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nukecad last won the day on October 6 2023
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Some things you can keep and use for years, although things like rarely used spices will loose some flavour. Others have much shorter shelf lives that need to be respected. The sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in baking powder does loose efficacy over time and so with older powder your baking won't rise, or won't rise as much. If you are not sure if it's still potent then test it by dropping a bit into an acidic liquid, such as vinegar or lemon juice, and seeing if it still fizzes vigorously. If it's lost it's fizz then you can still use it for cleaning, or as a deodouriser for fridges and cupboards, just don't use it for baking. https://www.marthastewart.com/8106408/how-test-baking-soda-still-good
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There's no infringement, just different parts of the world. You call it 'Scrub Daddy Cif' on that side of the Atlantic. Over here it can be bought as either Jif or Cif (without the Scrub Daddy) mainly depending in which country it was produced/packaged. Trade names are often used for very different products in different countries. Be careful how you use this 3M sticky tape:
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I had another though about this UC freezing that I'm seeing, so did some testing. I changed the scan priority: Result - no more UI freezing, but obviously longer to scan. (I didn't have anything else open myself, but of course Windows is always doing stuff in the background). I then switched back to higher priority scans, quit Malwarebytes, Restarted the laptop, and ran a new scan. The freezing behaviour returned, but oddly had changed. It now froze for shorter periods and at multiple various stages throughout the whole scan - more 'stuttering' than freezing. Possibly that's a consequence of running multiple scans in short succession? I then tested the same tweak on the other machine. A scan run in lower priority mode showed no UI freezing there either. Switching back to higher priority scans and Restarting the laptop etc, again resulted in more of a stuttering than a freezing. To me it looks very much like a buffering issue, such as you will sometimes see when streaming media,
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Err, not thanks, not in the UK. Although it might be OK for cleaning the crusted Peanut Butter off your keyboard.
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It's happening with every scan on both machines. The scans themselves are not freezing and they do complete in reasonable time, it's just the UI that stops showing the progress for a while. So it's no big problem - if you know it happens. Additional, while typing this I was running another scan on the second laptop. (Just to check if it was still doing it today). This time the display froze twice, firstly at Scaning memory for a few minutes, then it jumped to Scanning file system and froze there for another minute or so.
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nukecad started following Is this normal?? , Malwarebytes 5 , Solar Eclipse 2024 on Monday April 8 and 1 other
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I clean installed v5 on 2 laptops yesterday, I cancelled the trials so both are in scan only mode and not running real time. Both laptops are running Windows 10 22H2, up to date with yesterdays (12th March) Patch Tuesday. I don't have any particular issue with the new UI at this time, however I do have a bug report. Both machines manifest the same glitch in the UI Dashboard when running a manual scan. They both have the display of progress stick at 'Scanning Memory', the 'Scan time' is frozen and the blue circle no longer rotates. (In this screenshot it's stuck at 02:55 but the time varies). The Taskbar Icon still indicates activity (moving green shading) and checking in Task Manager the scan is still running and is accesing the OS drive. The UI remains in that frozen state for a number of minutes and only resumes showing progress shortly before the scan completes. ETA - Just watching it more closely on the second machine I notice that the 'Scanning memory' stutters and freezes a number of times, but just for a few seconds, before finally freezing for most of the remainder of the scan.
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Knowing New Tricks' prediliction here's a pink Periwinkle: https://www.gardenia.net/plant/cathranthus-roseus-periwinkle-vinca (That one is also called Running Myrtle - maybe the neighbour got caught creeping about and is hurrying away blushing in embarassment?)
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Having now done some searching I have decided that it's a variety of Periwinkle, possibly Creeping Myrtle although that seems to have narrower petals than mine. I guess I'll never know which variety for sure. (PS. Creeping Myrtle sounds like a nosey old neighbour. You can just imagine her sneaking about). The flower and leaf shapes, and of course the blue color, matches well. Apparently all year round flowering is not unusual as long as there is not a hard frost. Compare the ones pictured here: https://www.gardenia.net/plant/vinca-minor-bowles-variety-periwinkle with this one that I took in the rain last April. (Mine would probably appreciate some plant food to get a deeper blue and greener leaf) Just quickly snaped these in this mornings sunlight, you can see that some flowers are a much deeper blue than others.
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Those little blue thing I have out front (must find out what they actually are) have been in flower all through winter this year, probably because I drastically cut them back last year from 12" high to about 1.5". Only a few in December/January but they are starting to come back now, photo later if it hasn't gone dark by the time I get home.
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We'll only get a very slight partial eclipse where I'm living in the UK, and only for 5 mins before the eclipsed bit drops below the horizon at sunset. If it isn't cloudy of course. 11 August 1999 was the last really good one that I saw here in the UK. It happened in the middle of a cloudless day and was almost but not quite total here 'up north', you had to be down in Cormwall or skip over to the continent to see totality for that one.
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Hardly surprising, and a waste of money on those studies if you ask me. If you are likely to freeze or boil to death if you go outsde then you are not going to socialise as much so will have less developed social skills. Of course simply stating the bleedin' obvious does not get doctorates etc., you need to show some research work for that - preferably something that takes time, costs a lot, (fully funded by others), and fills a warehouse with paperwork that no-one will ever read. Oh and doesn't tell you anything more than what everybody already knows.
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The very definition of a pie is that it has a crust of some description. bottom crust, top crust, or both. Pastry, (crumble, cobler), potato, whatever, but having a crust is what makes it a 'pie'. Without a crust it isn't a pie but just a bowl of food. (Stewed meat or fruit). PS. These days I often cook a flat shortcrust pastry crust in the air fryer, they only take 10 mins to bake, and drop it on top of a microwaved stewed dish - quick top-crust pie. Often I'll have made some pastry rounds earlier and frozen for later use, (often the 'filling' was made earlier and frozen too), but it only takes me 10-15 mins to knock up enough pastry for one or two crusts.
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When using the free version for scans only: In the System Tray if you just 'Close Malwarebytes' then the Malwarebytes Service continues to run in the background. That's what you would have seen as still running. Instead of 'Close' you need to use 'Quit Malwarebytes' in the System Tray to close the Malwarebytes Service as well.