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Rare ReBoot mention in the wild?

The world needs more “those guys”, especially when they actually know what they’re talking about.

I was only quoting the explanation, but as far as I can tell, part of the joke is that the paper was so regularly riddled with typesetting and spelling errors that The Guardian could make an error with an unchanging block that should be almost impossible to get wrong without deliberate effort.

As to whether they meant the nameplate or the masthead, this is a distinction I’d never heard about before, so I’ve learnt something there!

The Guardian doesn’t have the nickname “The Grauniad” for nothing, a paper likely to spell its own masthead wrong.

The nickname Grauniad was reportedly coined by the British satirical magazine Private Eye. This seems to be confirmed by the following, from The Economist (London) of 27th November 1971:

All the characters of Private Eye’s earliest days survive—Lord Gnome, the Grauniad, Lunchtime O’Booze—giving a curious cosy familiarity to each issue.

10:13pm or 8:13pm? I can see how this is confusing… perhaps another cartoon with more guidance might be needed.

Personally I like date time groups: 272013 Feb 2013

Mini Metro+ is also free on Apple Arcade

I still use my Garmin Geko even now. Useful as a basic device recording a track I can geocode photos with, and runs for days on two AAA batteries. In a pinch you can reverse a track and go back the way you came too 😅

According to ChatGPT there are 799 episodes of Star Trek from TNG onwards (this is just my personal preference… you may wish to include TOS and TAS)

At one a night, that will take over two years, in which time, there will doubtless be another series or four, plus extra seasons of the existing ones…

If it’s present, and loop guard is enabled, it would block the ports. This looks like an unmanaged switch so probably doesn’t have that feature.

Most of Netgear’s managed switch range have a loop guard function, even if they don’t do full STP.