The Stevens Axiom
COVID Lockdown
the cause of devil tumors
Aurora from Southern Tasmania
European wasps in Tasmania
tranquil Tasmania

24 December 2024

I Test Covid Positive A Week Before Xmas

Around the longest day of the year I go shopping to a major town to buy stuff not available in a small town. I haven't been wearing a mask for quite awhile although I carry one in my pocket. A few days later and I'm feeling like a case of the flu with some weird neurological effects. Sure enough:-

At this point isolating is pretty obvious because I don't feel like doing anything or going anywhere. A friend says he got over it 'in a couple of days' except he's a lot younger than me. I decide to phone the health department to see how long it takes to get over it. They tell me to have a phone consultation with a doctor within 2 hours. This seems a bit extreme but I am in my 70's so I ring the next day. I keep waiting to self recover but it's not happening.

A local doctor phones back and tells me he will prescribe anti-virals that can be picked-up from a local chemist but not by me. My partner picks them-up for me but now she is not in a good way with covid symptoms. The next day she tests positive.

The anti-virals take a couple of days to make me feel better. They work by making the virus produce faulty copies of itself. It feels like the pro-covid and anti-covid forces are having a battle in my body. I keep doing a bit of work but my brain really is not up to complex tasks.

About a week later I test negative:-

Now it's time for me to pick-up anti-virals for her. I feel bad I spread covid to my partner because we have avoided it for 4 years. I was also a vaccination behind the recommended dose because all my covid shots were in my left arm. My left arm seized-up and it took over a year to get it working again. Thanks bat munchers.

The Verdict?

I'm pissed-off humans have colonized this planet to the point they are either eating bats or developing bat bio-weapons. How much of what is actually happening do we even know about? Russia, North Korea and China are not going to announce what bio weapons they have developed. I'm pissed-off at dictators that hide behind the smokescreen of communism to oppress and control their populations.

25 June 2024

Animation Using Ofnuts Processing Graphic

 

Above. This is the graphic coded by ofnuts using the  Processing app.

 


Above. The same image animated with G'MIC Continuous Droste coded by souphead. I made a gmic batch script to automate Droste animations.





02 June 2024

Marquee Moon by Television 4d Fractal Render

The track was recorded in 1977. They were better times than now. Remember when people had time? Now all of their time is sucked-in to a debt vortex created by the f*cktards they voted for.




19 May 2024

climate change

 hasn't rained here for awhile now huh?


When The Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

14 March 2024

Your B450M AORUS Elite Will Not Boot-Up - The Simple Fix

UPDATE. The last bios for this motherboard F67 March 2024 is simpler but continues the same problem. Don't buy this motherboard. Gigabyte knows there is a problem with this mobo because bios versions appear and disappear from their site.

A new motherboard, a new build and yet the Gigabyte AORUS B450M will not boot or POST if the power supply switch or power cable had been turned off at any time.

I spent a lot of time investigating this. The only way to get it to start was to remove the lithium battery and jumper the CMOS reset pins.

I found this is a common problem and tried people's solutions but none worked. I thought it was power-related.

What Did Work

In the bios settings go to 'Power' and look at 'AC BACK'. The options are:

Memory  - This didn't help

Always On - Select this one.

Always Off - What I always use but not here.

This assumes the many other bios settings are workable

I've been building computers for a long time and 'Always Off' had become automatic. It's for a power outage and having a machine re-start itself can scramble the file system. 

Gigabyte is based in Taiwan and the boards are made in China. Is this a political problem? These boards are designed for gamers and over-clockers and have far too many bios settings and options that could destroy components 😀 

Maybe 'shutting-down' and 'power outage' got lost in translation? I have not seen this problem before and the solution works but now the computer is started from the power supply switch not the front panel. I'm guessing if the power supply had no switch then plugging-in a mains cable would start the computer. It's obvious these boards have a bios problem.

If you have new info on the AORUS no boot issue drop a comment below.

28 December 2023

Gimp Warp Transform Animations

 Gimp has an easy way to make simple animations.



Check-out the Warp transform tool :)


Warp transform using the 'Chekharda' font by Evgeniy Agasyanc. It was  rebirthed by Skinnyhouse at Gimp Chat.