Recent content by MikeFarm

I have never had to defrag any of the disk formats that Linux uses, and I started using Linux in 2005. Some users with very unusual disk write patterns might benefit from a defrag when the disk is near full. But generally it is not needed. Defragmentation is required on Windows because of the...

I just watched Jeremy Clarkson's Farm tonight. It was the episode where he bought his 80 sheep(s) and used a drone with a "bark" to round them up. They pushed down his fences, he had the electric fence touching their metal water trough, he ran around trying to round them up. The guy that fixed...

Hi I would consider a companies ethics in a large purchase. I realise that such a consideration is sometimes not affordable, but if it is, then one should research it. For a long time John Deere has opposed any right to repair legislation and inhibited other repairers by withholding required...

In Australia this is now a bit like the opening of the Simpsons :) The company that has lost the capsule of Caesium 137 isotope is Rio Tinto. A container in the back of a truck fell apart as the corrugated road rattled the container open and the capsule fell though a hole left by a sheared...

Hi Yes, I have also always taken a spare ski tip when cross country skiing, though not had to use it. I'm not sure if this counts but the coldest I have been is 18 °C (that's 64.4 °F). That's body temperature. I was cooled down to that temperature on the operating table when they replaced my...

There are only three countries in the world that are not using SI units, Liberia, Myanmar and the US :-)

One minor problem with the current method of reporting is that you need to click and load the spam post. The spammers images are downloaded, including tracking images, and therefore counts as a click as the image is loaded. So the spammer gets a plus as they got a click and can report that to...

Just make sure the laptop has USB 4 ports for high speed USB (40 GB/sec) and use an adaptor to a full size SD card. That will help to make your laptop useful for as long as possible. If you look for a laptop with an SD card you will get something older. 8 GB for Win 11 is not much as Windows is...

Hi Level 4 or 5 autonomous driving will be around in our lifetime and legal in certain limited and predictable environments. It may not be able to react appropriately to a moose or a kangaroo jumping out at you going at 100 km/h in the country but imagine in your local area, your old and you no...

He's right. Don't assume it was in self driving mode. Could be just people not familiar with the road and not paying attention to what is behind them. I'm also sceptical of current self driving tech on country roads but I have driven Teslas and I do like their ability to maintain a safe distance...

Hi Mike (oldballs) I had an RF ablation for SVT earlier this year. Didn't need any implant. The ablation literally burnt away the abnormal electrical pathways that caused the SVT. In *rare* cases if the ablation goes wrong and the heart is unable to beat normally after the procedure a...

The effect is very small and would not be noticeable by throwing rocks down caves :-) For a height of 100 meters and at a latitude of 32 degrees, the displacement would be less than 2 cm. For the maverick country that is still using the old deprecated Imperial system that's less than 3/4 of an...

Oh I like Highland cattle. Quite a few in our Southern Highlands NSW and in Victoria and Tasmania. Great looking cattle and good tasting also. Slow growing compared to Angus. But still probably way less than 1% of cattle by number.

I don't understand why anyone would even want a Long Horn. Here they would not even be accepted in most sale yards. Hard to handle in a crush, not as safe as polled cattle. We have agisted steers on our place and occasionally the owners bring in a bull when needed. If you just want them for meat...

> Oh that is quite the find, if that is indeed there boat. It is indeed Shackleton's ship. It has the name "Endurance" on it :-) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/shackleton-endurance-found-beneath-antarctic-ice-after-100-years/100897122 Mike