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Got a look at friend's new Mac Pro today. She just finished installing?768 gb of nemix ram. Hadn't zapped the PRAM by the time I arrived. She had bought it a big new curved screen --- huge - took up large space across the desk. ?I couldn't cope with the screen frankly. The Mac itself is glorious to look at - lovely piece engineering and high finish to its case. Hers came with wheels with holes through them... not little legs...and therefore its a very slippery customer. She says ok when she wants to move it about to plug things in and out. I pointed out the holes in the wheels and I think she is going to lash it with a cable.?
Exciting to look at ... but I couldn't justify buying one myself. But we can admire eh??
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Interesting, Jude!
My ulitimate ambition would be your iMac Pro; I wouldn’t need more than that.
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Got a look at friend's new Mac Pro today. She just finished installing?768 gb of nemix ram. Hadn't zapped the PRAM by the time I arrived. She had bought it a big new curved screen --- huge - took up large space across the desk. ?I couldn't cope with the screen frankly. The Mac itself is glorious to look at - lovely piece engineering and high finish to its case. Hers came with wheels with holes through them... not little legs...and therefore its a very slippery customer. She says ok when she wants to move it about to plug things in and out. I pointed out the holes in the wheels and I think she is going to lash it with a cable.?
Exciting to look at ... but I couldn't justify buying one myself. But we can admire eh??
Jude
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I would love my iMac Pro just a little more if it had the CD/DVD drive in it like my old one -- I may be dinosaur but I still use it and I have had to acquire a plug in one.?
My friend is constructing e-lessons which includes video and animations teaching Drs new to her hospital where the needles and the pills are and about techniques like using ultra sound to find a vein for injections etc. That sort of thing anyway. I believe her hospital has taken it on and is paying. ?But it's an awful lot of work. I watched some of it yesterday with her and its quite professional. It requires log in and password etc not for general public. She's done a good job as its not her day job ?:-) She's actually a trauma surgeon.
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Well, you can buy a superdrive to add-on, but if you aren't told you can augment your memory...well?
On Monday, 24 February 2020, 00:20:48 GMT, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
I would love my iMac Pro just a little more if it had the CD/DVD drive in it like my old one -- I may be dinosaur but I still use it and I have had to acquire a plug in one.?
My friend is constructing e-lessons which includes video and animations teaching Drs new to her hospital where the needles and the pills are and about techniques like using ultra sound to find a vein for injections etc. That sort of thing anyway. I believe her hospital has taken it on and is paying. ?But it's an awful lot of work. I watched some of it yesterday with her and its quite professional. It requires log in and password etc not for general public. She's done a good job as its not her day job ?:-) She's actually a trauma surgeon.
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That sounds like valuable work, Jude. I’ve always liked producing lessons on all the RAF units I’ve worked on, mainly because I needed such material to bring myself up to speed.
Chris
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On 24 Feb 2020, at 00:20, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
I would love my iMac Pro just a little more if it had the CD/DVD drive in it like my old one -- I may be dinosaur but I still use it and I have had to acquire a plug in one.
My friend is constructing e-lessons which includes video and animations teaching Drs new to her hospital where the needles and the pills are and about techniques like using ultra sound to find a vein for injections etc. That sort of thing anyway. I believe her hospital has taken it on and is paying. But it's an awful lot of work. I watched some of it yesterday with her and its quite professional. It requires log in and password etc not for general public. She's done a good job as its not her day job :-) She's actually a trauma surgeon.
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Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
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Remember Moore’s law, but it may be getting a little stale now. Hugs Jude & Peter
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Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
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?Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
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Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D Regards Susan
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Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
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Well, here it is, my very casually furnished hobby room:
The desk came from a charity shop, as did all the other furniture and most of the pictures. The calendar on the left of my iMac is from the Vulcan to the Sky Trust. Regards
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Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D Regards Susan Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
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It looks great, Susan! ?I’d love a hut like that.?
I understand that the Vulcan is aesthetically pleasing, but I’m very glad that I never had to fly it, sitting in a cave, as it were :-)
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On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:44, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
? Well, here it is, my very casually furnished hobby room:
The desk came from a charity shop, as did all the other furniture and most of the pictures. The calendar on the left of my iMac is from the Vulcan to the Sky Trust. Regards Susan Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D Regards Susan Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
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My excuse at the moment is I have been doing a Marie Kondo tidy up round the house.
?My husband did his half of the “office”cupboard and ditched a lot of old paper work. I’ve not been so good on my half but mine is the area with software and extra bits like exterior CD burner and exterior HD caddy and cables, manuals and how to books.
But I did sort some old Mac group club mags I’m going to donate to club museum, and some old belly dancing literature going to keeper of records of dance group.
I am also doing a tidy of my iMac Pro HD as I go too — with the aim of updating much as I can to 64 bit. Marie Kondo said not to file more than 3 layers deep - and she has a point. I think I file too deep in some places so I am sorting that.
I have tidied my makeup drawer - I have ten large bottles of very posh perfumes, umpteen products from Boots ( brought down to Oz for me by friend).?
I am generally simplifying the house interior. I won’t pretend I’m fashionably minimalist because not in my nature. But it can look good for visitors in ten minutes :-)
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On 28 Feb 2020, at 1:59 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
? Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D Regards Susan Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
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She seems very pretty, that Marie lady :-)
My office is tidy (ish) only because it’s in our Annex which forms our 4th bedroom, for family visits etc . . . ?I have to keep it tidy otherwise I’d be in constant trouble.
The silver trophy was my grandfather’s, a shooting cup that he won in 1947, but the competition was first held in 1905 and the trophy presented by the Kolar Gold Field Mining Board ()
He was a colonel in the Indian Army in the Second World War, a junior officer in the Royal Flying Corps in the First. ?I think that he was instrumental in winning over my future father-in-law who was very impressed that my grandfather had designed a stamp for Ghana which was catalogued in Stanley Gibbons as proof.
His name was Harold Stevens.
Chris
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My excuse at the moment is I have been doing a Marie Kondo tidy up round the house.
?My husband did his half of the “office”cupboard and ditched a lot of old paper work. I’ve not been so good on my half but mine is the area with software and extra bits like exterior CD burner and exterior HD caddy and cables, manuals and how to books.
But I did sort some old Mac group club mags I’m going to donate to club museum, and some old belly dancing literature going to keeper of records of dance group.
I am also doing a tidy of my iMac Pro HD as I go too — with the aim of updating much as I can to 64 bit. Marie Kondo said not to file more than 3 layers deep - and she has a point. I think I file too deep in some places so I am sorting that.
I have tidied my makeup drawer - I have ten large bottles of very posh perfumes, umpteen products from Boots ( brought down to Oz for me by friend).?
I am generally simplifying the house interior. I won’t pretend I’m fashionably minimalist because not in my nature. But it can look good for visitors in ten minutes :-)
Jude ?Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D Regards Susan Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)?<IMG_9044 copy.jpg>
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I’ve only seen photos of the Vulcan cockpit (is that the right term?) and it looks incredibly cramped. ?I have the idea that only the front two seats have ejectors!! ?
I loved seeing XH558 in the air at the Dawlish Air Show and sometimes look up the footage of Vulcans on YouTube especially ones that feature the “howl”! ?My favourite excerpt is the one showing the test pilot doing a barrel roll and, I gather, he was told never to do that again! I can watch that over and over…. Regards
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On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:57, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote:
It looks great, Susan! ?I’d love a hut like that.?
I understand that the Vulcan is aesthetically pleasing, but I’m very glad that I never had to fly it, sitting in a cave, as it were :-)
Chris (photo tomorrow) ? Well, here it is, my very casually furnished hobby room:
The desk came from a charity shop, as did all the other furniture and most of the pictures. The calendar on the left of my iMac is from the Vulcan to the Sky Trust. Regards Susan Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D Regards Susan Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
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That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:D Regards Susan
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On 28 Feb 2020, at 11:59, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote:
She seems very pretty, that Marie lady :-)
My office is tidy (ish) only because it’s in our Annex which forms our 4th bedroom, for family visits etc . . . ?I have to keep it tidy otherwise I’d be in constant trouble.
The silver trophy was my grandfather’s, a shooting cup that he won in 1947, but the competition was first held in 1905 and the trophy presented by the Kolar Gold Field Mining Board ()
He was a colonel in the Indian Army in the Second World War, a junior officer in the Royal Flying Corps in the First. ?I think that he was instrumental in winning over my future father-in-law who was very impressed that my grandfather had designed a stamp for Ghana which was catalogued in Stanley Gibbons as proof.
His name was Harold Stevens.
Chris
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My excuse at the moment is I have been doing a Marie Kondo tidy up round the house.
?My husband did his half of the “office”cupboard and ditched a lot of old paper work. I’ve not been so good on my half but mine is the area with software and extra bits like exterior CD burner and exterior HD caddy and cables, manuals and how to books.
But I did sort some old Mac group club mags I’m going to donate to club museum, and some old belly dancing literature going to keeper of records of dance group.
I am also doing a tidy of my iMac Pro HD as I go too — with the aim of updating much as I can to 64 bit. Marie Kondo said not to file more than 3 layers deep - and she has a point. I think I file too deep in some places so I am sorting that.
I have tidied my makeup drawer - I have ten large bottles of very posh perfumes, umpteen products from Boots ( brought down to Oz for me by friend).?
I am generally simplifying the house interior. I won’t pretend I’m fashionably minimalist because not in my nature. But it can look good for visitors in ten minutes :-)
Jude ?Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D Regards Susan Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)?<IMG_9044 copy.jpg>
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Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
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That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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Yes that’s the right term, Susan, cockpit. ?It was very cramped, but the rear cockpit wasn’t much better and, as you mention, they had no ejection seats. ?In the event of an abandonment being required they had to swivel their seats forward (they normally faced aft) and release their seat harnesses before opening the lower hatch and bailing out. ?If the aircraft was too low they didn’t make it.
This chap, Bill Ramsey, flew Tornados at the same time as I did, having flown his first tour on Vulcans (something I was desperate to avoid!). ?Even the Tornado had a better view out than the Vulcan, and that wasn’t much to write home about. ?
My tour on F16s was a delight in that respect: you sat on, rather than in, the aircraft, with your knees higher than normal because the seat was reclined at 30?:
Halcyon days!
Chris
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I’ve only seen photos of the Vulcan cockpit (is that the right term?) and it looks incredibly cramped. ?I have the idea that only the front two seats have ejectors!! ?
I loved seeing XH558 in the air at the Dawlish Air Show and sometimes look up the footage of Vulcans on YouTube especially ones that feature the “howl”! ?My favourite excerpt is the one showing the test pilot doing a barrel roll and, I gather, he was told never to do that again! I can watch that over and over….Regards Susan
On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:57, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote:
It looks great, Susan! ?I’d love a hut like that.?
I understand that the Vulcan is aesthetically pleasing, but I’m very glad that I never had to fly it, sitting in a cave, as it were :-)
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Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door! Regards
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On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
Chris
That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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Dearest Jude, I was writing up my PhD, probably, about 1998, when this really big hornet flew in. I decided to handle it with a 30 min coffee break. Thank Goodness it was gone after that John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:16:51 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door! Regards
On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
Chris
That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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Dearest Jude, Not sure when your MRI is coming up, but just want to reassure you, it is totally safe. I'm not so happy about the CT/CAT scans, but I think it is within the level of a radiation worker. Just don't want to get any more soon. Everyday I knock back a pint of semi-skimmed milk & take my Vitamin D. I worked round really high field magnets, at least 500MHz. They will even put pregnant women in them. There his no health risk from MRI. Hugs to you & Peter John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:35:18 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, I was writing up my PhD, probably, about 1998, when this really big hornet flew in. I decided to handle it with a 30 min coffee break. Thank Goodness it was gone after that John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:16:51 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door! Regards
On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
Chris
That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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