I was just watching some information about some advanced topics on Minecraft command blocks. I saw a Youtube video where the item IDs where showing up as additional information in inventory tooltip.
I did some searching and all you have to do is press F3 and H at the same time.
In the senior white belt attendance card, there is a question the students need to learn–why do we take promotion tests?
The answer to this is pretty simple and is applicable to almost anything in life that involves tests. Here’s the answer…
There are three (3) things to keep in mind regarding why we take promotion tests:
If you are up for the next promotion test, keep these three things in mind.
I recently purchased a Seagate 1TB Gaming SSHD SATA 8GB NAND SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000LM014)
Here’s some background:
Here’s what I planned in order to get the new drive to take over without having to redo everything (from re-installing the operating system and re-installing all her existing applications):
Using Windows 7’s built-in backup and restore utility, I proceeded to do three things:
Of utmost importance is to first ensure my wife’s priceless photographs are safe. To do this, I purchased a Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB5000100)
To launch Windows 7 Backup and Restore utility, click START, then in the search field enter “backup and restore” and this will show the Backup and Restore utility. Select it to open. You should see this simple utility interface pop up:
Backup and Restore Utility
Now click Set up backup and follow the prompts. You should see a screen just like below. In the image, you see arrows pointing to potential backup destinations. In this particular example, my 5TB USB drive isn’t connected, but if it was, it would show up as another disk drive with over 4.5 TB of free space. That was the drive I actually selected for my backup destination.
Target Backup Destination Drive
In general, you will want to select the target drive with sufficient space to take on large backups. After you select the destination drive, click Next and follow the prompts. At a certain point, you will have the opportunity to change any default settings, but in general, unless you really know what you are doing, you can leave default settings as they are. Then invoke the backup now. Depending how much data you have, it could take anywhere from several minutes to a few hours. Mine took a few hours (around 3 hours I think).
During the backup process, you will have the option to select to have a system image made. Make sure to set that. I did this to save myself a lot of time doing software and driver re-installs. Believe me, it is worth it.
Note that I had problems creating a system image. I figured that this was due to not having enough disk space left on the root drive (drive C) as my wife’s photos used up most of the disk drive space. Having backed up the photos, I proceeded to delete all her photo folders. This was a scary thing because at this point, I am putting my trust in Microsoft’s backup utility to save me should something go south with this process. After doing this, I was able to build a system image.
When the system finishes creating both the user file backups and the system image, it will prompt you about creating a system repair disk. I opted to do this. I readied my DVD-R disc; it takes one.
At this point in time, I turned off the computer and removed the old disk drive and placed the new one.
This is where the actual recovery process begins. Before I using the system repair disk, I configured the system BIOS to seek the DVD drive first as the boot device, then pressed F10 to save and exit the BIOS setup. I placed my system repair disk in the DVD drive my Gateway NV79, then restarted the computer by simply turning it OFF then turning it ON.
The laptop began to boot from the DVD and determined that I will be doing an image restore. At this point, I still had my 5TB external USB drive connected to the laptop. After the utility gets started, you will opt to restore from an image.
It was at this point that I encountered the error that the system could not restore the image because the system repair disk says “No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found.” After seeing this, I thought perhaps I needed to match the partition configuration of the original drive, so I ran diskpart.exe and tried this. It didn’t work. After trying a few things that didn’t work, I finally gave in by doing a search on google. I found the answer at answers.microsoft.com. It turns out, all I needed to do on the disk drive was to run diskpart.exe, select the drive, and invoke CLEAR on it.
After I did this, the image restore process worked as it should have in the first place.
Everything that was on the original disk drive was restored, less the photos.
To fix this, I simply invoked the file/folder restore within the backup and restore utility and selected the photo folders to be restored.
What I thought was going to be a routine process turned out to be one heck of an effort. What really screwed me up was Windows 7 image restore now working the way it should in the first place without having to execute the DISKPART utility’s CLEAR command on the new drive.
There have been many first person shooters that try to simulate the military experience like these console and PC gems:
In these games, teams have no pre-designated functions or hierarchy . The playing field is very small, and there really is no combined arms that is integrated well in the game. The closest thing these games have to simulating the military experience is the chaotic way things happen in the game. These games are also characterized by very fast paced action where the person with the most hand and finger dexterity, as well as game experience, generally dominantes the game. The best one I’ve seen that come close to a good military simulation is the free FPS created for the US Army called America’s Army.
None of these come close to ARMA 3. What makes ARMA 3 especially unique and realistic in terms of the player’s experience are these two main things:
This trailer from Bohemia Interactive (maker and producer of the game) gives you a good taste for the game’s military immersion:
Below is a short gaming session so you can get a feel for the military immersion. Warning: the audio below has some 4 letter words sprinkled in there. Just be aware.
It is very easy to put in several hours in one session. The players in the game can talk to each other via the built in voice over IP communication or via chat.
I just joined a clan recently and I’m seeing more and more of this game’s potential–more than what the videos above show. I may write more about this at a later time.
If you have any opinion about this game, please feel free to share.
Some students love sparring and some don’t. Regardless of which side of the aisle you’re on, sparring in martial arts serves an important purpose.
Before we get to what that is, it is important to know what we practice in the classroom so that you can have a better perspective into this subject matter. In class, we learn many things. Here are the core of what we learn:
Free sparring is the most unique in all of the physical activities above. What makes it unique is unpredictability. Compare that to breaking techniques, step sparring, forms, and self-defense. In all of these activities, except free sparring, the situation is predetermined–no surprise.
Free sparring provides an ever changing situation, that is, your opponent is moving constantly whereas in other activities, the situation is pretty much static. This isn’t to say that the other things don’t serve a purpose–the all do. All aspects of our training provide a purpose. However, this article is here to identify to the reader why sparring is important.
It is in free sparring that the student is able to put into practice everything they have learned in a more chaotic situation. This is where the repetitive nature of practice comes into play. The repetitive practice is what is infused into the students’ instincts. In free sparring, things happen fast. There is no time to think. It is the students’ instincts that take over. You see, when a student starts to think about what they are going to do in sparring, their reaction time slows down. It is the instinctive student who has properly learned techniques who will triumph in a free sparring match. It is the instinct that will help the student defend themselves should the need arise.
So you see, free sparring helps the students hone their defensive instincts.
If you have any thoughts about sparring and the ideas presented above, please feel free to share by commenting below.
XCOM 2 Custom Character
XCOM 2 was recently released and is generating a lot of interest on the web. The interest comes not from the mods produced for it, but from the ability of players to create their own custom pool of soldier recruits. This seemingly small feature adds an interesting twist to the game. Already various content providers have created their custom pool of recruits. One such example is PC Gamer magazine with their best custom set of XCOM 2 characters. Check out some celebrity names you should easily recognize.
To install the binary files, simply copy the downloaded binary and move them to C:\Users\yourLoginNameGoesHere\Documents\My Games\XCOM2\XComGame\CharacterPool\Importable. From there, the custom recruits will become visible from XCOM 2’s Character Pool’s Import Character tab. There you can open the pool, select the characters you want, then click the import button.
By the way, I created 4 characters of my own and was able to export them to a .bin file. This file ends up in the same location as the binary files you can import. Here’s a mission I played that included one the custom characters.
If you enjoy playing games of thinking strategy, you will like XCOM 2. It is definitely challenging. You can buy it on Amazon for just about $60.
Clicker Universal Garage Door Opener Remote
This article documents the steps I took to program the Clicker Universal Garage Door Remote (model # KLIK1U) with my GeniePro Screwdrive garage door opener (model #CM7600IC/A). It covers the following:
Recently my GeniePro Screwdrive garage door remote control started failing. I know it wasn’t the battery since I have replaced it and it still fails to work.
Lately my wife has been opening the garage door for me to that point that when I leave work, she gives me 30 minutes to get home and she starts checking once the 30 minutes is up. Then as I arrive, the garage door miraculously opens, thanks to my patient and thoughtful wife.
Well, I love that the door opens without me using a remote, but I would not impose such a task on anyone. So I ordered a universal garage door opener–specifically the Clicker Universal Garage Door Remote (which I ordered through Amazon.com for about $25). It came in on time as advertised by Amazon.
To get the job done, I needed the following tools:
Basically, you need to do the following tasks in order to get this job done:
I reviewed the setup instructions multiple times. One key thing you need to remember is that you need to determine which set of instructions you need to follow–Smart/Learn Button or DIP switch instructions.
For my case, I followed the Smart/Learn Button set of instructions.
GeniePro Screwdrive Smart/Learn Button
Here’s a list of the steps I took:
I needed a new garage door opener remote. I bought the Clicker Universal Garage Door Remote (model # KLIK1U) for about $25 and it worked perfectly with my GeniePro Screwdrive garage door opener (model #CM7600IC/A).
There is a question on our student’s knowledge list that asks “What’s the most important tool in life?”
The simple answer is “goal setting.”
We are now in the middle of the first month of the year–January 2016. By this time you should have 1 to 3 goals already set for the year.
Here are some thoughts about setting goals:
Why is goal setting important?
Without a goal, a person can go through the year without direction or purpose. Without direction, it is difficult to achieve anything. Goals help us focus. If you keep you goals in mind, it will help you take action towards achieving them.
In the process of updating my grandson’s new computer (an Acer Nitro V15 laptop) from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, I ran into the error C1900101-20017—some error about Windows failing to update.
I tried to update it again, but I ended up with the same result–Windows 10 upgrade failed.
Finally, I realized that there is a UEFI firmware interface option called Secure Boot, an operating system protection mechanism against root kits, which could probably be blocking the update. To get to this, I needed to get to UEFI by pressing F2 (your computer may have a different means to get to this) while the computer is powering up.
Once in UEFI, I disabled the Secure Boot option in the Boot tab, saved the settings, and restarted. I again attempted a Windows 10 upgrade, and this time it worked!
If this worked for you, let me know by commenting below.
Toys for Tots
We all know how fortunate some of us are because of our financial standing. That is something we can be thankful for; however, some are not so fortunate. This year, we would like to do our part in helping needy children in this times of giving.
Koryo Family Taekwondo is collecting for Toys for Tots. So if you are feeling generous or you have gifts you can spare, drop them off at the school no later than 18 Dec 2015 (Friday), and we will bring them to a Toys for Tots collection center.
Thank you,
From all of us at Koryo FTC.