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Sorry John I cocked up two roles:
Celebrant (which could be you, but a lot less emotional if someone practised at it carries out this role)
Tell him, if he is thinking ahead, to skip the Christmas – New Year period. It cocks up a lot of arrangements for many other people, and so many die in that period there could be a four-six weeks wait for final disposal.😀 An autopsy is to be avoided if possible as this can add even more delay and screw up your place in the queue – I’ve seen the impact on the rellies of there being no closure.
Dunno whether you are looking to do a DIY job. Normally those are the role of the funeral director, who has a raft of other duties such as queuing in the valedictories from rellies, friends etc. Unfortunately this does not come cheap.
This is period burdened with huge administrative demands on the next of kin. A horrible workload at a horrible time. If you are in, or shortly to be in that situation seek help. My first port of call would be the CAB as they can passport you through to the other people you need, and a list of the things you MUST do. Look forward to working on this task for a year.
Although it is slightly easier than it was 20 years ago, it is still horrible. There must be a better way!
You are lucky your wife is not as Tech Savvy as mine.
Mine would start off by asking ” Why is crap like this on your advertising preferences? What SORT of sites are you visiting?. Let me look at your browser history.
I’d never really know where the teasing ended, and the start of interrogation began!
More seriously, I’d worry about getting unsolicited installs. You should start with disabling app downloads from non-Playstore sources, as I would guess that something you installed in the last 90 days has come with a program pusher. First check your running apps, then Google away.
I cannot comment on Draw, but changing paper (canvas) size in the manner shown by Wheels, specifically for Draw, is common practice. The paper size sets the size of the ‘canvas’ used by the drawing program and the printer, and everything scales accordingly. Without the correct size ‘canvas’ Draw does not even know how to properly scale pen widths! in this case the external software has to fix it, but it is a big ‘Ask’ for printer software when it has the wrong parameters fed to it.
It is an age thing – older (generally Conservative) voters are more frail and susceptible to the cold and fear breaking bones on icy pavements. The other factor is that North of Watford Gap, snow and ice are expected to happen every winter and they have the stocks and machines to handle it. In the South, you are lucky to find a council possessing a dozer, never mind strategic stocks of salt in your neighbourhood. Even a whiff of snow/ice causes a raft of train/bus cancellations in this area.
Johnson obviously spends his political revision time looking at movies of the great demagogues – your pic fairly obviously emulates some of the speeches by Third Reich demagogues. However I will not tar him with just that brush as it is known that he copies many Churchillian expressions too. Even the mannerisms of General Juan Peron seems to be copied – smiley face, open hands good, ranty face and clenched fists bad. He wisely steers clear of the real extremists (but great crowd stirrers) such as Pol Pot.
You need to set the page size (scaling) to A3 for each of your ‘halves’, save the A3 versions, then stitch them together as an A3 print.
“not seen a fire-compatible bluetooth keyboard before ”
There are a number of BT capable mini keyboards, and are the only ones I use with Pi. You do however need to check as the vendors just say wireless. Sometimes this means BT, sometimes not. The Rii brand seems fairly reasonable, and I have not had any pairing failures.
I assume that a local account is still available when setting up new users.
My original objection to M$’s insistence on using their Account as an Administrator, was that it was insecure as it revealed half of the log-on info. As few will use a random 14 character, for most people the sign-on becomes a busted flush that even a weak cracker such as ‘John the Ripper’ can quickly mash.
At the time I could not see a way of getting around the stupid M$ requirement, so I went along with using my hotmail address to initially set things up. Once done I set up my REAL admin account and demoted the M$ account to a limited user. Microsoft will sometimes barf at this and say that my hotmail data needs attentiom, but in the main it just works.
Obviously this method means that the intrusive M$ data handling routines are still there but locked safely away.
Not sure why my final edit corrupted earlier stuff: But here goes
I honestly did not understand the issues. Every drawing program I have used gives a printer dialog that enables you to do it all automagically. It is only when you are dealing with bitmaps that scaling becomes cumbersome.
I looked at setting up the Printer Option in LibreCad — I assumed that it was similar to the Draw program you are using, but it seems that LibreOffice is far more klunky and you need to do setup some scaling for the image first.
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I honestly do not understand the issues. Every veSetting up Printer Option in LibreCadctor drawing program I have used gives a printer dialog that enables you to do it all automagically. It is only when you are dealing with bitmaps that scaling becomes cumbersome.
Setting up Printer Option in LibreCad — I assumed that is similar to the Draw program you are using, but it seems that LibreOffice is more klunky and you need to do some scaling.
Reading through your follow-up you probably need to IMPORt the scanned bitmap into the vector drawing application.
Well at least the Beeb cannot be accused of Anti-Conservative bias – they edited out Johnson’s roast by the audience during question time! link
November 24, 2019 at 5:21 pm in reply to: VNC almost rivals the old Adobe programs for exploitability #38515The BIG advantage to VNC was the ability to set up a window that emulated the Window on the Pi. It effectively gave you a spare Pi monitor. AFAIK there is nothing that replaces VNC server. This link shows possible client alternatives.
[edit] A VNC screen was the only way I could find of shutting down a headless program then relaunching it. For some reason SSH died when the launched program died.
I am not commenting on oxygen -free cables, but I once bought some fine copper dust to use in a project. It was quite startling on how quickly it became almost non-conductive and useless for my intentions of using it to paint circuits.
Thanks for the offer – but I’m afraid I’m strictly a PC gamer as I find Android games to be too demanding for my fat thumbs, and less than brilliant eyesight!
My only real criticism is that it did not last as long as I had hoped (2.5 days of play). That is due to a combination of factors – I took the ‘easy way’ with persuasive dialog and Science/Engineering. Second I caught flue (despite or because of the jab) and had to hole up for a week to recover. That gave me a lot of concentrated game play but not necessarily great reaction speeds!
I did however enjoy playing it and figuring out how to get and keep a team of accomplices and allies. 50% more gameplay and the ability to to visit all the worlds that are shown would have given it a high rating for value for money too.
The game is now in their Black Friday sale.
For clarity, I’m not using a vesa mount but sticking the Pi onto the monitor upright.
I put the Pi into a PibBow case, then hotglue velcro tapes onto the base of the case and wrap that around the monitor upright. Of course you could just hotglue the case directly onto the upright, or use a big velcro pad, one bit glued onto the stand the other onto the case. — what ever works best for you, as this is a very flexible solution.
The Pibow case has the advantage of leaving the hot surfaces of the Pi4 uncovered.
“Also interesting is the almost throwaway comment at the end about running the board vertically”
Funnily enough I run my Pi’s in just that way. I tend to run out of desktop surface quite quickly and velcroing a Pi to the monitor stand has been my solution to the problem. For an air-cooled Pi that appears to be a good way of maximising convection cooling.
Like many young women, my mother was ‘in service’ as a cook at a large country house in the inter-wars era. She had many a tall tale about the antics of Prince ‘One Ball’ Edward and his incessant tours of country estates. It was probably Edward’s lack of tackle that probably put him on such good terms with the equally short-changed Hitler!
November 22, 2019 at 9:08 am in reply to: Could the Lord and the Count be King Makers in Uxbridge? #38456No we won’t continue as we are until we get some new deals, there is a transition period and that expires. After that it’s No Deal and all the pain that goes with it if nothing has been sorted.
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Like it or lump it we will be bound by the WTO rules. Unless we can agree with the EU over pass-throughs of their trade deals we finish up with nothing agreed, and WTO on everything, and hundreds of thousands of people in industry out of their jobs. BoJo and his Moggite ilk will not care as they will make billions by short-selling our industries.
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