In October I wrote about making a
Windows 10 that Boots off a USB Stick,
From Linux.
A Debian update today or yesterday (Merry Christmas!) broke that
and I spent a few hours today chasing that down.
There's a package called ovmf that puts BIOS/firmware
related files
in /usr/share/OVMF/. The command I used in the earlier article
included the flag -bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd
but as of today, -bios apparently doesn't work any more
with any of the files there.
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With the cold weather upon us, I've been cranking out a lot of crochet earmuffs.
I'd made a few knitted earmuffs back when I was
learning
to knit a few years ago. I liked the way they felt and worked —
no pressure on my head or ears like with the kind of earmuffs that have
a band that goes over the head — but they're tricky to knit,
requiring circular knitting with small double-pointed needles and a lot
of increasing and decreasing. I'm still not that good at knitting
and have a hard time with increases.
It turns out earmuffs are much easier in crochet.
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