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Someone mentioned monitor blanking was not a problem in Linux with the same setup, so, well, had to share it. 🙂

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Yeah, guessing that’s what the library machine type 'x86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64' warnings are on about. It would be easy to check that in the vcxproj files for Windows projects, unlikely they would have built it with anything other than cmake though.
Couple of threads of interest, Hello, there is no 64-bit Debug version under the window and Best DevIL version to use? Should ReSIL be used over DevIL?

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Oh cool, so NimrodPSI used Meson to build DeviL at some stage? The DeviL docs do say:

CMake is used to handle building DevIL across multiple platforms.

See README.cmake for details.

See what you mean – I’d rebuild them all to x64 machine, else there’s a world of pain ahead. 🙂

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Linux may have a problem with dll’s? See for example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2538635/possible-to-use-a-dll-on-linux

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These are the DevIL dll’s discussed back here? The ~2016 version had a different build method which might be better. Just start a new VS project and compile it might be a thing, ensuring all the functions in exports check out.
Another idea is ResIL, looks like it is still being updated with support. 🙂

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Might be an idea to include the meson.log in the issue as done here. There’s a couple of other issues similar: Regenerate build.ninja fails on Windows when using MSVC and Fail to find ninja when meson install with VS15 environment.

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MS have anonymised some of our posts in their last migration. There were warning banners on their threads apparently, but if you hadn’t been there for a while you wouldn’t have known of the changes.

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Message maps in MFC are covered here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49383622/an-explanation-of-message-maps
In a nutshell MFC does away with the message switches and makes them typed. Probably a good idea for many, here the tendency was to stay with the “native” C++ stuff. 😛
Sounds good – ctime looks nice, the hard bit will be to figure out what David’s plan with time actually was. Other than spending much of it away from Morrowind. 😛

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Upvoted this answer as it looks like the solution – looks like VS has been rather kind. 🙂
Wouldn’t harm to check references of LPTIMECALLBACK to see if it is used correctly.
Cool, yes, looks like bouts of teething pain between the approaching tombmilestones from up ahead! 😛

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Have you set up Ninja with Meson?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69334227/how-can-i-setup-meson-and-ninja-on-ubuntu-linux-to-produce-the-expected-a-file
It expects MFC? See:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75984893/how-to-include-mfc-in-a-cmake-ninja-project-build-with-visual-studio-2019
Edit: Ninja’d!

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Watched the Atomic Cafe as well – could have done with a little more curation, e.g. the electric chair segment didn’t appear to have much relevance.
Missed the bar of soap action – is it towards the end?
The government would want to actually consider issuing Bert the Turtle hazmats for likely affected populations – if nothing but for a morale boost!

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There’s a good list of energy storage power plants here.
Because of copyright considerations, cross linking on The Atomic Cafe to Wikipedia talk regarding the appearance and location of the original cafe.

The_Atomic_Cafe movie courtesy of Youtube has the above shot of the vertical sign here, which appears similar to the sign on the Downtown Deco The Atomic Cafe DD56 Hydrocal Kit found at resellers like ebay and Amazon. Downtown Deco may indeed have the original image, along with the details of date and location, it may not be available in the public domain for some copyright arrangement, who knows?

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Forgive the quality of Jo Mapes as seen on TV’s Greatest Game Shows of the 50s’ and 60’s

Dang it, Homer and Jethro do it with a bit more fi:

They’re a lot of fun too – here’s “A Screwball’s Love Song”:

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Soap on a rope for extra convenience? Atomic Cafe at YouTube is on the list!
Mum also wanted Brief Encounter at IA, recommended, especially for Angela Lansbury’s debut and Rachmaninoff’s score.
Have you seen No Country for Old Men? Will have to rescreen it as some details were missed – although being a Cormac McCarthy construct, there is no hope for a satisfying closure in the ending scenes.
One of the high points of The Infernal Machine is a Goldberg machine. The plot is a nice idea, just more meat on the bones along with astute editing would have made it more palatable.
Looper had some weird bang pop timeline transitions at the start which seemed unnecessarily heavy, otherwise it was pretty good B grade action stuff.
If in the mood for gritty action revenge fare, don’t go past The Foreigner – it’s a smooth, well-choreographed affair that will keep you hanging on all the way until the end! Recommended! 🙂

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What’s your favourite Scalzi title? Here’s a quote attributed from Scalzi:

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head,

Sounds like a retort in haste – he’ll probably deny ownership. The version template of Scalzi in his own mind must have a set of immutable characteristics translatable to the mind of another (preferably non-schizoidal specific) individual. One assumes it’s the imaginary actions of this imaginary version of himself in focus. Could there indeed be more than one version of him inside our heads – including one real, and another imaginary? Are both versions capable of real and imaginary actions? And can we infer from the quote that he is happy to claim full liability for any actions by the real version of him inside our heads?
Airships are a super idea – have the advances in technology since their heyday capable of making a difference in their safety I wonder?
What We Can Know is on the list here – will a future 100 years hence be as he describes?
The mysteries of Brood parasitism are manifold and complex – for instance the time the hatchlings leave the nest before the hosts detect the hijack.

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There’s movie gold in dem dere vaults for sure – you just have to dig it out!
Speaking of which, a friend recommended Tron for its striking musical score – so caught it at IA. Not one for hard core movie buffs, more for those just wanting a spectacular sight/sound/motion hit. The balance and arrangement of the colours on screen exhibited certain harmonies.
There aren’t too many recommended IA lists – we could start our own blog if time. For example here’s two pages of classics from Letterboxd, another one from IA is an old Film Noir list.
Mum wanted to see Gaslight, so embedded it here:

Adds a bit to the page load time! The click to play image doesn’t appear to work with direct links however (IA’s one doesn’t either), fortunately a click in the black soup gets the movie on the go. 🙂
Staying in the time capsule, TV’s Greatest Game Shows has plenty of surprises in store along with games I never new ever existed. 🙂

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It’s already here. 🙂
So watched Distant Cousins on Tubi, terrible and left it on autoplay. Up came The Night Caller, then The Perfect Tenant followed by 100 feet. All terrible, and there was about them an aura and feeling that the production crew in all these films were escapees from some institution for the criminally insane, (as was the terminology then). Turns out that fitted in quite well with an underlying theme found throughout all of these flicks. 😛
On a lighter note, FTA had A Serious Man where the Coens had a bit of fun with dybbuks and professors followed by a few chuckles from While We’re Young.
On a much lighter note, Are You Being Served is on FTA again, a genuine crowd pleaser thanks to the pausing for, and pacing of the punchlines, clear diction and well-defined stereotypes. Recommended for its general good cheer. 🙂

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Clog? Well then, a self cleaning unit, else a plugin or daisy chained robot with a vac and broom – wearing a toque blanche preferably. 🙂
Something like Clyde?

Just as our Admirable Crichton had seen on the final evolution of Mediasaurus, only the true visioneer would ever conceive of Social Mediasaurus, and we hope his estate has filed a patent request for the concept accordingly. He never did turn the torch to full blown comedy by tipping his hat to our beloved institutions and inventors with such titles as The Infirmary Patent, Low Patency, A Patently Patinated Portent of Patent Pending, The Andromeda Patent Brain Strain Drain – need we go on?

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Missed that! Place it on a rotating base and spin it around for a truly turnary file operation!
Do enjoy fruit loaves- can the bot do those? Muffins anyone?
Colossal Biosciences claim copyright on images of their creations apparently. Hopefully not artists’ impressions or even cartoonery – interestingly over here there’s Dodo which often runs ads showing an appropriate image as a logo. If CB sued them and Dodo lost, they would become extinct- thus their image should remain, no? 😛

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There was discussion back here as to whether it could be classed as a mockumentary, perhaps it was intended as a documentary, but lines got blurred somehow in the making of it. Who knows – will have to see it. 🙂
Natural Enemy is a bad film, bad in the sense that a well-rounded cast must needs be slotted into the square hole of a pretty vacant plot. Crummy dialog and action make for a rather generous RT rating of 39%. Quick snappy scene changes and alarming music do nothing special other than speed up the bad. The scene with Chris Robards and Jeremy Harper in the tub was the high point. 😛
Currently streaming I, Jack Wright, more for seniors perhaps, modest fare with a rather enticing storyline. 🙂

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