Piccola has been eating much more lately, and
she's looking so much healthier than a month ago. But I still can't decide how much she wants to eat, and I've been
logging her consumption.
Another thing that I had noticed was the mess she made, leaving lots of bits of food over:
But that stopped a couple of days ago. Now she eats every last piece, and lots of it. In
the last 48 hours she has eaten 569 g of essentially pure beef, 284 g per day. That
compares to the 200 g of pellets per day that we gave to Larissa until recently (I've since increased it
to 300 g, but it's not clear that will stay that way). The change corresponds with a new
delivery of beef. Can it be that she prefers it?
The effects on Piccola are clear. She now has normal weight and seems much more active.
I'm still having difficulty believing that ALDI could sell such dangerous cat food.
Some years ago I discovered that I could suspend a Microsoft “Windows” machine to RAM and save a lot of power,
and I still do so with dischord.lemis.com. But that was “Windows” 7, and it's out of
date. Now on distress.lemis.com I'm using “Windows” 10, itself apparently on the way
out, and I can't find a way to get it to suspend automatically. There's a SHUTDOWN
command that will “hibernate” (suspend to disk), but that has to be invoked from a command
prompt. Still, that's worth it.
Except that it doesn't work! Lately I've discovered that the machine will shut down for a
few hours, and then it restarts for no obvious reason. I suspect it is some undocumented
Microsof behaviour, maybe something like a cron job.
Piccola continues to eat voraciously, while
Larissa seems to find 300 g per day
too much; we'll put her back to 250 g from tomorrow.
One thing that I've noticed is that Piccola started eating more since Wednesday, when she
got a fresh batch of meat. It looks very different, here on the right:
One of the first things I do every morning is to download new videos from German TV
providers. I use an old version of MediathekView because the newer versions are so Linux-centric that I have difficulty
installing them. This is also an obstacle in my upgrade to hydra.
But lately I've been having difficulties with some series: I get poorly defined
“permissions” error messages and have to download them manually. And then today a whole lot
of older episodes of „Notruf
Hafenkante“ cropped up—all only in low resolution and without subtitles. In addition
there was a new episode of „Der
Staatsanwalt“, also low resolution. On the positive side, I had no difficulties
downloading the episodes.
But why should a brand-new episode be only in low resolution? Off to download „Der
Staatsanwalt“ manually. Surprise, surprise:
=== grog@tiwi (/dev/pts/5) /spool/MediathekView 472 -> ls -l Staatsanwalt/ /spool/Series/Staatsanwalt/18/ /spool/Series/Staatsanwalt/18/:
-rw-r--r-- 2 grog home 76392 26 Jan 00:04 18-04-Wein_und_Mord.deu.vtt
-rw-r--r-- 2 grog home 2380483160 28 Jan 13:39 18-04-Wein_und_Mord.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 2 grog home 119246 28 Jan 10:23 18-04-Wein-und-Mord-20230203-201500.srt
Staatsanwalt/:
-rw-r--r-- 1 grog home 579832497 28 Jan 10:44 Wein-und-Mord-20230203-201500.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 grog home 119246 28 Jan 10:23 Wein-und-Mord-20230203-201500.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 grog home 242742 28 Jan 10:23 Wein-und-Mord-20230203-201500.ttml
-rw-r--r-- 1 grog home 557 28 Jan 10:23 Wein-und-Mord-20230203-201500.txt
=== grog@tiwi (/dev/pts/5) /spool/MediathekView 473 -> mpid Staatsanwalt/Wein-und-Mord-20230203-201500.mp4 /spool/Series/Staatsanwalt/18/18-04-Wein_und_Mord.mp4 Staatsanwalt/Wein-und-Mord-20230203-201500.mp4 VIDEO: [H264] 960x540 24bpp 25.000 fps 1183.5 kbps (144.5 kbyte/s)
/spool/Series/Staatsanwalt/18/18-04-Wein_und_Mord.mp4 VIDEO: [H264] 1920x1080 24bpp 50.000 fps 5270.1 kbps (643.3 kbyte/s)
Most videos are in 720p, but this time I got 540i from MediathekView and 1080p from a direct
download. Why? Is this because of an old version of MediathekView? It seems unlikely. In
addition, something that I had noted before: the subtitles from MediathekView have
extensions .ttml and .sub, while the direct downloads are usually
only .deu.vtt or .de.vtt. The former appears to be the standard .sub
format, while the latter can be either that or .ttml. Clearly MediathekView has done
some needed tidying up—when it works.
As part of migrating to hydra, processed my weekly house photos on hydra. That started
surprisingly well; the biggest issue was that I only had two monitors, while I used to do
the processing on eureka server 1:, which spans all four monitors. And I no
longer have that: the second monitor is no longer connected to eureka at all.
And of course it all looks different, due to some library or another. And the fast preview
window comes up blank. To get it to work at all, I need to click on the “start fast preview”
button. And for reasons I haven't investigated, it lists file names in reverse order. But
apart from that, it seemed to work.
Oh. This image came up with a big underexposed smudge at the border between two images
about 25% of the way from left:
OK, try it manually. That came up with all sorts of problems. The “align images” function
hung in cpclean. I left it running for a while and did something else, but after 1½
hours I have to accept that it's not going to finish:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
17930 grog 1 108 5 1657M 111M CPU6 6 89:02 99.99% cpclean
So I used the PTO file generated from my batch script. But for some reason the arena
on the left and the rear part of the driveway on the right are overexposed. We can fix
that: change the parameters for the underlying images. But that hung hugin completely, and I had to shoot it down.
Both on eureka and on hydra. And when I tried to stitch it on hydra,
it failed. From the log:
Blending images...
enblend: internal error: unhandled command line option
What's that? There's nothing in that specific image that uses different options, and it
worked on eureka. Somehow hugin has come up with multiple issues at once, and
I don't know where to go from here.
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