![]() ![]() Sift through our Themes section to find other ‘eye candy’, including desktop wallpapers, widgets and cool apps. Install Unity Tweak Tool from the Ubuntu Software Centerįor a more thorough visual revamp you can install new GTK and icon themes, like our current favourite Arc. Adjust the size of icons on the Unity launcherįor more customization options, be it changing the desktop font or choosing which side window controls appear, install the free Unity Tweak Tool from Software.The ‘ Appearance‘ section in Ubuntu System Settings lets you adjust parts of the Ubuntu desktop to suit your needs, including: The good news is that it is easy to make Ubuntu look fantastic. You can do this in a number of ways. Ubuntu’s default look is nice enough, but it’s not to everyone’s tastes.įor those who switch to Ubuntu from Mac OS X, Windows 10 or a different design-led Linux distro like elementary, the stock Ambiance GTK theme and Ubuntu Mono icon set can seem humdrum and old-fashioned. Gamers using Nvidia hardware who are willing to trade a bit of stability for a whole lot of newness can use the Nvidia Graphics PPA to install newer Nvidia Linux graphics drivers. Follow any on-screen prompts to check for, install and apply any changes.Open up the ‘Software & Updates’ tool from the Unity Dash.If you plan to play the latest Steam games on Ubuntu or use GPU heavy apps like Blender you should install the latest proprietary Linux graphics drivers available for your hardware. You’ll squeeze higher frame rates out of your favourite games, too. ![]() Ubuntu makes it easy to do this, and you benefit from a smoother Unity desktop experience as a result. Ubuntu supports most Nvidia and Intel graphics hardware out of the box, giving you a choice of free, open-source drivers or proprietary, closed-source drivers.īut to get the best performance from your Ubuntu PC you will want to use the latest proprietary graphics drivers available for your hardware. ![]()
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![]() In practice the Type 81 is incredibly flat shooting, comparable to a 5.56x45 in felt recoil and muzzle rise. The Type 81 is used by multiple military and police forces across the globe. Was designed to have a longer service life, higher accuracy, improved durability and better controllability in full automatic firing. The open sights are marked from 100 to 1000 meters.ĭeveloped by the Chinese military as a replacement for their Type 56 rifles (license produced AK-47). The fire selector – safety switch is located at the left side of the receiver, just above the pistol grip, and can be easily operated with the right hand thumb. Type 81 rifles also retains the Type 63 bolt hold-open device, which catches the bolt in the open position after the last round has been fired from magazine. The bolt group (of the rotating bolt type) is borrowed from the Type 63 rifle. It uses a short-stroke gas piston, located above the barrel, and a two-position gas regulator. The Type 81 is a gas operated, magazine fed, semi-automatic rifle. Spare Parts Kit Regular Price: $149, Bundle Price: $99eaġ0-Pack 5/30 Magazines Regular Price: $290, Bundle Price: $269ea LMG production line has been shut down, when these are gone they're gone forever.ĭrum Magazine Regular Price: $199, Bundle Price: $99ea This is the last and final shipment of the T81 LMG. A solid and enjoyable shooter, an asset to any collection. ![]() The Type 81 LMG has classic looks and is an iconic piece of history. Rear stock changed to “club foot” style to allow the user to fire from the prone position more comfortably.Front sight moved to the end of the barrel to provide a longer sight radius for added precision.Folding integral bi-pod for firing support.Thicker and longer chrome lined barrel for better retained accuracy during high volume firing.The rifle was designed with a number of changes over the standard Type 81 to support its role including: The Type 81 LMG is an infantry support version of the Type 81 rifle family. The most efficient way remains an EMP grenade, followed by laser rapier strikes, but using the railgun or plasmagun on these robots is more than perfectly justified.Now standard with x1 Drum Magazine ($200 value), while supplies last Sec-3 robots are a perfect justification to use any and all means at your disposal to get rid of. In general, fighting these enemies up front is resource costly, nerve-wracking and rarely worth it. So much so that the safest bet when first encountering this enemy is to retreat and then bait it into an ambush. It's not particularly fast, but it's presence is an immediate existential threat to everything else the player is doing. The Sec-3 robot is a blundering, loud and relentless mass of steel. The high volume of fire of it's machinegun has prime capability for friendly fire. If fighting multiple enemies at once, one of which is a Sec-2 robot, it is advisable to position yourself in such a way that other enemies are between you and the Sec-3 robot. Use the grenade-launcher, ion-rifle overload or railgun, fire once, retreat, reload, repeat. The assault-rifle, the skorpion or the mag-pulse will require you to stay in visual contact with the Sec-3 robot to keep attacking it, which is bad because that works both ways and the Sec-3 robot has more ammo and more fire-rate than you do. If EMP grenades aren't an option, then your best bet is going to be high-damage, burst weapons. If in the player's possession, a single EMP grenade followed by three power swings of a laser-rapier is all it takes to defeat the Sec-3 bot. ![]() Having EMP grenades is almost a requirement to fight these robots without a head-ache. It will also continually move towards the player while firing as well, so trying to slow it down by peeking out of cover will not work. Unlike Security-1 robots and Hoppers, the Security-3 bot doesn't immediately stop firing once you take cover, and will continue to suppress you for half a second. ![]() The robot will not stop firing so long as you are in it's field of vision and the sheer volume of fire means that even if you have the latest Projectile/Energy Shield module and stamin-up, you're still going to be destroyed in very short order. Their main mode of attack is uninterrupted suppressive-fire with their machinegun. Security-3 robots are one of the most formidable foes in respects of both their armor, and their ability to deliver sustained damage, as such they require your attention at all times and should be dealt with using everything available in the arsenal. Note: Section needs rewrite as it uses the Sec-2 Bot info as a placeholder Tactical Analysis ![]() ![]() ![]() Not set back by their displacement, the heroes continued their pursuit of Eggman, occasionally clashing with the Hard Boiled Heavies and other foes along the way. Once Eggman obtained the ruby, Ray and his group got sent to the Chemical Plant by the gem's power. Following the villain, Ray and his friends saw him take the Phantom Ruby from the Hard Boiled Heavies, who refused to obey him. Even so, they managed to defeat the doctor, causing him to fall into a hole. Ray subsequently teamed up with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and the real Mighty to search for the Phantom Ruby. There, the revived Hard Boiled Heaves ran off with the Phantom Ruby. The robots' resurrection also warped them all to Green Hill Zone. Though Sonic and Ray gave chase, they were too late to stop the Heavy Magician from using the Phantom Ruby to revive the Hard Boiled Heavies who had been destroyed. The robot proceeded to take the Phantom Ruby and flee with it. After the hedgehog freed Ray and Mighty from their capsule however, Mighty was revealed to be the Heavy Magician in disguise. Eventually, the Phantom Ruby showed up at their location, with Sonic arriving soon after. Robotnik, now known as "Eggman", and imprisoned together with who appeared to be Mighty in a capsule on Angel Island. In Sonic Mania Plus, Ray got captured by Dr. However, Ray, Sonic and Mighty managed to escape the island before its destruction. In response, Robotnik activated the tower's self-destruction sequence. Avoiding the island's hazards and traps, the trio got to Eggman's Tower where they confronted Robotnik. After that, the trio teamed up to escape the island. Teaming up with Sonic and Mighty, Ray escaped his cell, only to be blown to the other side of the island with Sonic and Mighty by a geyser triggered by Robotnik. ![]() Robotnik and imprisoned on Eggman Island where he was to be executed along with Mighty the Armadillo and Sonic the Hedgehog himself. In SegaSonic the Hedgehog, Ray was captured by Dr. Originally, he instead wore red sneakers with a white buckle-strap, white sock-like cuffs and gray soles, almost identical to Sonic's shoes, but are a slightly darker shade of red. Each of his shoes also has two white straps that do not reach the soles. He has black eyes, a small tapered hair tuft at the top back of his head (making it appear somewhat teardrop-shaped), a furry skin membrane connecting his waist to his lower arms, small, perky triangular ears, a shiny, bulbous black nose and a long club-shaped tail.įor attire, Ray wears white gloves with large cuffs, and blue sneakers with white cuffs and soles. Ray is an anthropomorphic flying squirrel with yellow fur and dark tan skin on his muzzle, inner ears and front torso. ![]() ![]() Once the account is created, shut down the computer, wait 60 seconds, restart, log into the new profile and try the app/client. Try running your system in selective startup mode: Ĭreate a new administrator account: Creating a New Administrator Account - Blizzard Support Feel free to reach out to them for assistance if necessary. ![]() You may need to look up your specific model for the steps on how to do this and in some rare cases you may need to have this done by the ISP. We cannot say what that might be offhand but the easiest way to resolve these conflicts would be to factory reset the router and/or modem. In some cases there is a corrupt or misconfigured setting within the router or modem. If necessary look at the documentation for your security and routing products to find out how to turn these options off. ![]() Not all devices will have these options and the steps for turning these functions off will be different depending on the make/model/software version of the devices and programs involved. Security firewalls (Some ISP provided modems) Normally that is not an issue but we have seen situations where it can interfere with the delivery of the data for our games/voice chat. Sometimes firewall or routing software/hardware will have some advanced settings to prioritize and manage types of network traffic. We do not have individual steps for specific modems or routers so if you need assistance accessing or updating the devices, contact the device maker/provider. ![]() ![]() ![]() This directory will contain a view of your disk, nothing will be written to it: ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows Theįirst thing to do is to mount the partition to a directory. That you want to backup the data located on the disk called /dev/sda1. Now we will have to make this data accessible from the system. Name of the partition that we will need to access your data. The first column is very important since it is the device In that example there were three partitions on the computer, you may have only You should see an output such as: /root % fsarchiver probe -v To detect the disks and partitions, just run the following command:įsarchiver probe simple. Names such as /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 instead of C: or D. Linux uses names that are different from windows for the disks, so you will see The first thing to do is to detect the partition where your data are located. You can also run commands from a terminal in the graphicalĮnvironment if you prefer. All the following steps will be based on commands so you may stay When the boot process is finished, you should get a black screen on which to (/manual/Booting_SystemRescue/) to get more details about that. Static IP, you can type the following: rescue64 dodhcpĭon’t worry about the network settings now, you can change them later if itįails. The gateway address is required only if you want to connect to a computer that Of course, you will have to replace this address with To do that, just type the following line at the Network, it is recommended to boot with your network settings so that you don’t You can then just pressĮnter to boot SystemRescue with the default settings. SystemRescue ASCII art logo, and boot instructions. Now, reboot with the cdrom / usb stick inserted. Order is defined, and make sure the cdrom or the USB device is the firstĭevice in the list (or before the hard drive). Then, go into the BIOS of your computer (you often have to press F2 or DELĭuring the hardware initialisation period), go into the section where the boot Windows is broken cannot boot from a cdrom disc, you can also Step-1: prepare the bootable cdrom or usb-keyĪll you have to do is to download the latest ISO image of SystemRescue for x86,īurn it onto a cdrom disc using any burning software. If you have network access (Ethernet card and another computer to which theĭata can be copied) this section explains how to configure the network and Step-3: backup your data through the network.In this section, we will see how to read the windows disk(s) from Linux, to Step-2: get access to your windows disk.If you can’t boot SystemRescue from a cdrom, you can also Step-1: prepare the bootable cdrom/usb-keyįirst, you have to download and burn SystemRescue.OfĬourse, you will need a working computer to download and burn SystemRescue. This means that you will be able to manipulate files from its environmentĮven if the Windows OS, which is installed on that computer, is broken. ![]() It contains a complete operating system based on ![]() That you read the Quick start Guide to avoid problems. If this is the first time that you are using SystemRescue, it is recommended That windows users with no knowledge of Linux can follow it to backup their data. All the steps are detailed in this tutorial so Linux, it’s able to read the windows disk, and then you will be able to backup ![]() Not bootable, you can just boot using SystemRescue to do that. System, but the most important thing is to first backup your data. System files deleted, … In that case you can just reinstall the operating Stop working: installation of a bad driver, system crash with disk corruption, There are many reasons why a windows computer could This tutorial explains how you can backup the data from a Windows computer thatĬannot be booted any more. Backup data from an unbootable windows computer About ![]() ![]() ![]() Marshall-Green is a more confident presence but there’s a distinct lack of chemistry between the pair and so again, we’re kept surface-level throughout. It’s a shame as the character’s swift, gruelling descent from having to losing it all could have allowed another actor to add some emotional heft to an otherwise mechanical story. It’s propulsive enough to work in the moment although our investment teeters thanks to a vacant central performance from a lethargic Pinto, an actor who often struggles to connect with her material and then, in turn, her audience. Where Meera ends up is no great surprise (I called it in the trailer and then confirmed it in my head within the first 15 minutes, no medal thanks) but it’s a twist that takes the film to an appealingly nasty place, edging from thriller to horror with an effectively gnarly finale. ![]() Meera’s sifting is the most entertaining element of the film, as we play detective along with her, rifling through drawers, utilising tech and, as the tagline suggests, asking questions she perhaps doesn’t want answered. What’s interesting about Intrusion is that the home invasion is only the beginning and writer Chris Sparling (whose genre credits go high – Buried – and mostly low – Lakewood, ATM) looks at what happens when the pieces are then picked up and sifted through. Post-2008’s insidiously potent The Strangers, home invasion thrillers have been swiftly piling up, a cheap, simple subgenre that appeals to our base fear of feeling unsafe in the one place we should feel safest. Henry manages to gain control and shoots them but they’re then faced with the murky aftermath and a story that doesn’t add up. ![]() Initially, it’s just a robbery but the next time, it’s something far worse and the couple find themselves fighting for their lives against a group of masked invaders. ![]() ![]() This represented a significant departure from the often-mythic subject matter of traditional operas, the start of a trend in recent opera toward subjects of contemporary political relevance. His two previous operas, Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), foreshadowed Doctor Atomic in that they both depicted recent historical events-respectively, President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China and the Achille Lauro hijacking in 1985. Even before Doctor Atomic, Adams had established himself as a prominent composer of contemporary American opera and classical music. The works of John Adams exemplify this trend. This wave of American innovation in the opera has continued up through today. After World War II, however, productions of new and inventive operas by American composers became more frequent, and these works grew in popularity among operagoers. Opera grew popular among American elites in the nineteenth century, but the most frequently-performed works in the United States were those of the European master composers. In Europe, opera has continued to develop ever since with premieres of new works and revival productions of old ones, known in opera parlance as “repertory works.” By the turn of the eighteenth century, opera had begun to spread to such countries as France, Germany, England, and Austria. Opera grew more sensational in its plots, more extravagant in its sets and costumes, and more commercial as an enterprise. Throughout the 1600s, the opera spread to other Italian cities, including Rome, Naples, and Venice. As such, opera has historically been an art form for the elite.ĭrawing on existing musical and theatrical traditions in Western society, opera first began to emerge in late sixteenth-century Florence. In short, producing an opera is a massive, and very expensive, undertaking. Additionally, an opera needs a producer (or director) to coordinate the creative work, as well as administrative staff to take care of marketing, ticket sales, and other crucial functions. A performance of an opera requires an orchestra, principal singers, usually dancers and a chorus, and designers of the set, props, costumes, and lighting. An operatic work begins with the composer, who writes the music, and the librettist, who writes the words. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines opera as “a staged drama set to music in its entirety, made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes.” Opera is a complex and collaborative art form. ![]() ![]() Wilson, and Kitty Oppenheimer, are also represented. Other historical figures involved in the Manhattan Project, including General Leslie Groves, Edward Teller, Robert R. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, is the central character of the opera. The opera, which premiered in 2005, takes place in the weeks leading up to the Trinity Test, the first-ever detonation of a nuclear weapon. Doctor Atomic is an opera composed by John Adams with a libretto by Peter Sellars. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Pros get less recharges, and retain their charge when idle much less well - overall I'd think you'd get long runtime for console use out of the regular white eneloops. Pro is for high-drain devices like camera flashes or motors. 12-20 controller charges a year versus after every session with the other the regular Eneloops should be better for the task than Pro. I use the white Eneloops and replace my batteries like once every 2-4 weeks. Except the dodgy 360 battery compartments that would lose contact. People mock it, but IMO it's the best battery solution for a controller. īut I, for one, was upset when Elite V2 opted for rechargable batteries, I thought that was a step backward, and I was thrilled to find out Series X regular controllers will still use good old AA rechargables. ![]() Excellent controllers, and I have 2 spares. Please read the pictures to know how they fit.ĭimensions: 134.6X 68X 98.7mm / 5.3X 2.67X 3.88 inĭimensions: 53.1 X29.4X 15.2mm / 2.1X 1.16X 0.That's good to hear! I have two of the Play & Charge kits around, and use one with my Elite (which I will still be using my Elite V1's with Series X. We noticed that some users are claiming that the batteries don't fit in Xbox controllers, but we can confirm that they do. Only needs power devices 5V/1.5A above, USB-C (input only) to recharge in 3-4 hours. Just turn on the switch and charge it.Įxclusive Anti-Overcharge and VoltageBoost technologies combine to ensure the safety of charge and use. The cool LED displays the remaining power and charging status.
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![]() ![]() It's easy to install (snaps together) and you could probably do it yourself. He died of the disease before his trial, but the jury awarded 3.3 million for pain, suffering, loss of consortium and lost earnings to his wife and three children. If the tiles are not secure, then installing a new engineered wood floor on moisture barrier (polysheeting) on your "prepared" floor would be best, because you don't have to worry about the material "telegraphing" every defect through the new material. Ehret had developed the cancer after being exposed to asbestos in the companies’ vinyl flooring products for more than 20 years. Black mastic was frequently used by contractors and builders during the middle of the last century as an inexpensive flooring tile adhesive. Regardless, if the tiles are secured (solid) to the floor, then you could prepare the broken/missing tile areas and install a new material over it without pouring a new floor first. If you want safe, easy, economical EPA approved methods to seal asbestos flooring, try to apply high-quality adhesives to the black mastics. ![]() You can install a new floor covering without pouring a new floor. There are many problems pouring a concrete floor on an existing concrete floor (moisture issues, height issues at doorways if entire floor level is not done, reducing height in room, etc.) and I don't think it's necessary. I agree with you Inspector and leave them in place. So, you could test, but there isn't a necessity to do so. However, the mastic could be asbestos for either. If they are 12" x 12" then they probably are not asbestos. If the tiles are 9" x 9" then they are probably asbestos. Vinyl floors could have asbestos in the backing or adhesive. The room we want to cover is about 200 sqft. Asbestos ceiling tiles can also be encapsulated at the same price otherwise, complete removal costs between 5 and 15 per square foot. We're looking to just cover this area first as there are other areas (rooms) in the basement that is bare concrete the previous owners didn't bother to tile. We live in New England and a good part of the basement is above ground as there are windows that are a good 2 feet in height starting at the ground level. Relative humidity at most has been 60% usually 10%-15% higher than the 1st floor. There's never been standing water and I haven't seen any moisture other than some condensation on the water in pipe. A couple of chipped tiles in the center area. Some tiles are missing on two corners about 3'x3' areas each. The binder was some kind of black adhesive. The tiles are sitting right on top of the concrete. Does anyone know what we should use to try to encapsulate the tile better and provide ensured waterproofing? ![]() We want to put vinyl plank right on top of the tile. We have asbestos tile (or lead?, the inspector told my girlfriend not to remove it). ![]() |
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