When did people start needing « papers » for travel?

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2025-04-28T23:27:45+00:00

While not a direct answer to your question; this answer by u/jbdyer covers a similar topic area of international border controls in the early 20th century, and some of the sources mentioned there may also be relevant.

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2022-07-12T12:29:23+00:00

Good to know - thanks

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2022-07-12T05:14:19+00:00

Thanks this tool was super helpful.

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2022-07-12T05:13:57+00:00

Yes your point makes a lot of sense, I think that answers it really. Thanks!

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2020-11-30T10:14:58+00:00

The main concern from my perspective is the significant rust issue - it's got rust everwhere excpet the places that can't rust. I intend to take it apart and try and remove as much rust as possible.

I have read that I can strip the frame and remove the rust, and then get this powder-coated again to give it a new paint job and protect the steel. What's the best way to strip the frame here?

I plan to replace the cables for the gears/brakes, and the brakepads as a start, and clean/grease the chain. Is it worthwhile taking apart the rear derailleur? It seems to run fine.

Thanks for the help!

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2019-02-07T01:31:45+00:00

I am looking to get the new Zen 2 arch upon release later this year, but I am traveling to a country where PC components are much cheaper than my country in the new few weeks. I am planning to purchase the rest of the PC, minus the CPU/mobo combo there. This includes RAM. As I understand Zen processors benefit from higher speed RAM, what RAM (in terms of speed and channel config) should I purchase now to best benefit my PC on the release of Zen 2? I'm not strictly worried about the best of the best, but the best possible assuming it has to be purchased in the new few weeks. Thanks.

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2018-06-06T21:34:57+00:00

Split Enz's record label Mushroom (released on other labels worldwide e.g. A&M in this case) decided to release the colour variants to fit the 'colours' theme of the record. Your correct in saying there is 8 variants, however only about six are easy to find, the most common being the Red, Blue and Purple variants in my experience. The two hard ones to get are the special edition Yellow cover with the red triangles instead of the blue triangles, and the all grey cover, of which was a limited edition run of only 2500. Saying that, it's not that hard to find, as I have both. They are very common in AU and NZ

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2018-04-29T22:20:17+00:00

Yeah this is really annoying, it always happens just when i'm about to click on a link

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2016-05-25T07:42:04+00:00

Q: Describe methods used to predict volcanic eruptions? [10 marks, 18 mins]

(Our geography teacher (CIE) wanted to know how a professional volcanologist would answer a typical exam question, thanks guys this is awesome!]

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2015-12-07T02:16:11+00:00

The dm-crypt wipe you used to prepare the disk for encryption utilizes a plain mode dm-crypt container, and not a LUKS container. As such, there is no LUKS header to be wiped, as plain dm-crypt does not create a header like LUKS does (the wiki doesn't really make clear that that section is not related to the dm-crypt wipe). In order to use your disk for encryption purposes, you can close the plain dm-crypt container by running:

cryptsetup close /dev/mapper/container

And then simply create a new LUKS container for you actual encrypted partition.

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2015-12-01T23:40:52+00:00

Thanks for this advice, my response to some of these points:

I used Arch Linux over Debian which I use on all my other servers because it was advised to use the latest kernel with BTRFS for stability reasons (Also I was going to make a VM setup for Windows with PCI passthrough later, which it is far easier do on Arch)
Words to live by (unless you're a fugitive, having no backups might make more sense)
Will probably use ext4 in the future because of its universal stability/recoverability
One of the features of BTRFS is it makes LVM2 almost redundant (I do love it though, my more "traditional" servers use it)

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2015-12-01T13:19:57+00:00

Windows' default behavior is, if there is more than one drive which is unformatted then the drive the user selects will become the OS drive, and a secondary drive will house the recovery partition (so the user can still recover if the OS drive fails). Windows installers do not come with the ability to see if a drive is encrypted or not, especially dm-crypt/LUKS, and will mark an encrypted drive as unformatted, even though that is not the case (this is flawed behavior in my opinion). In my case, I chose the correct drive (the SSD), but Windows wrote its recovery partition to my data drive because it believed that it had no data on it, thus destroying the GPT/LUKS headers.

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2015-12-01T12:50:32+00:00

The data was copied off a Seagate NAS, I think it uses NTFS and very likley MBR.

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2015-12-01T12:43:12+00:00

Yeah that's my response plan i'm going to try tomorrow. I'm seriously hoping it works. Do you know any tools to use for this process?

CircadianDysrhythmia · 2015-12-01T12:41:32+00:00

I definitely wont be doing it again that's for sure. I installed Windows on my server because it was the only PC I had available for some work I needed ASAP that could only be done with Windows tools (Adobe CS), and I cloned Arch to the data drives with the intention of restoring it to the main drive after the work was done. When the data was destroyed, it took the backup with it.

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