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Do you have a sub already? Problem is I don’t think any free VPNs are any good anymore, so you’d need another subscription on top of Discovery. People say Nord VPN is the best, but I’ve personally never used it.

Best option for VPN would probably be the country in which you bought it. But if that doesn't work, this seems to be the official provider in Brazil. How to Watch 2024 Paris Olympics Live in Brazil

BBC's schedule. They are showing the rugby sevens this week, but not any of the football or handball - too big a cut of their 300 hour allowance obviously. Then once the actual competition starts, they're keeping it vague to allow a lot of jumping about from place to place depending on prospects. BBC Sport - Olympics - Next on

As before, the pop-up channels pretty much were dedicated to the big team sports - one each for basketball, football, volleyball, hockey, handball - and didn't show much of anything else. Live events on the day, repeats through the night.

Tennis draws will be made on Friday, I know that.

Better be careful, they might have to pay taxes as well. They’ll be hitch-hiking back to Bratislava.

IOC officials get the choice of staying in the village or in the Hotel Crillon etc. So it's down to the village early in the morning for the photo op, then back to the Rue Rivoli for lunch.

I remember Jonathan Edwards got heavily criticised for complaining about the bad behaviour of British swimmers - all done after week one, not many medals in those days, but high condom usage - disturbing the athletes who all went in week two.

There was a famous incident at the last day of the Sydney Olympics where the only British athletes who came down to the early breakfast were the Modern Pentathletes Steph Cooke & Kate Allenby and the Boxer Audley Harrison - they ended up with 2 Golds and a Bronze.

Bacon! Don’t chance any of those salmonella-infested so called “vegetables”, stick to bacon!

Wow brother & sister actually they’re twins - team Rada/Radova crush the opposition in the 400m hurdles!

She will certainly have bright career prospects when the Parliament requires / translators.

If this was the US relay team…..somebody would be persuaded to go down with COVID.

Men’s 400m another record fest.

Surely Kratochvilova’s WR record must be under threat!

And big capital letters all the way down the line!

Kaczmarek another NR!

We are underway on the BBC. If you can’t see it…..you’re missing a lot of chat.

Doesn’t improve her time, but it is GOLD!

Aha, seemingly it is even worse than that…..in any sane rational well-managed system the boot sector is password protected because otherwise your students are going to boot from USB & watch porn. bad things will happen. Guess how many people know their BIOS password? That’s OK, as a well organised IT team we always store a record of all BIOS passwords in an Excel spreadsheet on the…….ah. Never mind, if you don’t the solution is as simple as opening the PC (which should be padlocked and chained btw) & fiddling with a jumper switch on the motherboard. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/07/19/massive-it-outage-grinds-cyber-world-to-a-halt-n3791994

Posted this elsewhere but it deserves to be immortalised here.

I wasn’t watching this morning, but those that did were lucky enough to see the failingest fail in the entire history of faildom.

If they are on they can be rebooted centrally. If not on, reboot with with a USB to start the rebuild. BUT - you still have to schedule. Every September we had a crisis with all the student lab rebuilds, could only do so many at a time. 150 max I think.

Ouch! Like I say at the University 90% of our PCs ran an identical build, so at least it could be done centrally, but still at least 90-180 minutes to reboot, rebuild & roll out the fix.

Onto our final climb at Isola. Two possibilities. Something happens Nothing happens