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If you like playing with C++, you may like to try Swift as this will enable you to build cross-platform GUI Apps for Apple, Android, Linux and Windows.

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I still prefer Control Panel, it is a LOT easier to find stuff.

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Strange.

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Try a Pringles can!

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Good job you went before today’s tight lock-down in Bridgend!

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Other than cocking up your ‘free’ parking, would you recommend Welcome Break?

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John does using the Zoom control help?

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My #1 Apple-loving son really learned to program with STOS Basic for the C64 as that gave him the ability to manipulate sprites and have animation in his games. Unfortunately imo there is nothing quite so inspiring in children’s programming languages today. Scratch appears to be passably okay, but only if you like fiddling with little pseudo-building blocks. Far too much overhead for my taste.

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He may like to think about installing it in Virtual box to give him a bit of a security wrapper.

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Sack Dido Harding the incompetent leader of Track & Trace!

Unfortunately it looks as though we will soon be paying the predictable price for all those who enjoyed a Summer holiday in Covid hotspots and Welsh Con-club members who went on a bus tour around pubs en route to Doncaster races.  The price appears to be another short sharp National lock-down is on the horizon, or maybe hard selective lock downs for the high transmission cities and surrounding areas.

Accurate info will help you predict some of the rational and not so rational moves that our incompetent Government will make. This handy link pulls together a mass of National info. in an easy to read format.

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From my reading it appeared that there was a corrupt relationship between the US Government, FAA and Boeing link. I can only hope that we will in future lean more to using the EU airline safety body and treat the FAA as an untrustworthy expert body.

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Its an inferred presence of life. What was actually discovered is phosphine, and no scientist can. as yet, come up with an explanation for its presence other than life – but not as we know it. Giant farting gas-bags maybe! :wacko:

link to Nature

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Sorry, I do not have any RAM, but I’d comment that if Tamara’s laptop WAS OK in the past then unless you have a RAM failure I would be more inclined to think that her disk drive is throwing out a load of errors due to bad blocks or other errors. Try running the appropriate Mint disk utilities. link

If you find a load of bad blocks then it may be an early warning sign of impending disk doom or just that Tamara is flipping the laptop on-off switch rather than doing it properly through the software. (Linux often  uses ‘write-behind‘ so flipping the switch to shutdown is a good way to stuff things up.)

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Thanks Dave – I’m sure you know what we all hope and you will pass our best wishes to Bob.

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Great news! Please pass on my best wishes for a full recovery.

Tippon wrote:

Thanks for the update Lee Get well soon Bob

+1 The forum just hasn’t been the same without you. I miss all those reminiscences, and tales of Doggerland. :yahoo:

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I’d personally go a bit farther to The Gower Peninsular.

According to Google there are seven sites actually on The Gower. Sorry I cannot recommend anything as it is over 60 years since I went camping there!

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During your search for C/C++ reference books do not forget to check out the books by Robert J. Traister. They have been singled out for sheer awfulness and inaccuracy by no less a person than The Woz!

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Dave Rice wrote:

If he can’t lead the government then he should get out of the way.

+1

It comes to something when even the far right press have recognised that Johnson is a lazy ne’er-do-well. It is now the case that at least once or twice a week he is on the vituperative end of a barb from the Mail, Express and even the CIA Murky-dog pups. He is no longer the fair-haired blue-eyed boy who can do no wrong, but a liability like the rest of the Greyling-like spawn.

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Sack Dido Harding!

from today’s Guardian:

“Health officials are scrambling to contact more than 200 British holidaymakers on a flight from Crete last week after authorities failed to alert the airline that eight passengers had tested positive for coronavirus.

The teenagers, from Hampshire, were diagnosed after returning to the UK on a Wizz Air flight to London Luton airport on 25 August. The positive tests should have triggered an urgent response to track down the other 204 passengers on board, but Wizz Air said it had not been made aware of the cases until contacted by the Guardian.”

There should be no excuse for incompetent management, but it seems to be par for the course for this Government.

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Although not peer-reviewed (frankly I do not see how this will be replicated), it is reported that a supercomputer has analysed all the covid-19 data and reached some new and perhaps far-reaching conclusions. link

Picking the bones out of the report, the main finding is a refinement of the previous finding that death is caused by the immune system running amok. The new finding is that it is a bradykine storm that kills rather than a cytokine storm. This of itself gives some leads on potentially important treatments.

However, the medical world grinds slowly and many deaths will result before these new treatments become accepted (on previous history this equates to another 50000 deaths in the UK). So what can the common herd do within the limits of off-prescription treatments?

First it appears that Vitamin D is very important. As are probably zinc and vitamin C, so make sure your supplement shelves are kept stocked. Second there are some non-supplement foods that may help:

“Linseed or flaxseed oil may decrease inflammation caused by bradykinin and histamine. Linseed oil contains a very high percentage of alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid, which acted against bradykinin and histamine in rodents.

Ginger may decrease some of bradykinin’s negative effects. One component of ginger, 6-shogaol, blocks the production of inositol triphosphate in tissue studies. Bradykinin normally stimulates the production of inositol triphosphate, so this effect suggests that 6-shogaol may decrease bradykinin.”

So drink ginger wine and sprinkle flax and linseeds on your brekkie.

None of these are guaranteed to help, but applying the precautionary principle, none of these measures cost very much but may do some good.

Btw covid causes potassium levels to plummet, so I’d suggest that maybe drinking apple juice at lunch time may be a good idea. (not cider, much as I like it, as covid attacks the liver! )

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