It’s supposed to be clear and a bit cooler today, after yesterday’s overcast and then rain. We didn’t get the big storm that was predicted, but some people did. I guess we’ll just wait and see if it’s a nice day.
I had my non-prepping hobby in the morning Saturday. Sold a few things, but didn’t make any real money. Still nice to move some stuff along. I did buy one thing too, and it was an impulse purchase, and over my normal limit for that sort of thing. Oh well.
After that, I put stuff back into storage, and went home. Did a couple of things, then took a nap. Dang glucose intolerance.
Messed around on the computer, waited for D2 to finish her school thing, and then went out for takeout dinner. By then it had been raining a while but was starting to taper off.
Rain gauge says we got about 2.5 inches. That’s more than I thought.
Today I’m sleeping in and working the list. If it’s nice, I’ll do outdoor stuff, if not, indoor. Pretty prosaic.
Plodding even. But incremental improvement is still improvement.
Work on your stuff, and yourself. Stack.
nick
First time I’ve been to the site in a week – been very busy – and I see that I get to beat Denis to FIRST POST. Suck it, loser!
Llama Song performances are more difficult than you’d think, especially in front of a large crowd.
Hey! Good morning, Chicken Boy! Up early for a change? I had a lie-in…
We were supposed to get up early today and do stuff, but W1 didn’t wake me, and snuck downstairs to watch Olympics instead. She is a good person.
Now it’s the crack of noon, and I finally got up, shaved and showered. I really needed the extra sleep, and my fellow man really needed the shave and shower.
Time to investigate the possibilities of bacon, eggs, onions, tomatoes and cheese… Sounds a lot like an omelette, but I might do a shasuka instead.
Good morning, er- day!
Looks like another pile of snow headed our way. I need to get up at o-dark-thirty to snow-blow, because I have an early hospital appointment for a foot operation. I’m taking the train, but my wife needs to be able to get out to pick me up.
It’s a minor-but-annoying condition: I can’t really stay on my feet longer than about 2 hours without pain, due to an irritated nerve. So they’re going to remove the nerve. It’s a bit of an uncertain diagnosis, so here’s hoping that really is the problem. We’re hoping to take a hiking vacation in the fall, with 4-5 hours of hiking every day, so…
Good luck with your operation, Brad! I hope the diagnosis is the right one and that you have a full and speedy recovery for your hiking!
Shasuka it was, albeit a decidedly non-kosher one, with bacon matchsticks and cubes of salami. It is a great dish for emptying the fridge. A handful of fresh chopped parsley and scallions on top, and it even looks gourmet.
58 F and cloudy this morning. Looks like Mr. Fusion is poking himself through the clouds though.
There is only one true fusion reactor in the Solar System. It is only 1.5% efficient according to a noted prof and scaling it down has proven to be incredibly difficult. I doubt that we will produce one that works for more than a week in my lifetime.
Norman Lear wrote a check.
Hollywood stopped trusting Lear creatively after “A Year At the Top” and “Mary Hartman. Mary Hartman”.
Think about who sat at the kitchen table in the Reiner household in the 60s.
If Lear hadn’t written the check, Brooksfilms was at its zenith even if the Brooks himself was past his prime creatively.
“Spaceballs”? Seriously? My generation spent way too much time sitting in front of HBO in the 80s.
@Denis: Hope it works. Feet/foot problems are really annoying. You will probably be off your foot for a couple of weeks. May not be as bad as bone surgery as it just involves soft tissue.
I got a notice from the IRS that my refund has been approved. The money should be at the CU by Wednesday. About a week from filing until the refund arrives. E-Filing is the way to go if money is due, paper file on the 15th of April if money is owed.
Hollyweird adds one more nail into it’s coffin dying on the hill of LBGT+QWERTY worship:
Team behind Oscar-winning 90s horror movie regarded as one of greatest ever issue groveling apology to the TRANSGENDER community 35 years on
Ted Levine was so good as Buffalo Bill. Kissing QWERTY ass to remain relevant in Hollyweird, he can go fu*k himself. He’s been in a lot of good movies in TV, he doesn’t need to prostrate himself to the queers.
The Money Comment:
“Today’s modern audience…” means Buffalo Bill was a straight WHITEY! character and his victims were Rainbow Alphabet people.
My Freefile tax return was rejected:
Issue : Business Rule S1A-F1040-027 – If Schedule 1-A (Form 1040), `PrimaryEnhancedSeniorDedAmt` has a value greater than zero, then it must be equal to `SpecfiedDolLessThrshldRedAmt`.
That’s almost totally useless. No idea what line(s) is/are wrong. The rejection notice said I can file via paper. I will change something and try again and if the scond attempt fails, mail them my return.
In the movie, Buffalo Bill’s victims were zaftig white X-er co-eds attending “good” schools.
That’s the real problem with the movie. That demo grew up to be the demo who decide elections for the last decade.
The Senator’s daughter comes off as a sniveling brat, which most of that demo were at the time.
MGM holds the film rights to that version of “Silence of the Lambs” post Orion Bankruptcy, but the DeLaurentis family may still control the rights to the IP.
Ted Levine’s career is done barring some miracle.
Ed Saxon is went into academia where his coke connections are still valued.
Hollywood still likes its blow, but they’re out of money.
“Star Fleet Academy” has 20 producers.
That’s how many Hollywood execs it takes to pool cash and fill the fish bowl these days.
Better get a copy before it is completely retcon’d for the “modern audience.”
Nobody went to see the retcon of “The Running Man”.
The problem for the studio is that no one really wants to look at Ahhhhhnold in the old one anymore either post the “Screw your freedoms” rant about the jabs.
The more I deal with reddit, and the clueless, power-drunk mods, the dumbing down of America is real and confirmed.
Reddit’s value is in it’s contributions from actual human beings (to train AIs), maybe the owners will realize that the damage from moderators driving people away is real … though Stack OverFlow never figured it out.
70F with gusting winds, but some blue sky too.
I was woken around 7am by a low blood sugar alarm. So I ate a little Debbie apple pie, and that took me out until 1030. Spent some lazy time drifting in and out of sleep, but finally had to get up and eat breakfast/lunch.
I think there is an issue with this current sensor. I’ve had several low blood sugar alerts, < 55, which can’t be shut off or muted, and I’ve also had several error messages about “sensor issue” disconnections. In the two weeks with the first sensor, I never had either problem like I do with this one. I suspect the sensor, or more likely my placement of it, is the cause. Since it’s measuring local concentrations in the muscle, maybe I’m sleeping on my arm and it’s not getting fully perfused, and that triggers the alert.
Or maybe it’s real. That’s the point of collecting data though.
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I suppose it is time to do something productive though.
@denis, that meal looks like it would be delicious, but certainly more than one person would eat.
@brad, I hope it all goes well, and solves the issue. I’m thinking about some corrective surgery in my left foot, which has a bunion, and probably some old bone damage from a motorcycle accident. Not looking forward to the recovery, but help with the pain would be nice.
Now, do I shower? Watch youtube for a while? or read?
n
Well, there’s your mistake right there.
Ray, I appreciate the kind sentiment, but Brad is the one going under the knife…
OK. Building that car with integral GAU-8 is getting more urgent.
On the way home from the BOL just now, there was a tiny bit of white precipitation, with maybe ¼ inch of slushy white stuff on the road surface and perfect visibility. It’s mid-February in northern Europe. No big deal, one would think.
Apparently the locals here are all from Abu Dhabi or Brazil and have never seen snow before. Every second car on the road with me had the fog lights on – blinding much? On a three-lane motorway, where the slow and middle lanes were beautifully gritted (I passed at least three snow plows busy gritting), with both those lanes black and completely snow free, every f’in idiot was driving 40-50km/h in the middle lane, leaving the slow lane unused. I was forced to drive on the uncleared, but still perfectly safe, passing lane all the way home or I would have needed three hours for a 1.5 hour drive.
W1 was travelling with me, but in her own car. Fortunately, she was smart enough to tuck herself in behind me and use the fast lane, once I rescued her from the flock of slow-rollers with fog lights on that were blocking her in. Kornbluth was wrong, it’s the “Driving Morons”.
Eh? It’s not 2027 yet.
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My brother stayed with us one night a few years ago, stranded by a blizzard. My wife kept pushing him to eat more for supper, thinking that all Caucasian men eat as much as I do. No…
The Child’s appetite is shaping up to also be elevated. For a young woman who is at best middling-sized, who has stopped growing, and who is, shall we say, not conspicuously physically active, she sure eats a lot. I’ve emphasized to her that this is fine while there’s plenty of food but we’ll be the first to starve if there’s a shortage. So be sure to stack! She’s taken that advice to heart, with a week’s supply of cans and other shelf-stable food in her dorm room.
Most of the mod’s last three dates consisted of a six pack of Bud Light, a tube of KY Jello, their right hand, and some napkins. Even that was a challenge.
Denis, you might want to reconsider that plan. I’m not concerned about the person you’re shooting at – they probably deserve it – but there are many practical considerations. For one, your fuel economy is going to be terrible. Firing just a few rounds will drop your car’s speed from 100 km/h to 0, or more likely negative. And that’s assuming that the recoil doesn’t just rip the GAU-8 right out of your car, which it will. For another, 30mm AP rounds are gross overkill for a light, unarmored target. Overpenetration is likely and from what you say, there’s only a 50% chance that the round would go on to hit another
invaderparasitepoor, deserving wretch from ashitholeexploited nation. For a fourth, you can’t really aim that gun; you aim by pointing the whole aircraft, or car, at the target. That’s not necessarily practical on a crowded road.No, what you want is a high-powered laser on a swiveling roof mount. A 20kW unit will about fill the back of a normal-sized car. Take out the seats and it should fit in ok, though it’ll block your rear-view mirror. You’ll need an extra alternator. Put a camera on the roof mount, coaxial with the emitter. Attach a joystick to the steering wheel and mount a small screen where you can see it while watching the road – you want to be a safe driver, right? – and you should be able to zap offenders in all directions, up to half a kilometer away.
… and resulted in a restraining order being issued.
If a restraining order resulted in self restraint, it would be a first.
@stevef, since the FAA insists that a laser pointer is a threat to aircraft, you don’t need all the power of a big fiber laser. Simply shine your ‘bedazzler’ into the driver’s face and watch the swerving begin! Fun times!
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Thanks for your solicitude, SteveF!
I am aware of the drawbacks of the GAU-8, principal among which from my point of view is the price of ammunition.
https://youtu.be/IdlQsjq5vKo
Splendid! Send me two of those, please. Just be sure they will completely vaporise the car ahead, because I hate smears on the windscreen.
See styropyro on YT:
I built a long-range LASER turret in my yard!
2025 world’s strongest handheld laser
SteveF: It wouldn’t be the first time that somebody put a big gun – or in this case, EIGHT of them – in the nose of a machine that wasn’t designed to handle it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDeU3j2gBY
Well, I got here. On Mint running from a USB stick. Seems fine, the print is kind of tiny. So are windows. Does this OS even have scroll bars? I get “pretty” but wider than dental floss would be nice. Just for an easy to glance of where I am in the page. I haven’t found the setting yet but it’s only been half an hour.
I’m not clever enough to disable UEFI in BIOS. Or even to find the setting. Supposedly you can do so from within Win11 but it just sits with a blank screen or I get the Mint logo and then it just sits. One time I got the boot menu and then it just sat with a blank screen. So I took my SSD out of the boot sequence. Mint sees it just fine, seems read only.
Saved URLs on my Win11 desktop don’t work. Firefox just opens a fast running stream of new tabs. User error I’m sure.
Moa doesn’t show in Network. But 192.168.0.2:9000 gets to Squeezebox.
Mp3s don’t play. Videos play but no sounds. Various photos open and look good.
Looking at Sound settings I have two output choices. “Speakers Jasper Lake HD Audio” and “HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output Jasper Lake HD Audio”. Videos play on the first with no sound. Freeze frame on the second. Input choices are just Analog Microphone.
sudo apt install pavucontrol made audio work.
Buddy wants a walk. I’m getting a crick in my neck.
Much more playing is needed. Can I copy over my Firefox profile? Even more, my Thunderbird profile? And to where?
I’ll figure it out.
Thanks! It turned out well, even if I do say so myself. Shasuka is easy to scale.
I cheated this morning and used a jar of ready-made pasta sauce with ricotta and herbs. Half a pack of smoked bacon matchsticks, a lump of leftover salami diced, two small onions sliced, a tiny garlic chopped (I buy the mutant ones where the whole head is a single clove – no peeling fuss) and a half-hand of capers, because I have some nice Italian ones. Lots of black pepper from the mill, and a bit of chili salt. I poached six eggs in the sauce, finished the pan with a chopped scallion and some flat-leaf parsley on top, so it looked pretty; red, white, yellow, green.
Two of us ate all but one egg for brunch. I’ll have that on a slice of toast for breakfast tomorrow.
Well done, Paul! Have fun playing with it. One you get a setup you like, you’ll probably never look back at Windows.
There will things like the software and driver for the Dymo label printer. The Lexmark printer should be easy and I expect it should “scan to Desktop” just fine. Then phone drivers, to connect the phone for file transfers and if Starlink pukes, to tether the phone for data.
Plus stuff like Putty and Filezilla. I’ll find the same or similar. I’m not worried about anything fancy like Paint Shop Pro. I don’t need much beyond crop and resize. There’s more, but off the top of my head….
Networking to Moa’s would be nice. But it doesn’t work now thanks to some random W11 update.
Like the Queen Borg said, “Behold your future’s end”.
But really. This is running off a USB stick of unknown quality and it seems just as snappy, maybe better, than w11 running from the SSD. Sure, w11 is loading lots of stuff in the back, like for the UPS and way too much other useless to me stuff.
Anyway. I got audio to work. Might not be the correct way but it works.
Now to re-boot.
If it was good, it’s not cheating.
Idle question:
I want to print a USPS mailing label on sheet of 4-up labels. The default position is upper left. Is there a way to change the default position?
For the second label I feed the opposite end of the sheet to the printer. To use the two remaining labels I cut the sheet in half and feed the half sheets.
It’s not a full-pita, just a small-pita, but it gets repeated frequently.
I’m using a Brother multi-function printer.
Is there a printer with a page set-up that allows me to simply select the print position for a 4/up label, or software that will do the job?
On my little fanless PC to boot from USB I had to remove the internal SSD from the boot sequence. When I shut down Mint and rebooted, win11 started. With more updates. So I shut down again and the internal drive was the only option in BIOS. Makes sense. I guess.
I don’t know know what F button gets into BIOS. 10 or 12. I think. It takes a couple of tries.
Should be. I remember watching labels being printed years ago and she clickey clicked in WordPerfect, on a 286 printing to an HP Laser.
But I don’t know the answer for you.
@drwilliams, look at the print driver “advanced settings” or similar. When I used to do a lot of label printing, there was definitely a way to pick which position to start with. Make sure the label sheet number/style is selected as the paper, and you should have a choice.
@paul, there are things to make windows mixed with linux networking and file sharing work that Greg probably knows best. SMB, samba, windows media server are probably good places to start. There are probably share settings on the windows drive side that need changing, or permissions that will need to be set. I can see my other machines from my linux NVR but haven’t figured out file access… my linux media machine with Kodi sees the windows media server but somehow doesn’t remember the file path. So, there are lots of little issues that can go wrong.
Also, the thin scroll bar style is in win10 too, and super frustrating. I’m sure there is a setting… somewhere.
WRT font sizes here, try the size plus minus buttons at the top of the page, just under the menu. Or look in your os for an ‘accessibility’ settings panel and like windows, select a bigger default for fonts, I use 120 or 150% . That makes icon text bigger too.
There also might be a setting in firefox, but I use the ctrl-scrollwheel keystroke combo to zoom web pages.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15562115/300-celebrities-politicians-Epstein-files.html
Lotta known perverts on that list.
I’m sure a lot of the names are there because of the social circles they all move in, and some could be Epstein just asking someone else for an introduction – like the Joe Rogan mention, or someone saying “hey, I saw Killary at that function last week and she looked haggard…”
Looking at some of the content linked in other articles, I’d say that if your email program automatically includes the email chain in your reply, or the original email, you should shut that shit off now. WAY too much inadvertent info leaking thru that mechanism.
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Don’t rely on a USPS mailbox. You can’t rely on getting a same-day postmark.
Go inside the post office and get a manual postmark. Better yet, use certified mail.
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/010226-postmarking-myths-and-facts.htm
https://www.jrcpa.com/usps-postmark-rule-change-what-it-means-for-tax-filers-and-deadlines/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15543145/whole-foods-customers-relief-discontinue-payment-method.html
Palm and VEIN PATTERN…
we all know how secure AWS has been…. ** not **
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(by the way, one of the hidden things this comment editor does is turn the text enclosed by double asterisks bold and remove the asterisks… )
Ok, move “alien invasion” or “alien revelation” further up the list of things to prep for.
President Obama declares aliens are REAL as he gives inside track on Area 51
It’s been looking like battlespace preparation (or ‘moving the overton window’) for a couple of years now.
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Barry Admits: I Married an Alien!
Yeah. I’ve looked at file sharing on Windows 11. They deliberately broke it. I haven’t found the answer.
I did the MCSE thing. Went to school at SMU. It was like “a big deal”. I learned a lot. I think Networking Essentials was the first course. A quarter of the class dropped out while they could still get a refund.
I can’t subnet like a genius but I passed that class with a pretty good grade. Heck, I passed all of the classes with good grades, like 850 and up…. which is like “missed 3 or 4 questions” level.
R was working up in Plano at E-TEC. Loving the job. I’m here doing whatever because I couldn’t get a job. Some 25 year old ain’t gonna hire 36 year old grandpa. But R would call and ask how to do something in Windows. I’d tell him. They all though he was a genius who could work magic. Then the dot com stuff and well, my little job at HEB ain’t making up for what we had while pushing 95 grand a year, Stuff happens.
Some folks play video games. I played OS games with Windows. Tweaking for speed and such. NT5 Beta was AWESOME. It was missing parts that Win3.11 and w95 and win98 had. It was missing parts from NT3. But it was a Beta. Applying the Win98Se shell onto NT3. They did a good job. Then whatever happened and they released XP. A clunky layer of Win95 shell onto NT3.
Still. XP was stable because it was NT. Win7 was stable. Both OS’s on a couple of Moas over the years and never crashed. Yeah, they rebooted when the UPSs ran out of battery. But they each ran here, for me, for over 3 years each between reboots. Win11? I don’t know if it is stable. Damn thing reboots itself once a month.
Win11 with the constant updating is not to be trusted.
I’m really hoping Mint will be a “never gotta reboot” OS. I know there will be a “learning curve” (how gay does that sound?) but I’ll figure it out.
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This comment editor does “pseudo-markdown” inline formatting. Honestly, it’s kind of a pain.
I’m not up on the cutting edge of word meaning morphing: Does “gay” now mean “realistic”?
Uh, gay as like retarded. I mean, not in the homo meaning. But some of the comments I’ve read on linux “support” sites, it’s just a bunch of drag queens.
After a couple of hours I think Mint will work just fine. A few glitches along the way of course.
It’s not Windows. I don’t expect to see anything from the depths of Control Panel looking at all like Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
It’s an adventure!
Sunday. Midnight. Bedtime.
Our brunch apparently did a good job. We got to suppertime, and nobody was particularly hungry, so the evening meal was a light one of fruit and yoghurt. Whoever figured out how to make grapes seedless was a genius!
Goodnight.
@steve, I didn’t know those others. It does funny things with double quotes and with dashes too.
– I have to use a double dash to get the single at the beginning of a line, otherwise you get a dot
— triple dash turns into an emdash.
… triple dots turns into an ellipsis, you can tell by backspacing to delete it, only one press needed.
the normal double quote key gets turned into open quote and close quote. At least in windows.
and yeah, it’s really kinda annoying.
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added — although, given the importance of commenting here, it’s the absolute LAST thing I would mess with.
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@paul, my NVR pc is running linux mint, and I don’t update or reboot it. Only after power failures. It never bugs me.
Nor does my win8.2 main desktop. It just runs. The last decent MS os… although they did break the file copy feature, and some other things, and the default install has some really offensive (to me) and unneeded internet throttling and traffic shaping stuff that took a long time to find and finally kill completely. Oh, and you really need to run “Classic Start Menu” because when it occasionally ends up in Tiles, it’s pretty jarring. Tile sux teh dead bunnies. So does the idea of “Apps” in the os.
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this isatablewhich is another feature.
which, while you can choose it, and it LOOKS like it will work, doesn’t actually.
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I’m using Ubuntu for my Linux learning. Unlike Kali, under the Parallels VM (macOS) Ubuntu sees my printers on the Mac (can print), video looks good, sound comes out the speaker system, etc. I’m starting with “Linux for Beginners” by Jason Cannon. There are free YT “courses” I’ll use and maybe buy a Udemy course.
Eventually I’ll get a min PC. I’m looking at GEEKOM. Or maybe a cheap lappy. I’m watching Rob Braxman developing a Linux tablet.
I don’t think the comment box (with the built-in editor) plays nice with the ‘edit-after’ plugin.
Pearls Before Swine: Annual Book Reading
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/15
Rat is cheating as usual.
And totally off the wall.
I made my skillet stuff last night. Usual stuff but with barley. Instead of pasta or rice. Very tasty. Great flavor. I have a couple of nights of supper in the fridge. Not tonight. I’m still full from last night.
Uh. I didn’t sleep great last night. Penny was way over on my side of the bed and I couldn’t get quite enough blankets. Plenty of WTF dreams, too. Any way. Got up this morning. Did not have to pee. And farted and tooted all way to the kitchen to the coffee pot. Not normal for me.
Coffee pot needed water and by then my bladder was about to burst. Gravity, it’s a law. So I farted all the way back to the bathroom. Just a huge for me amount of gas. No smell.
The dogs really like the skillet stuff. Better than canned dog food, ever, So they got more tonight mixed in their food. I’m going to eat another bowl tomorrow and see what happens.
Sorry. I ramble.
I gotta talk to someone. Penny and Buddy ain’t cutting the mustard, ya know? Oh well. I’ll get it all to be normal.
But are they cutting the cheese?
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The barley was probably the culprit for the gas.
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I don’t think the comment box (with the built-in editor) plays nice with the ‘edit-after’ plugin.
– there are weird interactions, and some things that occasionally work differently. Subtle things, like sometimes there is a vertical bar on the left side of the blockquote area, despite it being set to 0, but most of the time there isn’t.
Like I said, too complicated and too important for me to poke at or mess with.
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Decided to do auction stuff, then just when I decided to go out and work on the gennie, W decided to take the dog for a walk and wanted company. So I did that instead.
Dinner was leftovers for her and microwave cheeseburger for me. D2 is at a friend’s birthday BBQ and D1 is spending her long weekend at an Air BnB with girlfriends for a birthday party. House is quiet. No me gusta.
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I have a file/print server Linux machine running Samba which exports my user home directory to my network. Every Windows machine I use has drive Z: mapped to that share, and the HP hydra fax/scan/print sends scanned images to a Scans folder in the home directory.
I’ve never figured out how to easily share files from a Windows system. I drag and drop everything to the Z: drive.
I don’t actually need the print part of the file/print server, but I run one as a science experiment.
Mac and other Linux machines connect to the shared directory without a problem. Each new release of Windows presents challenges.
ATF Created a Backdoor Gun Registry. Lawmakers Want an Explanation
https://reason.com/2026/02/13/the-atf-created-a-backdoor-gun-registry-lawmakers-want-an-explanation/
Bring charges against everyone at ATF involved from the lowest to the highest. Break them, beggar them, and make it clear that violating that law makes you radioactive and dead.
Yep, they’ve been driving dealers out of business, then hoovering up their records for a while now. People know, then they forget.
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I’ve played around with samba on Linux (I’m using Kubuntu and Ubuntu server) on some machines at home. It all started with trying to share an HP printer on my home network. I setup a desktop machine with Kubuntu and installed samba on it so I could share the printer over the network with my Windows machines. Later I added a second machine running Ubuntu server with a large hard drive as a file server to be able share files on the network. Over the years Windows changes have broken file and printer sharing, but I’ve always been able to google solutions to get it working again. I’ve slowly been migrating my Windows machines over to Linux as I get more frustrated with Windows. I’d be willing to share settings with anyone interested in trying to get a system setup and running.
Speak your piece. If you need to reach out, we’ll “listen”.
Pets can be a blessing. I get joy just looking at my semi-feral black cat asleep in the back yard. He won’t let me touch him, but he’s definitely “our” cat.
We were very worried about him. He seems to have recovered well, but now we’re committed to feeding him hand shredded chicken, cooked in the crock pot.
Fortunately, Joe V’s had 10# bags of leg quarters for $4.70.
Fortunately, Joe V’s had 10# bags of leg quarters for $4.70.
– do you find the freshness to be ok? I’ve talked to a few people who have suggested that most of the meat at JoeV’s is heavily seasoned because it’s getting real short on sell by…
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D2 home from her friend’s party. I had a lot of carbs for dinner and need to sleep.
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re: Joe V and freshness
The cat doesn’t seem to mind.
It went right into the crock pot the morning we bought it. No seasoning.
“The Last Valley”
https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/the-last-valley
“Study the Thirty-Year’s War to see Europe’s potential future”
“Anyone who has not watched “The Last Valley,” starring Omar Shariff and a young Michael Caine, a vastly underrated film from 1971, should not miss it.”
“This level of 30-Years-War savagery may be coming back to Europe. If you think Protestants vs Catholics got pretty nasty and ugly in the early 1600s, wait until you see millions of Mohammedans fully mobilized in all-out jihad. Just replace the horses and muskets in the film with motorbikes, truck-mounted heavy machine guns and AK-47s. (The way that Syria was recently overrun). I wrote a Substack piece titled Motorbike Warfare on this subject last year.”
I love barley. It’s part of my too-far-northern-European-for-wheat heritage, along with oats.
Can’t say I’ve noticed greater than usual flatulence from barley, unless I consume it in the form of Guinness.
Monday. Sunny. Yesterday’s snow is melted and gone. Time to get up and earn a crust. Have a good day!