Hey Mak -

Remember my situation with youtube and Vimeo vids positioning themselves in the middle of pages on my system? Other problems were I couldn't use the usual options to center pictures, attach things like Pdf. files, even download files into my posts. Emoticons were only showing 50% of themselves in their options. As were other things - only 50%-ish of the items on the top-toolbar were showing and in this cut-off state, what did show didn't work!

I thought the whole page wasn't loading. Instead of being at 100% - it was actually 80% or something. And there was no options available to change the size-setting to 100% showing in 'options' or anything. I have no clue what was causing this! And guess what? Blue Moon was suffering the same sort of problems. The ONLY browser that was correctly (LOL!) displaying (but it hardly has all the options I need and/or want) was, wait for it, IE! Of course! And this being a Windows 10 OS - it was more than happy to call home (every 5 minutes) and "Tell Daddy!"

Today I (Finally!) found little free App. that simply lets you set it to show a % of an object (Like a browser-page), and I set it for what this anomaly of problems claimed it was already showing: 100%. And guess what? EVERYTHING IS BACK TO NORMAL AND FUNCTIONING AS WAS BEFORE THIS BARGE-LOAD OF PROBLEMS SHOWED UP!

All these problems began right after Windows 10 'Updated' itself. Again. Which it does whether you say it can or not. You have no choice in it's being 'updated' (sabotaged). You can delay these 'updates.' But only for a few hours at most! My guess is it did this to force everyone to use a MicroShaft browser. IE, Cortana, Etc.

But all is well now. Running Firefox and it's running perfectly! But a news article just came out, telling us if we update a Firefox or other non-MSN browser - it will start issuing you warnings that these have dangerous holes in security and various other things - all the while telling "Daddy & the CIA/MI6" what you've been doing this week.


ps - I keep Cortana in a lead-lined box which I buried out in the desert with a buffalo-skull on top of it.

 

Isn't the native Windows browser on 10 called Edge or something? Although I thought the Edge was U2's guitarist.



This is why I run Ubuntu lol.

 

Yes - Edge. Also in that lead-lined box in the desert. I had a field-day on '10' - disposing and disabling 1/2 it's damn "Options" that come with.

 

https://vivaldi.com/

I recommend Vivaldi.

 

Tried it. Hated it.

Thanks anywho!

 

I've been using it since it came out. It works well on Ubuntu and Windows. It's the only browser (apart from Pale Moon) that I trust now.

 

If you like it, and it works as you wish, then stick with it - I figure. I feel that way for my Firefox, after I've tweaked it to my specs. It feels intuitive to me. If Vivaldi does this for you - Hurrah!

 

Firefox is a very good browser. I like it very much.

 

Me too, Nebs! If you ever get corned into Windows 10 yourself - expect a container-ship of troubles - especially your beloved Firefox being blown-up in your face. Let me know. I'll be well-versed in both 'what & how' to get all back up & running as was that has you love it as you do now at his happy moment-in-time!

Oh and Mak? Thanks for posting the two cool U2 music-vids above. They are perfectly positioned and in the correct location(s). It's good to have your music back as something I enjoy seeing! Instead of something requiring my to reach for my "fly-swatter" (Adblocker®) to remove!

FREE! FREE! FREE AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY! WE'RE FREE AT LAST!
The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.​

 

Firefox has always ran well on Ubuntu. I just don't trust Mozilla anymore. Although all the doom and gloom predicted about the XUL transition failed to materialise.

 

I almost set up early this morning. I was all ready and even ventured outside. Transparency was average and it seemed too cool for any real dripping dew. I could see Orion.



Unfortunately a really BRIGHT Moon lit up everything spectacularly. So it wasn't worth it.

 

What adblocker are you using Dave?

 

Me too, Nebs! If you ever get corned into Windows 10 yourself - expect a container-ship of troubles

I prefer not to think about that too much... we should have 10 soon at the job, probably in the next year. It's sad in life when you have to do something you don't want like that.

 

http://kmeleonbrowser.org/

There's always KM (very 'Old Skool' lol)



Or SM ... not quite so 'Old Skool' ...

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/start/



I've customised these browsers a bit, so they won't look like mine when you download them.

 

SM browser? Sado~Masochism?

Must be a MicroShaft company...

Does SM work well, Mak? Would you use it?

 

It's the old Mozilla Suite, but forked. Extensions are a bit limited these days, and it has many of the same rendering problems Firefox has, but it's OK.

 

SM browser? Sado~Masochism?

Must be a MicroShaft company...

Does SM work well, Mak? Would you use it?

LOL the sado-masochism browser hahahah

 

Had another session on Mars last night between about 19:40 ~ 21:30 BST. I used the 150mm Newtonian. I tried several eyepiece combinations with the GSO 2x Barlow, although none of them reached focus. So I ended up only using 1.25" gear combinations with four basic magnifications:

1/ GSO 9mm Plossl & 2x GSO Barlow ~ 200x

2/ Astro Hutech 4mm orthoscopic ~ 225x

3/ GSO 9mm Plossl & 2.5x GSO Barlow ~ 250x

4/ 3.2mm BST StarGuider ~ 281.25x



Three filters were used throughout the session: TeleVue Bandmate Planetary, Baader Contrast Booster and Baader Blue 470nm Bandpass.



The phase was quite apparent. The Terra Sirenum, the Icaria (albedo feature) region and Terra Cimeria could be discerned. The small southern polar cap was also visible, especially with the blue filter.



There were hints of other dark features near the equator. Images above and below are inverted (Cartes du Ciel & the Virtual Planet Atlas).



The VPA image above has been rotated using GIMP to more accurately portray the angle of observation.

 

Had a brief Mars session last night. The weather ended it prematurely, but I did get to test some filters.



The Baader 495nm Longpass was good but the Orange 570nm Longpass was very good and really showed dark surface features well. Unfortunately the weather didn't give me long enough to properly evaluate it.

 

I just examined my #21 Orange and gave it a good blowing and brushing. It's in perfect shape. It's a Hoya from Japan, branded for Orion back around 2001 or 2.

Orion now gets them from China. It's a Synta. I'll take a Hoya anytime.