OneGuyFromBarlick

I've just sent it to you by email. I changed 20.04 to 22.04, otherwise the process is the same as last time.

Stanley, Ubuntu version 20.04, which you and I are using, has now ended its support updates and you need to upgrade to v.22.04. I've done mine this morning using exactly the same steps we used for upgrading 18.04 to 20.04. You probably still have the document I sent you last time detailing how to do...

The Baltic states should be consulted - they know how to do it and have plenty of experience.

This is an interesting article... `How China made electric vehicles mainstream' LINK ...and especially this: People in China also normally pay thousands for their vehicle registration plate - sometimes more than the cost of the car itself - as part of government efforts to limit congestion and pollu...

A warning. Since I wrote this Mrs Tiz pointed out that the Salvia variety I refer to will probably be classed as too tender for growing in the Pennines. But there are hardy varieties available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bumble bees li...

`Lime bikes dumped in rivers 'posing pollution risk'' LINK Hundreds of Lime e-bikes have been dumped in rivers and canals since hire schemes were introduced across England - raising concerns about pollution and flooding. The Canal and River Trust said it was a national problem and was having to spen...

Could it possibly be because it's hardly sensible for leaders to endorse assassination? Yes, that too. The thought might have finally crystallised in his tiny brain, which is probably dangerously taxed at the moment. He wants to bring about peace so he can fulfil his ambition to win the Nobel Peace...

Stanley wrote: ↑16 Jun 2025, 02:25 I wonder why Trump advises against assassination?

He doesn't want to kill people, he wants to make a deal with them. Kill somebody and that's one less to make a deal with.

i've manged, with little effort, to get 'extant' and 'tergiversation' into the same post. The Cambridge Online dictionary defines tergiversation as: the act of making statements that are different from each other, so that they cannot both be true . That sounds like Trump to me - the world's biggest...

As well as confusing his deal with us as one with the EU Trump also dropped his conference papers all over the ground. Another mistake (or obfuscation) is him blaming Iran's nuclear proliferation on actions of other presidents when he himself is the one who terminated the previously successful agree...

When Mrs Tiz's grandfather retired from his job as Chief Engineer to Auckland's water and sewage board the employees, many of them Maori, did a Hangi for him. Wikipedia: Hāngī is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven, called an umu. It is stil...

Some call it kaleidoscope vision, others pixelated vision. My own name for what I experience is fortification pattern, like an aerial view of a castle. My use of the term is due to my interest in minerals - the most sought after type of agate is described as fortification agate. The pattern appears ...

PS The Royal balcony looks very sparse this year, and likey to get 'sparserer'. No close up shots, little enthusiasm from the gang, and the 'RAF' fly past is derisory. Just learned that they are using bio- fuel. That seems to be then most noteworthy feature of the event. The game's up chaps. . . . ...

I hope you've al listened to this superb new episode of Radio 4's `The Food Programme'. We remember him from attending his lectures and publishing some of his papers in the 1990s onwards... `Professor Michael Crawford: A Life through Food' LINK to podcast In this episode of 'A Life Through Food', Sh...

Apologies for the length of this but I couldn't stop writing!.. I'm saddened this morning to read of the death of a wonderful man I knew well in the 1970s. I'm glad that BBC News saw fit to report his death on their main page today: `'Intellectual giant' Sir Geoff Palmer dies aged 85' LINK The BBC l...

This has me puzzled. Perhaps I don't get out enough! :smile: `David Walliams Nazi salute unacceptable, BBC says' BBC News I won't waste space explaining about the news item, you can get the details from the article. But what I don't understand is why everybody seems to be attacking Walliams with suc...

Stanley wrote: ↑11 Jun 2025, 01:52 Has anyone got any experience of this problem?

Not me, I've never encountered it.

By the way, I see there are stories in the press saying BT is hoping to take over Talktalk.

The trouble and escalation part is right but the object is for Trump to show himself as being tough and to make Gavin Newsom (who may be the Democrats next choice for their leader) appear weak. He's wrongly applying Federal actions which are meant to be used only when the nation is in great danger.

We all know AI bots are not always accurate but it's causing more problems now because people are using AI to tell them whether news images are genuine or not. California Governor Gavin Newsom posted two images on Monday, which he said showed the National Guard troops sent to LA were "being for...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has said the activity on the LA streets at the time Trump ordered in the National Guard was no more of a problem than when there's a big football match on and his police are always able to deal with that. It only really got out of hand when the National Guard troops ...

The government has said it is also investing in building small nuclear reactors as mentioned in this article...
`How does nuclear power work and why is the UK investing more money in it?' LINK

I strongly recommend listening to at least the last part of the latest episode of the World Service's`Science In Action' radio programme entitled `Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yfd LINK It consists of 4 parts, the first about the FBI accusing Chinese terroris...

I have just uprooted the large weeds. No sign of the wild flowers Peter sent me.... Those large leafy plants (perhaps `Lads Love', Artemisia abrotanum ) will have been preventing the growth of smaller species such as the Bird's-Foot-Trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus ) seed that I sent you. That has smal...

Jan Egeland, the veteran head of the Norwegian Refugee Council and former UN humanitarian chief, speaking to Jeremy Bowen about Gaza and Israel... "I'm shaken to my core. I haven't seen a population like this being so trapped for such a long period of time in such a small, besieged area. Indisc...