Wow - amazing menu. Lobster heaven!

A couple of days ago RickZeeland was talking about Eggs Benedict, delicious! But, so that we all have places to strive to visit when we are on holiday, where in the world is your all time favorite restaurant, and what is the dish that makes it all work? Mine is Café de Klos in Amsterdam where they have been serving the best charcoal grilled, smokey bacon spareribs in the world since before 1979 (the first time I ever went there). Andy

I love eggs benedict, and will always order it if it is on the menu. My current favourite is on the breakfast menu of De Juf in Middelburg. EGGS BENEDICT €14,50, served on light multi-grain toast with avocado and poached eggs, and Hollandaise sauce, options: warm smoked salmon, or pulled pork, or bacon, or tomato. Delicious The most over the top eggs benedict that I have had was made with lobster and served at the Atlantis Hotel, Paradise island, in The Bahamas. There was a huge aquarium built into the wall of the restaurant with, amongst other fish, sharks and rays.

I just came back to my computer expecting to find: an Arduino IDE session, six Excel spreadsheets, various web pages pointing to the local Python web server that was running in a VS Code session alongside the five web pages that I was working on, and all the rest just as I left them... Not unreasonable I think! What I actually find is that the system has been rebooted, and hidden away in an information log I find that "Windows successfully installed the following update: 2024-04..." at 5/13/2024 02:07:39 Idiots! And someone asked if MS bashing was allowed - in my mind it is obligatory. Andy

As long as they were parabolic.

It may work under some conditions because the foil could act as a mirror to the radio waves. On the other hand, because the wavelength of 2.4 GHz is about 12.5 cm, if the foil was close to the antenna, the reflections could cancel out direct radiation from the antenna in places. This would lead to hit and miss reception depending on the exact placement of the WiFi device.

To test HTML in my local network I just set up a tiny server in Python. You can then access it from your terminal/mobile/PC. The server script can be found all over the Internet. The code is:

import os
from http.server import HTTPServer, CGIHTTPRequestHandler
os.chdir('D:\serverfolder')
server_object = HTTPServer(server_address=('',8080),RequestHandlerClass=CGIHTTPRequestHandler)
server_object.serve_forever()

Then put your HTML in the folder of your choice mentioned on the os.chdir line, and connect from the browser to your IP address, e.g. http://192.168.1.72:8080/webpagename.html The nice thing is that it really does test the HTML and file links to local OS folders, etc. doesn't get in the way. http only so insecure and only to be used locally but, adequate for testing and accessible from anywhere on your local network.

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" Thanks for this advice. I had the same experience as OriginalGriff, trapezoid rectangles, for me short on the right hand side. Taking a close look I noticed that the bridge of the glasses was not central on my nose so I went back to the optician, and raised the issue discretely (I didn't want to make a spectacle of myself). After adjusting the bridge all was fine. Andy

I think the point is that any one user only has a small number of commands that they use regularly, pertaining to: - type of file: mov, ts, mp4, jpg, avi, etc... - operation: crop, adjust color, brightness, contrast, convert, denoise, etc... - stream assignment, etc... You learn the commands that you need, and thankfully there is loads of help available on the Interweb, and (most important of all) the documentation is pretty good. I have a list of all the commands that I have ever used and just copy paste new commands as I need to do new things. My interest BTW, is splitting movies to pngs, and reassembling movies with audio, adjusting frame rates, trimming and editing movies. I also use it with Blender where the preferred output is png files. It's brilliant!

I've never been to Blueberry Hill! Someone else must have stolen it and dumped it there! Thanks for finding it. Andy

It looks great. Well done. I love those cross realm (HW/SW/FW) types of things. Andy

You could have all my sympathy - if I could remember where I'd left it! Andy

But, doesn't work for content. And how would I remember the file name!? Andy

Strangely, I have now completed both of the jobs that I wanted to do with the drills but, more than 24 hours later the drills still haven't surfaced. Sod's law is broken, or more likely just lurking. Andy

I find that as I get older the "zone" becomes ever more fragile. Anything over about three months old (on a good day) and I can't even remember that I wrote it, let alone where it is! Andy

And seldom come back!

At least you can use FileLocator or similar to find it. It's more complicated in the shed! Andy

About five years ago I bought a set of unusual drills in Lidl. A taper drill, a stepped hole drill, a drill for widening holes, and so on. You know the sought of thing, an "it's bound to be useful sometime" buy. Every now and then I see the box in the shed and think to myself, "One day, I'm going to find that really useful." Finally, yesterday, the day came. I had a job where I wanted to make a conical indentation in a screw head. One of those drills would be perfect but, could I find the box? Of course not. Next week, when I don't need it anymore, it will be lying somewhere in the shed that I have already looked. I realize that this is just another manifestation of Murphy's famous law but, does it happen to you too? Andy

The one I use is IsoBuster at Recover Files & Data from CD, DVD, Hard Drive, USB, SD with IsoBuster![^] It's not free but works well. Andy

I've been using various TVs as monitors for a number of years. The big drawback is that they think that they are TVs and often have some start page that they like to power up on. Not the HDMIn port that I only and always want to use. When I enter my workroom and power up my desk a MCU with an IR LED attached sends out commands to power on the TV, waits a bit and sends commands to set the HDMI port. The Samsung TV tends to switch itself off periodically (in spite of settings telling it not to) so the MCU sends an unused button press every half hour to keep the TV awake. At the end of my session, the power goes off and in its dying throws the MCU sends a power off command to set the TV into standby. If your TV has IR this is a possible. No damage to the TV, and independent of upgrades (maybe). Andy