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#11746 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Wow, there was some thunder and lightning last night.
Denbigh was under a string of heavy showers coming from the South, that lasted about 4 hours. Lightning every 1 or 2 seconds for a couple of lengthy spells. There was a lake forming in the front yard.
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#11747 Re: Nothing In Particular

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IslandPink wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:44 am There was a lake forming in the front yard.
Can you repurpose the horn project into some sort of boat should the need arise?
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#11748 Re: Nothing In Particular

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We got the storms this afternoon, not seen such a violent storm for a very long time
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#11749 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Neal wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:00 pm We got the storms this afternoon, not seen such a violent storm for a very long time
According to the forecast we should get them noon tomorrow. (Thursday)
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#11750 Re: Nothing In Particular

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We've been forcast storms for days but they just go round us. Can hear the thunder and see the very black clouds but nothin else. Fairly typical for round here.
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#11751 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Just going to bed, raining hard but no lightning since about 6:30pm
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#11752 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Raining very hear here at the moment, distant thunder and lightning.

No hedge cutting this morning.
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#11753 Re: Nothing In Particular

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This is the heaviest continuous rain I've had here for very many years. The property is on a slight slope, front highest, and water is running into the garage ( :( ) and getting up to the level of the front door step.

I don't think I'll ever actually get flooded, looks worse than it is.

But when the pond fills up, might get worse ?

Keh sarah, sarah. :lol:
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#11754 Re: Nothing In Particular

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I bought a £13 digital microscope from ebay recently, which arrived yesterday. I set it up on the boss' laptop and looked at the calibration slide which was supplied. I wasn't truly impressed....it was a devil of a job to focus and when it was in focus it was a bit grey and blurry. The led in the microscope was necessary to see anything but on any subject a bit reflective all you can see are 8 led bulbs in a circle....hmmmm

At £13 I thought well you get what you pay for.

This morning I installed it in the newly updated win10 machine...removing the clear plastic cap which I found on the end, and wow, wow and wow....
without the led switched on there's more than enough light from the nearby velux...and 100 micron dot is about 1/4 inch diameter on the screen at medium resolution...no idea what the magnification is but there was plenty to go.....

it focusses back at about 8 inches so it's more than enough to try smd soldering by hand, which is what I bought it for in the first place.....
highly recommended so far....more later
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#11755 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Lens cap :lol:

Sounds interesting, Ed. Please can you add a link. Would it work to examine and photograph (take a screenshot) a stylus?
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#11756 Re: Nothing In Particular

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I've seen folk use these mini USB miscroscopes for SRA setup on carts. Do you think that's possible with this gizmo? Seems very cheap.
Like this https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/ ... ht.610303/
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#11757 Re: Nothing In Particular

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more details on a new thread.....
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#11758 Re: Nothing In Particular

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pre65 wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:29 pm
Neal wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:00 pm We got the storms this afternoon, not seen such a violent storm for a very long time
According to the forecast we should get them noon tomorrow. (Thursday)
I was at the Cholmondeley Arms in Cheshire, we got it there Weds evening, proper proper Hammer Horror movie stuff lightning almost continuous, the car park turned into a mini lake (the drains [2 off] obviously don't work). The shrieks from the women trying to get to the cars at chucking out time. :D I was watching it from my bed.
 
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#11759 canonical

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It would seem that Canonical have ended support for 32 bit machines....

I just tried to get an xubuntu 20.04 image for my ageing samsung netbook and it seems there isn't one.....
It currently runs 18.04 but the touchpad periodically stops responding. When I reboot the touchpad is fine. I thought an upgrade might highlight whether it's hardware or software at fault...

oh well...oh poo!

seems I have something else that needs dragging into the 21st century
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#11760 Re: canonical

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ed wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2020 10:22 am seems I have something else that needs dragging into the 21st century
:D

If it's any consolation, I'm having issues with Atmel Studio 7 and the most recent Windows 10 (2004).

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