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September 9, 2020
Guide to make a Perfect Windows 10 ISO
Guide to make a Perfect Windows 10 ISO
As you all know, LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch) Edition of Windows 10 is best
Windows ever available. It has no Store client, you don't get any of the
preinstalled universal apps, such as Mail/Calendar, OneNote, Photos, Groove
Music, the MSN/Weather/News/Sports/Money apps, and the Camera and Alarms & Clock
apps, making the resulting installation clean.
Downside is that LTSB Editions get only annual feature updates. So the latest
LTSB available is Windows 10 2016 LTSB based on 1607 (RS1). And it takes
another year to get Windows 10 2017 LTSB based on 1703 (RS2/CU) (probably on
October this year). Probably the next edition will be Windows 10 LTSB 2019, that
sucks.
However, we can make our own Windows 10 ISO almost identical to LTSB and better
than the Original version using this toolkit MSMG. In the whole process, we will
be removing the unnecessary packages listed in the Benefits section prior to
installation of Windows.
Let's dig in.
Requirements:
Windows 10 Creators Update ISO Image (Any edition will do). MSMG
Toolkit
Benefits:
Windows 10 without garbage extras like Metro Apps, Biometrics, OneDrive,
Telemetry, Skype, Xbox & Gaming, Contact Support App, Cortana & Search App,
Desktop File Explorer App, Embedded Features, Geo Location, Home Group, Mixed
Reality, Quick Assist App, Take Test App.
Procedure:
Download and Extract the MSMG
Toolkit Toolkit to
a folder.
Download the Windows 10 ISO image and extract the contents(sub-folders) of it to
the DVD folder of where you extracted the MSMG Toolkit.
Right click the MSMG Toolkit's .cmd file and run it as Administrator.
Choose Source - Press number 1, then choose Select Source from <DVD> folder -
Press number 1.
Now go to Remove - Press number 4, then choose Remove Default Metro Apps - Press
number 1, Now choose either All Apps - Press number 3 or All Apps except Store
App - Press number 4 or Any individual app - Press corresponding alphabet
Go to Remove - Press number 4, then choose Remove Default Metro Apps
Associations - Press number 2.
Go to Remove - Press number 4, then choose Remove Components - Press number 3,
Now choose the option either All Windows Components - Press number 1 or Any
desired option - Press corresponding alphabet. If you want to retain some
components then choose the latter option.
Now from the Main menu choose Apply - Press number 6, then choose Apply & Save
Changes to Source Images - Press number 2, this will save the changes we have
made.
Now again go to Main menu choose Apply - Press number 6, then choose Rebuild
Source Images - Press number 1. (This step will compress the ISO size)
And lastly from the Main menu choose Target - Press number 7, then choose Make a
DVD ISO Image - Press number 1, once completed your finished ISO will be located
in the ISO folder of where you extracted the Toolkit. Enjoy ;)
Note: If your ISO has Install.esd file in sources folder then you need to first
convert the ISO Image to Install.wim before doing this process and then start
from Step 4.
This eco-documentary takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices. //
Planet of the Humans’ faced a coordinated suppression campaign led by professional climate activists backed by the same ‘green’ billionaires, Wall Street investors, industry insiders & big foundations skewered in the film.
Nuclear energy is crisis. The world could lose twice as much nuclear as it gains, between now and 2030. Can radical innovation save nuclear? Yes, but it must be more radical than anyone imagines, argues EP's Michael Shellenberger in a major keynote address to the American Nuclear Society. //
What is atomic humanism? I would like to offer three first principles that are meant as the beginning, not the end of the discussion of what atomic humanism should be.
First, nuclear is special. Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment. Nothing else — not coal, not solar, not geo-engineering — can do that.
How does the special child, who is bullied for her specialness, survive? By pretending she’s ordinary. As good as — but no better than! — coal, natural gas or renewables.
Like other atomic humanists of his time, Weinberg knew nuclear was special. But he could not fully appreciate how special nuclear was given the low levels of deployment of solar and wind.
Now that these two technologies have been scaled up, we can see that nuclear’s specialness is due due an easy-to-understand physical reason: the energy density of the fuel. //
Second, nuclear is human. Nuclear is people using tools to make electrons through fission. And yet the picture in our minds when we think of nuclear has no people. Where are the people? What about when we think of a nuclear plant’s control room? Now picture in your mind the cockpit of an airplane. You walk on board and you see two men. If we didn’t trust these men, we wouldn’t get on the plane. The airlines ask us to trust them, the air traffic system, and the pilots, and we do. Why then are we asking the public to trust our machines?
In the movie “Sully,” the pilot loses both his engines to bird strikes shortly after taking off. The entire drama of the film is whether Sully made the right decision. Should he have returned to La Guardia airport, or was he right to make a water landing in the Hudson? At no point did anyone suggest we should ban jet planes because they could crash. Nor did anyone demand meltdown-proof jet turbines.
Biden knows Jimmy Carter -- he should give him a call to prepare himself. //
Stony Brook Political Scientist Helmut Norpoth has created a Presidential Election prediction model which has correctly predicted the winning candidate in 25 of the last 27 Presidential elections, going back to 1912, the first year presidential primaries in the states were used in each party’s nominating process. The only two years the model was wrong were 1960, with Kennedy beating Nixon — although there are strong historical accounts that election fraud in Texas and Illinois delivered both state to Kennedy when, in fact, the voters of Texas and Illinois selected Nixon. If those two states had been declared for Nixon, they would have given him exactly 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the election.
The other year the model was incorrect was 2000, when Bush prevailed over Gore after a court challenge which declared Bush to be the winnner in Florida by just a handful of votes, with Florida’s electoral votes needed by each candidate to declare victory.
Prof. Norpoth’s model predicts a 91% chance that Pres. Trump wins re-election, and gives him 362 electoral votes in the process. //
In playing around with an interactive electoral map, the way I get Pres. Trump to 362 electoral votes would put only the following states in Biden’s column:
Washington, California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Delewere, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and one vote from Maine.
I recognize the tune, but the lyrics have been changed. //
Goldberg’s article — based on anonymous sources — claims that the trip was possible, and the only reason Pres. Trump did not go was because he did not want to go and that he didn’t see any reason why it was necessary for him to visit cemeteries like these. Goldberg claimed he has four sources with first hand knowledge as to the reasons why the trip was scrubbed. But no fewer than four people who were in the room have gone on record stating that the Atlantic Story is false, the only reasons discussed for canceling the visit was the adverse travel conditions. //
The RealClearPolitics average of polls shows that immediately after the GOP Convention, starting on September 2, the race moved from dead heat to a 7% lead for Pres. Bush — 50-43 — as of September 8, the day Rather ran the Texas National Guard story based on phony documents.
The story came under immediate and sustained attack based on its irregularities, and the falsehoods that were quickly exposed. The purpose of the story was to paint Pres. Bush as someone who used political favors to avoid being sent to Vietnam as a fighter pilot. The goal was to juxtapose Bush’s avoidance of combat with Kerry’s service time in which he was “combat wounded” — although that story took a beating as well. //
The Atlantic story has the same purpose and was launched at the same point in time. //
Goldberg played a similar role here — except he’s just one small squeal of a cacophony of press organs lined up to oppose a second Trump term.
But just like Rathergate, the Atlantic Article has fatal flaws that have been exposed and undermine its central thesis. But it also serves as a bit of an inoculation against stories yet to come.
We’ve seen this movie before, and I liked the way it ended the first time. At this point in time, nothing suggests the ending to the 2020 version will be different.
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From Mozambique on Africa’s East Coast to Nigeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso in West Africa, Christians in the region are under jihadi attack.
“The left’s agenda isn’t about protecting the environment, it’s about punishing America,” the president says. //
During the Florida speech, Trump noted that his policies have been effective, in contrast with liberals’ proposals that he said are “all talk and no action.”
“The left’s agenda isn’t about protecting the environment, it’s about punishing America,” the president said. “Instead of focusing on radical ideology, my administration is focusing on delivering real results, and that’s what we have.” //
“We now have the cleanest air we’ve ever had in this country,” Trump said, before putting a qualifier on the word ever.
“Let’s say over the last 40 years, because I assume 200 years ago it was probably better, what do you think? I do want to preface that, because the fake news is back there.”
Product Description
With just four required items: 1-This all inclusive book (with simple terms, teaches you how to use a sextant/navigate and includes all celestial data needed till the year 2056), 2-sextant, 3-compass and 4-universal time (shortwave radio or time piece) you can navigate the globe by using latitude and longitude derived from the sun with these four items and have peace of mind knowing that you have a reliable backup to GPS. Once you have your position in latitude and longitude, this book teaches you basic navigation (destination, heading and distance), so you will never be lost.For safety reasons and because equipment fails, batteries die, and equipment falls overboard, people going to sea should have at least two different methods of navigation. The preferred primary method is using a GPS system. This book will teach a secondary backup method of my version of the “Noon Shot Fix”.If you are headed offshore, just curious about celestial navigation or have an old sextant and wonder how it works, buy this book with the other required items and you won’t be disappointed. This book can be read in a short amount of time with sextant readings starting immediately. This book is a combination of basic theory, teaching only what you need for a noon shot fix and basic navigation/plotting, along with a checklist type form to calculate your position, all inclusive celestial data, many “completed” examples and information on emergency navigation.There are many other great celestial navigation techniques out there that people use every day, however many of these techniques require more dedication to learn/use. My goal was to create a simple book, that could be used by the average person with no background on the subject, and contain all the information needed that could be called on in a time of emergency. Anyone with basic math skills can learn/use this technique.
About the Author
Greg was a Second Class Petty Officer in the US Navy, a Sergeant in the US Marine Corps Reserve and has a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. //
Douglas Smith5.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2017
An easy path to basic celestial navigation
In today’s world, it is incredibly easy for a casual, or even an experienced sailor to become totally dependent on GPS for the safe navigation of his vessel. For any sailor who ventures beyond sight of land and club house flag of his home marina, it is dangerous to be lulled into this dependency!
GPS receivers, and even the GPS satellite system are not perfect. Receivers fail, batteries go dead, and satellites suffer outages. Every sailor should possess the navigation and piloting skills necessary to bring his vessel safely home in an emergency.
The most basic “backup” navigation and piloting technique, using a sextant to compute Lat/Long and a magnetic compass to reckon direction, requires no power, electronics or radio navigation signals.
Unfortunately, teaching oneself celestial navigation is an overwhelming task for the average boater! A naval, or merchant marine officer dedicates an entire one semester course to this topic.
Greg Boyle’s book is not a comprehensive guide to celestial navigation. It will never find a home in an Annapolis classroom! But it will teach a complete neophyte a few basic celestial navigation and piloting techniques sufficient to bring him safely home in an emergency.
The celestial navigation portion of the book is dedicated almost exclusively to one specific celestial observation – observation of the sun at “Local Apparent Noon” (LAN).
This one technique is an excellent choice for emergency navigation:
• The LAN sun is one of the easiest observations to make with a sextant
• This single sextant observation yields BOTH Latitude and Longitude
• The “reduction” of the LAN observation to a Lat/Long fix is relatively easy
Greg’s book provides a step by step guide to the LAN shot. Everything from calibrating and observing with a sextant, to a simplified method of computing the “fix”. Numerous examples are included.
Any reader with a calculator and an understanding of very simple algebra will soon be successfully “shooting the sun”.
The book also teaches the reader basic piloting techniques which require only a magnetic compass.
I recommend this book to a newcomer who wishes to learn emergency navigation, and especially to sailors who have “tried and failed” to learn celestial navigation using other books.
Most average sailors will successfully complete this course. They will experience that special (and usually surprising) satisfaction the first time they shoot the sun, and using only a sextant and an accurate watch, compute a Lat/Long position which MIRACULOUSLY agrees with their GPS!
Well, the publication of those text messages was damn inconvenient. //
It is the height of arrogance, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the structure of government, for anyone in the Executive Branch in general, and the FBI in particular — including Jim Comey — to think it was acceptable for them to consider the question of whether a duly elected President of the United States was a “threat” to national security.
By constitutional principle, and by virtue of the fundamental organization of the Executive, the President can NEVER be a threat to the national security of the United States because in the final analysis the President — and not the FBI Director or the Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence — is empowered to make the judgment about what is or is not in the national security interests of the United States. It is a fundamental part of his job to make that determination. As a subordinate, it is the FBI Director’s job to carry out US policy — not to express his own views on such policy or pursue matters in the manner in which he believes they should be pursued. //
On that day we grappled with an especially troubling question, one that none of us could have anticipated in our wildest imaginations: whether to open a counterintelligence case against the president himself.
In my opinion, even entertaining that question was a firing offense for everyone in the room. Their obligation under the Constitution was to take their concerns to the Executive, and make their views known. Then await instructions and do nothing. If no instructions came, then move on to something else. //
Substitute “top leadership of the FBI” in Strzok’s description with “top leadership of the Pentagon” and consider the same concerns. What are you then discussing? Right — a coup de etat. //
Later the NPR author quotes him as admitting he was “naive” about the possibility his communications with Page would become public.
“Naive”?? ROFLMAO.
Stupid, uninformed and ill-suited for his job are better descriptors.
Or, as has been said to me many times by people in the FBI I trust — agents who spend their career in counter-intelligence lack any perspective on the concept of “discoverable material” as it relates to criminal cases. They never undergo cross-examination where their words from a particular document are force-fed back to them by an effective cross-examiner. You only need to learn the lessons from that kind of embarrassment one time and then you realize the foolishness of committing thoughts to writing without first considering the degree to which you would be ready to stand behind those written words on a witness stand in front of a judge and jury.
To the liberal media, special counsel Robert Mueller was the sharp, seasoned, no-nonsense prosecutor who would get to the bottom of “collusion.” But when Mueller testified before Congress on July 24, 2019, many were stunned to see a man struggling to answer basic questions.
Had his cognitive abilities declined during the probe?
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, speaking at the Nixon Presidential Library to mark the agency’s 50th anniversary, highlights the Trump administration’s environmental achievements.
For those who think socialism is compassionate and caring, in truth, socialists only care about the collective, not the individual.
Mark 3 Marine SextantSometimes referred to as a "lifeboat" sextant, the Mark 3 is an inexpensive training sextant. Yet this model has taken sailors around the world, too! It is full-sized and has sunshades, but no optical magnification to help you find dim celestial with instruction booklet.
Description
Mark 3 Marine SextantSometimes referred to as a "lifeboat" sextant, the Mark 3 is an inexpensive training sextant. Yet this model has taken sailors around the world, too! It is full-sized and has sunshades, but no optical magnification to help you find dim celestial with instruction booklet.
Features & details
The Mark 3 is a plastic Training Sextant
Comes with Instruction Booklet
The Mark 3 Sextant has taken Sailors around the World
Sometimes referred to as a "Lifeboat" Sextant
It is Full-Sized and has Sunshades, but no optical magnification to help you find dim celestial bodies
Fidsplice
5.0 out of 5 starsVerified Purchase
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2013
An extremely good product - great value. When you see it you'll realise you would be nuts not to buy it.
This is an exceptional and elegant description of "why", "what you are doing" and "how to get a result" in celestial navigation. So much teaching in this subject is procedural without explanation. This brief card cuts through to the guts of the problem.
I will recommend it without qualification to whoever wants to listen, regardless of the fact that someone scewed up in the production layout so that you can't break off the stub as they suggest. (You'll see what I mean when you buy it, but my recommendation is "Buy it!!")
Davis started out making the mark 15 in the 1960S and it remains popular today. Made of stabilized impact-resistant plastic, Davis sextants have circled the globe for decades. Includes carrying case and Instruction booklet
3 x 27mm Star telescope and 7 sun shades
Traditional half-silver split image mirror
Made of stabilized high-impact and weather-resistant plastic ///
REVIEW
San Franciscan4.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2017
Know why you want one and when to use it before buying
After spending a long time reading reviews for Mark 15, Mark 25 and Mark 3, Astra IIIb and other sextants, also after finishing my celestial navigation course and playing with a couple of very different types of sextants and taking sightings, I went ahead and bought a second hand but practically unused Mark 15 and decided to write this review. I will explain my reasoning below but if you are in the process of shopping for a sextant, you need to think WHY you want to have one. You may think it is obvious and the same for everyone, but it is not. I think there are at least three different categories:
1) A sextant looks so cool, I want one.
2) I am an off-shore sailor. Having GPS is good but what if it stops working because of lightning, cyber war, apocalypse etc.
3) I am into stars, I like gadgets and I am a geek of sorts. I want to learn more and have fun (or) I want to challenge myself to navigate in open ocean by only looking at the stars, I want to be a Polynesian! (Ok, maybe by cheating a bit with a sextant, Polynesians certainly didn’t have any. But you get the idea.)
Depending on where you land on this scale, your preferences could be vastly different. I personally land somewhere between 2 and 3, I call it 2.5.
If you are in the first category and want a sextant for decoration, simply stop reading here and go elsewhere. Davis Mark 15 is not for you. While it looks like a real sextant, it is plastic and unnecessarily expensive in relative terms for a decoration purpose. There are a ton of brass sextants for prices less than $50 here and elsewhere. They look good, much better than Mark 15. They will address your need better for much less. But if you decide to buy one of those $50 brass sextants, please do all of us a favor and don’t give poor reviews because they don’t work. They are not meant to work.
Let’s now look into 2nd category. But before we go much further, let’s also do a contemporariness test. It is worth to ask if a sextant is even relevant and needed for sailing these days, with multiple different services and emerging ones like GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou and abundance of cheap receivers. It is fairly easy to carry multiple (sometimes in the order of 10 including mobile phones and tablets) receivers onboard and keep them at different places, including in faraday cages (oven) for lightning protection. That said, sailors are opinionated people and they will have very different but equally strong opinions. Have a look at what they have to say. Check this poll on Cruisers Forum, a leading web forum that brings long distance sailors and cruisers together: http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f121/poll-blue-water-is-a-sextant-necessary-91929.html If you have time, read 15 pages of comments as well (did I say sailors are opinionated?). At best you will see many of those contemporary sailors saying it is desirable but not required. You need to make your own conclusion and decide where you land here for yourself. If you decide you are better off by carrying more GPS receivers, then you can also stop reading and start looking for backup GPS and faraday cages.
You continue reading, so you do want to have a sextant, good. Now it may be good to give some reference point for pricing. Working brass sextants sell around $2,000, aluminum ones around $600. When it comes to plastic ones, Mark 15 is around $150, Mark 25 is around $200 and Mark 3 is around $50, which is as basic as it gets. You need to decide between these three options. As you can see, it is a very wide range. It is important to mention that these are all brand new. Sextants last LONG if used properly, especially considering that they are not used that regularly. I used a sextant from 1944 and it worked like a charm. So there is a huge second hand market. Prices vary significantly but you can find a good aluminum sextant like Astra IIIb for anywhere between $250 to $300.
The question for a used sextant is not how old it is, how well it has been taken care of and whether it actually works. But there lies the problem. If you are reading this review, it probably means you are trying to learn about sextants and do not know enough already. If that is the case, how will you know if a second hand sextant is in decent shape? This doesn’t mean that there is foul play on the side of sellers, there usually is not. I have seen many sellers saying “I don’t know if this works because I am not knowledgable on sextants, I got this from my <fill in the blanks>”. And if they don’t know if it is working and you don’t know yourself, well that is a vicious circle. So be careful when you read a review here or elsewhere when someone says “Go and buy a second hand <XYZ> sextant instead of this new one as they are the same price”. While it may be a perfectly sound advice in theory for the person giving it, it may not work that well for you in practice. Also when people say they are the same price, they usually are not. I notice about 2x price difference between new plastic sextants and working second hand metal sextants.
It is also good to ask WHEN you will use the sextant. One thing important to know about sextants is they are almost useless for proper navigation unless you have other accompanying stuff. At a minimum you need to have an almanac, which changes yearly (although there are ones that go until 2050). For finding your longitude, you also need an accurate clock (you can find your latitude without a chronometer). An error of just one minute of time means 15 miles, so the clock needs to be accurate. And on top of everything you need quite a bit of practice, it is not the most intuitive thing when you do it for the first time. Obviously there are apps and computer programs that automate the calculations but again, you assume the electronics might have fried in the very first place otherwise one of the backup GPSes would work. Also it is important to think about the context here. If you were hit by a lightning in the middle of the ocean that was severe enough to fry all electronics onboard, even if you were lucky not to have a structural damage on your boat because of that lightning, I would assume you wouldn’t be continuing your regular cruise. Instead, you will head to closest port for repairs or simply go for a landfall anywhere you can. So you will need some emergency navigation skills and tools. A sextant will be handy then, even if you may not have an up-to-date almanac. If what you are concerned about is this scenario, I would highly recommend the book “Emergency Navigation: Improvised and No-Instrument Methods for the Prudent Mariner” from David Burch. For such use, I think Davis Mark 15 or even Mark 3 are good and useful to keep onboard (more on Mark 15 vs 25 below). Would having a more expensive metal sextant be better? Presumably but I personally don’t think the difference will be materialistic enough given all other suboptimal conditions. Remember, this assumes you are in an emergency and trying to do a landfall somewhere, many more things will be suboptimal and a plastic sextant as opposed to a metal sextant may be least of your worries.
And finally if you are in the 3rd category, into serious celestial navigation for fun and you are learning and plan to use your sextant frequently, then I’d look for higher end metal sextants. Astra IIIb seems to be the decent choice when you look for reasonably priced metal sextants. Used ones sell around $300 on eBay and around $600 new.
One last note on plastic sextants. If you buy a plastic sextant (or maybe before buying one), I recommend reading “How to Use Plastic Sextants: With Applications to Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant Piloting” again by David Burch. Plastic sextants have their quirks. Many techniques in the book can also also be recommended for metal sextants but they are more important for plastic sextants. And Burch has a note on Davis Mark 15 vs Mark 25: "[...] the full mirror on Mark 25 makes the easier sights easier and the hard sights harder.". Read the book for more details on his reasoning.
To sum up, as I said I am in category 2.5 and didn’t want to spend several hundred dollars on a metal sextant. I just wasn’t sure if I would use it frequently enough. Yet I wanted to have a sextant, to get a feel of sailing by the stars like older navigators did, and to have a gateway of last resort if everything else fails, however unlikely it may be. I eliminated Mark 25 because of above comment from David Burch and eliminated Mark 3 when I actually played with one in real life. I bought a practically unused Mark 15 for half the price, and spent the delta on the books mentioned above. If you get a sextant of any sort, I highly recommend downloading and using the open source and free OpenCPN navigation application and celestial navigation plugin for it.