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Bulimic Beats / Catatonia

Bulimic Beats by Catatonia. From 1999’s Equally Cursed and Blessed.

Rickmurai Jack Flashback Music

From around 14 minutes into season 5, episode 10 of Rick and Morty.

And, apparently, the now obligatory hour long edit.

All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre / ALISON COTTON

(Via Warren Ellis)

MacOS Updates Are Getting Slower

With 30 minutes to prepare and another 25 minutes to actually perform this mere point update (12.3 > 12.4), what – exactly – is a relatively modern Macbook Pro that’s capable of of writing to it’s boot disk at 2.2GB/s+ doing when it upgrades?

Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – Spring 2022

See Early 2024’s Update Here!

Introduction

And another year has quietly sidled out of sight since my last update on the Yorkshire Wildlife Park’s ongoing extension.

The June 2018 masterplan for the park extension. The park expansion can be found in the lower right, the older original part of the park can be found in the upper left.

More Maps.

I’ve adde a little more to the maps thing.

First, I’ve added 300 additional maps from the mid 1850s – including York, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Hull.

And second, I’ve added a local Google Search box which should make it easier to find various maps and locations. This can be found here.

New Toy – Old UK Maps.

The National Library of Scotland has placed parts of it’s rather a nice collection of old maps online. It’s all very modern – slippy, google maps style pages abound – and predominantly released under permissive licences. It is not, however, easy to get a full map for reuse in a school report or similar.

So I’ve run up a little code, grabbed some of the maps and put them on a new sub-site here. These maps are licensed by the NLS (as opposed to being in the public domain) and this license has carried down to my derivative work. As of writing, there are only seven of them, but I have several hundred more ready to go up shortly and a block of several thousand more to go up at some point after that.

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955) and Snow (1963).

Taken from the BFI archives.

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955) – Kenneth Fairbairn

Snow (1963) – Geoffrey Jones.

Phobos transiting the Sun as seen from the Martian Surface.

Headless RDP for Fun and Profit

This solution has been checked on Windows 2019 fully patched as-of spring 2022. Other Windows variations may require tweaks. Those on *nix-based platforms looking to create a headless connection to a Windows host should skip the Windows related initial instructions.

Why?

Some applications are just not suited to running as a Windows Services – indeed some applications, such as those which require a full Windows desktop context, cannot be run as a plain Windows Service. One of the possible ways to get around this limitation is to run them under a fully scripted remote desktop instance – the remote user receiving a standard Windows Desktop experience with all the pros and cons this entails – however the default client available on Windows does not allow such a headless connect. Fortunately, newer releases of Windows – including Windows 2019 and Windows 10 – are able to run several versions of Linux as applications.

Author: ChrisC