Did the new one get too hot?

- well, to me it looks as if you gave it an Al Capone bios update
Never mind as long as it works.
And it is probably moderated by Linux Elizabeth the night pot version

Correct, little mermaid, correct. I've been busy with several things, like the continued installation of the new frontdeskcomputer and finding, picking and placing photos - if available - of 150 artists on top40.nl (photos from a site with which we have an exclusive deal).
Whilst doing that I was also flogging the old, exhausted frontdeskcomputer, trying to squeeze some last workunits through its broken brains … it needs babysitting a lot, 'cause it will most probably crash at least once each two hours with some random fault, so I better keep it turned off. I was a bit afraid that I couldn't use my scanner on the new computer anymore and had to revert to the old frontdeskcomputer to scan documents. Luckily, I found the right packages to install onto the new computer and to be able to continue scanning documents.At least you're admittimg that learning a new language doesn't go as smoothly as you would like. Since you say you're far behind, have you got anything scheduled? Like "I need to have this and that ready by the end of this month"?I wish learning other languages all went along that way, by picking songs. I remember "Wuthering Heights" (by Kate Bush) was picked in my English class. No need to link to YouTube, you know the song or you don't.

I have added another 100 scanned pages, the total is now 600, still with several hundreds more to come, and OCR'd and corrected 25% of the current total. So there is some progress.

I don't remember much of it, but you do remember someone beating me to my head with a bag of charcoal, don't you, and I don't want to talk about it. Luckily you located me, 'cause I didn't know where I was and I just needed to return to the Grand Hotel. My safe haven.
Uh, it depends, as for me. What do you consider the original story?

And how do look at your WCG trek to Hungary now, where no one spoke a word to you?
Yes, we have a lot of 'kermis' events (you would call them 'fairs' in English) each year. Here is the calendar for upcoming kermis events for this year in our little country, that's just as big (or small) as the American state of Maryland. (Well, actually, Maryland is 23% smaller than the Netherlands.)

Almost forgetting your searchlight … What do you think of "Domino" by Clouseau? It has a repeating melody, not that hard to hear and understand if you read the words along with the song, a short story of a lover lost, and the first comment under the video on YouTube says it's Clouseau's best song (so it's good music) so you can let it stick in your head if you're a horse ).

't Is niet zo lang geleden
It is not that long ago
Maar 't lijkt een ver verleden
But it seems a distant past
Ze heette Domino
Her name was Domino (or: She was called Domino)
Of ze noemde zich zo
Or she called herself that way

En zij had in haar ogen
And she had in her eyes
Het blauw van regenbogen
The blue of rainbows
Ze hield niet van Clouseau
She did not like Clouseau
Wel van Mozart en zo
She did like Mozart and all that

En bij het ochtendgloren
And at the dawning of the morning
Was ik allang verloren
I was long since lost
Het was echt goed raak
It really hit the spot
Ik heb een vreemde smaak
I have a strange taste

Ze is niet lang gebleven
She has not stayed long
Heeft geen adres gegeven
Has not given an address
Ze heette Domino
Her name was Domino
Domino of zo
Domino or something

Ze hield van verre landen
She loved distant countries
Van godverlaten stranden
Liked god-left beaches
Van wachten op Godot
Liked waiting for Godot
Zij had cultuur en zo
She knew culture and everything

Er was iets in haar haren
There was something in her hair
't Is moeilijk te verklaren
It is difficult to explain
Het leek wel maneschijn
It looked like moonshine
Moet mijn verbeelding zijn
Must be my imagination

Dan zei ze, ik vergeet je
Then she said, I forget about you
Ze lachte zelfs een beetje
She even laughed a bit
Je komt er wel doorheen
You will get through it
Jij redt het wel alleen
You'll manage it on your own

't Was hard om te verduren
It was hard to endure
Maar ik ging door heter vuren
But I went through hotter fires
Ze heette Domino
Her name was Domino
Domino of zo
Domino or something

En zij had in haar ogen
And she had in her eyes
Het blauw van regenbogen
The blue of rainbows
Ze hield niet van Clouseau
She did not like Clouseau
Wel van Mozart en zo
Liked Mozart and all that

Er was iets in haar haren
There was something in her hair
't Is moeilijk te verklaren
It is difficult to explain
Leek wel maneschijn
Looked like moonshine
Moet mijn verbeelding zijn
Must be my imagination

Ze zeggen dat ik taai ben
They say that I'm tough
Dat ik een echte haai ben
That I am a real shark
Het lijkt alleen maar zo
It just looks like that
Vraag maar aan Domino
Just ask Domino

Ik heb in heel m'n leven
I have in my whole life
Om niemand veel gegeven
Cared much about nobody (=haven't cared much about anybody)
Maar wel om Domino
But I did about Domino
Domino of zo
Domino or something

The photos were a totally separate project. I got it finished within a week. Nevertheless, my part of the job was to supply pictures, if available, for a selected set of artists and put them on the website. 'My' range was in the names of artists that begin with 0-9 plus about the first half of the A. If you open http://top40.nl you will see on the top line: Hitlijsten — Actueel — Artiesten — Songteksten — Mijn Top 40 — Contact
When you KLiK 'Artiesten' you will see a range '# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z'. Each of these is the first letter of an artist's name. When you KLiK the 'A' all artist names that begin with an 'A' will pop up. You will see A Balladeer, A Flock Of Seagulls, A Great Big World, A Lighter Shade Of Brown, A R I Z O N A, A R Rahman, A Silent Express, A Studio, A Taste Of Honey etc. I could only find pictures for a few of these names, like A Balladeer, A R Rahman, A Silent Express, A Taste Of Honey, while A Flock Of Seagulls had already been taken care of. So if you KLiK e.g. A Taste Of Honey you will see the picture that I've chosen and uploaded. In this way I've added pictures for e.g. 10cc, ABBA, Alice Cooper, Alphabeat (that Danish group) and Amy Winehouse.

No, it's broken, its brains are faulty, crashing every so often in an unpredictable way. It's just a piece of machinery that I would hardly be using anymore. Although, my first computer (from ± 1990) … I still have it. And my first modem, I think I still hold on to that, too.The photos were a totally separate project. I got it finished within a week. Nevertheless, my part of the job was to supply pictures, if available, for a selected set of artists and put them on the website. 'My' range was in the names of artists that begin with 0-9 plus about the first half of the A. If you open http://top40.nl you will see on the top line: Hitlijsten — Actueel — Artiesten — Songteksten — Mijn Top 40 — Contact
When you KLiK 'Artiesten' you will see a range '# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z'. Each of these is the first letter of an artist's name. When you KLiK the 'A' all artist names that begin with an 'A' will pop up. You will see A Balladeer, A Flock Of Seagulls, A Great Big World, A Lighter Shade Of Brown, A R I Z O N A, A R Rahman, A Silent Express, A Studio, A Taste Of Honey etc. I could only find pictures for a few of these names, like A Balladeer, A R Rahman, A Silent Express, A Taste Of Honey, while A Flock Of Seagulls had already been taken care of. So if you KLiK e.g. A Taste Of Honey you will see the picture that I've chosen and uploaded. In this way I've added pictures for e.g. 10cc, ABBA, Alice Cooper, Alphabeat (that Danish group) and Amy Winehouse.

No, it's broken, its brains are faulty, crashing every so often in an unpredictable way. It's just a piece of machinery that I would hardly be using anymore. Although, my first computer (from ± 1990) … I still have it. And my first modem, I think I still hold on to that, too.

Yeah, I had to try and install a few extra packages to get it to work. Eventually, 'dnf install libsane-hpaio' did the job. I've already scanned over 100 images from my 7" singles collection since I got the scanner connected to the new frontdeskcomputer.
Sometimes it's hard, other times it's relatively easy. I found it relatively easy this time and I have been writing down every important thing that I changed/installed. Like how to get BOINC to work.

Thank you and good luck to you learning the songs!

Yes, it's one thing or the other. The OCR job is a very long running project, it will keep me busy for many months to come.

All older people will know his name. He was a former Dutch prime minister for the longest period of time, leading the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, born one year later than our former queen Beatrix (she will turn 80 by the end of this month).

I'm min of meer following your reports on prince Henrik here in the forum, mevrouw Kleine Zeemeermin!

EDIT: added a link for Ruud Lubbers

Yes, I've heard of it. Customs are different though throughout our country (and therefore confusing). Read more here (at the Dutch version of Wikipedia) or here specifically (also in Dutch). This last page translates as:

Mills can pass messages. In the past, people did not have a telephone or internet. The miller could still pass on messages by attaching the sails of the mill in a certain way. There are different types of sailarmstands that are explained below. Even today the miller knows these wingpositions and they are still used. To view the wingposition, you must stand in front of the windmillblades, with your face facing the blades. Millblades rotate counterclockwise.

1. State of joy
If something very nice has happened then the miller puts the sailarms of the mill in the joy state. This is applied when someone is getting married or when a child is born. The lowest sailarm is then fastened to the left in front of the middle. You should have a look at it when you see a windmill standing still.

2. Mourning
If someone has died, the miller puts the wings in the mourning position, so everyone knows that something bad has happened.
If you stand in front of the vanes, the lowest wing is attached to the right of the middle of the mill.

3. Short rest position
If the windmill is stationary for a short time, it is called short rest. In this way people from the area know that the mill is not working for a while. The wings in this position are completely straight in front of the body of the windmill as a plus sign.

4. Long rest position
If the mill is broken and needs to be repaired, it cannot work for a while. The miller then puts the blades of the mill in long rest. In this way people from the area know that the mill does not work for a longer period of time. The sails of the mill stand in a cross (X) during long rest.

(6?) 5. Party mode
At special parties such as National Mills Day the mill is decorated. The miller does this by hanging flags on the windmill. In some places in the Netherlands, windmills are decorated by stretching flag lines between the wings.

Language of the mills in the south-east part of the Netherlands:
Wingpositions differ in the Netherlands. In the south-east of the Netherlands the wingpositions are exactly the other way around in the rest of the Netherlands when it comes to the mourning situation and the joy mode.

Wikipedia also notes that in WW II mills were used as secret semaphore. By placing the blades in a certain position, the neighbourhood was warned of a German invasion.

EDIT: I think that translating the Dutch wiek into the English wick isn't right here. Therefore I changed 'wick' into 'wing'.
EDIT: fixed some more translation hiccups from Google Translate.

Thank you installment
- such a great answer to such a vraagtje
Thank you very, very much, Adri, for taking the trouble – and time – to make this informative post. What a world you open here!
I asked a modest question, and up comes an entire language spoken by windmills, a language (or rather several as you have 'dialects') which is as beautiful as I am on my way to think your spoken language is.

Did you know yourself that you had this practice? And that you had a mill language so well developed?
Did your father ever use it as far as you know?
Especially the ’party mode’ is neat and he might have used the vreugdestand when you were born.

I have tried to find something similar about Danish mills, but without luck except for this rather contradictory statement:
Mills in a mourning position is an old tradition which was used in particular during the heyday of the mills before the industrial revolution to honor diseased persons from the local areal.
Earlier it was the concensus that mill wings should not rest in a cross. It was looked upon as an abuse of the holy sign of the cross.

I can understand if you have developed this language for two reasons:
1. You have a lot of windmills
2. Your country is so very flat for the most part that windmills must have been focus points from a distance.

We ought to have done the same in Denmark because we also have/had a lot of windmills, but we didn’t as far as I know and can find out. Was it because Denmark - albeit far from being mountainous - is hilly compared to the Netherlands and bonfires on top of the hills sent signals, especially of danger?
You know we are this northern tribe; we use smoke signals

Also enjoyable are the many pictures of windmills in the link you stated
here at the bottom of the website

Once again, thank you