Daily Tech News 9 July 2022

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Elon Musk has notified Twitter he is breaking off the engagement after Twitter failed three times in a row to solve that captcha where you have to identify all the squares containing traffic lights. (CNBC)

Twitter has vowed to sue and says it will prevail because it can do the one with the taxis, two times out of three.

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The HP Pavilion 14 Plus looks like a solid laptop. (Thurott.com)

Starting around $700 with the top configuration at $1300, it's not a bargain item but it's not overpriced. It's available with 10, 12, and 14 core CPUs (Intel Alder Lake, so they all have 8 low-power cores), and RTX 2050 graphics in one model.

Display is choice between a 2240x1400 LCD and a 2800x1800 OLED, either one a solid choice, and it has a reasonable selection of ports thought they're somehow all on the wrong side. I guess if you're left-handed, your time has finally come. The Four Essential Keys are all present and correct as well.

Only real flaw is that it's limited to 16GB of RAM (soldered to the motherboard), and that's only a flaw if you're a software developer running a complex IDE or something like that.
Intel has new NUC laptop kits on the way. (Liliputing)

The previous generation came with a choice of RTX 3060 or 3070 graphics and were generally quite sold mid-range laptops. You have to provide your own RAM, SSD, and operating system, but on the other hand that means they are designed to let you open them up and install your own RAM, SSD, and operating system, which is huge. In the HP laptop above for example, the RAM is soldered in place and if my experience with recent HP models is any guide, the SSD is a real bitch to replace.

Four Essential Keys too.

The problem - potentially - is that these new models come with Intel's new Arc graphics chips, which are, shall we say, unproven.

Disclaimer: Inside you are two wolves. I know you said you were hungry, but wow.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 04:05 AM (euHgA)

2 Well now, Good Morning!

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 09, 2022 04:06 AM (1DgE4)

3 >>>Disclaimer: Insider you

Inside you?
(I don't know where this is from.)

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 04:06 AM (euHgA)

4 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/
inside-you-there-are-two-wolves

LOL this is new to me.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 04:09 AM (euHgA)

5 Tyop fixd.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 09, 2022 04:19 AM (MqQvv)

6 The HP Pavilion 14 Plus looks like a sold laptop. (Thurott.com)

I assume you meant 'solid'; my previous laptop was an HP Pavilion and it lasted 5-6 years or so. I was even able to take it apart to replace the CPU fan and have it still work. *buffs nails*

The video screen eventually puked.

Morning, y'all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:20 AM (JOtiF)

7 Another tyop fixd.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 09, 2022 04:22 AM (MqQvv)

8 One of my favorite (AoSHq; I think) commenter's nics:

Typo Knig

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 04:23 AM (euHgA)

9 Gawd, my modem bit the dust this week and I was without intertubes for almost 1 day. McDs was out of cheeseburgers and Happy Meals.

Lawdy lawdy, what will that rapscallion Putin think of next?

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:27 AM (JOtiF)

10 I have read most people look past typos

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 04:28 AM (2JoB8)

11 I have read most people look past typos

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 04:28 AM (2JoB

It even has a label -- typoglycemia. Example :

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I can reed this shit. I bet you can too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:37 AM (JOtiF)

12 >> I can reed this shit. I bet you can too.

Someone showed a counterexample of this. In order to do that, things have to fit a specific pattern. You can construct a counter-example, with a different pattern, that you can't make heads or tails out of.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 04:40 AM (Mzdiz)

13 That's not quite true. Your brain can figure it out when adjacent letters have been swapped, but not if the the word has been sblemcrad.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 09, 2022 04:43 AM (MqQvv)

14 Look what they use for texting shortcuts, it worse than typos

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 04:44 AM (2JoB8)

15 sblemcrad

good one; took me a minute; started by using the context to extract -ed for the end of the word

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 04:50 AM (euHgA)

16 6 The HP Pavilion 14 Plus looks like a sold laptop. (Thurott.com)

I assume you meant 'solid'...
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:20 AM (JOtiF)

I think it's safe to assume that Pixy would want a typo like that to be cleaned up. The typo was impeding understanding. And was pointed out in good faith.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 04:52 AM (euHgA)

17 Pixy, when there are spammers in the comments, do you want those pointed out? Like "clean up on aisle 496" or something? I don't know if they can be put onto a banned-commenter-list.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 04:54 AM (euHgA)

18 That's not quite true. Your brain can figure it out when adjacent letters have been swapped, but not if the the word has been sblemcrad.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 09, 2022 04:43 AM (MqQvv)

That's from Dictionary.com. If you will notice this early bit of shuffling "to a rscheearch at..." it's missing an 'r' and doesn't follow the first/last letter rule. The word is understood as researcher because of context. You don't have a research, you have a researcher.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:55 AM (JOtiF)

19
Consider this jumbled sentence:
The sprehas had ponits and patles.

That has more than one "solution", but it follows the purported rules. Three possible solutions are:

The sherpas had pitons and plates.
The shapers had points and pleats.
The seraphs had pintos and petals.

There are even more with very arcane English words.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 04:59 AM (Mzdiz)

20 18 If you will notice this early bit of shuffling "to a rscheearch at..." it's missing an 'r' and doesn't follow the first/last letter rule. The word is understood as researcher because of context. You don't have a research, you have a researcher.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:55 AM (JOtiF)

It substitutes an unneeded "ch" for an "r" of "researcher."

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:00 AM (euHgA)

21 19 Consider this jumbled sentence:
The sprehas had ponits and patles.

That has more than one "solution", but it follows the purported rules. Three possible solutions are:

The sherpas had pitons and plates.
The shapers had points and pleats.
The seraphs had pintos and petals.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 04:59 AM (Mzdiz)

Nice!

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:01 AM (euHgA)

22 This Twitter thing should be interesting. Was Elon's plan all along just to expose them for being over run by bots, as a way to devalue the company and possibly open people in the company up to investigations from the SEC?

From the start it looked like he was a madman for trying to buy the company, even if he said it was for free speech, as it's not like he could micro manage what each person who would deal with censoring/ banning accounts.

We also knew from the start that the platform is overrun with bots (someone should point out the one story that i think ABC News did about the bot farms working to push Joe Biden) and that ther company would never reveal the truth, and Musk made bots a point from early in the talks, which makes it seem like he never intended to buy it.

Hopefully whatever the outcome, the people having to do with Twitter end up screwed, and hopefully jailed, poor, or pushed to jumping in a volcano.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 09, 2022 05:02 AM (Hyu/m)

23 20 18 If you will notice this early bit of shuffling "to a rscheearch at..." it's missing an 'r' and doesn't follow the first/last letter rule. The word is understood as researcher because of context. You don't have a research, you have a researcher.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:55 AM (JOtiF)

It substitutes an unneeded "ch" for an "r" of "researcher."
Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:00 AM (euHgA)

And it's missing a third "e" needed for "researcher."

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:03 AM (euHgA)

24 Coffee should be good, had it on longer than usual time

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 05:04 AM (2JoB8)

25
I can reed this shit. I bet you can too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:37 AM

I love when people post that like it's something special, and then at the bottom it's like "only 99.97% of people can read this, are you one of them?!?!?!"

Posted by: Rbastid at July 09, 2022 05:05 AM (Hyu/m)

26 ...The seraphs had pintos and petals.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 04:59 AM (Mzdiz)

The seraphs got the best of the deal. But, good point.

And as I point out, you don't have to follow the rules exactly.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 05:06 AM (JOtiF)

27 "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch"

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 04:37 AM (JOtiF)

Also there either shouldn't be an "a" there, or the word should be "researcher"!!!!

Posted by: Rbastid at July 09, 2022 05:07 AM (Hyu/m)

28 In Tech Thread anime news, started watching "Kono Oto Tomarel! Sounds of Life" since it was rated high.

It's a cliche show, with cliche characters and even for a slice of life show it's pretty worthless.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 09, 2022 05:10 AM (Hyu/m)

29 Elon Musk v. Twitter
I wonder who has the better team of lawyers.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:10 AM (euHgA)

30 98% humidity. Ugh. Running indoors it is.

Posted by: NCKate at July 09, 2022 05:14 AM (2oJif)

31
Some more examples:
1) A vheclie epxledod at a plocie cehckipont near the UN haduqertares in Bagahdd on Mnoday kilinlg the bmober and an Irqai polcie offceir

2) Big ccunoil tax ineesacrs tihs yaer hvae seezueqd the inmcoes of mnay pneosenirs

3) A dootcr has aimttded the magltheuansr of a tageene ceacnr pintaet who deid aetfr a hatospil durg blendur

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 05:16 AM (Mzdiz)

32 I love when people post that like it's something special, and then at the bottom it's like "only 99.97% of people can read this, are you one of them?!?!?!"

Posted by: Rbastid at July 09, 2022 05:05 AM (Hyu/m)

Fair, but it also shows how hard it is to bamboozle the public. I'd rather know that 99.7% CAN read that, than to know that (last time I checked) about 30% of Americans don't know that New Mexico is a state.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 05:17 AM (JOtiF)

33 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 09, 2022 05:17 AM (T4tVD)

34
In those three, you'll see it gets progressively harder to decode the sentences.

For this effect to work, you need close transpositions. That is, the letters transposed are close together (and even then, some more patterns must be imposed), and the sentence must be context predictable.

Take a word like "salt". The only other transposition following the rules is "slat". That is also a word. To decode "salt" or "slat" from that, you need a sentence where only one would make sense from context.

"Salt of the earth" would only make sense, "Slat of the earth" would not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 05:19 AM (Mzdiz)

35 Breitbart reporting DJT is going to Abe Shinzo's funeral

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 05:19 AM (2JoB8)

36 35 Breitbart reporting DJT is going to Abe Shinzo's funeral
Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 05:19 AM

That's my President!

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:21 AM (euHgA)

37 "Exclusive — Donald Trump Says He Is Considering Attending Shinzo Abe’s Funeral in Japan"

Breitbart
https://tinyurl.com/242r6383

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:22 AM (euHgA)

38 Breitbart reporting DJT is going to Abe Shinzo's funeral

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 05:19 AM (2JoB

I knew he had asked for an invite; Bribem plans on sending his brain, thus no one will know he attended. Including him.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 05:23 AM (JOtiF)

39 My bet not evenThe Ho will show up in Japan

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 05:24 AM (2JoB8)

40 “I hope the man who committed this crime will pay a steep price for the greatness he has taken from our planet.”

--PDT

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:26 AM (euHgA)

41
Twitter has said it's not possible to calculate spam accounts from solely public information and that a team of experts conducts a review to reach the 5% figure.

Ooooh, "experts"! Too bad mentioning them is no longer the killing word that it once was.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 09, 2022 05:28 AM (ZvxPV)

42
Consider the third sentence. What is the hardest word there, jumbled as "magltheuansr"

The correct word is manslaughter. You didn't recognize it did you?

Don't worry. It took an "anagram" program I'd written a a total of 1+ sec, of CPU time to get that. Well, I'd gotten fancy with that, and programmed a multi-threaded spawn based on the number of letters and the number of permutations. One thread popped out "manslaughter" pretty quickly, but the others went through and took a total of about 1s of CPU time.

I wrote that, and another to permute letters of words and phrases for some of the word jumble programs my mother likes to work.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 05:28 AM (Mzdiz)

43 Beautiful smiling photo of PDT and Shinzo Abe at the top of the Breitbart article.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:28 AM (euHgA)

44 That has to be an award-winning photo. It's so great.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:30 AM (euHgA)

45 My bet not evenThe Ho will show up in Japan

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 05:24 AM (2JoB

It takes time to digest her word salads.

Did you know that Rahm Fucking Emmanuel is our current ambassador to Japan?

That dude could gag a maggot.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 05:31 AM (JOtiF)

46
Inside you there are two gerbils. May I call you "Richard", Mr. Gere?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 09, 2022 05:31 AM (ZvxPV)

47 Columbus Dispatch informs the public that "high bail does not save lives" after a man posts 200K bail and goes on to shoot and kill someone in a Walmart.

What was he out on bail for you might ask? He was awaiting trial for "aggravated armed robbery."

Posted by: Fool Otto at July 09, 2022 05:31 AM (DB16e)

48 LOL the same photographer, Andrew Harnik, won an award for this EXCELLENT photo of Hillary!

https://tinyurl.com/mr32t98h

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 05:33 AM (euHgA)

49
Consider the third sentence. What is the hardest word there, jumbled as "magltheuansr"

The correct word is manslaughter. You didn't recognize it did you?

No, it's clearly "merganser". Bonus points for effort, though.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 09, 2022 05:34 AM (ZvxPV)

50 And the morning and the evening were the Saturday! Morning, all.

If I were in the market for a laptop, which I'm not, and if I wanted to toss $1000 for one, which I don't, the HP Pavilion sounds pretty good. But I have my 8-year-old MacBook Air and a Lenovo PC laptop with 16GB. No reason to go shopping. Besides, I may adopt a new Siberian kitten later this year, to keep little evil black Stirling company. And keep him from driving me nuts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 09, 2022 05:36 AM (c6xtn)

51
Norton is working a crossword. He asks, what's a three letter word for an insect:

Ralph: Easy peasy. It's "nat", N, A, T.

Alice: No, Ed, it's "ant", A N T.

Ralph: NO! It's NAT. You're going to the Moon, Alice!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 05:38 AM (Mzdiz)

52 >> The correct word is manslaughter. You didn't recognize it did you?

No, it's clearly "merganser". Bonus points for effort, though.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 09, 2022 05:34 AM (ZvxPV)

Expecting incoming fire, ducks.

Yeah, that one was too scrambled for me to 'get'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 09, 2022 05:39 AM (JOtiF)

53
I love when people post that like it's something special, and then at the bottom it's like "only 99.97% of people can read this, are you one of them?!?!?!"
Posted by: Rbastid

I tried not to gasp when I read that.

I failed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 09, 2022 05:40 AM (ZvxPV)

54 rsbn really ought to get a media player that has volume controls.

Perusing his Vegas speech, standard short form Trump template. Meh.

Also, when will Trump get off his 'our saintly muh blue line' bullshit and call for far better from LE? My take is that it's another blindspot he can't or won't reevaluate.

Posted by: micky at July 09, 2022 05:42 AM (3byMq)

55 Macy Grey got re-education fast, being a woman now is what you feel, not biological.
Too fkin funny.

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 05:46 AM (2JoB8)

56
I love when people post that like it's something special, and then at the bottom it's like "only 99.97% of people can read this, are you one of them?!?!?!"
Posted by: Rbastid

There's several advertised games for iPhones which refer to "Only 3% of poeple can solve this".

Well, naturally ... 'cause they're poeple.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 09, 2022 05:47 AM (ZvxPV)

57 I did not plan to be up this early. Yes, part of the reason was Stirling. I let him into the bedroom, and he immediately began his attempts to suckle on me. He seems to do it only when I'm lying down, like a mother cat, and early in the morning too. No wonder the shelter described him as "loves to give kisses." Ha. More like "tries to draw milk from you."

Maybe I should aim for a slightly older female cat to be his buddy. Then they can work out how much of this they want to entertain themselves with.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 09, 2022 05:49 AM (c6xtn)

58 Morning!

Wolfus, about your kitty. My SIL got a new one 2 years ago. She, the kitty, loved to be naughty and especially bitey.
My wife Gurgled a few sites on the intertubes about info on how mother cats teach their kids and what you can do.

Worked great. We think that even though she was weaned, she had not been with the mother and siblings long enough to learn proper behavior.
Wolfus, about your kitty. My SIL got a new one 2 years ago. She, the kitty, loved to be naughty and especially bitey.
My wife Gurgled a few sites on the intertubes about info on how mother cats teach their kids and what you can do.

Worked great. We think that even though she was weaned, she had not been with the mother and siblings long enough to learn proper behavior.

Posted by: Bruce at July 09, 2022 05:54 AM (vd8XM)

59 Arrggg... Did not mean for that post to duplicate.

My bad

Posted by: Bruce at July 09, 2022 05:55 AM (vd8XM)

60 Wolfus does Sterling have toys?

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 05:56 AM (2JoB8)

61 I hate those damn traffic light quizzes. Pictures they use are usually very poor. Especially the "crosswalk" one.

Posted by: Bruce at July 09, 2022 06:00 AM (vd8XM)

62 Good morning morons

Fog horns sounding loudly this morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2022 06:00 AM (EZebt)

63 Fog horns sounding loudly this morning.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Good morning.

Serious question. Can the volume on a fog horn be increased or decreased?

Posted by: Bruce at July 09, 2022 06:02 AM (vd8XM)

64 Salty is still out of pocket and has asked me to post his traditional morning greeting form.

So....from Salty

Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2022 06:02 AM (uLr+K)

65 Yeah Buddy. Top o'the morning y'all. G'day Pixy.

So what's crackalackin' this fine(so far) morning?

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 09, 2022 06:04 AM (R5lpX)

66
Incidentally, for "manslaughter" and "merganser", which are both valid English words, each has only one permutation which is a word. The latter takes less that .002s of total CPU time to permute, and only spawned on thread.

The former takes over 1 sec, and spawned 6 threads. But each has only one possible word. Now, the dictionary I was using is big, but not exhaustive. So there might be some very arcane, very mysterious English word that wasn't included, so I can't really say for sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 06:04 AM (Mzdiz)

67
Had I ran this same program on my first computer, an old IBM 286 AT clone, they would still be working on the permutations. That's how much speed has improved in 30 years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 06:05 AM (Mzdiz)

68 How goes it VIA ?

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 09, 2022 06:05 AM (R5lpX)

69 Wolfus does Sterling have toys?
Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022

***
Loads, most left over from Chekov and Wolf. Little beanbags and balls, a feather snake on a stick with little bells that I draw around a corner for him so he pounces. And a plastic donut with a stuffed mouse on a rotating plate inside it, so he can reach in and try to catch the mouse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 09, 2022 06:05 AM (c6xtn)

70
And the dictionary file, which is compressed and optimized, is still around 1MB, which would've been about 5% of the space of the 20MB hard drive that AT clone had at the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 09, 2022 06:06 AM (Mzdiz)

71 Inside you there are two mergansers.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 06:08 AM (euHgA)

72 NOOOOD

Posted by: Bruce at July 09, 2022 06:08 AM (vd8XM)

73 "How goes it VIA ?"

Doing well, enjoying the insanity which is Baltimore.

How goes you?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2022 06:08 AM (uLr+K)

74 Wolfus, about your kitty. My SIL got a new one 2 years ago. She, the kitty, loved to be naughty and especially bitey.
My wife Gurgled a few sites on the intertubes about info on how mother cats teach their kids and what you can do.

Worked great. We think that even though she was weaned, she had not been with the mother and siblings long enough to learn proper behavior.
Posted by: Bruce at July 09, 2022

***
Bruce, I think that's pretty much the deal with Stirling, except that he was with his siblings at the shelter all along. But apparently Mom Cat died fairly early. She certainly taught him about hunting behavior, and he's not rough or inclined to bite. It's just this "I want milk, Mom!" behavior. I'll do some research.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 09, 2022 06:09 AM (c6xtn)

75 Our cats had little whiffle balls and such but loved pens, they could play with a pen 15 minutes and did it all the time.

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2022 06:09 AM (2JoB8)

76 Maybe Stirling needs a saucer of cream?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2022 06:13 AM (EZebt)

77 Earthporn- Beautiful pictures of light and landscape:

https://tinyurl.com/mve38w2f

I'm adding a emoji in case Scogg Dog is around . He hates my pictures of gardens or i
Nice little "Sunny Skyz stories and really hates smiling emojis 🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2022 06:14 AM (mGRvI)

78 76 Maybe Stirling needs a saucer of cream?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2022 06:13 AM (EZebt)

And some tuna.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 06:17 AM (euHgA)

79 The nood is krak posting a whole post!

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 06:18 AM (euHgA)

80 ... on the 2nd amendment.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2022 06:19 AM (euHgA)

81 James Caan z"l
Everyone is mentioning his role as Sonny Corleone but I remember him most in Rollerball as Jonathan E. Very understated anti-hero.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2022 06:22 AM (EZebt)

82
Serious question. Can the volume on a fog horn be increased or decreased?
Posted by: Bruce

Some go up to 11, if that's what you are asking.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 09, 2022 06:59 AM (ZvxPV)

83 You were giving advice on computers and related topics on the weekends. I will ask a couple of questions.

I use Thunderbird for email on Windows 7 PRO on a 10 year old 17" Dell Inspiron 5720. I am having problems with it connecting to my mail accounts via IMAP. Some are refused; others just state that they cannot connect. This comes and goes. Any ideas about what is happening as i cannot see deep enough into the system to know why?

For my ham radio station, I have a 12+ year old homemade computer with an Athlon 3 core processor running at 3.2 GHZ running Linux (Ubuntu 20.04). I would like to upgrade to a more recent processor system with at least 6 Cores, so I can run Linux along with a virtualizer (Virtualbox currently) with two cores to run Windows for some programs that just won't run under WINE. Also, I would like to run the Flightgear flight simulator on Linux. My pockets are not too deep and with the current issue prices are high. Any suggestions on what parts to buy for a moderately priced system?

Posted by: BillB at July 09, 2022 11:39 AM (ESjdZ)

84 “It’s not a bargain but it’s not expensive.” FIFY

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