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For those who thought that Brexit was all about taking back control … You want to give FULL control of the country to this shower of shite!!!
I would not even give them full control of a Double Decker Bus!
March 28, 2019 at 6:55 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #32184Bob, unfortunately no profession is error-free. I feel sorry for the people in those professions where their errors can cause multiple or even single deaths.
I thank the Heavenly being in charge of Engineers that when I had such a situation something made me do a double-check before I went up in flames with the operators!
March 28, 2019 at 7:29 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #32167Even if the FAA ‘approve’ another software kludge and extra sensors, according to this EETimes report the aircraft will remain inherently unsafe. No RyanAir for me!
The whole b-shower are not fit to govern.
First they encourage a flight from security by promises of pain-free extra cash in the NHS. Then when that is shown to be a heap of lies and we are all worse off they abandon the electorate!
Most expats and diplomats live well especially if they have to entertain commercial customers as part of their job.Those who have lived on the fringes of such and their marketing equivalents get phrases such as ‘Dress for success’, and ‘ You are not only judged on your product, but also your standing’ drummed into your head.
On the other hand any diplomatic posting to Khartoum is like a posting to hell on earth. Possibly rivalled only by Mogadishu.
Its one reason I REALLY dislike the Microsoft practice of trying to force you to use your Microsoft Account (normally Hotmail based) as a Windows Admin password. It just exponentially increases the exposure of your PC to rogue entities.
Although I was one of those forced to get a Hotmail address along with Windows 10, I only used it for the initial logon then immediately demoted it to a User account and set up a different Admin Account. (All using complex KeyPass generated passwords)
Incidentally if you suspect your account has been hacked, use haveibeenpwned for a quick check. Maybe its something Hotmail users should use on a regular basis.
The other area where my Uncle used to graft money was room hire. He had nearly every society and group booked in as regulars, from Masonic Wives through to Rosicrucians and the Grand Old Order of the Buffalo. It was what he called his Winter Warmers, as mandated hours of opening were fixed in those days 10am through 3pm, and 6pm through 10:30pm, which meant a large fixed bill on heating and lighting.
While you are finding your feet it may be an idea to suss out the Councillors on the Licensing Committee, and make the acquaintance of one or two as you will need to be in their good books if you need extension of hours, music licenses etc.
As usual EU regulations are written in broad strokes, and detailed implementation is up to National Governments/regulators, and up to democratically elected MEPs to accept or reject.
The UK always made such regulations far more demanding than necessary, however the EU Copyright Outline Regs do contain some ‘fair copy’ safety nets that National Regulators are suppose to apply in their regulations. For example it should be quite acceptable to give a link to El Reg, include a fair quote of a sentence or so and write an over-view expanding this quote to perhaps include additional info not contained in the El Reg article. The new regs are really aimed at keeping newspapers/web blogs in business and stop Google et al ripping the heart out of journalism by wholesale scraping.
Apologies if this gets double-posted but my previous effort disappeared!
+1 to Lees comments (especially the pipe cleaning). Two of my relatives owned pubs, and I used to help out behind the bar at a racecourse. One uncle was a tenant publican (Stroud Breweries), the pub was in a good position with a lot of charabanc trade (you can tell how long ago that was — pre Mini Minor days). Sometimes he would share his woes with me and said that he made sod-all from his beer sales despite getting through six to eight 36 gallon barrels most weeks. He said all his profits came from spirits and mixers especially Babycham (dates the comment again!), but his big profits were sandwiches, crisps and hot pies.
It may be worth investigating the food end, even if it is only hot pies from a mini oven. Of course then you get into the Food Inspectors game as well as the usual Weights & Measures, which may prove too big a barrier.
(Just an aside, in those days – the weights and measures were not really inspecting the spirit optics, but looking for moonlighting scrumpy and some fairly evil sort of Apple Brandy!)
Probably the lithium battery Les. Air travel has become pretty much a no-no with anything containing a battery. Even the Mainland Post Office ask you to swear on a stack of bibles that the object does not contain a battery. This applies even for mainland delivery as quite a lot of the small parcel business is air-freighted between break-bulk centres.
Such stuff on the mainland is usually couriered between locations.
I think there may also be special arrangements in which batteries are removed and bubble-wrapped before going out via parcel post. (I had a bulk lot of rechargeables delivered in that manner.)
If you get involved in ‘food’ at your pub, then watch out for portion size and wastage. These are the areas where you can make or lose money.
Wastage is the area where the biggest defalcations take place. Thirty or so years ago, a large multinational got out of its depth by buying up a chain of hotels (and knew naff all about the business). An auditor friend of mine was called in and said that he had never seen such supposedly bad control of portion size and over-ordering. As a result, a couple of dozen large hams/day would be written off as wastage into the chef’s car boots. Plus of course steaks and other easily sold items!
btw – Good luck with your new 24/7 venture. Many of my relatives ran pubs – socially rewarding (if you do not become an alcoholic, as many of my relatives did), but b-hard work!
Drezha you are correct, not afaik in addition to those shown below – I’m just not keeping up with the Apple world. Today is likely to be their Netflix/Prime ‘rival’
Do as you did before – reboot while holding SHIFT
a) Select Advanced Options
b) run fsck. This one MUST be run before the others. Ignore warnings!
c) run clean (cannot make space on a carp file system hence fsck first)
d) run dpkg (cannot sort out packages on a carp file system hence fsck first)
e) update grub (not really necessary as you will not even have reached Advanced Options. It does however help if you have not got enough boot space and you tried to update the kernel – funny things then happen.
f) hit resume and cross your fingers.
You may want to run that clean-up script I posted earlier, as lack of root/boot space can be a cause of problems.
I think that one of your programs is behaving badly. However,I have no idea which! If things have improved since you last used Kodi I’d grasp at straws and suggest a ‘complete removal” of kodi via synaptic that would get rid of any chron objects it has inserted.
When you have a spare half hour you could use your file viewer to go to var/log and browse the following for clues:
mintsystem.log gives you the programs that run at Mint GUI start-up
syslog.log gives you a history of boots. Look at the last ‘failure’ and see if anything pops out. A lot of this will be network chitchat with a few errors as it negotiates DHCP – these you can ignore. Then there will be a list of chron jobs that are run at start-up – I suspect one of these is tied to Kodi or something and is going belly up. A warning – the syslog is HUGE and will take a lot of browsing.
I guess you could use cat grep “something to look for” /var/log/syslog.log, but I have no idea what to substitute for the “something to look for”.
Run fsck, by issuing the following command in a terminal.
shutdown -rF now
This may or may not need a sudo.
This is a little like running chkdsk in Windows but is more powerful and it runs without much intervention unless it uncovers a huge nasty.
Les, the problem is that e-ink screens are horrendously expensive once you get bigger than about 2″. I guess one day we may see a reduction but even ChiBay (Alibaba) does not promise much at the moment. I think you either have to dig deep or compromise.
@Dave – you may want to read the Ars Article. They are guessing a new iPad is coming out today (West Coast time). Bad news of course is BIG £££s for the Apple Tax, better news is a slight reduction in second hand value for the older Pads.
I hear your comment that you do not want a tablet, but you may want to revisit that comment as it is easy to up the contrast to give near paper white.
Personally I now prefer using an Amazon Fire tablet for eBooks. Cheap (like me) but also good for watching Prime Movies and general web browsing. You can get a certified refurbished 10 inch tablet for around £90. I like portability and am happy with a 7 inch tablet for <£50.
Look out for deals and these prices can be a lot lower.
It would need a very sophisticated bot to register a vote. experts say that it is highly unlikely to happen. Anyway – other than Germany, who would do it? Certainly neither Russia or the US as both have shown interest in weakening the EU rather than strengthening it.
Still if you want to run a conspiracy theory – who leaked Operation YellowHammer? A really scary document especially given the important role that the Minister for Incompetency Chris Grayling would play. If ever this is implemented then the Homer Simpson cry would come up from the masses “We are Doomed!“
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