Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 21-7-2019: Just Like Jesse James.

21st July, 2019.

Yep: I’ve finally managed to sell that hard drive!

Which sounds like an odd thing to want to tell you about, I know.

Let me just summarise, though.

I had a little money from an inheritance, recently.

And got hold of a new external hard drive: something I could use to store my media collection on.

Of course, this meant I had a spare one to get rid of.

Except — would you know it? — there was an issue.

Apparently?   The thing had an unexpected partition: an EFI Boot partition that was blocking access to the rest of the drive.

I really don’t trust technology, sometimes!

But managed to post up a question on Apple’s own support forums: here.

I soon got an answer: from HWTech, advising on how to fix the issue, using the Terminal.

This is the command, just in case you need it:

sudo  dd  if=/dev/null  of=/dev/diskN  bs=100m  count=10

It worked … 

It got HWTech a big ‘Thank You’ … and me some handy cash.

Which is nice …

~≈†≈~

In other news?

That same inheritance?

Got me a book … dating back some ⨯ amount of years ago.

As a youngster?   I’d swapped … something or other, with a neighbour: for a copy of an interesting graphic novel — a reprint from the Nineteen-forties or fifties — called Tales from the Trigan Empire.

Something I’d long since lost.

But was able to buy from Amazon, recently.

For an eyebrow raising price.

Frankly?

I’ve been reading through it, marvelling at the artwork and story, thinking you couldn’t do it like that, today.

And thinking “Is it me, or has the font shrunk?”

At any rate … ?

It’s nice to be reading it, again … 

~≈†≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers: scoring five out of five in the process.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, License and video … 

Q1) The first successful train robbery west of the Mississippi was carried out by the James-Younger Gang: on 21st July of which year?

Q2) The robbery was carried out near the town of Adair.   Town and robbery were in which US state?

Q3) The gang are considered to have been led by Jesse James, and his brother.   Who WAS his brother?

Q4) The gang had its origins in a group of Confederate bushwhackers.   Bushwhackers were a type of what: regular infantry, guerrilla fighters or cavalry?

Q5) Finally … ?   James was shot dead in 1882.   By whom?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) Man first landed on the Moon on 20th July, 1969.   The astronauts who landed were from which nation?

A1) The United States of America, or USA.

Q2) The rocket that took astronauts to the moon was the Apollo … what?

A2) Apollo 11.

Q3) Name any one of the three man crew.

A3) Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr or Michael Collins.

Q4) The Lunar Module that landed on the Moon, was which ‘E’?

A4) The Eagle.

Q5) Finally … ?   Who said “That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” … ?

A5) Neil Armstrong.

Here’s a thought …

“My pistols, however, I always kept by me.”

Jesse James, September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882.

And the inevitable song …

Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.

Have a good day.

*        Controversial’s putting it mildly, Debbi!   Oh, going TOTALLY off the subject?   Didn’t you say Rick has a Mac?   There’s a sneaky Easter egg …