Thank Goodness that's over...or drawing to a close John
On Friday, 17 January 2020, 20:56:58 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Oh my word! ?Good that you’re safe! Regards
This sort of shows how close the fire was getting to us.... all good now.?
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This sort of shows how close the fire was getting to us.... all good now.?
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Dearest Jude & Peter, Glad to hear you & yours are getting by. It clearly is a tough situation down under. I guess it causes me to re-assess the statement that Antarctica is the toughest continent. It's taken me a while to get over the Escobars. Thank goodness it's more quiet here. Most I get now is boys knocking a football around on the street. I felt rather guilty, like a rat leaving a sinking ship. It makes you wonder what can happen next. For the squeamish don't read this:
What price a human life? John
On Wednesday, 15 January 2020, 16:45:09 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Oh Jude, good to hear from you!! Regards
Did you miss me. Sorry was busy for a day or two. All good here. Firies managed to pull up the fire that was 10k from us - though at one stage it jumped the containment line and that was a worry.
People up the valley are on edge. Last night a couple of drunk adults with a couple of kids in tow started a fire in the park up the end of the road and frightened all the neighbours. But they took rego number and pix and I think going to report to police. Although the Shire has lifted the fire ban in the area (and lord knows why) it is still not legal for people to start a fire in that park. ?Trouble is the shire does not come out here and look at the situation with their own eyes and see dry creek bed and dying trees. ?
Meantime my husband's cousin who is on 4000 ac in New South Wales with large number of cattle has fire 20k one side of her and 10k the other side, and is hoping for the best down there at Coonabarrabran.
Weather bureau is predicting some showers this week which would be nice but would not restore the creek for the wildlife but would be better than nothing.?
I have been feeding the birds around here as have the neighbours and got water out for them. Couple of the kookaburras have got rather aggressive looking for food so that says they are doing it tough. I give them a bit of chopped steak when I'm cutting up for the cat in the afternoon. Then when we had dinner one of them slammed into the fly screen and hung on and would have been on our dining table except for that ?:-)
Snakes are everywhere round the district and in people's houses looking for cool and water probably. We've had an invasion of mice (caught two of the bludgers - third one doing a good job of jumping over traps.)
All good -- but boy could we do with some cool.....friend suggested I jump on a plane to London ?:-)
Jude?
My friend up the road has actually ordered the humungously expensive new Mac Pro tower on wheels..... I haven't heard a delivery date yet. But I know she wants it saspo.
We're taking her 98 year old Dad (Dr Sam Ginsberg who was a surgeon and an anatomist in earlier life, and was a tank commander in last war) with us to the local Mac club meet -- a woman is coming to talk about the latest in hearing aids connecting to technology and he's very interested to be at that. ?He's got AppleWatch v 4, latest iPhone, iMac Pro, and all the gear. ?Very switched on chap.?
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Oh Jude, good to hear from you!! Regards
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Did you miss me. Sorry was busy for a day or two. All good here. Firies managed to pull up the fire that was 10k from us - though at one stage it jumped the containment line and that was a worry.
People up the valley are on edge. Last night a couple of drunk adults with a couple of kids in tow started a fire in the park up the end of the road and frightened all the neighbours. But they took rego number and pix and I think going to report to police. Although the Shire has lifted the fire ban in the area (and lord knows why) it is still not legal for people to start a fire in that park. ?Trouble is the shire does not come out here and look at the situation with their own eyes and see dry creek bed and dying trees. ?
Meantime my husband's cousin who is on 4000 ac in New South Wales with large number of cattle has fire 20k one side of her and 10k the other side, and is hoping for the best down there at Coonabarrabran.
Weather bureau is predicting some showers this week which would be nice but would not restore the creek for the wildlife but would be better than nothing.?
I have been feeding the birds around here as have the neighbours and got water out for them. Couple of the kookaburras have got rather aggressive looking for food so that says they are doing it tough. I give them a bit of chopped steak when I'm cutting up for the cat in the afternoon. Then when we had dinner one of them slammed into the fly screen and hung on and would have been on our dining table except for that ?:-)
Snakes are everywhere round the district and in people's houses looking for cool and water probably. We've had an invasion of mice (caught two of the bludgers - third one doing a good job of jumping over traps.)
All good -- but boy could we do with some cool.....friend suggested I jump on a plane to London ?:-)
Jude?
My friend up the road has actually ordered the humungously expensive new Mac Pro tower on wheels..... I haven't heard a delivery date yet. But I know she wants it saspo.
We're taking her 98 year old Dad (Dr Sam Ginsberg who was a surgeon and an anatomist in earlier life, and was a tank commander in last war) with us to the local Mac club meet -- a woman is coming to talk about the latest in hearing aids connecting to technology and he's very interested to be at that. ?He's got AppleWatch v 4, latest iPhone, iMac Pro, and all the gear. ?Very switched on chap.?
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Course we missed you! ?Worried, actually . . .
I’m glad that you’re both safe, but it’s all quite tense, isn’t it.
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Did you miss me. Sorry was busy for a day or two. All good here. Firies managed to pull up the fire that was 10k from us - though at one stage it jumped the containment line and that was a worry.
People up the valley are on edge. Last night a couple of drunk adults with a couple of kids in tow started a fire in the park up the end of the road and frightened all the neighbours. But they took rego number and pix and I think going to report to police. Although the Shire has lifted the fire ban in the area (and lord knows why) it is still not legal for people to start a fire in that park. ?Trouble is the shire does not come out here and look at the situation with their own eyes and see dry creek bed and dying trees. ?
Meantime my husband's cousin who is on 4000 ac in New South Wales with large number of cattle has fire 20k one side of her and 10k the other side, and is hoping for the best down there at Coonabarrabran.
Weather bureau is predicting some showers this week which would be nice but would not restore the creek for the wildlife but would be better than nothing.?
I have been feeding the birds around here as have the neighbours and got water out for them. Couple of the kookaburras have got rather aggressive looking for food so that says they are doing it tough. I give them a bit of chopped steak when I'm cutting up for the cat in the afternoon. Then when we had dinner one of them slammed into the fly screen and hung on and would have been on our dining table except for that ?:-)
Snakes are everywhere round the district and in people's houses looking for cool and water probably. We've had an invasion of mice (caught two of the bludgers - third one doing a good job of jumping over traps.)
All good -- but boy could we do with some cool.....friend suggested I jump on a plane to London ?:-)
Jude?
My friend up the road has actually ordered the humungously expensive new Mac Pro tower on wheels..... I haven't heard a delivery date yet. But I know she wants it saspo.
We're taking her 98 year old Dad (Dr Sam Ginsberg who was a surgeon and an anatomist in earlier life, and was a tank commander in last war) with us to the local Mac club meet -- a woman is coming to talk about the latest in hearing aids connecting to technology and he's very interested to be at that. ?He's got AppleWatch v 4, latest iPhone, iMac Pro, and all the gear. ?Very switched on chap.?
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Did you miss me. Sorry was busy for a day or two. All good here. Firies managed to pull up the fire that was 10k from us - though at one stage it jumped the containment line and that was a worry.
People up the valley are on edge. Last night a couple of drunk adults with a couple of kids in tow started a fire in the park up the end of the road and frightened all the neighbours. But they took rego number and pix and I think going to report to police. Although the Shire has lifted the fire ban in the area (and lord knows why) it is still not legal for people to start a fire in that park. ?Trouble is the shire does not come out here and look at the situation with their own eyes and see dry creek bed and dying trees. ?
Meantime my husband's cousin who is on 4000 ac in New South Wales with large number of cattle has fire 20k one side of her and 10k the other side, and is hoping for the best down there at Coonabarrabran.
Weather bureau is predicting some showers this week which would be nice but would not restore the creek for the wildlife but would be better than nothing.?
I have been feeding the birds around here as have the neighbours and got water out for them. Couple of the kookaburras have got rather aggressive looking for food so that says they are doing it tough. I give them a bit of chopped steak when I'm cutting up for the cat in the afternoon. Then when we had dinner one of them slammed into the fly screen and hung on and would have been on our dining table except for that ?:-)
Snakes are everywhere round the district and in people's houses looking for cool and water probably. We've had an invasion of mice (caught two of the bludgers - third one doing a good job of jumping over traps.)
All good -- but boy could we do with some cool.....friend suggested I jump on a plane to London ?:-)
Jude?
My friend up the road has actually ordered the humungously expensive new Mac Pro tower on wheels..... I haven't heard a delivery date yet. But I know she wants it saspo.
We're taking her 98 year old Dad (Dr Sam Ginsberg who was a surgeon and an anatomist in earlier life, and was a tank commander in last war) with us to the local Mac club meet -- a woman is coming to talk about the latest in hearing aids connecting to technology and he's very interested to be at that. ?He's got AppleWatch v 4, latest iPhone, iMac Pro, and all the gear. ?Very switched on chap.?
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Re: Has anyone heard from Jude & Peter
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Yes! One morning about 05.30 there was knocking on my door. Basically it was 4 coppers in body armour with Heckler Und Koch G36 submachine guns telling me to keep my head down. Why you'd need 4 I do not know. Then a helicopter came down & shone it's light into next door's bedroom. According to my neighbour on the ground floor they had a cop with an Alsatian covering the front & back exits. I think that makes 8, but Stuart says there were 11. About 12.30 to 01.00 on another evening some of his competitors came round and warned him off dealing on their"turf", or not quite in so many words. According to Stuart the cops said to him "if you see dial 3 9's instantly". I thought I was on the set of Lethal Weapon 2 John
On Monday, 13 January 2020, 15:59:07 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote:
Hi John
Let’s hope that they’re away from danger in good time.
Glad to hear that you’ve made your own escape!
Chris Dear All, Has anyone heard from our Australian neighbours? I didn't realise just how close it had got to Brisbane. 10 Km is no joke. I'm sleeping a good deal better having got away from the Escobar's. Don't know if I told you but one morning, about 12.30, 1.00 am his competitors came round & gave him a good beating. Jeesalou, you get involved in that stuff you're going to get trouble. It was like "Lethal Weapon 2" the only difference was the helicopter came down to shine it's light into my neighbours window, rather than coming up. My main trouble now is kids kicking a ball about until 6pm. Hope it stays this way John
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Re: Has anyone heard from Jude & Peter
Yes! One morning about 05.30 there was knocking on my door. Basically it was 4 coppers in body armour with Heckler Und Koch G36 submachine guns telling me to keep my head down. Why you'd need 4 I do not know. Then a helicopter came down & shone it's light into next door's bedroom. According to my neighbour on the ground floor they had a cop with an Alsatian covering the front & back exits. I think that makes 8, but Stuart says there were 11. About 12.30 to 01.00 on another evening some of his competitors came round and warned him off dealing on their"turf", or not quite in so many words. According to Stuart the cops said to him "if you see dial 3 9's instantly". I thought I was on the set of Lethal Weapon 2 John
On Monday, 13 January 2020, 15:59:07 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:
Hi John
Let’s hope that they’re away from danger in good time.
Glad to hear that you’ve made your own escape!
Dear All, Has anyone heard from our Australian neighbours? I didn't realise just how close it had got to Brisbane. 10 Km is no joke. I'm sleeping a good deal better having got away from the Escobar's. Don't know if I told you but one morning, about 12.30, 1.00 am his competitors came round & gave him a good beating. Jeesalou, you get involved in that stuff you're going to get trouble. It was like "Lethal Weapon 2" the only difference was the helicopter came down to shine it's light into my neighbours window, rather than coming up. My main trouble now is kids kicking a ball about until 6pm. Hope it stays this way John
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Re: Has anyone heard from Jude & Peter
Hi John
Let’s hope that they’re away from danger in good time.
Glad to hear that you’ve made your own escape!
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Dear All, Has anyone heard from our Australian neighbours? I didn't realise just how close it had got to Brisbane. 10 Km is no joke. I'm sleeping a good deal better having got away from the Escobar's. Don't know if I told you but one morning, about 12.30, 1.00 am his competitors came round & gave him a good beating. Jeesalou, you get involved in that stuff you're going to get trouble. It was like "Lethal Weapon 2" the only difference was the helicopter came down to shine it's light into my neighbours window, rather than coming up. My main trouble now is kids kicking a ball about until 6pm. Hope it stays this way John _._,_._,_
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Re: Has anyone heard from Jude & Peter
Not necessarily Susie. Convenient if you're a user, but I'm pretty sure no one else in the block of 6 was. John
On Monday, 13 January 2020, 15:44:07 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Hello John, 7th was Jude’s last email, as far as I can see, so not too long ago. I agree, ten kilometres is uncomfortably close in the circumstances.
What a relief for you, to have just young footie players around instead of drug barons. That would have made anybody very nervous.
Regards Susan
Dear All, Has anyone heard from our Australian neighbours? I didn't realise just how close it had got to Brisbane. 10 Km is no joke. I'm sleeping a good deal better having got away from the Escobar's. Don't know if I told you but one morning, about 12.30, 1.00 am his competitors came round & gave him a good beating. Jeesalou, you get involved in that stuff you're going to get trouble. It was like "Lethal Weapon 2" the only difference was the helicopter came down to shine it's light into my neighbours window, rather than coming up. My main trouble now is kids kicking a ball about until 6pm. Hope it stays this way John
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Hello John, 7th was Jude’s last email, as far as I can see, so not too long ago. I agree, ten kilometres is uncomfortably close in the circumstances.
What a relief for you, to have just young footie players around instead of drug barons. That would have made anybody very nervous.
Regards Susan
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Dear All, Has anyone heard from our Australian neighbours? I didn't realise just how close it had got to Brisbane. 10 Km is no joke. I'm sleeping a good deal better having got away from the Escobar's. Don't know if I told you but one morning, about 12.30, 1.00 am his competitors came round & gave him a good beating. Jeesalou, you get involved in that stuff you're going to get trouble. It was like "Lethal Weapon 2" the only difference was the helicopter came down to shine it's light into my neighbours window, rather than coming up. My main trouble now is kids kicking a ball about until 6pm. Hope it stays this way John
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Has anyone heard from Jude & Peter
Dear All, Has anyone heard from our Australian neighbours? I didn't realise just how close it had got to Brisbane. 10 Km is no joke. I'm sleeping a good deal better having got away from the Escobar's. Don't know if I told you but one morning, about 12.30, 1.00 am his competitors came round & gave him a good beating. Jeesalou, you get involved in that stuff you're going to get trouble. It was like "Lethal Weapon 2" the only difference was the helicopter came down to shine it's light into my neighbours window, rather than coming up. My main trouble now is kids kicking a ball about until 6pm. Hope it stays this way John
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Re: where next in computing?
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That's the element below Radon
Thanks John, I shall be able to get through the week all the better for knowing that! ?:D Regards Susan
There up to Oganesson, element 118 now Susan
I’m afraid mentioning elements always has me thinking of Tom Lehrer and that song! :D Regards Susan Dear All, We are beginning to reach the limits of computing technology. Had a look at the top range MacPro, which has 28 cores, problem is they're only 2.5 GHz each, fine for most things, but some software only works on a single thread, meaning one core only. I thought the Quad core 3.6 GHz iMac would be best for my purposes. Problem is all these components so close together generate a lot of waste heat. Military get round it with Gallium Arsenide, but I'm not sure this will be available to the public without considerable investment:
Here's another take:
So it maybe that the Gallium is available, but it will cost. John
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Re: where next in computing?
That's the element below Radon
On Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 12:34:28 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Thanks John, I shall be able to get through the week all the better for knowing that! ?:D Regards
There up to Oganesson, element 118 now Susan
I’m afraid mentioning elements always has me thinking of Tom Lehrer and that song! :D Regards Susan Dear All, We are beginning to reach the limits of computing technology. Had a look at the top range MacPro, which has 28 cores, problem is they're only 2.5 GHz each, fine for most things, but some software only works on a single thread, meaning one core only. I thought the Quad core 3.6 GHz iMac would be best for my purposes. Problem is all these components so close together generate a lot of waste heat. Military get round it with Gallium Arsenide, but I'm not sure this will be available to the public without considerable investment:
Here's another take:
So it maybe that the Gallium is available, but it will cost. John
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I couldn’t agree more with that article. This appallingly callous government has so much to answer for in the form of misery and stress on the population. I have long since signed the petition against POS - sorry, IDS and his knighthood! Regards
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I'm sure Chris. I recall a good deal of that. John
On Monday, 6 January 2020, 14:27:26 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote:
Exactamundo, John. But Osborne's Treasury bears great responsibility for making Universal Credit a cheap replacement for the previous benefit system.?
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Thanks John, I shall be able to get through the week all the better for knowing that! ?:D Regards
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There up to Oganesson, element 118 now Susan
I’m afraid mentioning elements always has me thinking of Tom Lehrer and that song! :D Regards Susan Dear All, We are beginning to reach the limits of computing technology. Had a look at the top range MacPro, which has 28 cores, problem is they're only 2.5 GHz each, fine for most things, but some software only works on a single thread, meaning one core only. I thought the Quad core 3.6 GHz iMac would be best for my purposes. Problem is all these components so close together generate a lot of waste heat. Military get round it with Gallium Arsenide, but I'm not sure this will be available to the public without considerable investment:
Here's another take:
So it maybe that the Gallium is available, but it will cost. John
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My old iMac was quad core. The new one iMac Pro (2017) 3.2 ghz Intel Xeon W ?Memory 32gb 2666mhz ddr4 Graphics is Pro Vega 56.8....... and much faster than my old quad core.? But I love my old iMac and it will still run 32 bit stuff.? Got a warning yesterday not to go forward to Catalina because the eyetv gizmo will quit and apparently the parent company has made a new version but it isn't working according to my ice-tv account people.? Jude
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EyeTV users please don't upgrade yet
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EyeTV users that haven't upgrade their Mac to using the latest MacOS "Catalina" please don't as EyeTV 3 will cease to work.
EyeTV/Geniatech do now offer a new 64 bit version called EyeTV 4 but we are finding many issues that are making it unreliable if not unusable.
If you have upgraded and have managed to get EyeTV 4 working can you please us know as lacking any support from Geniatech on this one we are currently in the dark.
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I'm sure Chris. I recall a good deal of that. John
On Monday, 6 January 2020, 14:27:26 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:
Exactamundo, John. But Osborne's Treasury bears great responsibility for making Universal Credit a cheap replacement for the previous benefit system.?
On 6 Jan 2020, at 13:57, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
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