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[faeychild]

The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
It's not my end; I've checked "alt.test"

I wonder is it something to do with

-No more Linux problems (a miracle has occurred)

-Covid

-Putin

-something else

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by faeychild
The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
It's not my end; I've checked "alt.test"
I wonder is it something to do with
-No more Linux problems (a miracle has occurred)
-Covid
-Putin
-something else

Likely Putin. I've kept up doing things like adding advisories to svn, and reading
the mailing lists, but have been spending quite a bit of time following the invasion
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[faeychild]

Post by David W. Hodgins
Likely Putin. I've kept up doing things like adding advisories to svn, and reading
the mailing lists, but have been spending quite a bit of time following the invasion
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877
Regards, Dave Hodgins

I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.

It least the mud stays frozen and maybe Putin wont be repeating the Nazi
invasion of Russia. That would be poetic

I am currently embroiled with Handbrake re-enabled "autocrop"
I only discovered this after processing several hours of TV stream.
It pales into insignificance against the Ukraine disaster, though

regards

[Daniel65]

Post by faeychild

Post by David W. Hodgins
Likely Putin. I've kept up doing things like adding advisories to
svn, and reading the mailing lists, but have been spending quite a
bit of time following the invasion
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877
Regards, Dave Hodgins

I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.
It least the mud stays frozen and maybe Putin wont be repeating the
Nazi invasion of Russia. That would be poetic

I had wondered about his timing, myself!!

At least he waited until after the Winter Olympics!! ;-P

[faeychild]

Post by Daniel65
At least he waited until after the Winter Olympics!! ;-P

Ah yes! The pharmaceutical games
Whose undetectable performance enhancing drug will win gold :-)

[TJ]

Post by faeychild
I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.

My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would have
expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American farmer brain
was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the civilized world,
were very likely talking "C."

I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C would
feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable, especially for
younger folks, after the weather that is usually experienced in January
and February.

TJ

[Bobbie Sellers]

Post by TJ

Post by faeychild
I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.

My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would have
expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American farmer brain
was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the civilized world,
were very likely talking "C."
I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C would
feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable, especially for
younger folks, after the weather that is usually experienced in January
and February.
TJ

The soil is frozen hard enough to support tanks. War in Winter is how
the USSR beat the NAZI in WW II. But then aside from the anti-semites
the Ukraine was on the same side.
Putin assumed that he could crush the opposition in one bold
stroke and failed to plan for an extended war. This is logistic mistake
equivalent to the Hitlerian Armies failure. Putin is a Fascist and
follows their errors to the letter.

bliss

[faeychild]

    The soil is frozen hard enough to support tanks.  War in Winter is
how the USSR beat the NAZI in WW II.  But then aside from the
anti-semites the Ukraine was on the same side.
    Putin assumed that he could crush the opposition in one bold
stroke and failed to plan for an extended war. This is logistic mistake
equivalent to the Hitlerian Armies failure.  Putin is a Fascist and
follows their errors to the letter.
    bliss

I always like the observation about failure to study history condemns
one to repeat it.

I'm sure some of his advisors have tried. But there exists some
situations where it is inadvisable to suggest that the fearless leader
may be wrong. :-[

[Aragorn]

Post by Bobbie Sellers

Post by TJ

Post by faeychild
I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.

My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would
have expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American
farmer brain was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the
civilized world, were very likely talking "C."
I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C
would feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable,
especially for younger folks, after the weather that is usually
experienced in January and February.
TJ

The soil is frozen hard enough to support tanks. War in
Winter is how the USSR beat the NAZI in WW II. But then aside from
the anti-semites the Ukraine was on the same side.
Putin assumed that he could crush the opposition in one bold
stroke and failed to plan for an extended war. This is logistic
mistake equivalent to the Hitlerian Armies failure. Putin is a
Fascist and follows their errors to the letter.

The big difference of course is that Hitler didn't possess any nukes.
Putin does, and he won't have a qualm using them either. He's the kind
of guy who would rather go out in a ball of fire than to admit defeat.

He's already using cluster bombs and thermobaric bombs right now, and
the Chernobyl installation was the first thing the Russian military
took control of after the invasion. Brief radiation spikes were
detected as they were doing so. It's not unthinkable that Putin
decided to make Chernobyl into the world's biggest dirty bomb, just in
case.

[William Unruh]

Post by TJ

Post by faeychild
I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.

My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would have
expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American farmer brain
was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the civilized world,
were very likely talking "C."
I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C would
feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable, especially for
younger folks, after the weather that is usually experienced in January
and February.

0C is melting weather, ang the soil of the Ukraine can turn into gumbo
making driving of trucks/tanks etc across fields an exercise in
futility, as the Germans ( and earlier invasions) discovered. I believe
that was what was being referred to.

Post by TJ
TJ

[Aragorn]

Post by William Unruh

Post by TJ

Post by faeychild
I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.

My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would
have expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American
farmer brain was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the
civilized world, were very likely talking "C."
I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C
would feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable,
especially for younger folks, after the weather that is usually
experienced in January and February.

What it feels like is less important than whether tanks and other
heavy/armored vehicles can propel themselves across the land without
getting stuck.

Russian troops are commonly used to very low temperatures. They
themselves won't have any problems with that.

Post by William Unruh
0C is melting weather, ang the soil of the Ukraine can turn into gumbo
making driving of trucks/tanks etc across fields an exercise in
futility, as the Germans ( and earlier invasions) discovered. I
believe that was what was being referred to.

If the average ambient temperature is 0°C, then the soil will still be
several degrees Celsius colder than that — anywhere from -2°C to -10°C,
depending on whether it's exposed to direct sunlight or whether it's
cloudy and perhaps if there's a shade. Not quite at the thawing point
yet.

If it's 0°C on the ground, then the ambient temperature will commonly
already be around 4-5°C, and then you do of course get a thaw, and thus
a muck on the ground.

[Marja van Waes]

Post by faeychild
The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
It's not my end; I've checked  "alt.test"
I wonder is it something to do with
     -No more Linux problems  (a miracle has occurred)
     -Covid
      -Putin
      -something else

For me it is that "something else", I've only very occasionally been
active here, after trying to catch up with the mailing lists there was
only too rarely time to post here. And now that XS4ALL is more or less
dying and is completely ending its usenet support, I doubt I'll take an
account somewhere else. My new ISP doesn't intend to enable access to
news groups.

Anyway, good luck to you all!

Kind regards,
Marja

[Aragorn]

Post by Marja van Waes

Post by faeychild
The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
It's not my end; I've checked  "alt.test"
I wonder is it something to do with
     -No more Linux problems  (a miracle has occurred)
     -Covid
      -Putin
      -something else

For me it is that "something else", I've only very occasionally been
active here, after trying to catch up with the mailing lists there
was only too rarely time to post here. And now that XS4ALL is more or
less dying and is completely ending its usenet support, I doubt I'll
take an account somewhere else. My new ISP doesn't intend to enable
access to news groups.

news.eternal-september.org is completely free of charge, Marja. You do
have to register for an account at their website but registration is
free, and access is unlimited, except that they don't support binaries.

The server is located in Germany, and they offer a number of freely
accessible newsgroups — i.e. that you can read and post to without
logging in — for support.

https://www.eternal-september.org

You use the SMTP of your ISP for sending, and a news client of your
preference for reading. They support both encrypted and non-encrypted
connections. All of the details are provided on their website. ;)

[marchugo]

Post by Marja van Waes

Post by faeychild
The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
It's not my end; I've checked  "alt.test"
I wonder is it something to do with
      -No more Linux problems  (a miracle has occurred)
      -Covid
       -Putin
       -something else

For me it is that "something else", I've only very occasionally been
active here, after trying to catch up with the mailing lists there was
only too rarely time to post here. And now that XS4ALL is more or less
dying and is completely ending its usenet support, I doubt I'll take an
account somewhere else. My new ISP doesn't intend to enable access to
news groups.
Anyway, good luck to you all!
Kind regards,
Marja

Marja,

I'm reading this newsgroup on news.kpn.nl, so they still support usenet
groups.

All the best,

Marc.

[Doug Laidlaw]

Post by marchugo

Post by Marja van Waes

Post by faeychild
The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
It's not my end; I've checked  "alt.test"
I wonder is it something to do with
      -No more Linux problems  (a miracle has occurred)
      -Covid
       -Putin
       -something else

For me it is that "something else", I've only very occasionally been
active here, after trying to catch up with the mailing lists there was
only too rarely time to post here. And now that XS4ALL is more or less
dying and is completely ending its usenet support, I doubt I'll take
an account somewhere else. My new ISP doesn't intend to enable access
to news groups.
Anyway, good luck to you all!
Kind regards,
Marja

Marja,
I'm reading this newsgroup on news.kpn.nl, so they still support usenet
groups.
All the best,
Marc.

I have noticed that the ng has never been active daily. I thought that
it was normal.