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Do you have some old CD's lying around? Tie them to a pole; the wind makes it move and reflection of sunlight keep birds away.
It does scream "nerd home" and doesn't do insects.
Getting a decent sized cat also helps.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Thanks for this genius idea!
I will try it.![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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Not my idea, I happened to see it on a walk and tried it.
Fat cat doing his part. Looking very menacingly. --edit
You can replace the eat-all with a roomba/sweepy.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Shiny CDs do not work for preventing woodpeckers from making nests in our home's cedar siding. 
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Well it screams ‘old nerd’!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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For some fancy fruit, they tie a paper bag around each one… but that might not work for smaller figs.
Another trick I have seen is to hang fake fruit on a tree before and while real fruit is on the tree. It trains the birds and squirrels that there is nothing good there.
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What is the problem with the net? Isn't that the standard way of doing it?
We don't grow figs around here, but e.g. cherries, nets are the standard solution.
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there are some netting bags for individual fruit on amazon and the price was decent.
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Hi All,
Logging into the Time Sheet system yesterday I got "NONCE Error Detected", well I don't like the system and have said rude words about it. I have now proof that is actively out to get me! I get the impression it was written by non native English speakers, I hope it N Once or Not Once which would make sense. (I still think it's out to get me) 
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Hate to disillusion you, but nonce is a specific cryptographic term.
nonce - Wiktionary[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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... and completely inappropriate jargon for a time-sheet application.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Nonce is perfectly fine jargon. It should never be seen by an end user. I'd say something went seriously wrong with the system and recommend you change your password on that system just in case the system crashed after it processed your password's plain text.
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obermd wrote: Nonce is perfectly fine jargon. It should never be seen by an end user.
And then again ... A semi-educated user (or three quarters, or ninety percent) who is simply told "Something went wrong" might get pissed. I would.
You certainly should not treat your user as a fool. There are multiple levels between that presenting jargon without explanation. E.g. Starting the error message with "Authentication problem" (or maybe "Access rights problem") and a reference to the authentication server in question would have put the "NONCE error detected" into a useful context.
I wish that such concerns were common among software developers. They are not.
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And I mean that really nicely: Pointer Pointer[^] all it does is load a picture of someone pointing at your mouse pointer ... completely useless, but ... strangely edifying and probably quite a lot of work. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Where's Neko?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It super useful!
Every time I play one of those newfangled Blizzard game with lots of explosive effects, I always lose track of my mouse pointer! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: I always lose track of my mouse pointer
An ongoing hazard for me, even with the "pointer finder" widget turned on (press the Ctrl key to see where your pointer is). I also have my pointer sized up quite a bit.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Absolutely delightful!
Hours of entertainment, for sure.
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That is a waste of bandwidth.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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No way! It is almost the same amount of pointing like in the NK last rocket video 
modified 2-Apr-22 19:54pm.
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A good one today!
Wordle 287 2/6
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The best approach is to try and eliminate
as many letters as possible through the first 3 or 4 choices you make. You can then get the solution, as it is not a word in common use.
That means that hard mode is going to be difficult though looking at my process, you would think that I solve the puzzle in hard mode. I do, except that I don't turn on hard mode in Wordle.
modified 1-Apr-22 18:31pm.
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Waw
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⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 no greens so far!?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 yeah!
Luc Pattyn [My Articles]
The Windows 11 "taskbar" is disgusting. It should be at the left of the screen, with real icons, with text, progress, etc. They downgraded my developer PC to a bloody iPhone.
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