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Morgan wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:38 am As I recall, someone in the group is a penguin enthusiast. You probably already know all about this; but in case not:
Drama at the zoo: Egg-napping male penguin couple steals the nest of a female penguin couple
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/us/pengu ... index.html

You have to watch out for those dominant penguin couples.
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That's me - the enthusiast - I'm a moderator on the Zooniverse's PenguinWatch. We've never seen an egg stealing going on in the PW pics although we have seen the odd nest (perhaps 3 or 4 in 6 years) with a third egg in it, or later a third chick. These were all thought to be due to an egg or chick rolling around and landing up with someone else. Given that this cheeky lot live in a zoo it sounds like they are not at all worried about getting a pecking as they set out with their swag bag. ;) :lol:
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krwood wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:42 pm Sorry - back to doom & gloom for a moment: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/clim ... -noaa.html
That man is such a planetary menace. :evil:
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Following up on Thursday Next's earlier find, here are the 2020 The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
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:D :D :D
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Difficult to choose a favourite as they are all so good, but 'Oh Sole Mio', and the fox and shrew, just inch ahead of the others.
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'Oh Sole Mio' is my favorite. 'It's a Mocking Bird' might be my runner up, but it is indeed hard to decide :D
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They are fun!
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The turtle is my favorite - its expression is just perfect!
I also liked the monkeys, bear and racoon.
Thanks for posting!
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I have been running Libra Calc ver 7.0.1 and 7.0.2, over the last few months, both slowed down my input speed.
It was very slow to show character on screen and I found I was missing some character because if it did not show before I hit the next one it did not show at all. It took me a while to realise it was Calc and not my PC.

I have gone back and loaded 6.4.6 and all is now good.
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Stuart wrote:
it was Calc and not my PC.
Thanks for the warning. Dyslexic people tend to presume it is just in our brains and work around it.
Thanks, Morgan.
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I'm a bit displexik myselve.
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I have been running Libra Calc ver 7.0.1 and 7.0.2, over the last few months, both slowed down my input speed.
It was very slow to show character on screen and I found I was missing some character because if it did not show before I hit the next one it did not show at all. It took me a while to realise it was Calc and not my PC.
Some people have this problem with input being slow and characters being dropped with version 6. It sounds like it gets even worse with version 7. Michael and I have been investigating this and believe we have come up with a solution that should fix it. I'm leaving today on vacation to a quiet cabin in the mountains where I hopefully won't be disturbed and can focus on the change to the software.

The problem is that for some reason if the log book image is rotated, LibreOffice reads the image from disk again and rotates it after every entry you make. :roll: This takes quite a bit of time and if you are very fast at all you get ahead of it and characters get dropped. However, if there is zero rotation of the image, it only gets read from disk one time and everything is fast. We believe we have a solution that will pre-rotate the image to fool LibreOffice into thinking the image is not rotated. We'll do this by reading the image from disk, rotating it and saving the the rotated image, then read the already rotated image so that LibreOffice won't try to rotate it for every entry.

No guarantees this will work, but it's worth a try.
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Good luck Gordon - and enjoy your mountain hide-away! :D
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It sounds like it will be a great holiday. I hope it exceeds your expectations! :) :) :)
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Enjoy your vacation, Gordon!
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This clever solution could save our ships a lot of grief!
(Though keeping the center of mass in exactly the right place would be challenging)
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Have a great vacation, Gordon, and good luck with the bugfixing!
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RE: clever solutions:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Gordon, Vacations are NOT for bug fixing, they are for bug swotting (when they try to drink your drink).
Enjoy.
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