Posts by Glenturret Single Malt

Re: ESU only delays landfill.

I have W10 and Linux Mint 21.2 as a dual boot on my aging PC ("not suitable for upgrade to W11" of course). The only thing that stops me moving permanently to Linux is that I have been using MS Money (2005 version) for years for home finances and have never found a Linux compatible app that is as easy to use and with as wide a range of features (also the old problem about old dogs and new tricks). The solution now seems to be to install it on my W10 laptop and disconnect that completely from the internet when or before the limited update regime arrives. I would welcome any suggestions for any home finance apps for Linux that come close to Money in ease and clarity of use.

Re: Learn both?

Chains and furlongs are decimally related (10 chains = 1 furlong = 220 yards). A cricket pitch is exactly one chain in length between the stumps.

Re: Photocopier challange

I have a little list of questions that I keep to ask the hire company whenever I hire a car. Top of the list is "How do I put it in reverse gear?"

Re: Now there's a blast from the past....

I have seen this word "draw" several times in the past and have only just realised that it refers to what I would call a "drawer". As to how this came about, I have wondered if it is an misconceived correction of the mispronounced word "drawr" (like idear etc.).

Re: I wouldn't recommend it to anyone regardless

"virii" - the plural of the (unknown) word "virius"?

When I see that, I think of campii, abacii, omnibii, hippopotamii, rhombii etc.

Re: Bad, Bad, Very Bad, Not Good

In my part of the world, bogs is a slang term for toilets which often do stink.

Re: Only in the USofA

I dexperienced a similar thing when we lived in Malaysis and discovered red ants.

Re: Way Back...

Glassblowers!

Re: Using it wrongly

I was wondering how many BME people were involved in constructing the algorithm.

Potato scones instead of hash browns and what happened to the black pudding?

Re: Certainly, it can't be called "Audacity"

My suggestion is Audax which is the Latin word for bold and the root from which audacity is derived. My only concern is that the owners of Audacity think that it is too similar.

Re: Why all the thumbs down?

He's got a divorce to pay for.

Re: Bad greek

The Malay/Indonesian word "timor" (or timur nowadays) means east. So the region of Indonesia called East Timor is therefore East East.

Re: Hack

Growing up in the west of Scotland, I learned the word hack as referring to those nasty, painful cracks in dry skin especially on your hands that appear in cold dry weather. Then there is the other meaning of using a knife or other sharp tool indiscriminately (e.g. hacking off overhanging branches of a tree). And also there is the old-fashioned rugby forwads tactic of booting a loose ball on the ground upfield. I am therefore still always taken slightly by surprise when I read an article and find that it is using the word hack to refer to something that is generally beneficial. I sometimes wonder what is wrong with "fix" or "repair".

I recall (1960s) a university level chemistry textbook by a man called De'Ath but I cannot recall either his initials or the title of the book. Presumably, as an academic, he was Dr De'Ath.

Re: Proof reader

My PhD thesis was largely concerned with compounds of cobalt (Co) with carbon monoxide (CO). Since this was in the days long before word processing, you asked a friendly secretary to type it for you. I am sure you can imagine the number of corrections that had to be made because of confusion between the two.

Re: Parts of it date back to when fire was invented

Inflammable is confusing because people are no longer taught either Latin or about prefixes. What do you say when a scratch or similar goes all red and nasty looking? it has become inflamed (not "flamed"). This is because there are two different meanings for the prefix in-. One has the negative connotations e.g. insensitive, infallible and is probably more common. The other has a variety of meanings such as "in" or "into" or expressing intensity (see what I did there?).

Re: Nope, works

And time the 20 seconds?

Re: Wang Care

Some years ago, it seemed to me that BBC announcers reading the shipping forecast started taking much greater care to enunciate separately the components of Gale 8.

Re: Another possible niggle

Water isn't an element.

Re: Alternatives are good.

On the theme of self-inflicted pain: pouring liquid nitrogen from thermos flasks, you might occasionally splash some on bare hands but without damage as it evaporates so quickly. However, if some of the liquid gets trapped even briefly under a ring on your finger or a wristwatch or is absorbed into the cuff of a shirt or jumper that you are wearing, excruciating pain may result.

Re: Advertent FUD

AND: the frequency of deaths from heart disease is lower in hard water areas than soft.

Re: Sigh of Relief

"Or something with boiling oil..." (The Mikado)

Re: Thoughts and prayers

In recent weeks, I have seen the word "gaslighting" used a lot. What does it mean?

Re: A pokey terraced house in Middlesborough for a month

I lived in Durham for a couple of years in the 70s and travelled all round the county but until I read this article I had never heard of Teeside parmo.

Re: Softmaker

I am glad to echo your comments about SoftMaker office but, unfortunately, hyphenation can only be switched off for the document you are currently working on, Permanent switch-off is not possible using the settings menu.

Re: I'll have to give it a go on Android.

It should but, in practise, I have not found it to be very good when looking for UK-based returns.

Scotland's secret bunker:

https://secretbunker.co.uk/your-visit/

Re: A real pizza

I come to a skidding halt in the first line. Russets are apples.

Re: A home tournament ?

oche (but pronounced as you wrote)

Re: Portakabins in Schools were "temporary" also.

Also post WWII prefabs as "temporary" housing in areas that had suffered badly in the blitz. In my home town, they were still there when I was going to school in the 50s.

Re: Cables with labels on

I haven't read all the way to the end of the comments on this thread but I am surprised that no one has mentioned the possibility that the labels could all be white and the the function is denoted by a shape. I am sure most people who drive in the UK will have seen the diversion signs or signs guiding you to a specific location which are usually yellow with black squares, circles, dots etc.

I am the treasurer of a small voluntary organisation with a reasonably sized accumulated reserve in the bank. In order to pay our bills I send a cheque but, for security, the bank requires one of two other named office-bearers to countersign it. How does this work with internet banking?

Re: It's not LOW and behold, people

Moo!

Re: Vax keeps sucking

Nothing to do with sucking but I was seriously tempted to vandalism by the notice outside the local Baptist church proclaiming "Jesus Saves", I wanted to add "With Nationwide"

Re: If you want to see this in action.

"last month Google maps became unusable on Firefox"

I do not understand the comment. I am using FF 73.0.1 and Google maps without any problems.

Re: Due diligence

Another story from the distant past seen in the Sunday Post (a Scottish newspaper) concerned a shopowner whose shop had the name A Swindler in front. When asked why he didn't put his full name to avoid confusion, he said that his name was Adam.