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Welcome to the new home of converser.nz
Welcome to the new site of converser.nz. The existing, separate blogs are all being merged into this blog which will be separated into different categories for each of the different interests. They will all share the same theme and colour scheme etc. However, Christian Converser, Transport Safety Blog New Zealand and New Zealand Rail Maps…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Level Crossing Safety Analysis: Judds Road Crossing, Masterton
Due to the Wairarapa Level Crossing Upgrade Programme being conducted by Kiwirail, some level crossings in the Wairarapa District must be closed. One of those proposed for closure is at Judds Road in Masterton. There are two key safety issues to be addressed at Judds Road Level Crossing and others like it. Using the above Read…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Level Crossing Upgrade Programme For Wairarapa Line
Kiwirail and Waka Kotahi are working on a programme of level crossing upgrades in the Wairarapa at the present time. At the time of writing this post some difficulty was experienced in determining actually which Government policy announcement covers the level crossing upgrade programme but it appears to date from the announcement of the Wellington Read…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Significant Level Crossing Safety Risks At Waingawa Logging Hub / Waingawa Industrial Park
Waingawa is a station at 85 km on the Wairarapa Line, 9 km north of Carterton and within Carterton District. The site was formerly known for the Waingawa Freezing Works, which had its own industrial sidings. There was a platform and station building for passenger use. It is likely that this would have included some Read…
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REVIEW: Ryobi OB18150 150VA 240V One+ Power Inverter
One of the useful developments in battery operated power tool systems of recent years is that manufacturers have woken up to the merits of having a universal battery system that powers a large range of different tools, ranging from power tools for the workshop to garden tools and even some general domestic devices for home…
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Setting up a second swap partition for Linux [2]
In the first post of this series several years ago, I wrote on how to add a second swap partition to increase the size of the swap space, by adding a second swap entry to the fstab file. This is very much the simplest way of increasing the swap space by using multiple disks, if…
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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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Christian Converser: Free Speech And The NZ Church [2]
So there’s plenty to follow up after the anti-trans rally controversy over the weekend. Though it’s doubtful even the conservative Christian anti-trans lobbies knew she was coming or were associated with her, they have subsequently sought to champion her cause without looking really seriously at the extreme nature of the way this issue has played…
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Christian Converser: Free Speech And The NZ Church [1]
Free speech is a topic that receives a lot of attention in society. The issue is perhaps best known worldwide because of the prominence it attracts in the United States of America. This has, throughout the history of New Zealand, led to a great deal of US influence upon our society and culture, including in…
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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…