Okay, just gonna go straight out with it.  With all the BS that the Republicans have been pulling, I don't think they have a prayer at holding both the House and the Senate.  Hell, I suspect they might even lose both of them to the Democrats.

Political cartoonists may be painting Democrats in a rather satirical light lately for their lack of action.  They fail to realize that they're simply saving up their political capital for a strategic push-back on all the harm that the Republicans have done in the last two years.  Because we don't know for sure how we'll stand until after this November.

The Register: Ubuntu wants to slurp PCs' vital statistics – even location – with new desktop installs - Data harvest notice will be checked by default

Also, software will be installed "to spot trends in package usage and help us to focus on the packages which are of most value to our users" and "to automatically send anonymous crash reports without user interruption."

So... which Linux distros are good nowadays? With this stunt, Ubuntu just took itself off that list, IMHO.

And it's a 3D model, too. Too bad my current computer isn't powerful enough to render it.

BotMoto for Daz Studio 4.10

Better known as Andreas Kupries, a rather well-known programmer.  We're glad to have you on the boards.

One of the features of the new board puts birthday alerts down at the bottom of the top page for users who care to enter their birthday in their profiles.  Chibipoe is the first of our users to do so who've been displayed (at least that I've noticed).  So allow me to wish you a very happy birthday!

Was it wrong for Trudeau and Wilson-Raybould to tweet about the Boushie verdict? Two experts debate

Yes, it's Canada ... but the general legal principles are the same in the USA, even if the specific laws are different.

So the heating system in the family holiday home was prone to sucking up air. And because the goober who'd plumbed the fucking cunt had put the main circulator on the outlet from the boiler - it was also prone to airlocking very easily and going dead.

Now, the correct method to bleed the system is to crack a fitting on the top of the boiler, open the mains fill pipe and regulate the pressurisation valve to push the air out the cracked fitting.

This involved taking the entire boiler casing off, outside, in the cold. And cracking the fitting, outside, in the cold. Then, running back inside, dicking with the valve, and running back down to the fitting which is now pouring either superheated, or freezing cold water, tightening it, running back in to close the valve, then back out again to refit all the boiler casing.

A lot of fucking around, so.

But. There was a pressure relief valve on the boiler case with an overflow pipe piped outside. Visible from where the pressurisation valve is through a window.

So, instead, I just pushed the pressurisation valve wide-open and watched the gauge climb. Normally at about 3.6 the PRV would go and it'd blast the air out of the top of the boiler, and I could close it down when I saw water and let the pressure settle back down.

It worked handy enough every time I did it. Quick and easy.

Up until Sunday.

When I pushed the pressure up to 3.odd and the guage just dropped.... with nothing at all coming from the vent pipe.

It settled at half a bar, with full flow through pressuriser valve. Which pretty much meant half a bar pressure loss from mains to where the water was now pissing out of the system.

It blew a joint under the fucking floor somewhere. Now the floors have to come up. Concrete has to be dug, and a metric fuckton of pipe needs to be replaced.

Fucking cunt.

(02-10-2018, 02:03 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Oh my yes indeed there is interest, from the board owner at least.  <grin>

The previous thread is here.

And while I'm starting the new thread, the upcoming change to page move permissions prompts me to ask where/how we create messages for the new update feature on the home page.  That seems to be the most appropriate place to announce the change once it's made.

I suspect that there's a link in the old thread to the appropriate documentation, but never let it be said I wasn't too lazy to ask someone else to tell me something I could find out for myself.  <grin>

Hi everyone, I just thought we might want a thread with some author's notes, so here it is.  I'll leave this post mostly empty for now so we can make an index or such if we need to.