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Rondò Veneziano - Arlecchino[^]
So I just had to wake up at 6:45, which really isn't much earlier than my regular 08:00 and even a lot later than my previous 05:00.
However, it hit me like a rock and for some reason I was reminded of a very specific period from my morning newspaper delivering days (which I did for about eight years, do that's not saying much).
Anyway, there was a time I woke up to Rondò Veneziano every morning and that's what I'm listening to now.
So it's a bit of an impulsive and last minute SOTW, but surely one I can get behind 
It's kind of like he (or actually they) brought baroque into the 20th century (maybe their latest work includes dubstep and they even got it to the 21st, I don't know).
Anyway, enjoy
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Enjoyed this ! You might like the modern~<classical works="" of="" max="" richter,="" like:=""
'vivaldi="" recomposed'="" [<a="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oYWfJuMGMA" target="_blank" title="New Window">^]
'Non-eternal' [^]
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Wow, especially Non-eternal is really very great!
It somehow reminds me of a lot of movie and game soundtracks all at once
I'm definitely going to listen to more Max Richter 
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Sander Rossel wrote: So I just had to wake up at 6:45, which really isn't much earlier than my regular 08:00 and even a lot later than my previous 05:00.
You wuss, get up at 04:00 like the real mem.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Mem ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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On my phone on the train n and m right next to each other.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Is "mem" short for "someone who's going to have a rough time staying awake during the day"?
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Of course I already knew this, being a metalhead and all 
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So I thought to give a report on this (mind you I lost over a week before setup whilst on vacation):
The Lounge[^]
I put Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on the system - as it turns out, Ubuntu and Intel got together for this and it's a direct simple install (this version). Right out of the box, so to speak.
The little box is great. Ubuntu, however, has changed a lot since I last ran it. Embracing a bit of a simpleton's outlook. I can forgive the pre-installed links to Amazon (for example) as they give this away free and maybe they make a little from it. But the software download mechanism (for example) is now much of a cellphone mentality setup. The screen, a 32" TV, is being seriously over-scanned. I can't fix it on the TV end so I turned to xrandr. Not working out well. Luckily, changes are not persistent from the command window. This is not playing well with others as I remembered from Ubuntu of by-gone days. It's not even as intuitive as the Raspberry PI running Raspbian - with all the abbreviations inherent in that distro.
I don't mind the added user-friendly - but at some point they're degrading the usefulness of the system.
Well - another few days and then I'll take the Linux Mint challenge, as recommended in the original thread. Or maybe I can find a friendly-install for some other version.
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This turned out to be more of an Ubuntu update than a NUC update. But, I suppose if it just works...what else is there to say? I take it that less is more.
Also...18.04 is out, why'd you settle for something that's now over 2 years old?
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dandy72 wrote: Also...18.04 is out, why'd you settle for something that's now over 2 years old?
Cause it's got LTS at the end. I like getting a car that has SS or GT at the end, it just has to be better.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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This table on Wikipedia shows that every even-numbered xx.04 version of Ubuntu is an LTS.
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dandy72 wrote: Also...18.04 is out, why'd you settle for something that's now over 2 years old?
As it turns out, going to the Ubuntu site, they have this specific download for the Intel NUC. An image that can come pre-loaded or something to that effect with the nuances for the NUC built in. Why not 18.04 LTS, too? I suppose someone has to do it.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: As it turns out, going to the Ubuntu site, they have this specific download for the Intel NUC. An image that can come pre-loaded or something to that effect with the nuances for the NUC built in.
This?
Sounds to me like it's very different than the "regular" Ubuntu version you'd use on a desktop.
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No - nothing so dramatic.
Install Ubuntu Core on the Intel® NUC | Ubuntu[^]
You hooked into the developer.unbuntu.com area.
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Amtrak Tickets, Schedules and Train Routes
Just try booking a round trip ticket from Hudson (HUD) to Grand Central Station (NYG). If you type in NY, ok, you get a drop down list, pick an item, and it selects the wrong destination!
Defaults to opening the first train of the day, which takes up the whole screen, so you're wondering, W(here)TF are the other options?
Click on a ticket price. Then you have to click on "Add to Cart" which doesn't always seem to work. Those horizontal green and blue things are clickable, even though the mouse pointer stays an arrow making me, at least, think they're not clickable and wondering what they're there for.
And if you want to change something, clicking on the browser's back button erases all data and you have to start from scratch!
Did I mention the layout is atrocious?
The whole booking design is pathetic. You could write it so that you could do the entire round trip on a single screen!
Must have been written in Ruby on Rails (actually, looking at the page source, it doesn't seem so) by an idiot (but this part still is true.)
Sadly, this is probably the result of feedback from computer illiterate people on what originally was an almost equally bad design but at least didn't behave so erratically.
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They don't like travellers much, do they? Reminds me of British Rail ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not so bad, but I've bought tickets from the NJ Path vending machines. The software does work - but where and when you can do things is crazy.
If I recall correctly, if you want more than one ticket you need to go to the checkout page and find the right spot to begin the changes routine. Why would I want to check out if I didn't finish with my selection?
I'm sure the usual riders don't have any problems - but then again, they're from NJ.
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it worked nicely (firefox)
I find the thing works OK, I went up to payment.
Send me your credit card info, and I will do it for you! 
I'd rather be phishing!
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Ya, worked just fine in Chrome for me.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I could not get a train from OH to CA no matter what I tried. And it did not indicate why I couldn't get the train. Really terrible waste of time site.
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