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One way is to use heavy duty sticky velcro.
According to the Screwfix blurb it will hold up to 7kg, but I think that you may need to do something to the back of the ashtray to eliminate it only having a top edge/hinge in contact with the dash.
I would probably cover the back of the ashtray with a layer of prickly velcro, and put a corresponding layer of the smooth stuff on the dash. That kludge might put the top edge and hinge below the level of the prickly velcro, otherwise that will always cause you problems.
I went to school with my clone. He was just under a year younger and no relative at all – not even going back a century or so. We were very good friends and our likeness used to confuse our gfs no end. I’m convinced that everyone has at least one unrelated clone.
They are growing linseed in these parts. Imo the soft blue is much more subtle and pleasant than the yellow menace.
Sodium chlorate brings back happy memories from my first job after Uni and the days of post-grad training. Some 22-25 years old friends of mine all shared a big house. Like most young males they had zero interest in gardening, and the resultant was a garden that resembled a jungle and brought down the ire of their neighbours and landlord. Something had to be down and sodium chlorate weedkiller was both cheap and plentiful, so they sprayed it very liberally all over the garden. Instant death resulted to the jungle and the garden soon became a brown wasteland tinged with white crystal specs during that long hot summer.
Unfortunately one night one of the young men threw his lit cigarette end into the garden. Very shortly afterwards what could best be described as a unconfined explosion occurred. By all reports there was a huge flash and whoosh — all the dead vegetation turned to ash along with most of the garden fencing. Cue for more irate neighbours!
The rest of us young grads did a ROFL , when this tale was recounted in the local pub. The consensus was that trainee salesmen with Arts degrees were unsafe to let loose in public.
As I said the jury is still out. I have still not found the end of the California trial, but imo the evidence presented so far gives cause for concern. Certainly not stuff for regular home use, and one worries at statements that say the EU will withdraw its permission to use.
The EU voted in 2017 to limit glyphosate’s license renewal for a period of only five years, and many European countries have announced plans to end its use within three years. “Countries like France and Italy and Austria are saying … ‘we’re not waiting three to five years, we’re moving as soon as there is a viable alternative,’”
Of course for Monsanto there are even bigger issues apart from potential court suites. If glyphosphate is found to be carcinogenic then it also threatens much of the Monsanto GMO seed business. (Plants are engineered to be glyphosphate resistant to enable liberal weed spraying to be conducted)
btw I’m glad to hear you were not sweating as the temperature limit is probably set to minimise roundup spray getting into your skin.
Just treat the nasty stuff as a bio-hazard when you use it. The jury is still out on the safety of the Roundup mix – just remember that Monsanto (the manufacturer) does not exactly have a water-white reputation for the environmental impact of its products:
Sound is just a personal preference – for my purposes just cheap & good. Where I can I use a cheap 12bit DAC and a £6 3 inch speaker for project work. That is probably the lowest of the low as it is possible to get very high quality DAC boards that will happily drive expensive HiFi rigs. The analog route gives very limited sound quality as it shares its bus with Ethernet (not sure if that is still true with 3b+). The use of the dsp port screws this up as it grabs the spi ports and interferes with the i2c route. (a black screen results).
With respect to usability – yes 7 inch touch screens are usable but the framebuffer needs to be tweaked to give a minimum of 614 vertical resolution. Below this many dialogs become impossible to use on a touch screen. 5inch 1024×800 are great for TV/Films but not really usable imo for text. <5 inch are really just info displays (e.g. what radio channel, or music is playing) though you can get ones with full hdmi resolution which I guess could be used as video/security monitors etc.
I like 10 inch screens but cannot really justify their use in my projects.
Sounds really good Dan.
Just for the record I have been setting up a Pi3B+ with a touchscreen to demo possibilities to a school. As I probably will not be able to get myself set-up for broadband at the school I decided to use the 128GB Integral SSD as a storage plus boot device (featured as cheap buy on forum). I’ll use it to store a bunch of Pi demo builds and various Minecraft Python scripts and SonicPi noises etc
Other than the minor pain of having to use a PC to first set up Raspbian Stretch on an SSD the SSD was ready to boot the Pi. Works perfectly – very robust and other than cost much more suitable to kiddies crashing the setup.
The only minor irritation I had was that the ‘official’ touch screen uses the spi bus which prevents me using the very cheap and superior DAC sound route.
I think Richard is viewing Cardiff as a car driver, and I think that can blight any city especially if you are not familiar with it. If you go again, just use Park & Ride to take away the strain. A comment that now applies to many other cities.
I must admit that I generally share BL’s viewpoint and I like Cardiff, even the somewhat naff and sanitised Tiger Bay redevelopment. (I remember that area from its somewhat more dangerous Bute Street days when trams and girls in very short dresses cruised the streets).
I did two today without too many issues except a couple of forced power cycling issues. I have come to the conclusion that the update goes in at bios level so if you have programs such as bios updaters etc then it may well pay to remove them first. It also does not like Fences 3 unless it has been updated.
If things do not work out (hope they do), ask about a possible referral to a Pain Clinic.
I’ve used Patient Access for some while and what it does it does well, but I can see the logic in not allowing Patient Access to have your records as it is a commercial organization and the NHS already has some sort of underhand (possibly illegal) ‘Hunt’ deal with Google Deep Mind Health!
Great news Bob.
On the appointments front it may be worth asking the Departmental Admin if they use text messaging contacts for appointments. While I agree with other comments that turning or evolving the NHS is like turning an aircraft carrier things sometimes evolve more rapidly at local levels.
Although it still takes my local hospital forever to get out written stuff, text messaging avoids all the bureaucracy especially if the local IT group have linked the appointments calendar with a message sending app. I have even seen one instance where the Department used an electronic mailing system and a consultants letter managed to avoid the central bottleneck.
After two days of frustration tweaking various settings I gave up and ‘refreshed’ Windows. Luckily I use VMs so the impact is minimal.
I never managed to figure out what was causing the issue but I suspect the Asus mobo AI as that was an area I forgot to tweak. The Asus utility had some fairly low level drivers and a Bios utility so maybe it is the main candidate for suspicions.
My box is a AMD Ryzen which may be the problem, but sens is more a LAN card or vmware issue,
Update 1803 (which I think is the ‘April’ release) failed for me with some crud about not being able to find the SENS server, but just got into a restart loop and would not allow me to correct this error with “netsh winsock reset”. It eventually gave up rebooted and removed the update.
Total failure but no BSOD!
Dan, the problem with game RT rendering is that it has to make compromises to meet the insane target of an unscripted rendered scene in less than 0.017 seconds on a high mid-range CPU and GPU . A typical Blender or other cut-scene render can take as long as necessary using as large a render farm as it needs and just save out the finished frame.
The frame rate is the killer that drives reality compromises as a game that achieves <60fps gets very critical review comments. Level of Detail (LoD) modelling (polygon count/object goes down with distance) is a typical compromise, but you will still hear complaints about ‘popping’ as objects move from one LoD to another. There are many other artificial (unnatural) artifices that the developers have to use to reduce render time. Even then a glance at any face in any RT scene shows up as glaringly unreal – as you know flesh is very difficult to render even in pre-renders and RT just cannot afford the fps to do anything except teeter on the edge of the unreal valley.
If Moore’s law holds maybe another 10 years will see some of these artifices becoming unnecessary, and it will become more common to ease the burden on artists using natural scans of scenes and objects as shown in the demo you linked. I’d also see some of these techniques spilling back into the world of Blender as artistic time constraints also restrict time spent on design and creativity. I think it could be 20 years before the difference for pre-renders becomes virtually identical to RT renders, but that of course does not allow for the impact of 8K screens or 48bit true colour!
I suspect it is a ‘competition’ in which pre-rendering will always be slightly ahead.
A minor divert because I found this tale of making a home-made integrated circuit chip of educational value to me. Even though this was a very simple IC, it used no less than four masks which I guess only make sense when you overlay them and figure out which layers are additive and which subtractive. It makes the process of surreptitious malicious changes not so far fetched as may at first appear.
I have not seen a technical analysis of it so far. From reports the whole system did not go down but was extremely slow and customers were ‘tined-out’. One set of reports hinted at a somewhat panicked reaction by IBM so maybe it was an upgrade of their hardware that went wrong.
The ‘cutover’ itself was almost an in-house move to the Spanish owner’s system albeit modified to comprehend UK banking regs. Although the devil is in the detail that should not have caused the system to limp although it may have affected security settings.
Richard any mask verification would have to be an automated process, even the mask for a Ryzen chip is quite mind-blowing especially when it is noted that the design is 3D with interconnections across layers.
My point was not really aimed at the how-to-do-it but at the potential dangers that arise from putting strategic resources under the control of not always friendly third parties. In the same way the French reputably built-in ways of ensuring that Exocets were not used against them, it would not be beyond imagination to assume that foreign powers will try and subvert things they have within their manufacturing control.
I obviously have no idea how the Russians zapped the Donald Cook, but subverted Chinese chips could be one avenue of attack.
Stuxnet was unusual in that the US wanted to make their attack undetectable and deniable. A Military situation just needs a ‘crash&burn’ piece of code in fact it should not be subtle! For example set the engine turbines to overspeed would probably be just a couple of PICs that needed to be zapped, so an ‘army of helpers’ would not be needed.
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