crp Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 when nature throws a strike out curve ball - https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/plague-infested-prairie-dogs-see-mls-post-game-fireworks/1qyuh3pukdik91gqr85bxdubnc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 The Bench 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 The Bench https://vimeo.com/134892175 That's beautiful. Made my day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 The web is not the FULL INTERNET! Quote LYNX-DEV new to LYNX Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:06:45 -0700 Will I be able to browse the FULL INTERNET using LYNX? I am using LYNX at my job, and the computer does not have window! The web is not the FULL INTERNET! Web browsers (such as Lynx, Mosaic, Netscape and MSIE) only access the web, ftp, and gopher. These are only a few of the services and protocols supported by the Internet. There is no such thing as "browsing" the "full Internet." Indeed, the phrase "full Internet" is meaningless. As to your implicit question: Will you be able to browse all public web sites using Lynx? ... the answer is no. Was surfin an stumbled across this gem. The rest of the mini article is a hoot an worth a read. Reading the rest of the edition of the Linux Gazette made me realise how the pc world has changed over the years. There is a mini article/question regarding buying and building a pc which is a real eye opener for someone who thought things were tough when he started pc'ing back in 2004. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 Not really sure where to put this , so, Police to sell hacker's $1.1 million Bitcoin stash to compensate victimsHacker told to give up bitcoins or face four more years in prison. Quote London police said the list of victims included some high profile names such as Uber, Groupon, T Mobile, Just Eat, Asda, and Sainsburys; but also the likes of Ladbrokes, Argos, Nectar, AO.com, Coral Betting, Vitality, RS Feva Class Association 2017, the British Cardiovascular Society, Mighty Deals Limited, and M R Porter. Quote West didn't want to give up his Bitcoin West did all of this using his girlfriend's laptop. After his arrest, UK police said they found "fullz" (a term short for "full credentials" and used to describe email, username, and password combos) for more than 100,000 people on this laptop. They also found an SD card storing 78 million individual usernames and passwords, as well as 63,000 credit and debit card details. Blimey an he did all that with a laptop based in a trailer park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 17 minutes ago, abarbarian said: Blimey an he did all that with a laptop based in a trailer park There is hope for us little people still. Quote He also sold cannabis, along with hacking tutorials. Multi-talented as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 (edited) Nice landing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tIGLZUFHIQ Edited October 4, 2019 by Robert 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Epic drone chase of the ride HELIX at Liseberg in Gothenburg, Sweden. That's some unbelievably amazing drone flying! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 On 10/4/2019 at 7:26 PM, Robert said: Nice landing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tIGLZUFHIQ That was pretty neat! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 3 hours ago, sunrat said: That's some unbelievably amazing drone flying! I almost got airsick watching that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Amazing what you can do from the command line in linux. How I used the wget Linux command to recover lost images Quote In 2004, the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL) was launched as a source of free illustrations for anyone to use, for any purpose, without requiring attribution or anything in return. This site was the open source world’s answer to the big stacks of clip art CDs on the shelf of every home office in the 1990s, and to the art dumps provided by the closed-source office and artistic software titles. Quote However, in early 2019, the website hosting the Open Clip Art Library went offline with no warning or explanation. Its community, which had grown to number in the thousands, assumed at first that this was a temporary glitch. The site remained offline, however, for over six months without any clear explanation of what had happened. https://freesvg.org/search?query=world&q=world&page=1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Bird of the Year: Rare anti-social penguin wins New Zealand poll Kiwi's love penguins I wonder if they love Linux as much. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 New Zealanders love their weird birbs (that's how they spell it colloquially). The fact we call their people "Kiwis" speaks volumes. NZ has a North Island and a South Island. Affectionately, Australia is known as West Island. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 13 hours ago, sunrat said: New Zealanders love their weird birbs (that's how they spell it colloquially). The fact we call their people "Kiwis" speaks volumes. NZ has a North Island and a South Island. Affectionately, Australia is known as West Island. NZ is on my bucket list due to its topography and lack of native killer snakes,spiders etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 SpaceX launched 60 more satellites Monday as part of CEO Elon Musk's "Starlink" mission to bring high-speed internet to large, remote swaths of the world. Quote The Starlink mission aims to provide internet in the northern U.S. and Canada in 2020 and expand to "near global coverage of the populated world by 2021," according to SpaceX's website. Quote There are already 4900 satellites in orbit, which people notice ~0% of the time. Starlink won’t be seen by anyone unless looking very carefully & will have ~0% impact on advancements in astronomy. We need to move telelscopes to orbit anyway. Atmospheric attenuation is terrible. pic.twitter.com/OuWYfNmw0D — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2019 Arnie was unavailable for comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Cool but what is funny about this? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 8 hours ago, securitybreach said: Cool but what is funny about this? As I said in another thread " I must be loosing it " . Your right it should have been posted in, how about posts of not funny but very offbeat interesting Could someone move the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Teen receives historic double lung transplant due to vaping-related illness Quote Public health departments in 24 states have confirmed at least 40 deaths linked to vaping and the CDC said it is aware of more than 2,051 probable cases of illness related to vaping. Henry Ford doctors have not been able to pinpoint exactly what's causing the injuries, but the hospital said its firm recommendation is that vaping products should not be used. I know some folks here vape so thought this may be of interest. Personally I have never tried a vape and would not do so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 8 minutes ago, abarbarian said: As I said in another thread " I must be loosing it " . Your right it should have been posted in, how about posts of not funny but very offbeat interesting Could someone move the post. I got you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 2 hours ago, abarbarian said: As I said in another thread " I must be loosing it " . ... *losing* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 3 hours ago, abarbarian said: Teen receives historic double lung transplant due to vaping-related illness I know some folks here vape so thought this may be of interest. Personally I have never tried a vape and would not do so. I vape so have been following these reports with interest. There have been zero deaths from vaping outside the US and places like the UK have a lot of vapers. The deaths in virtually all cases have been in vapers who use black market THC vape oil, a fact which has only been mentioned as subtext in most sensationalist articles. I agree there should be much more control in who is able to buy vapes and related items. There is reported to be a wave of US high school students using them although this also isn't mirrored in other countries. Reportedly the reduction in the number of smokers has been dramatic in the UK, and I am seeing many ex-smokers here in Australia who have switched including myself. I am absolutely convinced it is much less harmful than smoking. I also think it it not harmless and should not be taken up by non-smokers ever. Myanmar and India have banned it so I assume they want people to keep smoking instead. It's a good topic for click bait and sensationalism. Don't fall for it. Here is an article from Mercola yesterday ranted about unsavoury practices by Juul, the largest e-cigarette company in the US - https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/11/13/contaminated-juul-pods.aspx They got $7 million from their vape fluid supplier to recall contaminated fluid, and then sold it to consumers anyway! Juul is owned by Altria, the parent company of Marlboro. One can never trust big corporations and big tobacco are just evil IMHO. A small paragraph from that article quotes a CDC report on the deaths - Quote We do know that THC [tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component of marijuana] is present in most of the samples tested to date, and most patients report a history of THC-containing products. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 14 hours ago, sunrat said: *losing* Yeah, my spelling from school days has always been patchy.I am dyslexic to some degree, an old hippy, retired and a barbarian. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Barbarians are NOT expected to use proper spelling, usage, or grammar. You're excused from this burden, sir. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 4 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Barbarians are NOT expected to use proper spelling, usage, or grammar. You're excused from this burden, sir. Never too old to learn. At least you're not millennials. (or for millennials - your? yaw? ) There was an interesting current affairs program on our local ABC (government funded public station) the other night. Apparently back in the 50s and 60s when I went to school, English was taught with emphasis on recognising phonics ie. the individual sounds that make up words. This was changed to just teaching recognition of whole words which has recently been proved to be way less effective. Some schools have gone back to using phonics and the results have been remarkable with most students improving a whole grade in English over a couple of years! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 HA! Fun with Phonics. I remember that well. That's how it was taught in my elementary school, also. Fortunately for me, my mother had taught me how to read and write before I ever started school. Unfortunately for me, it made those classes in 1st though 5th or 6th grades very boring. I still got straight A's, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Beautiful wildlife photography. The 35 Best Wildlife Photos Of 2019: https://tntnews.org/animals/the-35-best-wildlife-photos-of-2019/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Nice to see an Estonian in the list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Maps Of The World That Will Make You Say "Whoa" No.6 is amusing - "2,066 Americans Asked To Locate Ukraine On A Blank Map". If you allow a margin of error of several thousand kilometers, a majority got fairly close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 That was neato! The Ukraine map was just sad. My fav was "Most Viewed Categories On P*rnhub In 2019". We won't go there, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 2 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: My fav was "Most Viewed Categories On P*rnhub In 2019". We won't go there, though. Another thing Australia has in common with the US. Apart from having monkeys running the joint that is. But we won't go there either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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