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If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.

2019-06-17 13:48:37

Re: Tokyo - San Francisco 2019

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Bimmer:- What is AGL and where do I find it? I'm not a router user, but sometimes getting out of a restricted start area can be a real chore late at night.
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2019-04-21 13:28:14

Re: Joao - psail

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May I suggest that these be big races, the Northern race from Greece to the Baltic, while the Southern race to be to circum-navigate Australia and New Zealand. This way, all of our 'departed' Solers will be included.
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2018-12-29 02:46:03

Re: Santorini

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Remember those "Sirens"? Homer was just being polite...…

The views expressed here are my own, not to be ascribed to Homer or his later followers. they are derived from my realisation that the Greek boats of that early time could not have been capable of voyaging as far as the Straits of Gibraltar, which would not have been known then as the Pillars of Hercules.
I hope some scholar of Greek mythology will find that 'bump of curiosity' to follow up on this general idea.

--- Last Edited by Rod at 2018-12-29 14:49:37 ---
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2018-12-29 02:44:19

Re: Santorini

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Find the island of Karavos, find a photo of it. There is one in the Google Earth view, which shows three rocky stumps. You are looking at the Pillars of Hercules, which old Herc 'cast down'. Note that they are on the direct route from Athens to Santorini. Santorini was part of the Atlantis (Crete) political state, and both were destroyed when the volcano at Santorini erupted.
Homer was writing some 400 years later, and just romanticised their political system. The Odyssey just describes the voyage in a 4-5 man fishing boat from Athens area to Santorini, going from island to visible island, which took a long time because Ulysses either got lost or went off exploring rather than going home to the wife and family!

--- Last Edited by Rod at 2018-12-29 14:43:10 ---
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2018-11-19 04:13:42

Re: Jerky screen movements on a desk-top computer screen

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Just how do I get any answer at all on this Forum?
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2018-11-16 17:19:09

Jerky screen movements on a desk-top computer screen

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Has anyone else found that movements of the screen position using the mouse control are very jerky and irregular? This occurs only on the SOL screen, others that I use are still smooth as previously.
The screen movements occur in discrete steps, making it hard to position the centre of the screen except by using the double-click method.
Is this a SOL error, or is it specific to my own computer?
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2018-06-28 21:02:10

Re: Interface lagging and jerky on map area of the display

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Where do I find the "Flash Cache"? I have to re-authorise Flash every time I log in to SOL, and click "allow always" again and again. Is this everyone elses experience of is it just me??
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2018-06-28 20:51:36

Re: Golden Globe Races 2018 - Seat Of The Pants commitment

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SOTP---as usual! Rod
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2018-04-16 13:15:07

Re: Golden Globe Races 2018 - Seat Of The Pants commitment

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It is not suffering! It is exercising your OWN brain, rather than relying on the previous exercise of someone else's brain...
Just consider it a Gift from SOL!
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
2018-04-15 03:20:15

Re: Golden Globe Races 2018 - Seat Of The Pants commitment

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Total agreement! I sail SOTP all the time, not because I am old-fashioned, but because I am 84 and need to keep the "old grey cells" churning away at problems---like the wind and weather!
It is just too easy to stop thinking...and then you stop living.
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.

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