Once I saw an advert before a YouTube video which showed a guy who looked like an older version of me, heavily bruised, in some sort of futuristic jail cell & he then addressed me by name, begging me to listen to everything that he had to tell me and I still clicked 'Skip ad.'
I opened a 120 gram tin of smoked rainbow trout fillets in truffle-infused oil last night. Even with all of the packaging disposed of outside, the smell of it still lingers in the kitchen.
Older lady in the Mac User Group has lost the user manual for her Panasonic digital camera & can’t find a copy online to download or buy.
I made a search & the very first item that came up was the manual she needed.
She’s easily confused these days, not as sharp mentally as she used to be, but I still wonder how an internet search failed for her.
Just spotted one of these classics: HQ Holden Ute with the 253 cu-in V8.
Faded paint, lots of surface rust & body filler but all panels were straight. They were made between 1971 & 1974, so I guess it’s doing pretty well.
Made two Time Machine backups today, one to a partitioned USB 3·0 HDD, the other to a non-partitioned USB 3·0 HDD. Both backups were around 18 GB. The partitioned drive wanted 10 minutes for the job, the other needed over an hour. Both drives had last backed up on the same day.
Weird.
@jussipekonen I know. My ancestry has a big lump up Highland Scot in it. Seems the weather might not be to dissimilar. Might be where my appreciation of such music stems from.
// @hazardwarning
A few days ago I'd been trying unsuccessfully to get a DVD encoded from a disc image file, using the Men's Shed iMac. Then, when shutdown time came, the Finder kept asking if I wanted to quit the encoding, quit it without saving or cancel. It made no difference what I chose, the window kept popping up & shutdown was aborted each time.
Fuck this, I thought, time for an Option key trick. Go to the Apple icon on the menubar, select Shutdown with the Option key held down. This cuts out the bullshit dialogue boxes and shuts down immediately.
Fixed.
A software DVD kept being spat out by the Titanium G4 PowerBook, so I've dragged out the heavy-hitter. I was given it by someone who no longer needed it. It'd a DL DVD burner in an external 5.25-inch multi-use enclosure with FireWire 400 & USB 2·0 connections. That did the trick.
