[D-Dan]

I got a Ugee tablet last year, which is very handy for texture painting and GIMP. Having said that, I’ve been using pencil and paper for the past 50 years, so probably helps.

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[D-Dan]

The Duke wrote:

Yes, but this was in the day of Mr Smiths might club, that we use to go quite often. Whe we was young. Trackie and cap nights on a Tuesday iirc. Lol. Although the once dent was in a pub further up bridge Street,

Before my time (I’ve only been in Warrington for 3 years), and it burned down, did it not? And the old dude that was famous there died last year, so old history (for a New Town) now.

Bridge Street on a Friday or Saturday particularly is pretty much a “don’t go if you don’t want a fight” place now, though fortunately, my tastes are somewhat different than Bridge Street can offer.

I was out in Grapenhall on Friday with a bunch of blokes. No aggro, no trouble, just a friendly night (day – we started at 14:00) out. Of course, Grapenhall is where the posh people live.

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[D-Dan]

I’ve only ever used convert for changing the filetype. It’s no issue to copy out the file for mogrify (as my script does). The original slideshow folder is untouched, and I can’t say I’ve ever noticed any speed issues caused by the copy. That’s probably more to do with modern hardware making it trivial, but there you go.

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[D-Dan]

The Duke wrote:

Only ever been out as an adult 3 or 4 times on new years. Never liked it at all. Last time I got bottled twice in Warrington. Sigh.

Don’t say that. My fourth NY in Warrington tonight and never had any problems. Mind you, I avoid Bridge Street year round. Is that, perhaps, where you went wrong?

Nevertheless, it’ll be the 9 Gallon for me 🙂

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[D-Dan]

I’m still using it, and almost without thinking about it now. However, for precision movement, particularly in Blender, I tend to swap between this and the mouse, though I’m sure it’s just muscle training.

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[D-Dan]

Oh, and the config file for the parameters:

/path/to/pictures/
180
160x120

Hell, just noticed in the script post the forum corrupted the script by replacing “" with "” tags.`

OK. Dunno how to fix this. the < code > tags need to be replaced by back leaning ‘

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[D-Dan]

try mogrify (which I’m pretty sure, though not 100% certain) is a part of the imagemagic suite). This is a script I use to resize images for a small slideshow in a conky display (oddly, one of the few scripts I wrote for myself that I actually documented).

#!/bin/bash
# Have the script recognise spaces in directory paths and filenames
#set -x
IFS='
'

#	Read the config file
exec 3<> ~/.conkypic
read <&3 dirpath
read <&3 timeout
read <&3 as
exec 3>&-
# Now get a list of files
cd $dirpath
files=(<code>ls -1 *.[Jj]??</code>)
len=${#files[*]}
if [ ! -d /dev/shm/slideshow ]; then
	mkdir /dev/shm/slideshow
fi
if [ "$len" != "0" ]; then
#	Pick a file at random
	number=$RANDOM
	let "number %= $len"
#	Now we copy it a temporary location. The following copies to RAM. If you are short
#	on memory change the location to somewhere in /home
	#echo "${wd}${files[$number]}"
	cp "${wd}${files[$number]}" /dev/shm/conkypic.jpg
	#ls /dev/shm
	#Convert the image for conky
	mogrify -format png -resize $as /dev/shm/*.jpg
#	echo "Converted"
	mv /dev/shm/conkypic.png /dev/shm/slideshow/
	rm /dev/shm/conkypic.jpg
fi

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[D-Dan]

I’m not a fan of Christmas, in that I avoid it like the plague. I arrived home on Sunday and never ventured outdoors until Thursday.

However, I’m an adult, and so tomorrow is my night (even though NY was originally March 25), and in that spirit, I will, in advance, wish you all a happy New Year.

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[D-Dan]

May I add, Saturnalia, Yuletide, or festival to whatever gods you believe in.

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[D-Dan]

Easy test, of course, is a test GPU (even if borrowed). Should either confirm or rule it out.

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[D-Dan]

I finished the original Doom. Tried one of the modern ones a couple of years ago, Scared the carp out of me so I gave up.

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[D-Dan]

It was driving me nuts. I like my RSS in a live menu in my bookmarks (I don’t use the toolbar, just the menu), and Livemarks is the only one that retains that, as far as I’ve been able to find.

Now, I can see at a glance on the menu the latest brexit fustercluck.

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[D-Dan]

So it seems that more than 1/3 of the Conservative MPs lack trust in TM. What chance if Labour do, actually, table a motion of no confidence?

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[D-Dan]

As a former Civil Servant (HMRC) and now working in the private sector, to some extent, against HMRC, I’d saddened on a daily basis by how far HMRC has fallen. From a professional department that exercised integrity and thought, to a complete and utter clusterfV£k with no clue what they are doing, and all because people were put in charge with even less of a clue.

The quest to become the “most technologically, digitally advanced” tax authority in the world is proven wrong on a daily basis, as we have IT systems that are not fit for purpose in a department that is no longer fit for purpose, turned into a penalty collecting machine with an obscene amount of power to the detriment of the taxpaying public.

Roll on another 13 years and retirement.

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[D-Dan]

The VFM Addict wrote:

What legislation are you referring to?

Apologies. From within, and especially after the whole fiasco, we can ask for article 50 to be looked at again, and more to the point, made fit for purpose.

Here’s the rub, if the EU refuse, then we simply walk away with no negotiation at all, and if they agree, then clearly we open the doors for any one else. Neither will ever be given a fair hearing. A badly drafted law that prevents anyone ever amending it.

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[D-Dan]

I voted leave, and my reasons have not gone away. In fact, if anything, the reasons I voted leave (and they are not the reasons Government seems to think that they can divine) have increased having watched, closely, the events of the last two years.

However, if anything has been proven, it’s that whoever drafted Article 50 had no clue what they were doing and never expected or hoped it would be used.

The fact of the matter is, having never been asked if we wanted to join the EU, the legal position is so tied up with bad draftsmanship and bad intentions that, I believe, no country will ever be allowed to leave.

And so to my reasons, I don’t like dictatorships. It seems TM is also a dictator, simply refusing to accept what anyone tells her that doesn’t support her own vision, no matter how sensible the argument against her, and how bad her response (“I don’t agree with the UN report, so we’ll continue to cripple the poor, the disabled” being typical of her type of response).

Now, despite my own, strongly held views, in a second referendum now, I’m not sure I’d vote leave again, but rather vote remain until the damned legislation can be made more robust and fair.

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[D-Dan]

@drezha My last trackball was also the Logitech Trackman. In fac, I had two, and both had the same problem, in that the microswitches died.

This did, indeed, arrive today, and so (since I had it delivered to work) I swapped out the crappy work mouse with it for the afternoon, and worked well. Now at home (Linux) and it actually feels better than on Windows. A quick check with xev and all the buttons are recognised, so maybe on Saturday I’ll get to configuring. Having said that, LMB/RMB forward and back buttons are working just fine, as is scroll.

I don’t actually find it too big. Once I break the mouse habit (so a day or two) I’ll give it a try on precision stuff (Blender).

The Corsair mouse could find itself relegated to RetroPie.

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[D-Dan]

Wooooo. Zombie Homer

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[D-Dan]

keith with the teef wrote:

D-Dan could you throw me a bone on how to do that. The partiton/unallocated space is as is after accident.

Here’s where it gets difficult. If you can recreate the partition table exactly as it was, and provided no data has been written, then the partitions should come back intact. The problem is, it has to be exact.

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[D-Dan]

Looks interesting, but first test tells me it’s gonna be a PITA to get even a semi-clean scan.

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