Network/IT guy, started work on VAX computers.
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Last Notes npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…t03n My mother had Alzheimer's and episodes of psychosis. The geriatric doctor had spent time explaining the effects to us and how to spot the progress of disease. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t More likely USA will be thrown outof NATO since Trump ios aligned iwth Putin. Putin doesn't want Trump to leave NATO as he is Russia's spokesperson at NATO. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei #Parigo 289 – Paris, nouvelle Amsterdam ? npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t As long as Putin uses Trump as negotiator, Putin will win Ukraine. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t I disagree. They should give the US liquor to Racoons and film the racoon's behaviour 🙂 npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t @nprofile…mu80 Between Kitimat and Inside Passage/Ocean is Gill Island. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t The fully electric buses in Montréal (new Flyers) aren'tactually fully electric ! They have an oil furnace for heating of bus in winter !!!! npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t On first question, I don't know that Trump is a paedophile. But he likes young women. Just checkled the age of Miss USA winners during Trump's tenure and yougest was 20. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t Congratulations on your birthday. I know you worked hard during the past 365.25 days to achieve this new milestone. Hope the wife rewards you for your accomplishement ! npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t why a double nat? npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t Since docker is an app on OS-X, its request to listen to a port needs to be authorized by OS-X's IP stack and it is OS-X that gets the packet from the ethernet port , sees it is a port that is listened to by the docker app and passes packet to the app. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t There were some clouds on yesterday's satellite pass over Jamaica October 20th vs Oct 30 npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…s67t In honour of the Blue Jays win, I shall reward them by puting some peanuts out on my balcony tomorrow ! npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc Carney is stuck between a rock and a hard place.If all of Canada beleived in fighting Climate change, he might have easier job, but with one nameless province who is threateningt o sepearte if they don't get their oil business, by doing "photo op" promise on Keystone XL, Carney may kill two birs with one stone by pleasing both Trump and Smith. What remains to be seen is whether this is a photo op] knowing there is no business case for project to go ahead or whether he really intends to build this. Increasing dependence on oil exports to USA is bad. (even if Oil weren't destroying the planet). npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc first hard drive I purchased was. 20MB SCSI external drive fir my Mac Plus. At McGill University , we were allowed 60KB of disk storage. Have to wonder if storage will stabilize.e or people will keep on needing more and more storage. Apparently there are now 36TB drives. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc I am also in need of replacement for SATA drives (4TB) so I am all ears to suggestions. Want the quality ones (long spin hours, not the cheap residential cheap stuff) (In old days, HGST were good). npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc A few days ago, you posted about climate change and ocean currents. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei Irony: the guy who got away with illegally storing national security documents in his motel bathroom is having John Bolton’s home searched so he can be arrested when they find (planted?) natl security docs. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…xrm4 @nprofile…a7x2 VIA Rain continued the train service till 1981. During its short stint under VIA management starting in 1978 the train was wildly succesfull and VIA had to replace the couple of RDCs with full fledged train with 2 locos and about 9 trans continental coaches and baggage car for all cyclists and some canoes/kayaks. In 1981, the government decided it had to be cut despite its success. CP kept tracks till about 1989 and ran a couple of freights on it. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…cdng @nprofile…wuyc the idea has crossed my mind. But it would be more to secure his Moscow hotel project , Ukraine would be secondary clause in deal to hand over Alaska. The problem is that Alaska has oil and Trump feels obligation towards oil industry. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc from an environmental point of view, you should ask city of it is ok to empty « pool » into sewer. Adds to demand at water filtration plant. Some cities have separate systems for sewer and rain water. During big rainstorm, rainwater system can be allowed to overflow into river/lake without too much damage. When they are combined it is raw sewage that overflows into river. Water absorbed by ground is the preferred solution. (Obviously your small amounts are not a problem but it is question of principle.) In Las Vegas , it is opposite. They want as much water back into sewer system so it can be dumped back into Lake Mead after treatment which gives city credits to draw more water from Lake Mead. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…dc6s Québec used ti have huge pharmaceutical industry. Many mergers have eliminated players. Much was then concentrated to USA. Merck downsized it’s Kirkland QC plant with huge R&D down to sales office. So it isn’t that easy to bring back R&D capability. But yes there is an opportunity but not obvious as US pharma enjoy their current paradise with easily bribed government and European pharma already have their r&D in eurooe. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc correct wording is : "weapons were used against people". There have been plenty of nuclear tests with bombs detonated in a number of places around the world, including Nevada, the south pacific (USA and France), russia. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc Any risk of the 4 between Alberni and Parksville being closed to Cameron Lake fire? npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei The history of the GM "New Look" transit bus from 1959 till the 1980s. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…2p96 @nprofile…dc6s western countries boycotted the Moscow 1980 Olympics due to its invasion of Afghanistan. Warsaw pact countries boycotted the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics. Suspect the Trumo regime will be told by IOC to suspend his Gestapo operations and make border crossings safe for athletes and visitors of all countries including the ones Trump banned. U less this Halle a there will be boycotts fron countries that can’t safely travel to USA and there will be no foreign tourists. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…ug6l @nprofile…maqk in fairness , Carney has minority government. And no assured support from bloc/ndp like last time so he has to govern more to the right to please CPC voters with reduces chances of CPC MPs wanting to bring down govt. but it seems to be pleasing CPC a bit too much. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc I also have my trusty 60csx . Last of actual "GPS" units before Garmin went into consumer goods. And yes, in rain, I give it a umbrella because on a bike rillinf at speed, the rain does penetrate the unit. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…l4zs @nprofile…wuyc I the case of BC Ferries, they used to be a provincial crown corp that BC people were proud of. But the then government privatized it, and ever since, everyone of its moves has received huge amount of scrutiny because the penny pinchers at BC Ferries are in charge and service has degraded. So when penny pinchers order ship from abroad instead of built locally, it makes news because if it had been govt enterprise, it would have likely ordered locally made ships. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc @nprofile…maqk I courted their votes thinking they were moderate, but in enabling them, it pushed the base to be more extremist and the base forced Poilievre to suport more extremist views. Not sure I would accuse Poilievre of being extremist, but he just gave extremists the green light isntead of refusing to condone them. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…maqk @nprofile…wuyc Poilièvre adoption of the MAGA culture war and disinformation to feed "red meat" to their base was a huge mistake. He and the part should admit to the mistake and promise to retur party to serious fact based conservative governance. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc MLO has supported hundreds of cooperative research programs with national and international universities and government organizations. (so likely Canada as a guest who was supported). npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei The new software not only hides posts frm people on local instance that we follow but also has removed essential buttons where you have a small "app sized" browser window. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…gfyr @nprofile…wuyc The 5% is designed to please the new dictator, King Donald. It is actually 3.5% on military spending, and the rest is on infrastructure and other civilian which helps with "resiliency" according to Mark Carney. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc The DNC still hasn't decided why hey lost the election and whether they should move towards MAGA to gain votes, or move towards AOC/Bernie policies. As is the case with USA system, the losing party is without a leader until next election. Pelosi was good with process at Congress. Her replacement is stuck since there is no process when you not only have no majority, but Congress as a whole is not functioning as they transformed legislative branch into a Trump Org branch office. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc but a cute cuddly bear didnt stand in front of the window of conference room and beg for world leader to pet him :-) or a mother bringing her Cubs to play in front of window, totally distracting world leaders who would watch the cute teddy bears play instead of discussing world affairs 🤩 npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc Shore power isn'.t just the installation of a plug at he dock, but also pretty substantial power station to supply he huge amount of watts going into a ship for a quick recharge. Curious if they will have automated plugs of f crewmembers will have to connect and disconnect the glorified extension plugs. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc Thanks. This is interesting. I am curious on whether time at dock will be sufficient to recharge the ferry between crossings, or whether it will only get a full charge overnight which will allow morning crossings on battery and will then need the diesel. Still better than diesel all he time. Usually when one hears "hybrid" it means i runs on diesel almost all the time, and electric is just temporary "assists" when you accelerate. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…c5n8 article is paywalled, but how do they plan customs for the Frankfurt-London and Geneva-London direction? Stopping at Lille to get people off train, clear customs and reboard train makes service uncompetitive. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc @nprofile…l4zs Australia considered this in the 1990s but the process of choosing/electing a head of state couldn't be agreed upon so whole plan ditched for while. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc One has to be careful with such language. Preston Manning and Calgary Mayor Ralph Klein had much rethoric about "Let Québec separate, good riddance". And such rethoric really fueled separatism in Québec since anglophones made us feel very unwelcome in Rest Of Canada. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc In french here is a saying: «ne pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué». Don't sell the bear's skin before you've killed it. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc Do you have a link to the Yukon charging stations ? When I did the Dempster in '89, '90 and '91, It was about 370 (don't beleive the sign :-) from turnoff 40km east of Dawson to Eagle Plains hotel with absolutely 0 services in between. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @nprofile…wuyc @nprofile…tqva Fun fact, as I reached Warrakurna (Giles meteological station is there and the most remote in Australia), I saw a dad with son decimated because they were told they couldn't proceed further west (where I had come from) because their car wasn't made for the outback (not high enough). npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei Trudeau as set back climate goals now claiming to drop 50% by 2035. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei Ad from Kamala Harris 2020 primary campaign. Imagine this running today. It is still as valid as ever. (extracted frm Bullwark video). npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1lks…a4mq If it runs in kernel mode it can still crash the system. The issue here is code that is fed incorrect data and does not validate it and crashes. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei White House stff seated at the press conference. Will Jil allow Biden to show up past his bed time? :-) npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei Wednesday afternoon Calgary press conference. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1mmf…eknq Gap just narrowed. 1.6% difference. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1lf4…kcjr Air defence being succesful still results in debris of the missiles falling down from the sky. I got concerned when I saw the report and nothing from you 😟 npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1lf4…kcjr are you OK? npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1e4s…35mt @npub14ka…um78 a real leader would tell his/her followers that the trans thing isn’t a problem and to stop trying to make it a problem. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1jtr…eyqs Your much beloved Dodge RAM has got competition in the small sub-compact car category ! The Ford F650 npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1lf4…kcjr When did you ove from Monréal to Toronto? npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1lf4…kcjr Are there flight manifests on private jets? npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub15x4…3p3l @npub1a24…dkqm FYI, despite the word "open" in the URL, Spotify doesn't allow non subscribers to listen to podcasts. npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei @npub1qzc…yetl @npub1jzw…8apd Don't forget the steel industry which is in politically sensitive states. Protecting personal cars that rely on so much steel keeps the steel industry alive. Moving to public transit is far more efficient and requires far less steel per passenger carried. Countries that don't have car assembly or steel industry have far easier time moving towards sustainable transit than those that have political dependance on the car and steel industries npub1pm9qmzc2yc843qqnhp6dkedj36mxp25gt4pw65u4ylcs78t06x0sma409u Jean-Francois Mezei Steven Spielberg's new row boat. Only 109m long. Not sure how many pools on it though.
