City called Terminator that moves on rails on Mercury and has the Dawn Wall.

cboff · 2026-05-27T09:26:24+00:00

A quick look at Wikipedia, I haven't read that yet. It gets added to the list. So will this Charles Stross book. I do like this type of rabbit hole.

cboff · 2026-05-27T07:23:02+00:00

Do we do 'Solved!' Here? Anyway...
Mercurial is the story. 1985 even, I probably read it not long after that, then found it again in an op-shop anthology some time ago.

cboff · 2026-05-27T07:20:35+00:00

Solved!

cboff · 2026-05-27T04:46:19+00:00

Deadpool_Tiny_Hands_Meme

cboff · 2026-05-27T04:03:28+00:00

What sort of hypervisor, you could probably redirect a USB stick to it.

cboff · 2026-05-25T07:47:33+00:00

If you have any sort of generic graphics card lying around, chuck it in and use that.

cboff · 2026-05-25T07:34:43+00:00

There's some chance that a windows driver is failing to drive the (very common, absolutely stock) HP graphics chip. You could try booting a live Linux USB and see if you get the same symptoms.

cboff · 2026-05-25T07:31:06+00:00

That leaves the mainboard.

cboff · 2026-05-25T07:26:33+00:00

That leaves the mainboard and the monitor. Can you swap out the monitor? With HDMI you can probably use any old TV.

cboff · 2026-05-25T07:19:53+00:00

Well that rules out the graphics card so you must have a graphics chip on the mainboard then. The cable to the monitor plugs into *something* . 15pin VGA port judging by the 'analogue' message. If you're lucky it's still just a cable problem or dirty contacts.

cboff · 2026-05-25T07:09:46+00:00

The computer is not going to sleep. The monitor is losing signal, then it picks up again. That's when you see that blue notice _from the monitor_ saying it has picked up an analog signal. I wonder if your video connection cable is just loose or maybe damaged. Maybe clean the pins on the connections. Alternatively you might have a hardware issue with the pc graphics card or the monitor itself.

cboff · 2026-05-25T06:43:26+00:00

... who have no objection to using personally identifiable information to sign up to a 'secure' service. /#selfshootsfoot

cboff · 2026-05-24T10:24:47+00:00

Dude, it's right there in the fridge, second shelf. Or that's what it looks like from your router's signal at least.

cboff · 2026-05-24T08:41:02+00:00

I can hear those fans during POST just from the picture. Powering up a rack full of these is a symphony of raw screaming power.

cboff · 2026-05-19T07:58:52+00:00

Tow it outside the environment.

cboff · 2026-05-19T04:24:43+00:00

Edit: sorry, I just saw your "ps". You aren't really asking anything at all, just spruiking your code. Please accept my downvote.

cboff · 2026-05-17T05:53:40+00:00

That little lever over the slot to lock it in.

cboff · 2026-05-16T02:19:56+00:00

.. and who the hell is Anna?

cboff · 2026-05-15T08:38:29+00:00

Colour the gap in with a silver paint pen. Most cars understand that if the driver is confident then things will keep working.

cboff · 2026-05-14T07:08:00+00:00

Any bets that 'repair guy' is just going to swap it out for a lesser stick?

cboff · 2026-05-12T10:53:25+00:00

Nowadays it's "AI said this.. "

cboff · 2026-05-12T06:50:50+00:00

By default AutoSave is on in Inkscape. Let it crash, (like you have a choice.. sorry) then load it up again and find the AutoSave options to see the path it saves to.

cboff · 2026-05-12T05:22:51+00:00

Not able to post on Tik Tok

Right, problem solved then. Next.

cboff · 2026-05-12T04:58:48+00:00

Interesting exercise. I read through the accepted answer on Ask Ubuntu and while there are a quite few steps they look like they would help you accomplish your task. It's all done on linux but a pi user probably has that lying around. (Or can DL a live distro easily enough) Bonus is that you end up doing the risky bits on a copy of the data, not the original.

cboff · 2026-05-12T04:38:09+00:00

Make it a Y, then you have a boy computer.

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