Coming home from a couple of SIG meetings, this afternoon:
Home just now — a death on the Southern Line at Como, apparently.
The Police naturally blocked the line for TWO HOURS.
What an absolute abuse of power! The Railways should insist on no more than 15 minutes delay. How long does it take to make 50 photographs and remove the body with dignity? Not two hours.
We were huddled outside Hurstville Station in the rain, waiting for buses for an hour and a half — NOT ONE RAILWAY BUS ARRIVED. They were all School buses or regular Shopping buses (destination Miranda Fair etc).
Finally a Railway spokesman came out to tell us that the trains were back. It took 30 minutes for the crush to turn around and push our way down to the platform.
After 24 hours, VMware gives an Error Message about an “unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)” and points to a log file (in the host OS, Windows 8.1) for explanation:
Somehow, this build has got stuck. I cannot bring up the Start Screen either by hitting the Windows Key, clicking the Start Button or by hitting Cntrl + Escape.
I also cannot bring up the Notifications screen to flip in and out of Tablet Mode. This usually brings back the Start Screen.
A final resort: Since I am running Windows 10 under VMware, I can click the 3-squares-icon (Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to virtual machine). This succeeded in bringing up the blue shutdown screen, but none of the options (like Shut down, Restart or even Cancel) have any effect.
********** THIS LOOKS LIKE THE END OF WINDOWS 10 **********
Build 10122 Unable to Close
To add insult to injury, I can turn on Narrator and it dutifully tells me what I am doing — AND THEN THE OS DOES NOTHING !
Build 10122 – Narrator On, but still unable to Close
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 43 trips to carry that many people.
I was just using the latest Google Earth — I’ve loved using it for many years. The best feature is Street View. If only it was easy to navigate in.
I was looking for a local computer shop in a nearby suburb. Its address was given as a certain number, such-and-such main Road. The store itself is at the side of a building fronting on that main Road.
I know — I’ll use Google Earth to get a look. Well, the plan view was excellent, but as soon as I used the “little yellow man”, I could hardly control the navigation at all. It would swoop around out of control and freeze with typical “speed motion” smears like the following:
Lost in Google Earth
Oh well, back to practise more with Google Earth. The store? MSY.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,000 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.
Version 12.16
Build 1860
Platform Win32
System Windows 7
“Check for Updates” gives “Opera Is Up-to-Date” without saying what that version is.
Well, when I saw the new version 17.0 was available, I thought I would try it.
It installed properly, but it has the same bug that has been in the Chrome Browser for several years. I was amazed. How was this possible? Then, on the new “About” page it announces that it is:
Html pages with tables of large integers can be made to “wrap” around when the page size is reduced (either by reducing the width of the window on a PC or actually viewing the page on a phone or tablet). The way to do this is to insert “­” (or soft-hyphens) into the long strings every ten characters or so.
That all works correctly in Chrome, the old Opera and the new.
However, when you copy and paste any parts of these strings with an invisible (or visible) hyphen, these strings appear with the hyphens visible in Chrome and the new Opera. Incredible.
So, if I want to select any of these strings, I now have to drop them into say, Notepad or Wordpad, edit out the hyphens, then paste the result into the target application.
The old Opera did this without including the hyphens, the new one does not.
I will now uninstall the all-new Opera 17.0 and continue to use 12.16 from now on.
Try copy and paste on this number and you’ll see what I mean:
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