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Dragon Lore 2 Walkthrough

DRAGON LORE 2 Walkthrough by Crash Finally the sequel of one of the most unforgetable adventure game : Dragon Lore, is arrived. The graphics are great, and with a great sound too. But one thing that still quite annoying is the way to fight the monster. That's horrible, you

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Dragon Lore Walkthrough

Here it is - the Dragon Lore walk-thru. Walkthrough written by Brian Montgomery (bmontgom@aol.com) This walkthru is from memory so please excuse any misinformation. CAUTION This is a COMPLETE walk through and not just separate hints Tip: Never talk to anyone with a weapon or book in your

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Diablo Walkthrough

Diablo Quests List Remember, you will not get all of these quests in one game! What quests you will recieve in the game is randomly played out by Diablo; you haveno choice as to what quests you will be confronted with. Butcher Quest Given From: the Wounded Townsman Quest Summary:

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Dungeon Master Walkthrough

DUNGEON MASTER Solved!!! Amiga Version! Written by Rom Chip of ORACLE The only reason I wrote this solve was because even though the game is not all that hard, its still an adventure, and i love to make solve files so if you got stumped on any level, then this

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Converting QEMU Windows 2000 images to AWS EC2 AMIs

Why am I doing this? I have a qcow2 image for various Windows Server 2000 installations and experimenting with various ways to implement them. Introduction Moving workloads from on‑premises virtualization environments to Amazon Web Services (AWS) often starts with a disk image. QEMU’s native QCOW2 format is compact

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How to calculate radial Keplers equation

What is Radial Keplers Equation? The Radial Kepler equation for the case where the object does not have enough energy to escape. Radial form of Kepler’s equation For a body moving on a bound (elliptic) Keplerian orbit, the standard Kepler equation relates the mean anomaly M to the eccentric

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Securing Windows XP
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Securing Windows XP

As I wrote in a previous post, securing your operating systems is critical to security and privacy. Below is a batch‑file script you can run (as Administrator) inside a Windows XP virtual machine to apply a set of common hardening measures. It focuses on reducing the attack surface, tightening

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Securing Windows 2000 Advanced Server
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Securing Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Introduction A Windows Server is often the backbone of an organization’s IT infrastructure—hosting Active Directory, file shares, web applications, databases, and countless internal services. Because it sits at the core of corporate operations, a compromised server can cascade into a full‑blown breach, data loss, regulatory penalties, and

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FlameNet Updated

- I updated the complete feel to our old school theme. You can view it by following this link. Below is a list of services provided by the FlameNet Vintage Developer Network 1. Your own Windows XP development environment 2. Exchange account for e-mail 3. Sharepoint access 4. Microsoft Teams

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Orbital Mechanics Angles in Julia

I am starting to get more into orbital dynamics. As a result, Julia is a new programming language that is rising in adaptation. I decided to port a Python version of an orbital dynamics library into Julia. Over the next few weeks, I would like to write some explanations of

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Vmware Workstation Specific Virtual Disk

I went to defragment one of my virtual machines that was performing poorly. When I went to defrag, I received the error "The specific virtual disk needs repair" Reason: the specific virtual disk needs repair. The above happened to me on VMWare Workstation 15. A way around this

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What is Julia?

I posted a few posts tonight that use Julia as a language to accomplish some orbital mechanical tasks. I decided to take a step back and provide a brief overview of what Julia actually is. Their website is https://julialang.org/ and the language has been skyrocketing up in the

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Getting Started with AstroNN

I found a neat library for Astronomy datasets. AstroNN Is a collection of Keras-driven neural networks for astronomy data. Getting Started Install AstroNN pip install astroNN matplotlib sklearn Create a Jupyter notebook jupyter notebook Paste the following into the IN %matplotlib inline %config InlineBackend.figure_format='retina' # import

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Getting TensorFlow install on Apple M1

I am getting started into Astroomy datasets. One of the first things I wanted to do is get adjusted and acquainted with TensorFlow. Since I have an Apple M1, I wanted to get tensorflow installed and using the integrated libraries so when the datasets are written, they are more native

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90s Server Tech Revisited

The below screen displays all the virtual machines I provisioned AND configured in 1 night. This list includes: * Windows 2000 Advanced Server Active Directory * Windows 2000 Advanced Server Exchange * Windows 2000 Advanced Server File Server * Windows 2000 Advanced Server IIS ( To be used with the Geocities archive ) * Windows 2000 Advanced

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