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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). 🙂
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. 🙁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.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:
Up here have an old Philips HQ6415, downstairs an HQ6946 which has an online registration posted somewhere.
Did get replacement blades three or four years ago for both, worn out again unfortunately. The big problem with these is the socket connector is too loose, so cord tends to fall out while in use. Might not be an issue with the pricier models, not entirely sure though.
Scalzi punches through with writing flaws? There would be me floored with a heavily punched chalk line all around! 😛
AI is taking over at such a pace that anything we can imagine it to be adorned with is already old hat! AI driven ASCII art might still have some surprises though. 😛
Got another pair of emails and a text message about a money request from someone on Paypal, can be a bit scary how they just allow all this stuff to get through to credulous clients. 😛A rather irritating issue has cropped up with the HP, no usable mouse or keyboard at the UEFI. No-one is biting, hopefully something after posting a few more updates there?
Edit: Yes! It has an accepted solution, cross-linked to a new thread. 🙂
In the meantime, as W11 requires 32 GB on recovery drive (it has to be 32 GB not 31 or less), dug up an old 64 GB stick initialised 2016, from which there were errors reported over the years. The operation completed successfully, after which clicked Properties>Tools>Error Checking and it reported on the dialog that there were errors. After scanning there was:Windows successfully scanned the drive. No errors were found.
A little voice is still saying “expect issues during recovery.” 😛
It’s safe to say there was an acute awareness of the two HDRs, even though a little voice piped up to say, “yes, play Oblivion with this on in windows, and you won’t have to worry about the HDR in the game settings.” Pixies have teamed up with goblins again. In any case, there’s another reason to skip the Windows HDR settings on the ViewSonic, is that the display renders as mush. This in general nowadays is of relevance to the potential user of a feature, that a mfg’s claims of that feature on a product is simply not enough evidence for that feature to be present and functional, the feature has to be certified by an external authority.
Blech. 😛Merlin’s name was actually Emrys, only used by Druids and diviners in the show.
Their reason for ethereal plots is that ghosts are of that composition, an idea that could have been conveyed in the film’s prologue, Carradine would have been the perfect choice. 🙂
Original Sin is not so much a film to watch as a film, but to play as a mood piece, the Cassanova voice of Banderas, the musical voice of Jolie amidst lilting and seductive Latin arrangements of guitar and strings. Costumery, set arrangements and actor dynamics are accentuated with nice camera work. Despite the very voluptuous Angelina in the intimate scenes, the 12% at RT is a thing, in that the events in the film don’t interrelate all that well, along with the incongruities – Jack Thompson’s American accent is a hoot. 😛
As Good as It Gets offers an intriguing interplay of disparate characters in a block in downtown Manhattan, film evolves nicely too, ending could have been condensed a little perhaps.Looks much better! 🙂
Thought it might be worth throwing in a passing mention to the old LOTR TCG (not to be confused with the LOTR Card Game) in the off chance you had not seen it. There was quite an adverse reaction to the game at the time, hopefully The Players’ Council have made the game playing experience more palatable for the detractors.Grease is always a problem, what was once tried here was to dip a hard med/small paintbrush into a cup containing hot water and a good squeeze of detergent concentrate, and holding the keyboard upside down, run the brush slowly around the keys. Solvents might be a bit risky. Keep keyboard upside down until dry, and clean up with a soft cloth steeped in methylated spirits.
Still use any of the four monitors from the old system – are they all 24″. Quite like 1440X900 on the 27″, depth enough without being too wishy washy. the integrated graphics doesn’t provide much support for sizing the viewport to the screen, so back to fiddling with the monitor controls. 😛Haven’t seen that one, did see the remake which, although not boasting a particularly intricate plotline, was memorable enough.
As a consequence, many of the innocent bystanders immediately dropped to the floor and egg-spired, no doubt. 😛It’s easy to see what is wrong with Hollow Man, notably the wonky script and the implementation of Kevin Bacon as the mad scientist gone off the rails. Not sure if anyone else could have done better – Danny DeVito anyone?
Every one of those RT 26 points was well earned in the action sequences including the escape out of the compound at the end, the film perhaps deserving a few more points for the supporting cast.They’re re-running Merlin on FTA, second viewing here as well. it’s very good, albeit slightly hamstrung by the regulation 45 minute episode limit.
When very young, read a translation of The Arthurian legend, can’t remember a thing of course, except perhaps a notion the actual stories were different from Merlin. Main similarities and differences are touched on here, no matter though, they are all cracking good stories!Playing that on Linux or Windows? As you know, Alt3rn1ty had some good tips at AFKMods, he has since moved to a better place, and they’re all now playing Starfield. 😛
The VBForums account is back, just have to remember the reason for wanting to post there. 😛
In case the second childhood comes early, Untitled Goose Game invites with dinky theme and gameplay, especially with that wonderful music. 🙂There was an incredible hype and promotional activity at the time of the original Star Wars film release. This brought the movie into the “crowd pleaser” category, so fun for everyone really, however the urge to personally explore it further never did come to fruition. The vollies from some critics rang clear and loud:
Star Wars is a junkyard of cinematic gimcracks not unlike the Jawas’ heap of purloined, discarded, barely functioning droids
Scalzi doesn’t hold back much either:
Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.
Now with AI, deep fake, and Whatever, it’s possible to illustrate the vision of Scalzi in such a way that Star Wars becomes entertainment for an even wider demographic. 😛
Fabled Lands is now a game, very nice writing over at the Blog. Just noticed still logged into Blogger with the Google account after years, forgot that logging out of Blogger also logs out of Google.
The state experienced a windstorm a couple of nights back, so busy clearing up the branches. A couple of less healthy trees lost their crowns. 🙁Thanks for the heads up. 🙂
If ever you find yourself in that above-mentioned predicament of free fall flurry, feel free to holler and theme while you plummet and corkscrew, knowing full well there will not only be rapturous applause, but it will be accompanied by the keen realization it will be generated somewhere else, and for someone else most likely more deserving!Unusual to see Liam Neeson in a comedy, does RT rate on casting, and could any of them be convinced to revise their score after a second viewing?
Only Lovers Left Alive didn’t work over here. The dull dialogue, empty characters and tawdry backdrops was all B-grade, the movie purported to be more than it was. It was one of those movies from which after 10-15 minutes, there’s a strong temptation to switch off, the only reason for continuing is that it must get better, to compensate for the wasted time on viewing the introductory sequences.
Conversely, the critics liked it, could it be that some of them decided to change their minds on the second time round?
Edit: Never knew any of the “laughing gas” movies discussed here, the Carry On team did it best in Carry on Nurse:
Vincent Price is classic as Egghead in Batman:
Saw this recently on FTA:
20 inches, and half expecting it to be 20 feet, thus lasagna for an entire army!
Quite a few mods for Doom 2 at Nexus, earliest 2015, quite a few from this year interestingly.Just a small nondescript urn with a couple of small holes in it. Really have to upgrade, this caught the eye:
Yes it is, wasn’t aware Tolkein provided his own illustrations, aspects of which are recognizable in the movies.
In the local cafe, there was a copy of Nature, May 2024. Lots of detail in the research, commensurate with Scientific American in quality. Do you read all the articles?Never screened any Sidaris over here, at least as far as the recollection goes, does sound a lot of fun. 🙂
Men is interesting, with a few nods to films – like the the Scissor-Hands of Conscience or The Shining. Early on there’s the feeling of something lightly amateurish about the delivery, but once you accept the sparseness of the sets and dialogue with the clean edges of light, shade and sound, it’s okay, and the buildup to the shock of the ending works well. While there is no pressing urge to view it here a second time, it remains a candidate for the recommended list. 🙂
Right now, streaming (Hieronymus ‘Harry’) Bosch, nothing too spectacular out of the park, enough for a home run all the same. Harry is much gentler than say DCI Matt Burke from Taggart or Sup. Dalziel from Dalziel and Pascoe, but he is not all sweetness and sunshine.
Gorky Park (do recall the Mad Magazine Satire but it wasn’t entitled Dorky Park, the name of a dance troupe later) had a diverse cast including Hurt, Dennehy, Marvin, and Richard Griffiths from Pie in the Sky. Golodkin looked like Alexei Sayle from The Young Ones – it couldn’t have been him – but it was – Stuff was a standout. 🙂Back in the day, it was fun using laminated packs after applying a little talc, when they became super slippery.
Thanks for the update, and yes, fat formans, do tell! 😛
On TV there’s replay of some old game reviews, the one of SteamWorld Quest: Hand Of Gilgamech was rather glowing compared to the link’s. Have you seen it? It’s a turn based RPG based on card play, with a diverse card base, favourites here.
The trading cards don’t come at a huge cost though. 🙂Nice! There’s also the evergreen Shruggie,
¯_(ツ)_/¯, and some interesting alternatives:
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