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Totally off-topic, but I love the photograph of the woman doing Tai Chi. It may be interesting to play with your Lumix taking time-lapse photos while mounted on a rotating platform. A good Pi project but unfortunately I have too many at the moment!

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Obviously a long delivery item!

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Hope your Doner Kebab turned out OK. For my taste, I thought it was a little bit light on ‘hotter’ spices e.g. cumin, ground coriander,and smoked paprika. If you want to blow your socks off try substituting szechwan pepper for black pepper! However its all a matter of taste.

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I think his advice was just a practical observation that the digital zoom did not add more pixels and the autocrop etc may not be as good as doing it yourself. However as you imply, convenience often outweighs perfection.

As PM shoots artistically pleasing photos, I thought he may want to be able to get the very best from his shots.

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“Finally got the SuperZoom enabled, try and get some shots tomorrow.”

The book I purchased said to ignore Superzoom on my Lumix, as it just takes the output from ‘ex Tele Conv’ and upsamples it. His (David Thorpe’s) advice was to turn the Zoom ring, shoot in Large, crop then upsample outside the camera. He said Superzoom was however of value in Movie mode.

If David Thorpe has done a book on your camera I recommend getting it.

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I have a Panasonic Lumix GH5 purchased for a similar event. A brilliant camera – it leaves Canon choking in the dust on every count. BUT it has so many options it takes weeks to come to get to grips with them all. In the end I had to buy a book just to learn how to make full use of it. The other downside is of course size. It certainly cannot just be shoved into a pocket!

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Oat starch is certainly sticky and seems to have an affinity with iron (and maybe blood cells). For example the difficulty in cleaning metal porridge spoons and old style saucepans. I can well believe that it coats surfaces in the stomach/oesophagus.

Oat bran is slightly different in that it contains more  soluble fibre which is high in the resistant starch that passes through unharmed to the colon where it ferments and feeds the bacteria that only come out to play in the early hours of the morning. This is an area where my GERD specialist said that research was only just coming to grips with what goes on in the colon and the hundreds of different sorts of bacteria that inhabit it and who are the good/bad guys. He said the opinion was that resistant starch tends to feed and nurture the good guys.

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Try adding a spoonful of oat bran and wheat bran to the mix. It is cardiac+colon heaven, but maybe not compatible with your stomach ailments. I found it cured the IBS I had contracted as a side-effect to PPIs.

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The Flying Turkey is a bit like Boeing – all news is bad, some terrible. link

The US is dumping the built-in maintenance system that comes with the ‘Turkey’ as a total waste of space. They are replacing it with a different software package (yet more cost).

Unfortunately thanks to our MOD’s inability to write contracts with swingeing penalty clauses, the UK will just have to soldier on with an unworkable system that almost guarantees that 30%-70% of our aircraft will be unusable. A bunch of people should be dismissed with prejudice and stripped of their honours, but we all know they will just walk away with their fat pensions and retirement jobs with Lockheed etc.

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Looks like my comment on eye-candy were correct CD Projkt Red have put back the release date of this massive game to September 17th this year. The good news is that it gives me enough time to save up the loot for the new rig I’ll need to do ray tracing (RTX)!

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If you like slow cooked food, take a look at Sous Vide for meat dishes (imo no real advantage for green veggies). Sous Vide steaks cooked at low temperatures for a long time, then flash grilled are steaks to die for! Ditto belly pork.

Most gastro pubs now use this process as it saves time and waste, and even carp chefs have difficulty in messing it up. Number one son uses this system for his Barbecue dinner parties, and unlike most barbecues his food is GOOD and very popular.

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Thanks – I have updated two machines but no sign of the expired password glitch. It maybe because I do not use M$ addresses/passwords in the Admin account.

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Now looks like it has little/nothing to do with the workings of elliptic curves. The Washington Post delelved into it and found the real issue is much simpler – a handshake verification failure as revealed in this blog.

the real threat was “an error in the software code that fails to properly check the authenticity [of network communications]”, in other words cryptographic certificate spoofing; a failure in the trust chain that ensures your computer is talking to who it thinks it’s talking to (or is about to install software that was actually written by those who you believe wrote it).”

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The NSA bulletin is here. I think you would need to read it in conjunction with how elliptic curves are used to generate keys in order to understand the vulnerability. If you do this and understand it then please post a synopsis of your findings.

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Graham, there are more details here,

‘According to a security advisory published today, “a spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates.”‘

but if you know your way around elliptic curve encipherment and how you can use this to spoof Crypt32.dll you are a much better man than I. It sounds like rounding errors, but that does not get me much further in my understanding.

I think I prefer the Wired article as the more detailed article falls into my ‘too hard’ bucket.

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If you backup all the personal files and you do not have specialist software that you need to keep, then the best bet is a clean install and let windows take the pain. You can then restore your own files afterwards.

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Just out of interest I did a two minute search on Wind Turbine maintenance, and it looks like skilled maintenance personnel (able to work at heights) may be a critical manpower shortage. I counted over 500 vacancies in different categories!

There may of course be double/triple-counting in this as there are dozens of support companies servicing this industry.

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Windows 10 has such a huge security flaw that the NSA issued a warning and M$ have patched it.

Update asap obviously!

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+1 to Lee’s good wishes for you and your family.

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For clarity I was not using ‘decommissioning’ as an argument against wind power. Just that it is a factor (like maintenance) that needs to be comprehended in the design. Without further info I assume that decommissioning becomes a requirement when structural issues become too large to handle by patch-up maintenance. Repowering with better technology would then be an option.

I would hope that the servicing of rotating/rubbing parts (bearings, bushes etc.) is built into their routine maintenance, but it must be one hell of a challenge as it would be difficult to lower the gearbox/turbine onto a barge. Replacing a damaged sail would be a mammoth task and hardly routine!

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