app.signin/databases/samsungaccount.db:
** Graphics info for pid MMMM [com.osp.app.signin] **
** MEMINFO in pid NNNN [com.osp.app.signin] **
… /data/data/com.osp.app.signin/databases/osp.db
… /data/data/com.osp.app.signin/databases/openData.db

Doesn’t look as if too much has changed since then. 🙂

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Oh yes, everyone would love to go shopping for mementos and souvenirs at the Super Duper Mart, even a Bargain Hunt styled event would work. 🙂

Yeah the prize has to be a trophy of sorts – here was a suggestion back at AFKMods. 😛
Got a weird warning on the password manager so shared it. 🙂
Oh, and in clearing up old links, forgot that Bethesda have sunsetted their forums over to Discord. Had to go to IA to reference CK Hang on close (No Save) | Community Beta for Bethesda.net. Yep, that’s the capture page, you have to use the links above the calendar (next to “Saved 3 times”) to get the page showing. 😛

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Cool there’s a list at Wikipedia too, and a nice little compilation from @warnerbrosclassics:

🙂 There’s a bit of The Draft Horse here:

Somewhat touched by the vibes of Christmess as what transpires is much too real for many these days.

Christmas isn’t just a mess btw, it’s a f*** landfill catastrophe. 😛
Promising Young Woman is one of those movies where anything heard or read about the movie will spoil the payload as it were. Recommended for direction and suspense values at least.
Can’t say Bad Moms is the funniest movies ever made, but it is entertaining enough. Colourful quotes e.g.:

Wow, Gwendolyn, I genuinely think you should just relax a little bit, I mean, have a donut hole. They’re delicious. They’re from a gas station. They’re… Mmmm.

The FTA streaming agent only had series 3 of The Head so after getting through all the throwbacks there was a lot of chasing through tunnels and animated dialog after various murders. There is compensation in that the ending wrapped things up rather well.

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Good catch, no issue with hoiking it out as there could easily be confusion with IDD_CREATURE_VIEW1‘s resourced dialog.

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