Open a google search, and enter "rape of nanking".
Or, if Asians (or "Orientals," as they were called back then.) killing other Asians doesn't impress you, do a search on "Bataan Death March" and see what you get.
Actually, my sister is only five years older than I am, and thought she was happy with Windows until she got her hands on Linux. Please note, BTW, that the conversion was her idea, we made sure that she had proper access to all of her old files and that if she needs help, I'm generally no farther away than the length of the condo we share. I also did a similar installation for a friend's wife, but that's because she had learned and liked Linux because her first husband used it and my friend doesn't know enough Linux to do it himself. (I did, however, have him defrag and shrink the Windows partition because he knows more about Windows than I do any more.) The one thing I won't do is force anybody to change; at most, I'll explain why I use it and let them decide for themselves.
You don't need to be a Linux guru unless you insist on doing everything from a CLI. This is why I suggested the distros I did: they don't need much maintenance, and if you go with CentOS, you won't have to worry about updates very often. The programs you need, including the firewall configuration, all have GUI front ends. And, unlike Windows, Linux doesn't demand that you download and install a special driver for almost any mainstream card unless the OEM is being pissy about providing the specs. If you're a hardware geek, or have access to one, your best bet is to buy bits and pieces and put your own server together with two NICs of the same brand. (Checking on the support forum for whatever distro you're planning on using will tell you which brands/models are safe.) And the nice thing about doing it that way is that you don't need bleeding edge hardware or a huge mass of RAM; if all the box is doing is acting as a router and a local DNS server, it won't need that much.
Get yourself a small, inexpensive desktop computer with two NICs, install a stable Linux version, such as a LTS Ubuntu version or CentOS and configure it as a router and DNS server. Make sure that its firewall is set to block all traffic to those sites, in or out, and that DNS is set to return 127.0.0.1 as all of their IP addresses. It's a bit of work, but once it's up, it's about as safe as you can get without going to the extreme of using OADS.
When you let techies build things you get Linux which is great. But I'm not installing it for my 70 year old mother.
My older sister was in her late 60s and not at all tech savvy when she first encountered Linux. It only took her five minutes with a live version of Ubuntu to decide that it was what she wanted. I helped her install it, dual boot with Windows, and with access to her Windows partition so that she could get at much-needed files. It's been years since she's needed to boot Windows, and after the first few weeks of getting used to Linux, her tech-support questions to me dropped to less than 5% of what they were under Windows and have stayed that way ever since. (Most of her questions I can solve in just a few minutes and the rest go to the Ubuntu forum.) You don't need to be a computer geek or a Unix guru to run Linux; you just need to select a distro that's designed for average people, such as Ubuntu.
And here's a picture that not only shows his fruit, it shows just how excited he got when he was making everybody think that he was the brains behind the Apple computer.
They'll do their very best to cover up any good things they find. After all, they're not being paid to find out what's going to happen, they're being paid to find out what bad things will happen, and anything that isn't bad needs to be covered up.
Everybody who goes to conventions, especially conventions for hobbies, SF, fantasy, mystery, gaming or media interests knows what con crud is. It's a type of cold or flu-like disorder that many people come down with either at those conventions or just after. Not everybody gets it, of course, and few people get it every time, but as long as there are a few people there who are in the contagious stage, it's going to be passed around. I've been lucky, so far, because in several decades of attending SF and media cons I've never come down with it. I also try to make sure that I get adequate sleep while I'm enjoying the con and that just might be why I've been immune to it. Remember, if you want to come home healthy, don't insist on partying all night, every night and be sure to eat at least one healthy meal every day.
The early morning starts are doing the children a huge disservice...
Don't blame that entirely on the school system. Parents who let their children stay up late and don't make sure that they get enough sleep (Children need more sleep than adults do.) are just as much at fault, if not more so.
Most people would think that Ground Zero, right where a nuke went off (or below where it went off, for an air burst) would be the best example of a radioactive wasteland, but it's not. There are two places in Japan known as "Peace Park," one in Hiroshima and the other in Nagasaki. I've visited the second of the two and stood on the grass next to the statue pointing straight up to where the blast went off back in 1945. I mentioned this to a friend, once, and learned that he'd been to the other one and they're both covered with grass, bushes, trees and flowers.
In the router options, it no mechanism for setting the router to not require a password.
Even if you ignore the fact that this "sentence" has no verb, it still isn't clear what you mean. Are you saying that there's no way to set the router up so that it doesn't require a password (good) or that you can't set it to require a password (bad)?
My understanding is that it was designed specifically for coding. It's not surprising that it doesn't have some of the glyphs you need if they're not used in computer programming.
It used to be that Firefox used fractional version numbers for minor upgrades and/or bug fixes and only changed the integer part of the version for major changes. Now, unless it's a very minor bug fix, they release a "whole new version," as if they're trying to make their trivial changes look more important.
Wrong. Ubuntu continues to roll out updates for everything, including the kernel, for every version it supports. You will continue to receive new kernels for Ubuntu 14.04 right up until it reaches End Of Life, just as you will with Fedora. (For Fedora, it's versions 21 and 22 that are currently supported.) Please learn what you're talking about before replying, instead of just guessing.
The real problem for me is, you can't personalize the characters at all. No choice in the names, genders, appearance or stats. You're stuck with whatever the game designer gives you with no way to make it your own. I don't know about anybody else, but customizing the characters, both at the beginning and as you find or buy new equipment is part of what makes these games interesting, as does picking which skills to add or enhance as time goes on.
If you're having that kind of difficulty, just change to a CLI console and log in as root. If you need to check something in a different window, you can always go back to X (or Wayland, if appropriate) for a moment.
In the long run, he's not going to be satisfied until he's created his own OS, kernel and all because he calls anything he didn't write a "broken concept," whatever that is, and does his best to shove his version down everybody's throat. And, since his version is far more complex, far more pervasive and much, much harder to use or maintain, the community suffers. I do wish he would get off the pot and start developing the One True (Pottering) kernel so that the rest of the world can go back to ignoring him.
That's not why you lie down. There's a good possibility that there's going to be shrapnel from the strike, and you want it to go over you, not hit you.
You're not the only one to hear that click. I've heard it once, and I have a friend who's heard it several times. Alas, it comes about.25 seconds before the bolt, and it's well-known to be caused by the formation of the pathway of ionized gas that the lightning will follow. If you hear it again, get down, because you're within a hundred yards or so of where the strike's about to hit but you can't know just how close you are.
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You do know, don't you, that there's a rod inside the top of that flag to hold it out like that?
Open a google search, and enter "rape of nanking".
Or, if Asians (or "Orientals," as they were called back then.) killing other Asians doesn't impress you, do a search on "Bataan Death March" and see what you get.
Actually, my sister is only five years older than I am, and thought she was happy with Windows until she got her hands on Linux. Please note, BTW, that the conversion was her idea, we made sure that she had proper access to all of her old files and that if she needs help, I'm generally no farther away than the length of the condo we share. I also did a similar installation for a friend's wife, but that's because she had learned and liked Linux because her first husband used it and my friend doesn't know enough Linux to do it himself. (I did, however, have him defrag and shrink the Windows partition because he knows more about Windows than I do any more.) The one thing I won't do is force anybody to change; at most, I'll explain why I use it and let them decide for themselves.
You don't need to be a Linux guru unless you insist on doing everything from a CLI. This is why I suggested the distros I did: they don't need much maintenance, and if you go with CentOS, you won't have to worry about updates very often. The programs you need, including the firewall configuration, all have GUI front ends. And, unlike Windows, Linux doesn't demand that you download and install a special driver for almost any mainstream card unless the OEM is being pissy about providing the specs. If you're a hardware geek, or have access to one, your best bet is to buy bits and pieces and put your own server together with two NICs of the same brand. (Checking on the support forum for whatever distro you're planning on using will tell you which brands/models are safe.) And the nice thing about doing it that way is that you don't need bleeding edge hardware or a huge mass of RAM; if all the box is doing is acting as a router and a local DNS server, it won't need that much.
Get yourself a small, inexpensive desktop computer with two NICs, install a stable Linux version, such as a LTS Ubuntu version or CentOS and configure it as a router and DNS server. Make sure that its firewall is set to block all traffic to those sites, in or out, and that DNS is set to return 127.0.0.1 as all of their IP addresses. It's a bit of work, but once it's up, it's about as safe as you can get without going to the extreme of using OADS.
When you let techies build things you get Linux which is great. But I'm not installing it for my 70 year old mother.
My older sister was in her late 60s and not at all tech savvy when she first encountered Linux. It only took her five minutes with a live version of Ubuntu to decide that it was what she wanted. I helped her install it, dual boot with Windows, and with access to her Windows partition so that she could get at much-needed files. It's been years since she's needed to boot Windows, and after the first few weeks of getting used to Linux, her tech-support questions to me dropped to less than 5% of what they were under Windows and have stayed that way ever since. (Most of her questions I can solve in just a few minutes and the rest go to the Ubuntu forum.) You don't need to be a computer geek or a Unix guru to run Linux; you just need to select a distro that's designed for average people, such as Ubuntu.
And here's a picture that not only shows his fruit, it shows just how excited he got when he was making everybody think that he was the brains behind the Apple computer.
They'll do their very best to cover up any good things they find. After all, they're not being paid to find out what's going to happen, they're being paid to find out what bad things will happen, and anything that isn't bad needs to be covered up.
Everybody who goes to conventions, especially conventions for hobbies, SF, fantasy, mystery, gaming or media interests knows what con crud is. It's a type of cold or flu-like disorder that many people come down with either at those conventions or just after. Not everybody gets it, of course, and few people get it every time, but as long as there are a few people there who are in the contagious stage, it's going to be passed around. I've been lucky, so far, because in several decades of attending SF and media cons I've never come down with it. I also try to make sure that I get adequate sleep while I'm enjoying the con and that just might be why I've been immune to it. Remember, if you want to come home healthy, don't insist on partying all night, every night and be sure to eat at least one healthy meal every day.
The early morning starts are doing the children a huge disservice...
Don't blame that entirely on the school system. Parents who let their children stay up late and don't make sure that they get enough sleep (Children need more sleep than adults do.) are just as much at fault, if not more so.
Most people would think that Ground Zero, right where a nuke went off (or below where it went off, for an air burst) would be the best example of a radioactive wasteland, but it's not. There are two places in Japan known as "Peace Park," one in Hiroshima and the other in Nagasaki. I've visited the second of the two and stood on the grass next to the statue pointing straight up to where the blast went off back in 1945. I mentioned this to a friend, once, and learned that he'd been to the other one and they're both covered with grass, bushes, trees and flowers.
In the router options, it no mechanism for setting the router to not require a password.
Even if you ignore the fact that this "sentence" has no verb, it still isn't clear what you mean. Are you saying that there's no way to set the router up so that it doesn't require a password (good) or that you can't set it to require a password (bad)?
Oh, no, Aramaic is much, much more obscure.
My understanding is that it was designed specifically for coding. It's not surprising that it doesn't have some of the glyphs you need if they're not used in computer programming.
It used to be that Firefox used fractional version numbers for minor upgrades and/or bug fixes and only changed the integer part of the version for major changes. Now, unless it's a very minor bug fix, they release a "whole new version," as if they're trying to make their trivial changes look more important.
Wrong. Ubuntu continues to roll out updates for everything, including the kernel, for every version it supports. You will continue to receive new kernels for Ubuntu 14.04 right up until it reaches End Of Life, just as you will with Fedora. (For Fedora, it's versions 21 and 22 that are currently supported.) Please learn what you're talking about before replying, instead of just guessing.
The real problem for me is, you can't personalize the characters at all. No choice in the names, genders, appearance or stats. You're stuck with whatever the game designer gives you with no way to make it your own. I don't know about anybody else, but customizing the characters, both at the beginning and as you find or buy new equipment is part of what makes these games interesting, as does picking which skills to add or enhance as time goes on.
And what in hell is "Sedna"? Are we down to Arizona Map Typos now?
No. As it happens, Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the Sea.
If you're having that kind of difficulty, just change to a CLI console and log in as root. If you need to check something in a different window, you can always go back to X (or Wayland, if appropriate) for a moment.
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In the long run, he's not going to be satisfied until he's created his own OS, kernel and all because he calls anything he didn't write a "broken concept," whatever that is, and does his best to shove his version down everybody's throat. And, since his version is far more complex, far more pervasive and much, much harder to use or maintain, the community suffers. I do wish he would get off the pot and start developing the One True (Pottering) kernel so that the rest of the world can go back to ignoring him.
That's not why you lie down. There's a good possibility that there's going to be shrapnel from the strike, and you want it to go over you, not hit you.
I don't know why it's taken so long, but it's about time that they got Galaxy Quest back on the air!
Thank you; I'd not heard of that before. In my case, the bolt struck a power pole about 100 yards away, blacking out the entire block. Quite dramatic.
You're not the only one to hear that click. I've heard it once, and I have a friend who's heard it several times. Alas, it comes about .25 seconds before the bolt, and it's well-known to be caused by the formation of the pathway of ionized gas that the lightning will follow. If you hear it again, get down, because you're within a hundred yards or so of where the strike's about to hit but you can't know just how close you are.
If the default is "on" , what if a bug in the code resets the setting or ignores the setting.
That's not a bug, it's how the software was designed to work.