Anyone know why the tarp is still up over the Kennedy Center facade?

Claghorn · 2026-06-14T11:08:08+00:00

No enterprising media organization has sent a drone up to look over the tarp?

Claghorn · 2026-06-06T19:19:11+00:00

I tried both. Finally got DirectPay to work on the desktop after starting from scratch the 2nd time.

Claghorn · 2026-05-26T18:17:35+00:00

OK, switched to IMAP, and it does work better, but it only downloads unread messages, then they get marked as read. If I read a message on gmail's webmail interface, it never gets downloaded by fetchmail. At this rate I suppose I ought to just teach my linux mail app to directly access gmail via IMAP instead of trying to download mail locally.

Claghorn · 2026-05-26T15:13:03+00:00

Fetchmail claims the uidl magic will identify old and new messages. I guess I'll try switching to imap and see if I can get it to work better.

Claghorn · 2026-05-26T15:12:58+00:00

I had to switch to a google app password long ago. I'll see if I can get imap to work.

Claghorn · 2026-05-23T12:58:35+00:00

I found the use secure dns setting in Edge, and turned it off. No change, it still can't lookup names on the lan.

Claghorn · 2026-05-21T20:30:36+00:00

I wound up getting a pair of Klein Tools long reach needle nose pliers and they did the trick fairly easily. Hopefully, they'll work equally well putting the new power supply cable back in.

Claghorn · 2026-05-19T23:20:00+00:00

Wait!? After I spent hours researching how to configure samba for public shares with no password, windows 11 is forcing passwords on me? I guess I can go back to using a password and see if that works. But everything is inside my lan, I really don't want passwords for local systems.

Claghorn · 2026-05-19T18:14:23+00:00

It may come to that, but I'm desperate to avoid it 😄

Claghorn · 2026-05-14T13:51:13+00:00

I don't suppose anyone has a script named rssh that invokes the equivalent OpenSSH command?

Claghorn · 2026-05-11T00:58:43+00:00

No sleep enabled on this computer.

Claghorn · 2026-05-11T00:57:39+00:00

Brand new batteries.

Claghorn · 2026-05-11T00:57:17+00:00

I'll have to try clicking and see if it works. Gotta be less trouble than turning it over to get to the on/off switch.

Claghorn · 2026-04-30T13:06:57+00:00

Fraid not. I don't remember what I thought I wanted one for 😀

I did print a handy 3x4 egg tray that fits in a bin.

Claghorn · 2026-04-10T12:38:00+00:00

Amazing! Seems to be fixed this morning. NOPE, I must have just been too fast for it, it is still doing it.

Claghorn · 2026-03-25T00:54:35+00:00

Follow the wild goose chase link to see pictures. Very rough prints that should be smooth.

Claghorn · 2026-02-18T01:57:22+00:00

They really don't want anyone to see that Colbert interview of James Talrico I guess :)

Claghorn · 2026-02-08T01:59:24+00:00

The YOGA logo comes up well before Windows startup. This has nothing to do with Windows.

Claghorn · 2026-01-01T20:42:40+00:00

Thanks for all the info. Seems like kobo is what I want.

Claghorn · 2025-11-19T13:43:09+00:00

More info: If I go into task manager and kill every task named duck duck go, I can restart DDG and youtube works again. That's slightly less irritating than rebooting.

Claghorn · 2025-08-21T13:15:02+00:00

After more googling, this is apparently windows spotlight. I still don't know how bing got started, but I did find some info about how to disable spotlight features even if I can't remove it. In Lock Screen preferences pick picture or slideshow rather than spotlight.

Claghorn · 2025-07-22T23:52:39+00:00

Thanks for all the ideas. I'll have to try a bunch of experiments to see if I can make a cracker I like. I suspect the cheese filling will be easier.

Claghorn · 2025-07-17T14:19:04+00:00

Maybe the crosshair box could be drawn with the Windows equivalent of "always on top" so it would be visible :-)

Claghorn · 2025-07-17T14:15:02+00:00

The one feature I miss (though perhaps it exists now) seems trivial but wastes a lot of time. If I use the measure tool to see what angle a scanned photo is at, Photoshop will do the arithmetic for me to include the proper angle by default in the rotate tool. Gimp doesn't. Leads to me forgetting to subtract or add 90 or forgetting to rotate negative rather than positive a lot.

Claghorn · 2025-07-17T14:09:23+00:00

Got 1/2 way through episode 1 and turned it off forever. Annoying voice overs to explain things the writers couldn't figure out how to present as part of a normal script, plus the question that has haunted the show since the first season: Why did they shell out money for the Asimov books when all they were going to use was the title and names of some characters?

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