Posts by Mystic Megabyte 1800 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Feb 2010
> [ ... ] a panic button round your neck would be better in the house [ ... ]
My *mother once pressed the red button and the telephone responder asked "Are you OK?". As my mother had survived WW2 London anything short of "are your legs still attached?" would get the OK response.
I complained, and now they ask, "Why did you press the button?".
*long time dead now
There's two main reasons why I have not owned a TV for many years.
1) Shampoo adverts. Make up some pseudo scientific chemical names and talk B.S. while vacuous models shake their heads.
2) Car adverts. You never see a traffic jam, this car can go really fast and (wipe out your family) it's really really good.
What with Pi-Hole and add-ons I am no longer shouting at the screen. Whoohoo!
I see that Trump just pardoned Conrad Black. From the article "Last year he published a book entitled Donald J Trump: A President Like No Other."
I think that Trump has now entirely lost the plot. He's supposedly running a country but finds the time to pardon dubious people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48290529
I was on a fairly *remote stretch of single track road and I pulled over to let someone get past. Big mistake! I hit the pothole from Hell which gave me a puncture (and buggered the tracking). I then discovered that the spare tyre retaining boss was rusted in the hole. I had to resort to beating the crap out of it with a hammer before it would free up. The only good news was that it did not rain :)
* Scotland, here's a link for you map lovers https://binged.it/2Yfhk6y
If I owned a 737MAX I think it would be prudent to lock the cockpit and not let any Boeing engineers inside. The original software needs to be extracted and analysed before being overwritten by version 2. I don't know if this is possible but it is evidence and people have died.
I occasionally work in various UK locations. This usually involves two flights each way and a hire car on arrival. This is all arranged for me and sent by email. When printed out it's about 12 pages of colour images and waffle. All I want are the flight times, boarding passes and the name of the car hire firm. I think that could be done on three pages. It is a real pain when I'm at a check-in desk and having to find the correct info. I might have to revert to copy scissors and pasting with *real* paste!
Even more baffling is the "Do you need need to print this?" saving paper messages and then having colour logos etc. plastered everywhere.
Or you could listen to a 777 pilot explaining the changes that Boeing are making to the MCAS system. Then you could make an educated guess that MCAS was previously unfit for service and that Dennis Muilenberg is full of crap.
The official documents start at 01:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM0V7zEKEQ
His follow-up video "The Cost" was uploaded yesterday, he mentions Dennis Muilenberg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB4lCbT5oX8
And the winner, (With 12 times higher frequency than the second most blocked) is.....
ssl.google-analytics.com
This is not entirely off topic, maybe California could threaten to make Pi-Holes mandatory.
Now that there's a photo of one we should have a black hole icon ============>
My father told me a funny story. On shore leave from the navy he and his mates were befriended by a stray dog. All was well until the dog fell through the crust on top of a disused cesspit. Now they were desperately trying to shoo this shitty dog away. I think long sticks may have been involved. Poor dog!
More amusingly a friend of mine from an Asian country told me that aged 13 she had her own gang at school. So six girls were in six hole-in-the-ground toilets having sneaky cigarettes when a teacher arrived. The girls simultaneously threw their cigarettes down the holes creating an explosion which covered them in shit.
Their punishment was to be tied in a line with string and stand in the sun while the entire school was paraded past them. If they tried to pick off the rapidly drying shit they were whacked with a stick! Then marched off to be scrubbed down in the showers.
You have been warned, beware of hot countries and methane! See icon ======>
uh oh! Another person who is behind the times. There's a big difference between what is "correct" and what is actually spoken. For example, all these lazy folk that say *"gonna" instead of "going to". For counting in French please refer to my post above.
*I hate that!
You obviously have never hung out wiv de yoof. Going back to the 70s it was always septante, huitante and nuanante. In France I always make a point of using these alternative versions in shops etc. They always understand me.
Edit: I'm not sure how to transcribe "nuanante" and I've also had a couple of drinks. Work it out for yourself!
Firstly; LOL!
I once spent a day selling Helium balloons at an exhibition (please don't ask!). I must have done the squeaky voice thing a hundred times that day. And yes you were correct, the ~20mtr high ceiling was populated with loads of balloons. They must employ someone with an air rifle to get them down.
Is Bounty a free service? (I can't be bothered to look) If so I suppose that the punters were the product.
On an unrelated note, news outlets moan about ad-blockers and want you to subscribe and pay. When I tried that the first thing I saw was "You agree that we can share your info with third parties". Well no I don't agree, you just lost a subscriber.
I recently bought three quite expensive items on Amazon. So after spending hours identifying the items that suited my needs I got to the checkout. There's a whole page of "Join Amazon Prime" and no obvious way to skip past it. I must have spent five minutes looking at that page before finding the tiny link that got me to the payment page. As you may guess, I have no intention of giving Amazon regular payments for any service whatsoever.
Thanks! That's some seriously nerdy link, I'd never heard of Torchships. Nowadays I tend to believe that we're in a simulation so interstellar travel would not work. If the Voyager probe disappears shortly it may be a clue that the simulation has a boundary. In the meantime I still enjoy sci-fi, it's nice to expand your thoughts to galactic levels.
I've wondered about this for a while so I'll ask the commentard collective.
Any satellite or probe will have a hot side and a cold side. Say you had a sterling engine aboard that used this temperature differential to generate electricity. Then use that to power a laser beam pointed out into space. My thinking is that as you are now pumping energy away from the probe it should cool it.
Is that in any way correct? Would any sharks be harmed in this experiment?
I was told that Historic Scotland ordered a replica desk/table for a 19th. century ex-military *building. These things are made by craftsmen to be as original as possible. I can't remember the exact details but they had got their units wrong, measured in inches but made in millimetres. At great expense the tiny table was delivered!
*These were built to keep the Yankees out!
Fun fact. When the original (very heavy) cannons became obsolete the navy used them as moorings. One was fished out of a river somewhere, refurbished and reinstalled on the Martello tower. A big event was going to be the firing of the cannon with people in period costume etc. After a countdown the cannon was fired but unknown to us the people of the adjacent island of Flotta had got hold of some maroons and "retaliated"! Much booms and laughter ensued.
Worth a visit, these towers are actually quite sophisticated structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackness_Martello_Tower_and_Battery
Duh! Every bog standard mechanical room stat has a little snowflake legend printed on the low end of the dial.
If you're going away, set the heating to be on 24hrs a day and turn the dial to the snowflake. Your heating will come on at 6°C and stop the pipes from freezing. It will turn off when the house is a few of degrees warmer.
I'm just on to my second "smart phone". I've just retired my 1st. gen Moto G (cost new £99), it works perfectly but is stuck on Andoid 5.1.
I now have a Nokia 5 (cost new £99) which updated itself to the latest version of *Android. I like the dual SIM and SD card slots.
*yesterday I setup Pi-hole on a Raspberry PI. This morning on the Pi-hole dashboard I noticed that the Nokia was constantly connecting to the internet all night. I just tried to check the Android version and the battery is flat :( AFAIK I don't have any dodgy apps, maybe have to go back to dumb phone. So much for increased sales haha!
The person who I shall refer to as "Yet Another Stupid One" or YASO is so stupid that I'll bet that he does not know the meaning of the word hypocrisy.
Coming from Australia, a country that did not exist before immigration, and where the incomers tried to commit genocide. Sending this YASO and Brevik to the bottom of the Mariana Trench is too good for them, although, with weights on their feet, I would volunteer to help them over the side of the boat.
I was watching a pilot on YouTube yesterday. He had the vertical speed data which showed that both planes were going up and down like a yo-yo as the pilots fought the software. It was not helped by Adis Ababa airport being at 6000 ft., maybe the software thought that they were 7000ft above sea level and that there was plenty of height to play with.
See here at 5:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKmS866ZTaQ
Maybe you should try this and its sister tool TestDisk. I have used it to recover data after a format and loss of partitions.
"PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. "
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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