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Hi @pinball,

Here's our Spring issue for 2024. I'm sad to report that Buffalo, our resident color-commentator, has passed away. He loved pinball, owning two machines at his store in Cope, Colorado. I begin this issue with a brief tribute to him. This issue, and a few future issues, will contain his commentary.

In this issue, he asks, "Is Pinball a Sport?"

I also have a classified section in this issue, with a 1978 Chicago Coin "Jukebox" pinball machine for sale.

Pinball league event calendars for Long Beach Pinball League, Mile High Pinball League, and Reno Pinball. If your league is interested in being listed in the newsletter, let me know.

Cover art by Chris Bordenca

These were my reflections on the Dark Horse Saloon in Boulder. Roger Ebert, a writer who I admire and who influenced my life in a big way, would hold court at the Dark Horse when he was in town for the Conference on World Affairs. I will be sad to see it go, so I thought I'd put down a few words while I still had time.

I did an internal flash of the 20240225 version of Libreboot onto my X60 tablet (Core 2 Duo L7400, 64-bit). I'm using Trisquel 11 as my operating system.

If I turn on the laptop when it's plugged in, it boots up just fine. When I turn in on and it's unplugged, I get this message:

Welcome to GRUB!

alloc magic is broken at [memory address here]

Aborted. Press any key to exit.

Pressing any key doesn't do anything for me here, I have to hold down either power button to turn the laptop off.

Some other notes:

• If I have the laptop on when it's unplugged, and then run a command like reboot, it will load fine.
• If I restart the laptop with the button on the login screen, it will load fine.
• If I hit Reboot from the Libreboot menu, it will load fine.
• If I hit Poweroff from the Libreboot menu, I get the 'alloc magic is broken' message.

I can provide the memory address if it helps.

Standstill on the toll road today between I-25 and Quebec. People were driving backwards on the shoulder to take the York exit.

Anyone else get caught in that this morning?

I do like some aspects of the movie. Great theme song. The acting is good. But when Emilio Estevez's character is looking through the window with the rain pouring down, tell me it doesn't feel like a horror movie. I was laughing in disbelief the first time I watched it.

The Chaos of Heat is a crime story as unrelenting as the heat wave described in its vivid prose. It follows a man who, wracked by heroin addiction, finds himself at the front of a dangerous robbery spree. Will Vince survive long enough to get his next fix, or is he little more than shark bait, out of his depth?

First off, forgive the low quality of the picture, my digital camera has trouble with photos of computer screens.

In order to install Libreboot, it helps to have GNU/Linux installed on the laptop first. This can be tricky with the MacBook 2,1. The official Libreboot docs (https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/macbook21.html) offer two options: install from an external USB drive, which can be quite technical, or install from a DVD. The problem with the DVD option is that the optical drives on these MacBooks tend to fail (the optical drive on the one I bought today wasn't working).

Fortunately, there is a much easier way. If you have a 64-bit version of GNU/Linux already installed on an SSD from another laptop, just put it into the MacBook, and it should work. These MacBooks made it easy to upgrade the drive and RAM, by removing the battery, and then loosening three screws to remove a protective plate. When powering the laptop on, hold down the alt/option key. The drive you just put in should come up as "Windows" in the dual boot menu.

Once the laptop is powered on, if you have flashrom/flashprog and your Libreboot ROM ready, you should be able to internally flash Libreboot, simple as that.

Trisquel GNU/Linux has worked for me when doing this trick. I have had some trouble when using a 32-bit version of Trisquel, a 64-bit version does not give me any problems.

A review by YouTube channel SoftwareAgentsHQ. I like the game's smooth sprite animation.

Hello,

I wanted to share one of my ongoing project. This is a directory of works by Harlan Ellison. Ellison was one of the most popular writers of science fiction in his time, but sadly most of his work is out of print. This directory includes summaries of his short stories, essays, book introductions, and teleplays.

Some of Ellison's best-known works include I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman (which influenced V for Vendetta), A Boy and His Dog, Dangerous Visions and the Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever.

So, far, 21 books have been added.

I hope this directory helps keep his work alive. If you're a fan and would like to contribute some write-ups of a book that's not been added yet, let me know.