Set taskbar options

1. Open Taskbar properties.
2. In the "Taskbar Appearance" group, change the "Taskbar Button" option to "Never combine" if you don't want stacking.

Adding/editing the registry entry

1. Press Windows Key + R to open the run command
2. Type int "regedit" (without quotes) and press OK
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Control Panel -> Desktop -> WindowMetrics
4. Find the "MinWidth" entry.
5. If it is not there, right click on an empty space and select New -> String Value. Name this entry "MinWidth" (without quotes)
6. Double click on the MinWidth entry. If you want just the buttons to show, set this to 38 if you're using small buttons, 52 if you're using large buttons (or 54 in Windows 8). Otherwise any value above 38 will work. If you set a value below 38, the buttons will behave oddly. If your main display (on Windows 8.1 or later) has non-standard DPI (e.g. it's Retina or 4k display) you might need to multiply these numbers by the factor of 1.25, 1.5 or 2. Otherwise buttons will shrink / animate incorrectly.
7. Log off and log back in or restart to see the changes.

Deleting/Uninstalling

1. Press Windows Key + R to open the run command
2. Type int "regedit" (without quotes) and press OK
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Control Panel -> Desktop -> WindowMetrics
4. Find the "MinWidth" entry and delete it.
5. Log off and log back in or restart to see the changes.

Pale Moon supports a number of command-line parameters for automation and to call up certain features otherwise unavailable:

• P "<profile name>"
  • Starts with a given profile name (profile name is case sensitive).
• no-remote
  • Enables running multiple instances of the browser cncurrently, with different profiles; usually used in conjunction with -P

This sounds like a typical problem of visiting a site that does dynamic updates of content but never actually reloads the document, leaks all over the place, and combined with leaving the browser open ON such pages for days or weeks (and even restored sessions may have bloat in the saved viewers), making the garbage and cycle collectors run out of headroom. The pauses in that case are caused by non-incremental GC/CC runs trying to recover resources but failing because the websites are such slobs that they keep a lot of resources locked.

A restart of the browser would fix this kind of thing, so if you changed extensions and issued a restart as a result, that would clear the problem. Even disabling a restartless extension could temporarily alleviate the issue giving you a red herring because it would give the browser a little extra headroom -- until that fills up too and you end up back under memory pressure (heap memory is usually not the problem here, but stack memory would be and that is limited) with the collectors trying their best to recover and failing to make a dent, then trying again, etc.

To analyse this kind of thing, about:memory reports usually give a good indication of the culprit sites. In a more limited fashion, about:performance -might- help too but if you're dealing with ghost windows or out of bounds allocations of resources it may not have anything to show.

Engine blades are crafted by Rolls-Royce engineers using an ancient form of metalworking to create a single-crystal structure that is incredibly strong, and still incredibly light. Casting has been around for millennia, but at the Rolls-Royce Advanced Blade Casting Facility (ABCF), this traditional craft is elevated to levels akin to science fiction. Here, engineers set about rearranging the metal alloys at an atomic level to eliminate microscopic grain boundaries that could make the blades, eventually, fail. //

To maintain the integrity of the metals in the blades, they are coated with a low conductivity ceramic, and cool air is fed around the blades via tiny cooling holes. The ‘cool’ air is actually around 600 °C , so not that cool really, but relatively cool enough to make a difference. Speaking to The Engineer in 2017, Rolls-Royce chief of materials, Neil Glover, explained,

“It passes through the cooling channels and exits through a myriad of holes in the surface of the blade, to create an envelope of cool air around the blade. So the metal is never above its melting point, even though the environment is.” //

The efforts of this company to resolve the situation have been nothing short of incredible. Even with the impact of COVID, and the huge loss of revenue Rolls-Royce has suffered as a result of fewer widebodies flying, it stuck to its promise and fixed the problem for good. Now isn’t that something worth making some noise about?

Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
🚨NBC: As it scrambles to deal w/ Haitian migrants at the border, the Biden administration is seeking a private contractor to operate a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay w/ a requirement that some of the guards speak Spanish & Haitian Creole.
Biden admin seeks contractor to run migrant detention facility at Gitmo
nbcnews.com //

A little-known immigrant holding facility on the base has a capacity of 120 people, the records say, and it “will have an estimated daily population of 20 people,” according to a solicitation for bids issued Friday by the Department of Homeland Security.

This is clearly not meant to do anything to help with the current surge of illegal immigration at the border. 120 people is a drop in the bucket and won’t make a dent. That’s why I suspect this is just a stopover for repatriation flights or perhaps very high-risk detainees.

Why has the federal government been trying so hard to keep surveillance footage of January 6th under wraps? We may have an answer to that question if a set of newly released videos are any indication.

A judge ordered the videos be released against the wishes of the government prosecutors who claimed doing so would undermine national security. Of course, that makes no sense, and what’s on the videos runs counter to the chosen narrative.

Behold, the event that has been compared to the Civil War by the President of the United States.

If you can’t watch the video, what you’ll see are open doors/windows and people casually walking in. There’s no mad rush, no violence, no weapons, and certainly no organized insurrection. Instead, people mingle, take selfies, and snap pictures of the surrounding architecture. Yes, it’s trespassing and that’s illegal, but what’s on that video is a far cry from the vast threat we’ve been assured was present that day. Does it look like Congressional members were about to be murdered?

Output:

 # zpool status 
   ... 
  scan: scrub in progress since Sun Jul 25 16:07:49 2021 
      403M scanned at 100M/s, 68.4M issued at 10.0M/s, 405M total 
      0B repaired, 16.91% done, 00:00:04 to go 

Where:

Metadata which references 403M of file data has been scanned at 100M/s, and 68.4M of that file data has been scrubbed sequentially at 10.0M/s.

On 30th September 2021, the root certificate that Let's Encrypt are currently using, the IdentTrust DST Root CA X3 certificate, will expire. You may or may not need to do anything about this Root CA expiring, but I'm betting a few things will probably break on that day so here's what you need to know!

When we finally flew over the front of the enormous glacier after weeks of travelling, I found myself staring down at an epic vision of shattered ice. //

I was surprised how moved I was by what I'd seen. In the weeks it took to travel home, I tried to process my emotions.

I thought about the men and women who had set our camp, who flew the planes, cooked the meals, processed the rubbish and groomed the ice runways. And I thought about the scientists who have been studying the processes at work for decades.

Our research trip was only possible because of a huge chain of human enterprise culminating with the hardworking people in the UK and US whose taxes paid for it all. //

Satellite monitoring shows that the overall rate of ice loss from West Antarctica has increased five-fold over a 25-year period. This one glacier - Thwaite's glacier - alone now accounts for 4% of global sea level rise.

Needless to say, this acceleration is a result of us humans polluting the air with greenhouse gases. That fact explodes any impression that the ice is overwhelming. The opposite is true, we are overwhelming the ice. //

But I will not forget what I saw in Antarctica. It reminds us that climate change is a process that is likely to take centuries to play out, and tens of thousands of years to reverse.

Consider this: the last time CO2 levels were this high is reckoned to have been around four million years ago and it is estimated that the sea level then could have been as much as 30-40 metres higher than it is now.

That's a measure of how important the climate issue is and also explains why I'm so pleased to be given this opportunity to play a role in covering it for the BBC.

Tackling global warming will be the central project of the 21st Century and it is an incredible privilege to have been given a front row seat.

There are hundreds of publicly trusted Certificate Authorities and a subset of those implement a specification for certificate request/renewal called ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8555 (ACME v2). Anyone can create (and use) a new certificate authority but only recognised CAs which can prove they follow strict issuance guidelines become generally trusted. You can, for instance, create your own ACME certificate authority and trust it within your organisation, but it won't be trusted by computers outside your organisation.

As more public certificate authorities hop on the ACME bandwagon, it is important to understand the details and limitations of their implementations. This page will attempt to keep track of that data.

Summary

“When security risks in web services are discovered by independent security researchers who understand the severity of the risk, they often lack the channels to disclose them properly. As a result, security issues may be left unreported. security.txt defines a standard to help organizations define the process for security researchers to disclose security vulnerabilities securely.” //

What is the main purpose of security.txt?

The main purpose of security.txt is to help make things easier for companies and security researchers when trying to secure platforms. Thanks to security.txt, security researchers can easily get in touch with companies about security issues.

Where should I put the security.txt file?

For websites, the security.txt file should be placed under the /.well-known/ path (/.well-known/security.txt) [RFC8615]. It can also be placed in the root directory (/security.txt) of a website, especially if the /.well-known/ directory cannot be used for technical reasons, or simply as a fallback. The file can be placed in both locations of a website at the same time.

A fertility awareness method (FAM) is a modern, evidence-based method of charting one’s menstrual cycle, through observable biological signs unique to each woman, that helps a woman know more about her hormones, overall health, and when during her cycle she is naturally fertile or not. With the information obtained by observing and charting certain biomarkers of fertility, a woman is equipped to reach health goals with greater precision and family planning goals with high rates of effectiveness.

Fertility awareness methods can help a woman understand her body’s menstrual cycle and hormone health and identify and treat reproductive disorders. They can also be used as methods of natural family planning (NFP) that equip a woman to know when she is fertile and when she isn’t, at natural times in her cycle. By avoiding intercourse during periods of her cycle when she is fertile, a woman can use a FAM as a form of natural birth control, and at effectiveness rates that rival pharmaceutical birth control. //

Which FAM should you choose?

The first and most important question is “What do you feel that you can commit to today?” A person’s needs, hormones, and capacities shift over the years, so what works today might not work in a year—or in five years. It’s important to take into account variables like the cost of the method, accessibility to a certified FAM educator (although these days most of them teach online!), and fitting biomarker observations and charting into their schedule. //

One of the greatest advantages of using a fertility awareness method is how they can help identify hormonal imbalances and teach you more about your body than you ever could learn while on hormonal contraception. And that’s why it is crucial to have Reproductive Endocrinologists, OBGYNs, and General Practitioners well versed in fertility awareness methods. //

For more information on getting started charting your cycles with a Fertility Awareness Method or method of Natural Family Planning, check out the following resources:

France announced on Friday that the country will pull its ambassadors from the U.S. and Australia after Australia ditched its existing submarine deal with France in favor of a U.S. partnership.

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the U.S. struck a deal with Australia and the United Kingdom that administration officials said would provide the Land Down Under with the “technology and capability to deploy nuclear-powered submarines.” It’s a move that, even though it hurt an ally, the administration claimed was necessary to push back on China’s desire to control the South China Sea.

“We need to be able to address both the current strategic environment in the region, and how it may evolve,” Biden said. “Because the future of each of our nations and indeed the world depends on a free and open Indo-Pacific enduring and flourishing in the decades ahead.”

“It is believed to be the first time France withdraws ambassadors from the two countries,” BBC reported, referring to the United States and Australia. “French diplomats in Washington had already cancelled a gala to celebrate ties between the US and France in retaliation.”

A rule to carry with you in Washington is nearly everything someone in power claims is too complicated to explain actually isn’t complicated at all. They just don’t want to tell you why.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Brickworld® LEGO® Exposition is returning to Fort Wayne Oct. 9 and 10 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Expo III, located at 4000 Parnell Ave.

The event will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, the Memorial Coliseum said.

Akio Toyoda is right about one thing — Japan’s economy is heavily reliant on exports. It is common knowledge that manufacturing electric cars requires fewer workers than manufacturing vehicles with infernal combustion engines. Fewer parts means fewer workers. It’s as simple as that. //

For every job at the factory, there are 6 more among suppliers, sales people, clerical workers, banks and loan companies, and service operations, to name a few. Electric cars, with their lower demand for service and repairs, are going to play havoc with service departments at dealerships and with independent repair shops. //

Akio Toyoda is looking to save his own skin. He chooses to ignore the IPCC 6 report and all the other scientific studies that warn the Earth is getting dangerously hot for human beings. He is worried about his munificent salary and the value of his stock options instead of focusing on the problem — a lot of people are going to wake up dead over the next several decades because of global heating and the pollution from burning fossil fuels that shortens life spans.

Decaying wood releases around 10.9 gigatons of carbon worldwide every year, according to a new study by an international team of scientists.

This is roughly equivalent to 115 percent of fossil fuel emissions.

Co-author of the study Professor David Lindenmayer from The Australian National University (ANU) says it’s the first time researchers have been able to quantify the contribution of deadwood to the global carbon cycle.

“Until now, little has been known about the role of dead trees,” Professor Lindenmayer said.

“We know living trees play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But up until now, we didn’t know what happens when those trees decompose. It turns out, it has a massive impact.”

Professor Lindenmayer said the decomposition is driven by natural processes including temperature and insects.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the formation of the AUKUS alliance among Australia, the UK, and the US only advanced the “death” of the otherwise “dying” 2016 submarine deal between Paris and Canberra.

But in the process, it has exposed once again the historical love-hate relationship between France and the US on the one hand and revealed the deep chasm or rivalry that exists among the arms manufacturers of the Western countries on the other.

Failed to open the disk image file /tmp/tde-ubuntu-14.04-desktop-latest-amd64.iso.

Could not get the storage format of the medium '/tmp/tde-ubuntu-14.04-desktop-latest-amd64.iso' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)

The problem is that the file size is not a multiple of 2048.

Padding it with

printf '%1536s' ' ' >> tde-ubuntu-14.04-desktop-latest-amd64.iso

makes VBox happier about that image.

///

 2048 - (.iso size mod 2048) = printf size