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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Government Announces New Trains For Lower North Island
An article in Stuff’s Wellington newspaper, The Post, announced today that the government’s 2023 budget will including funding for 18 hybrid trains for the Kapiti and Wairarapa line services in the lower North Island. These trains run on the Wairarapa Line from Wellington to Masterton (excluding the Wellington commuter network) (The Wairarapa Connection services) and Read…
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Hibernation fails with Kubuntu 20/22 on HP computers if Secure Boot is enabled.
Some months back I did write about how to enable hibernation in Kubuntu as it is not enabled by default like it is in Debian. I have particularly noted that this is an issue on computers made by HP in that following the given instructions still does not make hibernation available in some HP manufactured…
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Is Commercial Toilet Paper Cheaper? [2]
Well it’s a bit of time since the first part of this series was written, but Blog is pleased to have waited, since Consumer recently published a report on domestic toilet paper including the cost per metre, which is the only reasonable way of comparing products. The Tork Jumbo Junior roll has a length of…
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No New Airports Likely Without Government Intervention
Christchurch City Council has waded into the debate about Central Otago airports by letting its subsidiary company Christchurch International Airport Ltd buy up land at Tarras for a proposed replacement for Queenstown Airport. With an eye on the tourism market, and keen to assert itself as the dominant local government player in the South Island,…
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Gimp 2.99.12 beta fails to fix major undo bug from 2.99.10
Currently, the Gimp project is developing a new release, 3.0. The beta version is being produced as version 2.99 with nightly releases having odd subversions e.g. 2.99.1, 2.99.3 etc and the production releases having even subversions e.g. 2.99.0, 2.99.2 etc. The project has now released version 2.99.12. However, a major bug in the undo function…