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![]() Fastlane (2017) was studded with 10 highly appreciated matches. it is annually propagated by WWE, which was scheduled on March 5, 2017, at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. You can follow him on Facebook and elsewhere for more.Welcome to Anfostar_Fastlane (2017) was the 3rd annual event developed under the Fastlane chronology. ![]() When a good match ends with something positive to talk about, that's a win.Īnthony Mango is the owner of the wrestling website Smark Out Moment and the host of the podcast show Smack Talk on YouTube, iTunes and Stitcher. Is Bryan going to work his way into a Triple Threat at WrestleMania 37, and when will he get payback on Edge? However, that gets people interested in what the next step for this feud will be. Bryan inadvertently smacking Edge with a steel chair, only for The Rated-R Superstar to strike back while Reigns was tapping shrouds the future of this program in uncertainty. Of course, that didn't come without its own controversy. It also meant when The Tribal Chief hung on, fought back and retained the title, he had earned it over a battered and bloodied Bryan. The more knees to the head that he hit and reversals he slipped into, the greater the chances became that Roman Reigns could be overthrown. The Universal Championship match was exactly what it had to be: a rock-solid main event.ĭaniel Bryan is at his best when he's the underdog you can root for. He had fire and intensity, playing up his speed and technical skills to counter the champion's power game. This feud arguably never needed to happen and has limped along for much of the time, but WWE crossed the point of no return weeks ago and had to commit at this point. That goal was accomplished, and Bray Wyatt's charred outfit looked cool. The key to this was that WWE wanted footage of The Fiend returning, which we'll see in recaps every week going forward. The flames that popped up to stop Randy Orton from charging after Alexa Bliss were unexpected, and the fireball she threw at him didn't look bad, either. One of the better moments was the lighting rig almost landing on The Viper. This could have been a laughing stock, but WWE managed to pull it off rather well. ![]() If you ignore how obvious this would play out, though, it was an interesting display of special effects.Īs evidenced by All Elite Wrestling's Exploding Barbed Wire deathmatch at Revolution, gimmicks can go awry. If you're grading unpredictability as a major factor, this was a low point. It was clear from the outset what this segment would be. Hopefully, WWE and Peacock have all these issues and more sorted out prior to WrestleMania 37 on April 10-11, or there will be an even more negative response from the WWE Universe. It was assumed this would be a problematic launch, but low expectations aren't excuses. Some even dealt with severe quality dips in the resolution, with their screens appearing more like 480p than a crisp 1080p video. ![]() Looking at the replies to Peacock's Twitter account shows many viewers had issues with a lag of up to two minutes behind the WWE Network version of the stream on top of the frustrations of not being able to pause, rewind or start from the beginning. We knew ahead of time some of the problems, but it appears others have had even more glitches and headaches with their first time using the platform. Unfortunately, that's nowhere close to what happened. In an ideal world, WWE and Peacock would have sorted out the entire library of content and all the same features subscribers have been used to for years long before this soft launch. ![]() As a result, there have been some official responses from HP regarding his project, though not in a way that sounds like the final word to me. Michael related a story concerning one HP employee (and SwissMicros customer) who, despite not being in the legal and intellectual property department, was prepared to go and sound them out. We talked for a while about HP’s reaction to SwissMicros. “Can I copy something you made 30 years ago?” Michael sells more of these than he does the 12C financial variant these days, and includes HP staff members in his list of customers. Back in the day, the 41 was the PDA for the absolute gurus in every field, being much more a general-purpose compute device than merely a simple calculator. ![]() The 41C emulator, packed into the same petite ARM-based hardware as the others, is his tour de force. Not that the finance marketplace is currently doing a huge amount of business with Michael: he was much more enthusiastic about the engineering and science versions of the platform. According to Michael, one key attraction for this interest group is that they can keep talking on their phone while making the calculations. While Michael’s calculators can’t match the sensation of using an original 12C, the theatre of being a financial adviser or corporate money man is massively enhanced by being able to twirl a little, mysterious box in your hand that spits out the payments on a loan given the amount, years and rate– or the amount you can borrow given your maximum monthly payment – with nothing more than a few prods at the keys. ![]() It’s something that’s sadly missing from modern computing, almost everything reduced to the same tactile experience of a finger pressed on cold glass. Car manufacturers exert huge effort in creating and designing “feel” – how a button sounds when it clicks, the percussive thunk of a firmly-closed door. Outside the realms of computing and IT, the tactile charm of a physical device is used to sell all sorts of products. “Car manufacturers exert huge effort in creating and designing “feel” – how a button sounds when it clicks, the percussive thunk of a firmly-closed door.” His reincarnation of the world’s most expensive and exclusive consumer single-purpose computing device retains its own haptic charm, and weaves its own unique spell. His is not a complete and exact physical replica, but that doesn’t matter one bit. What really fascinated him was that strange physical presence the original HP calculators had, the way their features and physical feel conspired to make them an engine of calculation and a badge of rank at the same time. ![]() Those loan agreement papers I saw back then were absolutely predicated on HP’s code giving the same answers – bugs and all – for the foreseeable future. After all, little is going to change in the software, which wasn’t especially fast-changing in the early 1980s, and can’t be allowed to vary much these days either. Michael is devoted to much the same topic. That man’s contribution to Dell’s products was how people feel about something they touch. He could talk at length about what made something tacky (matte metal) or “blingy” (the same moulding coated with a layer of chrome). Where all the other little rooms and topics at the exhibition relied heavily on PowerPoint and projectors, this designer had boxes full of all the final samples of case and face designs for all manner of Dell products. I was instantly transported back to another presentation, years in the past, from one of the senior product designers at Dell. Wykonany z bardzo wytrzymałego granitu jest trwały i solidny. Jednokomorowy zlewozmywak ICEBERG Focus ZFS0711A Piasek beżowy urzeka elegancją, nowoczesnym kolorem i atrakcyjnym wzornictwem. 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About this blog and and any affiliate website does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any information’s, content or advertisements contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded or accessed from any of the services contained on this website, nor the quality of any products, information’s or any other material displayed, purchased, or obtained by you as a result of an advertisement or any other information’s or offer in or in connection with the services herein. Articles are gathered or written by cyber security professionals, leading OEMs, and enthusiasts from all over the world to bring an in-depth, real-world, look at Cyber Security. The posts will be a discussion of concepts and technologies that make up emerging threats and techniques related to Cyber Defense. However, be aware the NSA is now paying very close attention the TOR operations within the Internet.ĭ and is a blog dedicated to Cyber Counter Intelligence and Cybersecurity technologies. Naturally, someone thought that if it works for the Navy, the rest of the world would benefit. In fact, it was originally built as part of a Navy project whose purpose was developing ways to protect U.S. It is even used by a branch of the Navy for intelligence operations. For safety, they have protect their privacy and security because it is difficult to track someone who is using TOR. The software is used by everyone from journalists to political dissidents. I know we are talking about the Dark Web, but in context of using TOR for good versus evil purposes, it is polite to share your resources since others are sharing theirs for you.Please understand that the average TOR user, however, is probably legitimate. It should be made clear that you don’t have to run a relay to use TOR, but it’s a nice thing to do. Those who host end relays bear more of the legal burden, and they are the targets of police, copyright lawyers, and other watchdogs if illicit activity is detected. ![]() Bridges are simply TOR relays that aren’t listed publicly, perhaps to shield them from IP blockers and other means of cutting the connection.Anybody can sign up to be a middle router from the comfort of their home without fear of being implicated in illicit activity within the connection they are providing. Middle relays move traffic between the source and destination. End relays, as the name implies, are the final hop in a chain of connections. Computers handling intermediary traffic are known as TOR relays, and there are three different kinds of them: middle relays, end relays and bridges. ![]() Is it continuing to be updated? If not, you might not want to invest in it. As I recall, it looked like Reaper was a one time deal. If you want the basics, I'm sure Reaper can deliver, not that I know. ![]() The best DAW for you depends on your intended use. Just go to:Īnd enter the word "reaper" into the search field to find that episode. We recently aired an episode of Eyes On Success in which we interviewed the lead developer of Osara and the person who manages the Reapers Without Peepers e-mail forum. They keep the "Accessible Reaper Wiki" that has lots of info about getting started, along with pointers to free demos, plug-ins, instruments, etc. Just search for the "Reapers Without Peepers" (RWP) group and introduce yourself. There is a very active group of Reaper users who use both Mac and Windows systems. If one has to use a thousand keystroeks just to get to a button and activate it, that isn't a good work flow.Īlso, you can try Reaper for free for 60 days and the cost is only about $60 if you decide to purchase. Just because a program might be "accessible" doesn't mean that it is necessarily efficient and productive to use for a blind user. One thing I have never liked about the Mac's is the inability to write scripts (as with NVDA and JAWS) to customize the experience for blind people and make their work more efficient. Reaper gives programmers access to their API so that an open source program like Osara can customize the experience for those using a screen reader. ![]() One big advantage of using Reaper is that the (free) Osara plug-in makes Reaper very accessible for those using a screen reader. However, these days Reaper is very accessible and works well both on Mac's and Windows. Reaper did have a stigma about being a bit difficult to learn and use years ago. I was nervous to take the jump from Sonar to Reaper, but finally did about a year ago and I'll never look back. I am no windows fan boy, I don't care what hardware or software I use, as long as it gets the job done, and I know a lot of folks use Reaper on Mac, but for me personally, Windows with Reaper is the way to go.įirst let me say that, much as I love my iPhone and its accessibility, I have never used a Mac and come from the world of Windows. Going from windows to mac, you realize how much time you are wasting doing the Voiceover dance. And again, with a dedicated audio interface, you lose nothing. I agree that out of the box, the Mac is better with audio, but having to jump through all of Voiceover's finger gymnastics is a deal breaker for me. I've tried production on a Mac with Voiceover, and it drove me mad. I highly suggest you join the Reapers without Peepers email list, one of the best groups of any kind I have ever been a member of, they are incredibly helpful.Īlso, there is an incredible community of blind Reaper users and programmers producing scripts and low level coding for Reaper that makes it almost 100 percent accessible, this is with windows or mac. To the comment earlier about smart quantizing, not sure what advantage PL really has there, since Reaper has tons of parameters for quantizing, but I admit ignorance with logic. I also do a lot of MIDI work, and Reaper works great. No need to break the bank either, I use a 2 input Behringer I got for $120, and I've never had a problem with it. I'm not sure what issues you are having with audio, but if you have a decent audio interface, you are golden. Hi ya, I've been using Reaper heavily for years on Windows now, and if you are willing to put in the time needed to learn how to use Reaper, it is fantastic. What about the learning curves? Thanks for any help. I'm wondering, as somebody new to DAW software and very much a fan of having accessible instruments built in (I don't have anywhere near the money or room for all the synths I want), and unhappy with how Windows handles basically anything I plug in, would Logic be worth it? Is it any more or less accessible than Reaper? How does the workflow differ between the two? I've heard that VSTs tend to not be very accessible with Reaper as well. The research I've done says it's kind of a toss-up between the two DAWS. I've used GarageBand on my iPhone and I very much like the fact that there are instruments built in, and I know that both are built on the same codebase. ![]() I've been considering giving a Mac another go exclusively as an audio production rig, so probably a Mac Mini with tons of RAM, as well as Logic. Currently I use a trial version of Reaper on a Windows machine, but the more I try to use it, the more I resent how Windows handles audio, USb, and MIDI. 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The data also allow them to do some useful things methodologically. code information from each of these proposals and about each of the reviewers and their scores, they also collected information about career length and publication history for all the applicants and subsequent career outcomes for a subset of applicants. So there doesn’t seem to be a concern about that. You might think that reviewers can easily guess who applicants are, as often happens with blinded journal referees, but for GCE the reviewers come from many fields and backgrounds, including the private sector and government. For this grant program, the proposal reviewers are blinded, meaning they don’t have any information about the applicants other than proposal details. Their dataset includes all the proposals submitted to the Gates Foundation Global Challenges: Exploration (GCE) Program for infectious disease research from 2008 through 2017 by U.S.-based applicants with academic or non-profit affiliations plus the scores for all those proposals. Put simply, if the reviewers have no idea what the genders of the applicants are, are women scored as highly as men, all else being equal? ![]() They set out to test whether a blinded proposal review process – one that eliminates bias – also reduces disparity in gender outcomes and thus promotes diversity. The primary source of demographic diversity in their data is gender, so they look only at gender in this study. (2019) are interested in the interplay between diversity and innovation. Put simply, if the reviewers have no idea what the genders of the applicants are, are women scored as highly as men, all else being equal?Kolev et al. (Hint: it has to do with how narrow and broad are measured and what that might mean for innovation.) The study set up I was hit by a pang of guilt! Had I given the wrong advice? I don’t think so, but let me tell you more about this very interesting study so that I can explain why. More to the point for this study, women are more likely to use these narrow words and men more likely to use the broad ones. In this study, Julian Kolev, Yuly Fuentes-Medel, and Fiona Murray analyze 6,794 proposals submitted to the Gates Foundation and find that “narrow” words are associated with lower proposal scores and “broad” words are associated with higher proposal scores. Shortly thereafter, a new working paper that seemingly challenges this advice hit the streets, or more specifically, hit the tweets. One comment I kept coming back to was that they needed to be more specific so that the reviewers would have a clear mental picture of what they are proposing. Window.Several weeks ago I was on a review team (a Red Team, for those in the know) for a proposal my colleagues were developing for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Overleaf Editor Custom VIM Keybindings I installed a Tampermonkey chrome extension, and under "Dashboard", I added the following userscript (All the commented-out lines I tried below > didn't work). I am aware that Tampermonkey ( ) could potentially do this. ![]() The “System” section of the iPhone or iPad Storage is likely quite literal, it’s the system software. Some users may report more dramatic changes in the size of “System” but there does not seem to be much rhyme or reason involved, if you have any hunches share them in the comments further below. This method is not guaranteed to work however, and on an iPhone X with a whopping 25.6 GB system size, it only freed up less than 1 GB. On an iPad, I was able to free up 2 GB doing the same action. In the screenshots shown here, I was able to free up over 5 GB of storage on an iPhone simply by plugging it into a computer with iTunes, and letting it sit for two minutes while unlocked. Why this works isn’t entirely clear, but presumably when you connect an iPhone or iPad to a computer and open iTunes, it performs some sort of maintenance or cleanup behavior that dumps caches and temp files from the iOS System section, perhaps in preparation for a backup to iTunes, and when finished it can free up a notable amount of storage capacity on the device. Disconnect the iPhone or iPad from the computer and USB cable and enjoy your new free storage space.Launch the “Settings” app then go to “General” and to the “Storage” section of the device, scrolling all the way down to see “System”, it should have recalculated and often (but not always) reduced in size considerably.Leave the iPhone or iPad connected to the computer with iTunes open for a few minutes, you do not need to sync or anything just let it sit.Unlock the iPhone or iPad by entering the devices passcode – if you have never connected it to the computer before you will need to “Trust” the computer when that pop-up shows up.Connect the USB cable to the computer, and then connect the iPhone or iPad to that USB cable. ![]() Open iTunes on the computer, it can be a Mac or Windows PC.If you have all of that, the rest is remarkably simple. To use this trick to shrink the “System” capacity size of your iPhone Storage or iPad Storage, you will need the iOS device, a computer with iTunes, and a USB cable to connect the device to the computer. How to Shrink the “System” Storage on iPhone or iPad Now that you know how large your “System” storage is from the start, let’s review the process that may help to reduce that storage size. That seemingly random but significant storage usage makes “System” a bit like the “Other” storage which has long frustrated some users by consuming device storage in iOS. “System” can be wildly different sizes, sometimes it’s 7 GB or so, but it can also easily be 10GB, 15GB, or even a whopping 25 GB or larger too, often even on the same device type. Wait for the storage usage to calculate, then scroll all the way to the bottom of the Storage screen to find “System” and its total storage capacity consumption.Choose ‘iPhone Storage’ or ‘iPad Storage’.Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone or iPad then go to “General”.You can check System storage size by doing the following: This tip will cover a somewhat quirky way to reduce the total size of “System” storage as found on the Storage settings of an iPad or iPhone.Ĭhecking Current “System” Storage Size in iOSīefore going further, you might want to get an idea of how large your current “System” storage is before trying to reduce the capacity, this will give you a reference point to work with. Open vrt file as a folder – click on triangle to see elevations display options and check “hillshading”, then drag the slider all the way to the left. Now select this directory in QMapShack: File -> Setup DEM Paths. 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There is no elevations in this picture, let’s add them! Adding Elevation Model The map should appear in map files list – right-click on it and select “Activate”: ![]() Put the gmapsupp.img file you downloaded into that directory and select the directory in File -> Setup Map Paths in QMapShack. You can also use with QMapShack any *.img map file that works in Garmin (I tried California Topo 24K and it worked fine).Ĭreate a directory for keeping maps, elevations and route data for QMapShack. You can put this file into a Garmin device and have it giving you on-the-fly directions on streets and trails!) Select your location and select gmapsupp.img format (this is the format for uploading directly to Garmin device. Setting up a Trail Mapĭownload a free Open Cycle map (it has tons of hiking trails too) for your area from: Sudo checkinstall -D -pkgname=routino -pkgversion=3.0 -arch amd64 -backup=noĪt this point, qmapshack should start. 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They’re transparent about what they collect and don’t collect and they’re very much a privacy-focused VPN provider. You have no choice other than trust (or not using the service at all). You need to trust your proxy network (the VPN) because it has the ability to see everything you do online.Īs I’ve said before, you can quite easily check your IP address, once connected to the VPN, to make sure your traffic appears to come from the VPN server.īut you can’t perform any kind of test to know if your provider is logging your activities. There’s just no way around it: digital privacy is based on trust. I think they provide an excellent VPN service.īut there is still room for improvement and this one area where they have such an opportunity. ![]() I do not believe anything ominous is going on, and in my review of Windscribe, I gave them the highest score of any provider so far. Why do they need timestamps?Įven if, as they say, this data is kept in “a rolling counter and is not kept historically”, I don’t see the justification for paid users, at the very least. Windscribe offers its paying customers unlimited bandwidth and unlimited simultaneous connections. Mitigating abuse is what is always touted to justify such collection.īut there are other ways of achieving that goal, as evidenced by other serious & secure VPN providers who do not log that information. The connection timestamps should go, in my opinion. Maybe they could disable it for paying customers? VPN services that offer a capped free tier need to keep track of the amount of data consumed, somehow… Now, we can understand the bandwidth logs because Windscribe actually offers a very useable free plan, which is capped at 10GBs monthly bandwidth. Your VPN provider can use 4096-bit RSA keys, if it logs your traffic, that won't make any difference. ![]() Without a strong no-logging policy & commitment and the technical infrastructure to enable no-logging, your VPN might not be so beneficial to your online privacy… You’ve essentially handed over to your VPN provider what you took away from your ISP: the ability to track you. But you’re not immune to tracking simply because you’re connected to a VPN. When you use a VPN, you take away your ISP’s ability to directly view your activities. Why is the Logging Policy so Important?Īs stated above, the logging policy is critical because it enables all of the other privacy benefits provided by VPNs. A good place to look for such answers would be TorrentFreak’s annual Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously in 2020? guide.īut the point is that all of the above points are undermined if your VPN provider logs your activities. Support for Anonymous Payments: Do they enable anonymous payments, by accepting cash or Bitcoin payments?Ī serious VPN provider that deserves your trust should have no trouble answering all of these questions.Jurisdiction: Is it legal for them to run a no-logging service in their country of operation? In which jurisdiction are they based? Are they outside a 14 Eyes jurisdiction?.Tor Over VPN: Do they support bouncing your VPN traffic over the Tor network?. ![]() WebRTC Protection: Do they guard against WebRTC leaks?.Ads & Tracker Blocking: Do they provide an ad and tracker blocker?.DNS Leak Protection: Do they provide in-tunnel no-logging DNS servers?.VPN Kill Switch: Do the native apps supplied by the VPN provider include a VPN kill switch that will block your (unencrypted) traffic if the connection should drop?.Encryption Strength: What protocols and ciphers does the VPN provider support? Are they strong and modern or weak and obsolete?.Security Considerations In Assessing VPNs Providers: So what does it take to be a trustworthy VPN provider? A trustworthy VPN provider should have no trouble answering these questions: One of those boxes will obviously be the provider’s logging policies. ![]() For a VPN provider to be considered trustworthy, there are quite a few boxes to tick. |
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