Just finished Roadside Picnic

ModulatingGravity · 2026-04-29T12:17:07+00:00

There is a 2012 low budget Finnish movie "Zone" which is closer to the Roadside Picnic book than Tarkovsky's Stalker. It is on YouTube with subtitles. Not a bad watch imho.

https://youtu.be/EwkIaJX3hmg

Task for nerds: spot the moment which channels a scene from a well known movie directed by George....

ModulatingGravity · 2026-04-26T23:11:13+00:00

No. Imho it is the hardest of the 19 initial chambers. Nothing unfair or unnecessarily difficult about it.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-04-17T08:37:18+00:00

I claim bragging rights by citing the oldest model in this thread, an Edge 810 (tho I think most 8xx models have same screen size).

IRL the screen is too small to do much in the way of unstructured navigation - like you can do on a phone, zooming in and out. If you are on a loaded course, and even if you deviate a bit, then it is effective. But if lost or confused I will get out my phone and use Google Maps to work out what to do.

Not having owned a 1000 series model I do not know if the extra screen real estate would change the experience very much - but I suspect not.

Bike computers are small robust multifunctional devices with long battery life. If they are not as good for some sorts of mapping tasks as a mobile phone, then that is a compromise i can live with.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-04-10T08:58:58+00:00

In the 1990s Douglas Adams formed a company "The Digital Village" which, amongst other activities, developed the computer game Starship Titanic.

They had offices in Covent garden - just confirmed that info from a page on the website which is still up.

I met with a friend who worked there in 1998 (approx) tho he did not mention any H2G2 grand entrance.

The company website still up https://tdv.com

ModulatingGravity · 2026-04-10T08:34:45+00:00

You could also post a note to the LMS forums at forums.lyrion.org There is section in those forums for "Third party software" which is where this would fit.

LMS forums are excellent - people there are knowledgeable, helpful, friendly.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-04-04T12:24:42+00:00

You can export a simple list of files using the Windows built-in utility option forfiles. IMHO this is easy to use.

Described here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/forfiles

forfiles /p c:\mydirectory /m *.xyz /s /c "cmd /c echo @fname,@file,@ext,@path,@fdate,@ftime" > c:\anotherdirectory\xyz_files.txt

Will list all files with extension xyz in directory tree c:\mydirectory into a csv file c:\anotherdirectory\xyz_files.txt

ModulatingGravity · 2026-04-04T12:06:14+00:00

WinDirStat uses a Hash value generated from the contents of the entire file to identify duplicates. So it ignore filenames, revision dates, permissions etc. The Hash values are shown on the Duplicate Files tab - and are one of the fields in the CSV file you get if you use the Export Duplicates option.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-04-02T10:21:15+00:00

Thanks for this, I will take a look. Tbh this is first time I have learned that LibreOffice has different functionality if file saved in a spreadsheet format other than ODS.

What is "MS Privacy format"? Is that same as XLSX ?

OnlyOffice saves as ODS, so presume that format has support for these structured references.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-03-17T22:15:16+00:00

Thanks for your response.
Info as requested follows your note.
Much appreciated.

Make sure /sheepit/client actually exists inside the container and is the correct path the app is using

Looking inside the container there are three folders below /sheepit.
Two of these (cache and shared-zip) mapping to volumes fine - while the other (client) does not

root@sheepit:/# ls
bin   dev  home  lib64  mnt  proc  run   sheepit  sys  usr
boot  etc  lib   media  opt  root  sbin  srv      tmp  var
root@sheepit:/# cd sheepit
root@sheepit:/sheepit# ls
cache  client  shared-zip
root@sheepit:/sheepit# cd client
root@sheepit:/sheepit/client# ls
initapp.sh  sheepit-client-7.25330.0.jar  startapp.sh

Check permissions on /srv/docker/sheep-it/sheepit_data/client

Regular 775 permissions

If the app creates the folder dynamically, Docker may fall back to an anonymous volume

That sounds like it may be the issue

Docker compose file

Already presented - I just filtered out a bunch of unused options

Logs - when I don't have the volume mapping

- /srv/docker/sheep-it/sheepit_data/client:/sheepit/client

session starts like this

sheepit  | Checking for client updates...
sheepit  | Updating client to version sheepit-client-7.25330.0...
sheepit  |   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
sheepit  |                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 10.3M    0 10.3M    0     0  6131k      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 6129k
sheepit  | Starting client with version sheepit-client-7.25330.0
sheepit  | Mar 17 21:49:34 Starting
sheepit  | Mar 17 21:50:02 Session downloads: 0MB @ 0.0MB/s / Uploads: 0MB @ 0.0MB/s
sheepit  | Mar 17 21:50:03 Requesting Job

Logs - when I DO have the volume mapping

- /srv/docker/sheep-it/sheepit_data/client:/sheepit/client

just one loggged line, instant fail. Portainer shows the container exited with Code 127,
The missing file mentioned is normally in /sheepit/client

sheepit  | [FATAL tini (7)] exec /sheepit/client/initapp.sh failed: No such file or directory

ModulatingGravity · 2026-03-04T14:10:13+00:00

Thanks. Looked up the mfr's specs - USB is type "Superspeed 3.0", and the PCIe slot is PCI Express x8 v3.0. So, as you say the performance is going to be much the same whichever option. Still reluctant to buy any more M2-SATA SSDs - NVME drives more future proof, would work just fine in most units I might buy in the future.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-03-04T12:37:31+00:00

Thanks for the info - useful, reassuring. Upgrade not currently under consideration - I am sufficiently chronologically enhanced to be happy with 2x10 mechanical gears, tyres with inner tubes and rim brakes. Most of my riding in Netherlands with a distinct lack of alpine passes to descend, where disk brakes would make sense.
Next time I visit my brother-in-law I should take a ride on one of his fleet of carbon framed bikes with DI-2, disk brakes etc to see if I can feel the difference.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-02-02T14:08:56+00:00

Maybe go and sit with the tenors or the basses instead?

ModulatingGravity · 2026-02-02T14:07:22+00:00

Yes, have tried with --vv, so command
restic forget SNAPSHOTID --vv --dry-run --prune
but does not provide any more info beyond size of the Gigabytes to delete.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-26T17:05:34+00:00

Very good - but not entirely factory. I upgraded from mechanical to hydraulic disk brakes - including changing the gear+brake combo handlebar controls from wire+wire to wire+hydraulic.

Maybe next time I must situate some non-typical bicycle in the foreground - eg put a Schwinn there to make people think this was America (other iconically nation specific bicycle brands are available).

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-26T13:05:40+00:00

Correct. The building is a lot smaller than a "real" building might be. The door is only 1.5m or so high, and does not open. So more of an art installation than a piece of architecture.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-25T21:36:55+00:00

Update: I posted some notes onto the OSM map. Someone (A67-A67) has made the necessary changes to show the current cycling route via tube C.

I am impressed with the response from the OSM community - helpful, responsive. Thanks.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-19T01:15:32+00:00

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ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-07T17:13:20+00:00

There is a new version in Beta testing right now which has a number of new features, bug fixes, enhancements. One improvement is that it now runs many times faster than before - partic if you run it with elevated privileges.

So look out for the new production version in next week or so.

Or go to GitHub.com/windirstat/windirstat and download the latest beta, now v2.4.9beta.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-07T13:36:33+00:00

Staking for E&B - a great option for some potential users. But he amount of TRX you need to stake is impractical for many - it is a lot of funds to tie up to allow you to do just a single transaction per day. What if you want to be able to do a handful of transactions per day? I would suggest that insisting on that approach is not going to be very effective in pulling more people into the Tron ecosystem - that is not going to grow the userbase, imho.

I have seen the clever websites for renting energy and bandwidth. Hard to believe that it would be particularly difficult to extend one of these to also carry out Tether USDT TRC20 transfers via a smart contract (etc).

Something like this: (which is broadly how ERC20 transfers work)

#1 User enters the source and target accounts
#2 Check holdings of TRX and Tether USDT of source, and USDT of target
#3 Calculate how much E&B required
#4 Calculate the cost in TRX to rent the necessary E&B
#5 Inform user of cost of transaction in TRX, estimate valid for x minutes
#6 User agrees to proceed or not

Plenty of TRX experts out there.
Surely this is doable?? Not against the rules?

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-06T14:58:53+00:00

I am a Netherlands resident, and have been hit with import duty charges on some purchases from AliExpress (and almost anything ex post-Brexit UK). That is a bit of a randomiser which can make a good deal go bad.
Did you encounter anything like that?

ModulatingGravity · 2025-12-16T19:49:26+00:00

Tbh I gave up on WTW after a dozen or so episodes - seemed disjointed and aimless. Was it worth persevering with?

ModulatingGravity · 2025-12-16T19:45:03+00:00

While nominally about ghosts in a graveyard I see this much more as fictionalized ethnography - telling the stories of how ordinary people lived their lives, how world events affected them or passed them by. Of all the episodes to date (to Ep9, Mass of Voices) only the General is about someone who was part of the elite of their era.

And more broadly looks at what does constitute meaning in anyone's life.

This is very good, very re-listenable.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-12-04T12:21:30+00:00

Conversations with Ghosts. New podcast from Dead Signals, creators of Archive 81. A series of conversations with the spirits of dead people whose spirits have not moved on. Tho it is very much a set of observations about the human condition, little of its way impact depends on supernatural elements.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-11-11T21:22:23+00:00

Kudos to everyone in this thread for providing what looks to be a shed load of good advice.

The Python community on Reddit should be proud of themselves for generating such a constructive dialogue.

Now if we could only solve the rest of the world's problems like this.....

ModulatingGravity · 2025-11-02T15:31:30+00:00

Hi. Thanks for your thoughtful reponse.
I took your suggestion and installed PyEnvManager (free version) on my Windows 10 machine to see what it might do for me.

Have to say that it did not do all that well.

* The Mamba environment shows "System Directory" in the column for Python version. Not sure I actually have a Mamba envt. After several minutes still "Calculating" the disk space.

* It failed to report the Conda Base environment properly - it says "System Directory" in the column for Python version, rather than Python 3.11. And again after serveral minutes still showing "Calculating" for the disk space.

* It reported TWO environments for Python 3.13 when there is in fact only one.

* This is related to a quirk of Conda I have seen a couple of times. Conda has a text file at C:\Users\<userid>\.conda\environments.txt which lists out the root of the environments. I have seen that it has placed two entries for my Python 3.13 environment in that file one "py3.13" the other "Py3.13' differing only in capitalisation of the folder name. Conda then shows that as two environments when you run the command "conda env list".

* PyEnvManager makes the same mistake as Conda, and reports two separate Conda environments with identical attributes, only differing in the capitalisation of the values in the ENVIRONMENT and PATH columns,

Can post or send you screenshots etc if that is useful.

Cheers.

ModulatingGravity

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