Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
AskWoody Plus subscriber Dave Huch’s Win10 PC has become unusable due to an astonishing malfunction: A wild system error is generating some 600 EVTX files per minute — 10 per second! —totally saturating his entire drive system. Not surprisingly, his PC is totally unusable — even at full-throttle, it simply can’t keep up! My AskWoody Plus column this…
Writing from Bridgewater, CT, AskWoody subscriber Bill Chinn wonders why his copy of File Explorer gets confused. “Hi Fred! I have recently had an ongoing issue with the behavior of File Explorer in my version of Windows 10 Pro. “It seems that every time I open File Explorer and begin scrolling through the directories, after…
After the long, scenic, but sedentary ride from Picton to Christchurch (see previous New Zealand posts), we spent most of the next day on foot, exploring the city. Christchurch is the largest city on the South Island; and one that’s had more than its share of heartbreak in recent years. It’s in a lovely location, just…
We were up at 5AM to catch the dawn bus for the long ride to Christchurch. (See previous New Zealand posts.) The above photo is actually from later, after we were well on our way. Yawn. The Piwaka Lodge was packed with hikers (“trampers”), but we were up early enough to avoid the rush for the…
After a very busy week of guided touring (see previous New Zealand posts), we’d built in a day of slower-paced sightseeing-by-foot in Wellington. We started the day with a change of hotels, leaving the excellent YHA Wellington, which had been booked for us as part of the organized tour. If I’d known in advance how nice…
After lunch in Te Puia (see previous New Zealand posts), we next headed out into the very rural countryside, to the Kohutapu Tribal Lodge, where we’d have a communal Maori meal and stay the night. On the way to the lodge, we stopped for a brief hike to some stone carvings made by the original…
There are more New Zealand photos and text to come (see previous New Zealand posts), but the first batches generated some comments and questions like this one from reader Nikos: “Fantastic photos!!! What camera did you use?” Thanks! This was actually my first major trip were I didn’t pack a standard, self-contained,”prosumer” camera. I took…
Here are the first few frames — click for the whole thing! Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=3993
There are literally dozens of “reasons for the season” — every culture and religion has some kind of solstice-timed holiday — but no matter what you observe, I’m hoping it’s a good one! November: Christianity All Saints Day: 1 November – in Western Christian churches Nativity Fast: forty days leading to Christmas – also St Philip’s fast, Christmas fast, or winter lent or…
Those are really two different questions. “Does a USB hub add latency?” Yes. A USB hub isn’t passive wiring: It receives a signal from a source (PC or peripheral), decodes the embedded address information, and then actively retransmits that signal to its destination (peripheral or PC). That process takes a small, but measurable amount of…
