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Received some birthday scratch lottery tickets upon which there was a note saying that either their website or the Android app could scan them for you, revealing the results that way. Good idea so thought, and to save a bunch of nails promptly went about doing so.
The durst scan window in the app was maximised, yet did not pick up any of the numbers or bar codes. Upon failure, it recommended a scan back at the website, tiny window, and unsurprisingly, same result. Lighting was not an issue, even post-eventide, so must be something with their OCR processing, who knows. No problems at all with the QR scanner btw.

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Yes it was, and they included evidence of the battery having been vetted with an attached note entitled “Battery Qualification Test” revision “123”, tabulating Date, Time, Operator IDs, Model, Serial numbers, Voltage and Impedance all signed off. Quite weighty as well, so transit costs may prohibit any return if it turns out to be a dud.

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Yeah, Scorsese’s yuppie nightmare cycle sounds like a fair addition to the burgeoning hamster wheel backlog over here. 🙂
Pretty sure that version of Firecracker showed up on FTA about a year ago, she was good in the action scenes at least.
Hope they bring Lawnmower Man to FTA here, anything from a Stephen King story is worth a gander. 🙂
Solace is a movie that got squinched by a meagre production schedule it seems. Just a bit more time in revisions and edits, even retakes to get it over the line, as it now stands, the pregnant pauses, bum lines, unexplainable or inconsequential events keep it at C grade. Still, Anthony Hopkins tells a joke. 🙂

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Yes, seems OK, now have to test the rig on it. 🙂
Oh, and beneath the molded pulp packaging was, yes, the clear A3 sized instruction sheet for installation. Compare that to their Battery Cartridge Replacement Guide, being a tiny image that, despite taking a while to load in the browser, is still small enough to obscure the doc id (990-1603V) and date of publication (10/2005) at the top left. Directly under that are listed the model numbers followed by the visual instruction guides for the Back-UPS RS/XS units, which include the one in question here, fortunately.
Interestingly, the flip side of the hard-copy document also has a similar set of instructions for other models, for anyone wishing to download the unreadable and non-existent instructions for their legacy UPS’s, good luck with that. 🙂
It can serve as a quasi-knowledge resource so long as the search facility is active, otherwise it’s either Google if the pages have been spidered, or trawling thread by vaulting thread in the forlorn hope of locating any trace of treasure!

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While searching through Dostips (mentioned previous page) came across this post:

DOS is an old operating system. DISK OPERATING SYSTEM. What you mean is batch is old but in reality as far as scripting languages and shells go it is not even as old as CSH or TCSH or Korn for that matter.

He forgot to mention Thompson on primordial Unix back in ’71. The only recollection of it now is the trusty Abort Retry Fail:

Hilarious. In that case, the “Tips” in DosTips isn’t Tips at all, maybe stands for “Taken in Playful Sense” or something between pejorative and playful? It’s kind of existential, help them out please. 😛

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Copy copy that Roger that roger papa papa bear.
Would it ever convoy the notion of the Alpha and Omega Omega of rank command?
Hell to the yes, hum br,a 10-4-4, Aye-Aye-firmative! (A barking bird-dog in a triple nickel got that mud duck to hammer down a corn patch lot lizard in a pickle park)

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In Windows the only option provided is FAT32, could try an NFTS formatted flash for Recovery, could it be their program would actually query the file system?
No recovery required yet, as everything is fine now, as the deck chairs on the Titanic are all aligned and looking very comfortable. 🙂

Just succumbed the urge to oscillate from the thread regarding the blessed UPS batteries, they have eventually arrived, yay, as there happened to a bit of a hold-up. So was prompted at receipt of delivery to submit a review to Google, which was done, and as it has turned out, now showing at Google Maps.

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Wait, was she a pedestrian when hit? How horrible, did they catch the perp and will there be any compensation due?
Sure that’s fine, personally find exploration quite taxing – even if it’s just on a computer screen. Are they still updating NMS?

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Looking at the layout through the tablet, everything amazingly fits. The extract text in the Walrus categories is a little hard to see, that’s all. 🙂

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They still don’t trust poor old Audacity. Go this email:

Severity: ● Informational

Time: 8/26/2024 12:45:00 AM (UTC)

Activity: Entry will be removed from the Tenant Allow/Block List

User: SecurityComplianceEvent

Details: Mail from [ no*****@au**********.org ] will no longer be automatically allowed starting on 8/29/2024. To extend the expiration date for the allow entry, go to the Tenant Allow/Block List.

You’d think it’s easy to extend, well nothing much to twiddle in the Allow/Block list, could be the admin level of account. This guy says

Because block list entries (in general) cannot be updated, to amend the expiration date it’s necessary to remove the existing block list entry and replace it with a new version that has an expiration date of 90 days in the future (the maximum).

Means having to wait for another email from Audacity, then re-submitting. 🙁

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Giant robots fighting fires even? First thing that comes up is the Dragon Firefighter which has seen some improvements:

Simon is funny, wonderful if he could pop up in a feed – never checked out theRegister before, cool stuff, doesn’t look as if they have a newsletter at this time.
A feeble attempt in worming out a new angle:

Dark Matter May Be a Deformed BLACK Mirror Universe, Scientists Say

Speaking of games, on the top of the bucket list is Disco Elysium, and yay, a few mods to explore. 🙂

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As USB sticks are quite cheap these days, purchased 64gb one from the local office suppliers. All well and good until it came to make it a recovery drive. The recovery program spat the dummy not recognizing the format. Windows did report 64gb as per volume info on the drive, so went ahead and formatted it through explorer – funny that it would format to no greater capacity than 32gb. Nevertheless, it’s functioning as a recovery drive, so in light of no response to the linked thread in above post, happy enough to leave it just so, even if there is insufficient reason not to continue (despite weird stuff like this for instance 😛 ). WinPE will for now remain a YA WinPD (Yet Another Windows Pipe Dream). 🙂

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Looks very nice. Never had any luck over here with e-shavers and batteries, mainly because everything then was Ni-Cad. Which explains the preference for power straight from the sockets – (and hence the rickety connections 😛 ). So good idea to check on the efficacy and user experience of any battery powered units.
We’re in for some dry and warmer days now, so on the watch for fires. Not so many hazard reduction burns either this season.
Oh, and we forgot to say good-bye to Gundam. 🙁

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Ugh, did she hurt it, or is it just wear and tear? From what I gather, there’s a bit of travel involved, too far for the bike?

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No problem with the actual shaving moves, even with the blades blunt as they are. The ultimate wish is for a blunt blade flash alert, requiring a snazzy kind of shaver with such self-check features. 🙂
Better performance in Freecell today.

Wonder why MS can’t provide direct urls for those results, other than more paying customers that is. 😛
Some years back, one of our local radio announcers has taken upon the task of creating short and ear-catching audio reviews of movies. Here he covers Alien: Romulus, and, true to form, does it rather well. As to the movie itself, sounds good, despite the fact the outcome of most in that franchise to date is rather depressing. 😛
Looking for a worm farm like this, will require the dimensions as it has to fit inside a metal box used as protection from mice.

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Also broach the idea of signing up to Stearnvault, where among such goodies on offer there is an option of a jolly good old talking to, at absolutely no extra charge. That is, to them at least, over our way an impost on sensibilities will occur if and whenever the user signup process tanks! 😛

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My kind of movie, pity about the subtitles, on these screens one has to squint.
Johhny Mnemonic was a nice concept, the intro got you in, somehow the rest of it failed to retain much interest, probably attributable to a set of expectations of the movie at odds with those of the director. 😛
And now for something completely different, the 40 year Old Virgin ends with the following song:

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Update for bb Style Pack pending, more options on new posts in the offing. 🙂

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Got this through alerts, they’re finding issues with widgets as well, unsurprisingly.
It’s kinda nice to promote their stuff through the site, maybe a backburner milestone for a links page someday. 🙂

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