On 2025/11/9 1:7:7, Gremlin wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> news:10eneat$24a8q$1@dont-email.me
Sat,
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The leap from "I can't explain it" to "something supernatural happened
"
is, sadly, far too common and easy to make. I can't say _for sure_ tha
t
I've not made it myself, though I can't think of an occasion when I ha
ve
Ayep. I can't just go for something supernatural happened. That's a dismissive response. I'd rather deal in facts and reality. I have no
And lazy.
answer for what happened or how, but, I'm not willing to claim a supernatural event occured without additional information that I couldn
't
acquire at the time. I might this coming summer take a trip back up nor
th
and if I do, I will bring along necessary gear to try and conduct a few
experiments. It's been decades since I've been there and I think it mig
ht
do me some good to revisit my old stomping grounds. I've taken trips vi
a
google earth - but that's not quite the same thing.
I've never been in a big cemetery, but I don't _think_ I'd be afraid of
being there in the dark ("it's the living who'll hurt you, not the
dead"), certainly if there was moonlight; if it was pitch dark, I'd be
more afraid of hurting myself by stumbling into things more than
anything else. I think.
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LOL! I have an inquestive mind. Surely God understands that. :)
I think it was Galileo who is supposed to have said something like "I
cannot accept that god gave me an inquiring mind without expecting me to
use it", or similar.>
[The random .sig below was - honestly - just selected from my file by
my
random (ancient, DOS-based!) routine, but is related to one of them!]
Nice man! I've got an ancient DOS proggy that can still do the same for
me
with this App I use. It's another reason I continue using this ancient
Mine's called TomQuote - TQ for short. Some decades ago it stopped
working when I "up"graded something (I forget what), and I managed to
contact the creator who (was surprised to find anyone still using it!
and) patched it for me. When I had to move from 32-bit Windows 7 to
64-bit 10 (I think it was the bitness rather than the 10 that stopped it working - I think it was at best 16-bit software) (and I can't use a
VM), I thought that was it (no way of contacting the author now), but
someone pointed me at something that lets me use 16-bit software without
the complexity of a VM - it's called OTVDM; it won't run anything as
complex as Xtree Gold, but it would run TQ, my random quote extractor,
and the reindexer that needs when I amend my quotes file.
software. I wrote several DOS based programs which can directly interac
t
with it's data and configuration file. I'm still working on a way to ri
p
and encode the audio cds I have the same way my old XP box was doing it
.
Consistently in the collection n all.
I like that sort of consistency too. Though I haven't put an audio CD
into any drive other than the one in my car for quite a few years; I get
all my audio files from YouTube (and occasionally other sources) these da
ys!
To do that though I have to have EAC, CDEX and lame v3.90.3 - I still h
ave
the software packages but I'm not sure if Wine is going to be cool with
it.
Ah, cool wine.
Not to mention that I'll be using an external drive to do the processin
g.
CDEX wasn't used to rip them, it was just used to control the lame enco
der
for batch runs. EAC with secure mode rip was used for the ripping stage
.
Not sure what I'd use these days: I think last time I put an audio CD
into a computer drive was under XP, and IIRR it ripped it without me
doing much! I think I might use GoldWave these days.
Once I have the time required, I'll look into it more. Yes, I could get
the old beastie back up and going, but it's a dual cpu mated p3800 mhz
machine that's been down for sometime. Before I can plug it back into A
C
mains I'd have to check the mainboard and power supply for capacitor
issues. The last thing I want to do is blow the damn thing up just by powering it up.
I had a clearout session a year or two ago, when several PCs, two oscilloscopes, and two reel-to-reel video recorders (really) no longer
worked - sometimes smokily - on applying power. Took some to the dump ("municipal recycling centre"), and had to sign something to say they
really were from a domestic home not a business, as there was rather a lo
t.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
We'd agreed to overlook each others' families and everything, and get
married" (The Trouble with Harry)
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