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Will need to check the shop for some compilations! We’re also getting alternate art cards for Magic based on FiM, too!

I realize Jodie Whittaker’s stent on Who was polarizing but I quite liked her version of the Doctor. Found it rather refreshing.

Decided to continue watching cartoons! Currently watching Courage the Cowardly Dog. Got plenty of…[Read more]

The comic book My Little Pony is available for loan at Wayback too, looks like a story in there for 99 pages.
Ther’s enough interest in Dog to keep you going until the end, no eye-popping antics from the dog to break any of the very few moments of monotony though. But then you know it’s all real despite an oft used tendency to employ CGI in such…[Read more]

All sub-records have their data blocks as global scope with the classes having to go back and forth. We may want to change that at some point to having class-based scope. Will need evaluation.

I don’t see a reason for them to be globals as the values will change for each sub-record in play but we’ll get there.

Playing around with the cppcheck configuration some and this is what I’ve currently got for the settings:
cppcheck --enable=all -I . --inconclusive --language=c++ --library=mfc --library=microsoft_atl --output-file=cppcheck.log --platform=win64 --quiet .
I’m currently unsure about --cppcheck-build-dir but it may be useful as well with --cppcheck-bu…[Read more]

I’ve add a note about examining the icons as there seems to be several duplicates.

Still fixing up the circular dependencies and boolean types.

Just about finished with the main MLP series. May watch the spin-offs next or I may explore what else is available, will decide soon! The spin-offs, Equestria Girls, were based on fan art of the ponies as humans. The art was so popular that they decided to integrate the concept into a series of specials.

Been in the mood for old, old films…[Read more]

Those silos are scary, even more so when the launchers become mobilised.
Wonderful, Banana slugs hail from Hoh, what graceful creatures!
The word “martyr” is being used out of context in the media it seems, so asked the question. These days many folks just ask AI without referring to a dictionary – or having any idea of its purpose. 😛

I just re-sleeved some old cards the other day. The 30 year old sleeves were pretty rough. 😛

May be a good idea to run Memtestbefore sunsetting it. HDDs are harder to test but the SMART information may help some

For the CPU, you’ll want Prime95

Granted, Prime95 is mostly for stress testing but could let you know if something is going belly up.

Don’t use hibernation over here and I’ve never been able to get sleep mode working on Pop. After more experimenting, I’ve found that it’s the act of fully logging out and back in that fixes the flickering that is triggered by the screen locker as opposed to a reboot.

I’m definitely going to need to sit down at some point and do some…[Read more]

Good idea, always used to put the open sleeve in the cover first, might be ok for 50 years or so – before the plastic starts to degrade. 😛
Getting quite a few 1A bug checks with parameter 3f. Performed all the usual checks, memory looks fine. CRC problem likely points more to HW though – time for pasture? The guy in town might be interested in…[Read more]

Time for a new keyboard or just going to stick with a red key? No reason to discard it if it still works! 🙂

Yuck. Motherboard battery is easy to fix: just a coin cell battery. As for the rest, no idea. Data corruption, maybe?

I may start double-sleeving my records for extra protection. I already do that for my TCGs so why not records, too?

The little Redragon Kumara K552 has developed a red “F” key, backlighting on it works as with the others, but with a rouge intent. Stay tuned for other developments. 🙂
So back with the old W10 clunker with a rather unpleasant shock of the date hard on 2055. Apart from the CMOS on the blink and the event logs all messed up, authentication out the…[Read more]

Johnny Carson had a show in the fifties:

He comes across as rather engaging, which compensates somewhat for the low/med humour output.

How odd, given there’s no hibernation issues. Ddoes the machine boot up automatically when shut down by the power manager. Or can the machine shutdown process circumvent the power manager at all? A recent Reddit thread:

Why is my screen flickering
byu/HorroSdennis inpop_os

Might be relevant:…[Read more]

Fond memories of Skeptic. Probably should start reading their articles more 🙂

Not a whole lot of information on Disclosure Day but most things by Spielberg are worth a watch!

Most of the UFO sightings the government clams up on have to deal with military experiments or other unknown craft, such as homemade drones or the like. Our government is…[Read more]

Yeah, I’m sure some of them have fallen into disrepair by now. There may be others opening up over the course of the next few decades as the USAF builds new silos. And let’s not forget all of the fallout shelters! Atlas Obscura has a few articles 🙂

iNaturalist is currently down for maintenance so will need to read it later 🙂

Wonderful, the bamboo grove a first on the bucket list:

The caves are spectacular, too, and as with the Recycle Nation spread, no updates from the author as to current status. Let me guess though, terrific. 🙂
This one came through recently, a spider that uses a fungus-like appearance as camouflage. The fungus is surely going to take that…[Read more]

On state FTA they played The Westall UFO Mystery. Any direct recollection of reports of the sighting are dim, it must have good publicity for one of our TV channels at the time.
Funny how the locals, especially the science teacher fared during the “hush up”, and the television archival footage going AWOL, with the Department of Defence remaining…[Read more]

Trying to find an old article about a family that converted a missile silo into a residence slash museum. Was unsuccessful in tracking it down but I did come across this one: https://recyclenation.com/2010/11/repurposed-nuclear-missile-recycle-silos/

I do miss being able to easily get interesting articles. Sites moving away from RSS has really…[Read more]

Okay, I just finished moving the macros from common/dl_base.h to the proper files. Now I need to go through the entire codebase and correct all of the includes, making sure everything is where it needs to be.

This is a downside to making heavy use of the preprocessor: it can cause conflicts due to how compilers work.

1. The preprocessor runs,…

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