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“lightweight, miniature” computer equipment seems to gain some kilos in this heat, especially when you have to haul it up and down flights of steps and then re-mount a touch screen monitor recovered from another site to a wall cabinet (as it has an unusual bracket instead of the standard VESA mounts)

Summer has finally arrived in Britain, although with random thunderstorms, gusts of wind and rural mains power disturbances – which is why I had to swap these damn things over in the first place (miniature PC’s with touchscreens (linked to the patients database system) that fit into a wall mounted “medicine cabinet”, one touchscreen monitor has a faulty power supply and its associated PC has got its config completely hosed up, probably due to a hard shutdown caused by the last power cut)

Currently in the UK we have Teresa May trying to be a “Tesco Value Thatcho 1.5” and much misplaced nostalgia for the 1980s (which is at least partly the reason why the Tories got back in and Brexit happened) so its not surprising Americans may be trying to do the same.

History certainly can repeat itself – although I wasn’t quite expecting it to happen that quickly within my own lifetime!

@Shakyamuni 985474 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwa5Bf656As

Today in history a 4’7 or 1.41m 18 year old landed a vault on a bum ankle and won the USA the Womens team gold medal in Gymnastics. USA USA USA

Am not sure to understand, but does it mean that to win u have to fall at the “landing”, or the best is even landing well but breacking a feet??? very strange sport gymnystic… :question_ :confused: :question_ 😉

@General Lighting 985451 wrote:

“lightweight, miniature” computer equipment seems to gain some kilos in this heat, especially when you have to haul it up and down flights of steps and then re-mount a touch screen monitor recovered from another site to a wall cabinet (as it has an unusual bracket instead of the standard VESA mounts)

Summer has finally arrived in Britain, although with random thunderstorms, gusts of wind and rural mains power disturbances – which is why I had to swap these damn things over in the first place (miniature PC’s with touchscreens (linked to the patients database system) that fit into a wall mounted “medicine cabinet”, one touchscreen monitor has a faulty power supply and its associated PC has got its config completely hosed up, probably due to a hard shutdown caused by the last power cut)

is the PC at the floor level???

@General Lighting 985483 wrote:

it is wall mounted at about 1,2m above floor level (I think what it is in would be called une armoire à pharmacie in French) although it is a cheap one you might have in the bathroom., the real meds cabinets at my work are solid metal in secure areas.

I had to take the photo at an odd angle for privacy reasons so that nothing other than the computer and some generic advice from the health service is visible; one reason why we use these cabinets is so they can be closed when not in use or the doors used to prevent unauthorised people looking at the screens which would normally contain confidential info.

VERY CLEVER, always something to learn on PV:sign0098:

@Shakyamuni 985457 wrote:

TDIL that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, gotta wait and see till next week for the Democrat nominee. Politics and the Illuminati got me worried.

there is an interesting (but long) article below from the British Guardian news – about the history of all this, containing a picture of white separatists from 1959.

I happen to be a former broadcast engineer and one thing I immediately noticed was the microphone the pro-segregation activist is using with his PA system – a setup like that would have cost thousands of dollars in the 1950s (easily as much as any truck or motor car used to transport it) and would be extremely advanced tech for the era. Clearly whoever these people were they were not “dumb poor rednecks”. He is flanked by other men holding similarly professional microphones who I suspect are radio or TV reporters – whilst you cannot immediately judge how partisan they may have been “embedded journalists” have been a part of activism for many decades and unfortunately the use of advanced tech by well funded extremists to spread their propaganda is not at all a new thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/16/secret-history-trumpism-donald-trump