Indeed!
I had FTTP with Zen Internet installed back in early November and got rid of virgin media, at last! Next, had a new TV aerial installed for freeview.
The only channels that I missed having were the Discovery ones so for £4.99/month I took out a Discovery+ subscription and was happy. Then after a couple of months they said my subscription was going down to £3.99/month but they were then sticking in adverts which screwed everything up.
Oh, for £6.99/month you get no ads plus some sport, so they got the finger and no more money.

That should be a simple matter, just like the John Deere equipment that the russians thieved from Ukraine.

I'm thinking, a pair of D11s with a nice heavy steel cable between them.

Spread it on land for fertiliser? Wouldn't be the first time.

Sherwood

Rebecca. A book that's never, ever been out of print according to Wikipedia.
Also by Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn and Frenchman's Creek.
Also enjoyed and recommended, Agent Sonya by Ben MacIntyre
Very highly recommended, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

as far as I can spit cherry stones.

Great idea to get them out of the employ of the Putin creature, just give them rent free coastal apartments somewhere quiet, pensions to live on the beach and a bullet if they go within 10 miles of any research/development establishment.

Why? I recently read a book about the life of one Ursula Kuczynski.

I hear Nome and Deadhorse are lovely this time of the year.

Indeed, well worth watching.

I cannot help wondering, how long would it take to install the extra equipment to an already working facility to extract neon? For example, I've seen from a transfer coach from Barcelona airport to El Tarter, an Air Liquide plant that looks like it extracts rather more than just oxygen and nitrogen. I know little about the process but there's many gas containment vessels of various sizes....

That didn't work for me but gave me a clue to start looking, thank you:-
$ rustc -C prefer-dynamic=yes hello.rs
$ ls -l
total 40
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dave dave 18536 Feb 27 08:42 hello
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 609 Jun 19 2021 hello.rs

debuginfo appears to default to 0

Can somebody please explain why on my Linux Mint laptop the source code:-
fn main() {
        println!("Hello World!");
        println!("I'm a Rustacean!");
}

with compiled with
rustc hello.rs

turns into an 11MB file?
$ ls -l
total 10720
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dave dave 10955904 Feb 26 23:44 hello
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 609 Jun 19 2021 hello.rs

A sensible executable size might encourage me to go beyond Hello World.

See here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
for the documentary of the project.

in Doncaster actually. I have been enormously grateful for the last 59 years that the whole family moved many miles away to a country location when I was still pre school age. If I never see the town again that will be fine.

I don't recall Drax from that age but do remember fairly regularly seeing Ferrybridge power station from the back of Dad's Jowett Javelin. Specifically the trains and canal barges offloading thousands of tons of coal. The whole place was filthy and the pollution must have been horrendous.

Then there was the River Don in the town. I also remember Dad lifting me up to see over the bridge parapet to look down in delight at all of the presumably detergent froth and bubbles on the water from all of the effluent that was being dumped into it.

These practices all have been radically cleaned up since then thankfully. Burning renewable biomass really doesn't worry me. What does worry me is the expanding population of the last maybe 10 decades. I am the last of 5 siblings. It's people who cause carbon pollution and I very much believe that if the global population were the same today as it was 100 years ago it would not be a problem.

(Leading comments removed)

dave@NB520:~/Rust/HelloWorld$ cat hello.rs
fn main() { // Statements here are executed when the compiled binary is called // Print text to the console
        println!("Hello World!");
        println!("I'm a Rustacean!");
}

dave@NB520:~/Rust/HelloWorld$ rustc hello.rs
dave@NB520:~/Rust/HelloWorld$ ls -l
total 9808
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dave dave 10019648 Nov 13 22:51 hello
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 609 Jun 19 20:30 hello.rs
dave@NB520:~/Rust/HelloWorld$ ./hello
Hello World!
I'm a Rustacean!
dave@NB520:~/Rust/HelloWorld$

So how the hell does a 609 bytes (incliding leading comments) turn into a 10019648 bytes executable? Absolutely ridiculous. Until somebody can show me how to compile it into a sensible sized executable I'll just use C or C++ for my projects.

I want to second this.

Their service WAS working well for years but now it's become, for want of a better word for me, an embarrassment. Some evenings their WiFi was down and up, several times an hour like a whore's drawers. Sometimes the router, their "Super"hub 2 would crash completely even though it's always had its power supply protected by a UPS! Complaints about this resulted in bullshit suggestions that perhaps having other houses in the vicinity was resulting in their WiFi interfering with my WiFi. Further complaint resulted in them sending out a hub 4 and new TV box with a shiny new 18 month contract. Not being stupid enough to to dumbly plug the new hub into their network and activate it I first powered it up and tried to configure it with my laptop. When the fucking thing refused to allow me to forward port 25 for my personal email server saying "The configured port range cannot contain one of the following reserved ports: 25,53,135,137,138,139,161,162, 445,1080" (I kept a pdf of the page), I phoned again telling them to send a technician around to my house to collect their shit and never darken my doorstep again.

Fortunately for me Openreach had recently extended proper cabling into my area so I consulted my friends about alternative ISPs and got recommendations for either A&A or Zen. I opted for Zen, who rapidly answer the phone or email even if one is already a customer. Same day, they sent out by email my static IPv4 address and terminal box login details and a few days later sent out Openreach to install fibre optic cable directly into the room where I have my network router. A very good friend helped me out with getting a couple of re-flashed OpenWRT routers via eBay and gave me a full day of his time teaching me about IPv6. Very late one evening I had sent an email request to Zen for IPv6 to be activated and early next morning they had done so.

Now, I'm just waiting for the virmin media cable to die. They insist that they get a 30 day notice period even though I'm already fixed up with something else that works infinitely better than them with my own A, AAAA and MX records now properly set up. I guess they see it as a means of squeezing another £100 out of disgruntled ex customers for nothing.

Meanwhile they keep on sending out TV advertising bigging themselves up like they're the greatest ever. No static IPv4 address and STILL no IPv6 service. Dinosaurs.

Australian wine,
Australian meat,
Australian anything

I hope everybody else does the same