8.3 Slow or no USB booting on some systems?
This guide contains many new and previously undocumented features!
Beware! many other versions, both older and newer, may be buggy!
Latest grub4dos downloads Note that 0.4.5c is an old stable release with no new features and some bugs (a=alpha, b=beta, c=release). I strongly recommend 0.4.6a (latest version may be buggy - use my recommended version).
RMPrepUSB - use this to install grub4dos + many other useful functions.
Easy2Boot - a universal multiboot solution based on grub4dos - just copy your ISO files to the USB drive and boot (also supports multi-UEFI booting and Secure UEFI-boot).
eBook #1: How to make a multiboot USB drive using Easy2Boot - a complete course on how to make a multiboot USB drive.
eBook #2: How to install Microsoft Windows using Easy2Boot - install Microsoft Windows unattended, with drivers + applications.
Grub4dos version 0.4.6a has Joliet ISO support, can map non-contiguous files, better debugging and it's own rd/wr USB 2.0 driver and better NTFS file-write support, exFAT and ext3/4 support, new features such as setmenu, large font support, .jpg support, etc. etc.
To install grub4dos, I recommend using RMPrepUSB. Click here for a complete set of RMPrepUSB and grub4dos YouTube video tutorials.
Use the Search box at the top of this page to find a grub4dos menu for your particular ISO/OS/App.
RMPrepUSB Blog - please leave a comment or feedback on RMPrepUSB or this Tutorial (please mention Tutorial number).
This tutorial is an introduction on how to make a bootable grub4dos USB drive.
If you are a beginner to multibooting USB drives and just want to quickly make and test a multiboot USB drive, check out the Easy2Boot Project here.
Grub4dos allows you to make a multiboot (multipass) drive. When you boot from a bootable drive that contains the grub4dos bootloader, you are normally presented with a menu which allows you to boot from any OS or other program such as a memory test program that you have copied to the drive.
Grub4dos does not support UEFI-booting (but you can UEFI-boot using Easy2Boot).
Grub4dos boot code can be installed either onto the MBR (Master Boot Record, on the first sector of the disk) and boot track (first track) of a drive, or the partition boot record. It consists of two parts or stages. The first part is the boot code which is in the first sector and some of the following sectors of the boot drive or partition. Once this code is run by the CPU, the code then looks for a file called grldr. The grldr file needs be in the root and on the same boot partition if the boot code is installed onto the partition boot record (PBR - start of the partition).
If the boot code was installed onto the MBR, then the root of all devices will be searched to find the grldr file. See here for more details.
Grub4dos can boot an OS or executable from a 'flat file' structure or from disk image files or even ISO files. It can even load images into memory (ram drive) and run the OS from there! Grub4dos is used in most of my tutorials and is well worth getting to know it, if you are interested in making your own multi-boot drives. The RMPrepUSB download includes grub4dos. RMPrepUSB will install grub4dos onto a drive at the click of a button either to the MBR (Master Boot Record) or PBR (Partition Boot Record). Tip: If in doubt, always install twice, to both MBR and PBR!
Grub4dos can run grub4dos batch files (which must start with !BAT) and grub4dos executables and supports environment variables. It can access FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, ISO 9660 CDFS and ext2/3/4 filesystems. It is a very powerful environment and is under constant development and improvement by chenall, tinybit, yaya and many others. There is an active forum on reboot.pro here. By convention, grub4dos programs may have the file extension .g4e, grub4dos batch files may have the extension .g4b.
Tip: You can make Nov 2013 and later versions of grub4dos run these without needing to specify the file extension, by adding command --set-ext=.g4b;.g4e to a grub4dos menu.lst file.
If you have never used grub4dos before, I will give you a quick 'How to' introduction so you can make a working USB pen drive with which you can experiment.
IMPORTANT: Always use the latest RMPrepUSB version which will include a recent version of grub4dos or obtain the recommended grub4dos grldr file.
(2) RMPrepUSB adds special modifications to the grub4dos boot code (using a specially modified version of grubinst.exe) which increase the chances of booting grub4dos on a wider variety of systems.
Note: The RMPrepUSB version of the grub4dos MBR code is not compatible with BootIce - so don't attempt to tweak the defaults timeout,etc. using BootIce!
If you are having problems booting to grub4dos on some very old systems try FlashBoot to prepare your USB drive.
grub4dos ReadMe.txt (old but useful user manual - data references ) - recommended!
New! grub4dos commands and primer (translated from Chinese) updated by me - recommended!
Diddy's Guide http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm - (May 2009) old but recommended for basic understanding.
Tutorial 60 - Grub4dos and Plop!
Lots of menu.lst example entries!
Look here for advanced example menus and downloads including unifont to support UTF.8 characters, wallpapers, moving the menu, coloured text, etc.
Download and install RMPrepUSB onto your Windows XP/Vista/Win7 system (always use latest Beta) . There is a portable version if you prefer this (though the full version adds no system drivers and is easy to completely uninstall should you want to).
Linux users can install grub4dos using BootIce.
Fig. 1 Notice that the settings are numbered 1 to 6 for you - just set 1-5 as shown and then click on 6 Prepare Drive.
Note: If you are using a USB HDD, you may need to select Settings - List Large Drives >128GB.
3. Click on the Install grub4dos button - answer 'Yes' to use the MBR option and hit Enter when prompted to copy the grldr file over - or use PBR option if you prefer. ('No User Prompts' must be unticked to get this option').
You can use MBR or PBR or both with RMPrepUSB as it uses a special version of grubinst which works even when booting MS-DOS from grub4dos .
Make sure that the \grldr file has been copied across to the USB drive afterwards (you must hit the Enter key when requested - do not just quit the console window!).
Tip: Some systems give a 'flashing cursor' when they boot from grub4dos installed to the MBR. If you want your USB drive to boot from a wide variety of different systems, install grub4dos twice - once to the MBR and again to the PBR ('No User Prompts' must be unticked to get this option')! For very old systems, you may need to format the USB drive using FlashBoot.
4. Now follow Tutorial #20 on how to add MemTest86+ to the USB drive you have just prepared (Memtest86+ is a good one to start with because it is quick to boot and ideal for testing the grub4dos menu with - or if you prefer, try Tutorial #37 to make a FreeDOS USB bootable pen drive).
Note that grub4dos consists of two parts as explained previously.
Part 1 is the boot code which does not actually exist as a file and so cannot be easily seen. It's code can be located either in the Master Boot Record (first 31 sectors on a disk) or in the Partition Boot Record (first sectors at the start of a partition). This is written to the disk when you click on the 'Install grub4dos' button and grubinst.exe is run.
Part 2 is the main grub4dos code which is loaded by the Part 1 boot code. Part 2 is just the file grldr which should be located in the root of your bootable drive partition. This grldr file is copied from the RMPrepUSB application folder to the target drive when you click on the 'Install grub4dos' button and after grubinst.exe has run successfully. If you wish to use a different version of grub4dos, simply replace the grldr file on the USB boot drive with your different grldr file.
The grldr file contains it's own small pre-boot menu (512 bytes) which includes the commands to search for the menu.lst file. This embedded menu can be changed if you wish.
If a menu.lst file is not found, grub4dos will display a grub> command prompt. You can type in most of the grub4dos commands at the grub4dos command prompt (such as help).
If a menu.lst file is found then the commands inside that file will be run.
Whatever device the /menu.lst file was found on, it will be set as the 'root' device and partition. So ls / or ls (bd)/ (bd=boot device) will always list the files on the root of the partition that contained the menu.lst that was found and loaded by grub4dos.
A menu file consists of two sections - all commands before the first title command are executed, in sequential order, as soon as the menu file is loaded.
When the first title command is found, any further lines are interpreted as menu entries (each menu entry starts with a title command word followed by one or more command lines).
When a user selects a menu entry and presses [Enter], the commands below the title command are executed by grub4dos until the next title command is found (or the end of file is found). When the next title command is found (or the end of file is reached) grub4dos will automatically issue a boot command and CPU control will be passed to whatever code was loaded by the previous menu instructions.
Note: The menu.lst file can be saved in ANSI format or UTF-8 format using Windows NotePad.
Here is a video on how to make a simple ANSI menu.lst menu file and it explains some of the command words that can be used in the menu.
We now need to test your USB pen drive to see if it boots.
You can either reboot your computer (or use a different computer), change the BIOS boot menu so that the BIOS will boot from the USB pen first and see what happens - OR - you can use an emulator like Qemu (this saves having to reboot your computer or unplug the USB drive and move it to another system) - simply press the F11 keyboard function key when running RMPrepUSB or click on the 'Test using QEMU emulator' button in RMPrepUSB to run QEMU and see if your USB drive will boot!
Normally, Qemu does not allow BIOS sector writes (except to the MBR!) to the USB drive when it is mapped as a \\PhysicalDriveX on your computer (though no error will be reported as the drive is 'snapshotted' so that any writes are temporary only and cached) - i.e. any physical drive mapped by Qemu will be treated as a read-only device because Windows locks the volume and no physical writes to the volume will occur. For this reason, if you are emulating DOS USB drives using Qemu, you may find it does not work as expected when writing files to the USB drive under DOS and then rebooting again (once booted under Qemu) or even within grub4dos (e.g. the savedefault command does not actually save anything!). If, however, you use the latest version of RMPrepUSB, writes will work as expected! See also Tutorial 4 for how to boot from a USB drive in a VirtualBox VM (much faster than QEMU!).
Qemu may not always work as expected (it will be mentioned in the Tutorial if there is a known issue with any particular setup and QEMU), but booting from real computers should work as long as the USB drive is booted as a 'hard-disk'/USB-HDD and not as a 'USB-ZIP' or 'USB-FDD' device!
When you see this grub4dos menu - press the <ENTER> key and memtest86+ should start to run.
# IMPORTANT: There must be no spaces at the end of the colour values (e.g. 0033FF) below or it will not take affect!
Note: foreground and background commands will only work in old 16 colour graphicsmodes (e.g. graphicsmode -1 800 -1 4 or graphicsmode x - where x= 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 + some others). It is best to avoid these commands and use the color command instead - see below.
Note: The XPM format for splashimage is no longer supported by grub4dos.
black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, light-gray, dark-gray, light-blue, light-green, light-cyan, light-red, light-magenta, yellow and white.
Tip: A nice colour scheme can be made by using a light colour for the foreground and the same colour but darker for the background - e.g. light-cyan/cyan or light-green/green.
will result in no menu text or timeout or timer countdown text being displayed (black text on a black background)!
The 'NORMAL' colour setting also sets the console text colours too, unless you specify a 'standard' colour too.
# note that if in graphics hi-res mode, the background colour for normal text and help text will be ignored and will be set to transparent.
the = sign can be omitted in the color command.
You can prefix most colours with 'blink-' to make them flash. Note that blink only works in textmode (e.g. graphicsmode 3) and not in a non-text (hi-res) graphics mode. Also you cannot have light blinking background colours, e.g. color blue/blink-light-blue will report back a parsing error; color blink-light-blue/blue is OK and so is color blue/light-blue. Equally color 0x91 will set blinking blue text on a blue background (i.e. invisible!), whereas color 0x99 will set blinking light-blue text on a blue background.
color standard=blink-light-blue/green will work, but color standard=blink-light-blue/light-green will not work.
color 0x03 has a black background (0) and a bright green foreground (3).
You can also specify a colour pair as one or two RGB 3-byte hex value if in a hi-res VGA graphics mode (not text mode 3) instead of a foreground/background single byte value - e.g.
Later versions of grub4dos (June 2013 and later) can also understand individual colour settings, e.g. color standard=blink-light-blue/black will set blinking (if in text mode) light blue text on a black background.
Valid colours are: black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, light-gray, dark-gray, light-blue, light-green, light-cyan, light-red, light-magenta, yellow and white.
When in graphics mode, background = black = transparent. Only the standard and highlight colours accept a background colour setting.
color highlight=0x22222200FFFF00 - sets background (0x222222) and text colour (0xFFFF00) using 0x00rrggbb00RRGGBB format.
color standard=0x0000FF00FFFFFF - sets console text to white text on blue background.
Comment lines start with a # in my tutorials (actually for most grub4dos versions, any starting character except A-Z,a-z,0-9,/(%,white space and + are treated as a comment line character - but the 'official' character for a comment is #).
For commands that are above any menu title command (i.e. before a 'title' line), the commands must start on a new line with no space or other character in front of them.
For lines which follow after a 'title' line, white space and graphics characters are ignored unless they follow a command word - e.g. echo ## ##.
Nearly all grub4dos commands are (and must be) lower case (e.g. root (hd0,0) is OK, but Root (hd0,0) or root (HD0,0) will give an error). Grub4dos filenames are not usually CaSe SeNsItIvE, but to be on the safe side always use the same upper and lower case letters to match the files on the USB drive (ext2/3/4 grub4dos volumes will be case sensitive). It is also recommended to use 8.3 filenames if possible (i.e. not long filenames) as you may get problems when booting OS's that do not cope well with long filenames such as MS-DOS or some ISO filesystems. Also be aware that files within a CD or ISO image may be uppercase when accessed by grub4dos, even if they appear as lowercase when viewed in Explorer.
Note that, like linux, grub4dos uses forward slashes for directory path separators(/) and does not use the backslash (\) character as used by Windows!
The \ character in grub4dos is used for literal characters, e.g. \n can be used as a carriage return character for adding help text on a title line but \\n would be treated and displayed as '\n'.
Older versions of grub4dos required a 14-colour, 640x480 bitmap to be made, however, new versions (2011+) allow you to specify high-colour graphics modes and use high-resolution bitmaps.
If you just want to add a nice background, skip the next bit and jump to the 'High Colour and High Resolution Backgrounds' section below.
Note that the menu example above has a 'splashimage' statement. For older versions of grub4dos this command can only use a 14 colour 640x480pixel image to use as a background image (if you do not change the graphicsmode and leave it set to the default mode).
For your 14-colour splashscreen image (if you have used a splashimage command), by default, the foreground colour (all of the menu text and the highlight for the currently selected option) will be white, and the background colour (the highlighted text within the currently selected option) will be black. This menu text will be laid over the background image.
You can change the splashimage menu text colours however with separate foreground= and background= commands, which is what the two 'foreground' 'background' lines do in the menu above.


Research shows that as of 2011 renewable energy is cheaper than gas or coal in Australia. Undoubtedly the gas and coal companies will be trying to prevent this type of research from becoming known for other regions like Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Africa. More than likely it is already true or soon will be.
"The perception that fossil fuels are cheap and renewables are expensive is now out of date", said Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "The fact that wind power is now cheaper than coal and gas in a country with some of the world's best fossil fuel resources shows that clean energy is a game changer which promises to turn the economics of power systems on its head," he said.
As the price of fossil fuels continues to climb as the resources become more costly and risky to extract, renewables continue to come down in initial capital costs, while being an essentially fixed cost once installed, again beating non-renewables. All this, without adding in the costs of pollution caused by fossil fuels and uranium based power sources, and again it becomes crystal clear that the future for so many reasons is all about renewable energy. All sensible future investments will be in renewables. Now the great danger is the propaganda war that fossil and nuclear industries will wage to hide these facts from the investing and energy using public in order to try to prop up their sunk investment that is in the trillions of dollars. Those profits now being shown to be at significant risk are undermining the future viability of these industry giants. They won't be going down without a fight. Expect billions to be wasted by them trying to brainwash you into believing their products cost less. They don't but billions of dollars in advertising and public relations will make you wonder.
Spread the word on this one. Let people you know and talk to that this is the case, that renewables cost less than new fossil plants like gas and coal. As we become bombarded by misinformation and propaganda particularly during election time, we must make sure our politicians, who will without a doubt be lobbied/bribed by these industries to look the other way regarding the true costs, know we know what is really going on, and only vote for those that understand our future relies on renewables. Renewable energy is the only sane choice globally from here on, period, end of story. That is the only way our children have a chance both from a climate perspective and economically. It just makes sense.
Check out the great coverage on this at Nation of Change.


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I don't know about you, but I most definitely have a morning ritual.
On school days, it starts by turning my phone alarm off, which I leave on the kitchen bench. It means I have to actually get OUT of bed and walk to the kitchen, where my routine starts. This is intermingled with packing bags for school and feeding animals. If I am lucky the kids aren't awake yet and I can do most of that in peace.
A lot of the morning tasks are ritual, like opening the curtains, putting the kettle on and usually, going to the loo.
Whatever order I do things in, there are three things that I do (for myself) religiously every morning.
Drink hot water and lemon juice.
This is the first thing I do in the morning. Every morning. It's habit.
Drinking warm lemon water is supposed to aid digestion, be good for the immune system and liver. Lord knows my liver could do with all the help it can get!
What I do know is, it keeps me regular! Which must be good for my colon too (a little extra information you probably didn't want to know). Lemon juice contains Vitamins C and B6. With my history of depression and anxiety, the B6 is important.
I squeeze half a lemon's worth of juice into a mug, then fill with hot water from the tap. It's at this time that I take my multi vitamins too.
I have never been much of a coffee drinker, and when I was, I felt sluggish and weighed down. It just doesn't agree with me I don't think. That's not to say that I never have coffee. I was bought one the other day, by someone who didn't know my tendency for tea, so I drunk it anyway. Every now and then is OK with me, it's just not one of my habitual drinks.
I do however drink a lot of herbal tea!
Straight after I've had my lemon drink, I make a cuppa tea. Sometimes it's drunk while perusing Facebook, or making lunches for school, or watching the morning news. It depends how much time I have on my hands or whether the kids are up yet.
I always make and eat breakfast. My staple breakfast is porridge, with added goodness like pumpkin seeds, LSA, coconut and sesame seeds. Sometimes some dried or fresh fruit.
I always seem to fit it in before school drop off, even if it's a quick piece of toast or some fruit and yogurt. Porridge seems to keep me going until lunch time though, without dipping into the pantry. It's the space between lunch and dinner I have trouble with, and all the sweet crap I have in the pantry.
How does this differ or similiarise with your morning?
What is your weakness, when it comes to the mid afternoon slump?
This is one of the best places in town to get back to nature, especially in Spring time. I wouldn't leave the camera home, as there is so much beauty to capture.
I love seeing the changing environment, the birdlife, flowers, and also the changing levels of water. I've said it before, this has been one of the wettest years and we are just getting some nice spring weather now (thank you mother nature), so the lake has plenty of water.


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I n 1941 a small group of Catholic residents from Union Beach petitioned the Bishop of the Trenton Diocese for permission to build their own Church. With little else than faith and courage they undertook the task and in 1942 the first Holy Family Church was completed.
The parish grew rapidly and again the faith filled parishioners petitioned the Bishop for permission to build a larger Church. The new church was completed in 1955. The building stands as we know it today.
Over the next twelve years the parish continued to grow in faith and numbers and once again a petition was sent to the Bishop for permission to build an elementary school on the acreage purchased in Hazlet Township. The school was completed in 1967.
Since the first church was built thousands upon thousands have entered its doors. They have brought their joys and successes, their heartaches and burdens. They have baptized their babies and buried their loved ones. They have listened to the Word of the Lord preached and have gathered in Holy Communion.
Over twenty five classes have graduated Holy Family School. Among them today are doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, business people, mothers and fathers. Our school now educates second generation students.


(Lincoln City, Oregon) – There's something to get excited about on the Oregon coast soon – or in this case, X-Kited. Lincoln City brings out the superheroes with its Fall Kite Festival at the D River State Recreation Site on September 30 and October 1. This year is the 39th installment of the festival, where professional kite fliers will celebrate the superhero theme "X-Kitement" and perform death-defying stunts to enamored audiences. Don your favorite superhero costume and fly your way into this central Oregon coast autumn highlight.
Featured flier Ronda Brewer is definitely X-Kited to be involved in this year's Fall Kite Festival. Brewer, a Lincoln City native, enjoys reuniting with other featured fliers.
The Fall Kite Festival takes place in the heart of Lincoln City at the D River State Recreation Site. Activities include kids kite making, kite demonstrations and the Running of the Bols, which is a footrace across the beach with each participant harnessed to a parachute kite. Summon your inner superpowers and get in on all the fun kite flying activities.
See here for places to stay in Lincoln City for the event. You can also find changing specials and deals offered by local hotels, motels and vacation rental offices. Keep checking back as these can switch around quite often. This link also features some lodging listings that are exclusive.
Click here for a virtual tour and maps of the Lincoln City area. There's also a page dedicated to pointing out every single beach access in town.
For more information on the Lincoln City Fall Kite Festival, visit OregonCoast.org.


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But how do you proportionally resize the swing? Even if you did, it wouldn't give you the same type of joy as when you were a kid, because you have grown up and changed. Even if that wasn't the case for you, you have to consider that the swing has become a place that is sacred for many other adults. When they visit, they aren't visiting to try out the new adult-swing. They want to try the old swing. The one that brings back the joyful memories of distant past. They know that the experience isn't the same, but if they close their eyes ... even for a brief moment ... they just might get that nostalgic thrill that brings them back to a time where things seemed so much simpler.
Why was this downvoted? The swing analogy is horrible. There's nothing physical that's going to change when u play the game the exact same way as 04 05 06. The difference is u know what's going on as opposed to not knowing where anything is. A good analogy would be playing Pokémon red again after beating the elite 4. The game itself won't be any worse, it just will be easier and maybe less enjoyable if all you enjoyed is the aspect of not knowing where to go. But this is why pvp servers are magical, because each time you level a character, your leveling experience is different based on the encounters that happen while questing. In 05 U may have breezed through stv, but in classic u may spend an hour on a single quest solely because of the competition between factions on that particular quest.
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"To fill our pool of beta and stress test participants, we'll be choosing dedicated players who meet select criteria from both the WoW Classic beta opt-in and the standard Warcraft beta opt-in. Participants will also need to have an active subscription or active game time on their Battle.net Account. While opting-in to the beta is the primary way to make sure you're in the running to join the test it doesn't guarantee an invitation to the closed beta test. We may also consider additional factors such as how long a player has been subscribed to the game so that we have the right mix of players to ensure great feedback toward making WoW Classic the very best experience for the community."
Other methods have been discussed. For example, mods could be crippled. DBM didn't exist back then, and the other boss that did that I don't remember the name of, didn't do as much back then as DBM does now. If our goal is to recreate the experience as it was, then obviously not having DBM would be a reasonable way to accomplish that. DBM simply existing, makes the game today easier than it was. So disallow it. Again, this is completely consistent with the spirit of vanilla. Remember one-button-decursing? That was nerfed. They crippled the capabilities of the modding API to disallow that because it made the game too easy. So what if they cripple it a little bit more to once again make the game less easy?
There's a whole list of websites that are trying to compile the working addons for the WoW Classic beta. The easiest one to parse through is Will It Classic. The site has a list of addons — including a search function — and has color-coded each one to signify whether or not it's working on the beta client. Keep in mind that the client runs on the Legion API, so there are a few semi-current addons that work without any tweaking by their creators.
The most important thing you should note is that there are no official beta keys. Blizzard opens the gates to their betas by granting access to your account — not sending you a beta key. If you're in the beta, you'll be able to download and play the WoW Classic client from your Battle.net launcher. If not, you aren't in the beta. It's easy to be tricked into thinking you'll get a beta key from an email that looks like it's from an official Blizzard address, but don't believe their lies — they're all fake.
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YOU: I would like to test my mental strength.
Menita: A number in the past have asked if there was some way in which they could prove themselves to me.
Menita: And I always say the same thing.
Menita: This is a test of your mind, nothing else.
Menita: If you are ready tell me so.
Menita: I shall create the test of you and you must find your way out.
Menita: You can leave at any time you want.
Menita: There are marks I will create to let you leave, these are open at any point.
YOU: I'm not sure what you mean.
Menita: I will create it.
Menita: I will let you in.
Menita: If you can find your way out you will have proven your mind.
Menita: Very few people manage it on their first attempt so if you leave you can come back to me and I will let you re-enter.
YOU: Hi, I didn't think I would see anyone else.
Janina: What are you talking about it can't be one.
Janina: I don't know I can't decide.
Janina: You're here now you pick!
YOU: I'd pick door three.
Janina: Actually, no, you first.
YOU: Why are you here?
Janina: The maze is a puzzle in a test in a challenge.
Janina: And I NEED to complete it.
Janina: I need to prove to him I can do it.
Janina: I can find a way out, just like he did.
Janina: Door after door after turn after turn.
YOU: So you have a plan, care to share?
Janina: I've been here for hundreds of doors.
Janina: And I'm not just going to hand over the secret for success in the always changing maze.
YOU: Good, I'm sure you'll get out. But which way?
Janina: The last good stretch I managed was, was..
Janina: Was just after I got here.
Janina: Then I quit and started over.
Janina: And was back where I ended up.
Janina: But that won't happen again.
YOU: Do you think you could help me?
Oriaa: I've been going over and over this and round and round this.
Oriaa: And you know Menita is crazy.
Oriaa: Only a crazy person would let people into their head with a game that she REALLY doesn't want you winning.
Oriaa: Now I know one of these doors takes you back to that poor man who has been here for, well, thousands of doors by the sound of it.
YOU: How long have you been here?
Oriaa: Not that long, it seems like a few days but I can't be sure it hasn't been thirty minutes or 30 weeks.
Oriaa: I once managed to find myself all the way to a room with a bed on the wall.
Oriaa: That's quite a long way through.
Oriaa: There is a book there you should read.
Oriaa: Give you a reason not to stay here to long and to just give up if you give up.
YOU: How many people will I see here?
Oriaa: I've seen twenty or so.
Oriaa: Or there are so many rooms here that seeing anyone is a miracle.
Oriaa: I hope that isn't that case.
YOU: Which door would you recommend?
Oriaa: One of the doors in the wings seems to take me forward, at least from what I can tell.
Oriaa: But Menita keeps changing the doors.
Oriaa: They look the same don't they?
Oriaa: But I'm sure she changes them.
Oriaa: Tiny little differences, smudges on the handle.
Oriaa: A new scratch here, a missing one there.
Oriaa: Shadows a little different.
Oriaa: Enough of a difference that I know that it isn't the same.
Oriaa: And every time I walk through one, almost every time it's different.
YOU: Then how do you pick?
Oriaa: Or up there, seems higher up there somehow, though it clearly isn't.
Oriaa: You just have to pick.
Oriaa: There might be some method to the madness in here but I haven't been able to find it.
Oriaa: If you work it out come find me.
YOU: Can you help me pick?
YOU: Hi, am I nearly out?
Jorann: What have you heard!
Jorann: Third can't be right him kra her they them kran they are everywhere.
YOU: Do all the doors really lead back here?
Jorann: I go though doors and come here.
Jorann: I go through other doors and come here.
Jorann: Other doors go here, some come here, some are just doors.
Jorann: The doors of doors are the ones you need to worry about those will get you in a door that is a door that isn't what it shouldn't be.
Jorann: Doors and wood and camps and food with words and everything in between.
Jorann: This place is a place.
Jorann: I will get out I must.
Jorann: I've been here too long not to stay here and get out.
YOU: You've been here a long time haven't you?
Jorann: Time what, time, what, no.
Jorann: Door after door after doors after doors.
Jorann: Trees on walls and walls with gems and benches in spirals.
Jorann: Nothing to get out.
YOU: I got out…I can't believe I managed it!
Menita: I was watching you the whole time.
Menita: I am pleased that you managed to complete it.
Menita: As a reward for mastering my task I offer you this gas glyph and this magic wand.
Rewards: 1 Gas glyph, 1 Magic Wand Ornate, 35 Faction with Azure Order, 16400 XP.


Maybe you think that know everything about pasta with cheese but probably now you\'ll be surprised greatly by this recipe. Read further and start cooking.
Prepare water to boil pasta, meanwhile cut leek and saute until it is soft.
Add cut chicken fillet and fry on a high flame until it is golden.
Now add cut champignons and soy sauce. Mix and saute 5-7 minutes. Pre-heat the oven to 180-200C (360-390 F) degrees.
To make a dressing mix milk, sintered cream cheese and one half of hard cheese, heat until both cheeses are melted, approximately 40-50 minutes. Do not boil!
Boil pasta until it is half ready, place in a collander. Then mix pasta with champignon stuffing. Put in a baking form and pour over the cheese sauce.
Sprinkle over the last hard cheese and bake 15-20 minutes, cheese must be nicely golden.
That is all! Serve and enjoy!


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Q: How to find a checksum of the same checksum? (job-interview question) Devise a simple algorithm which creates a file which contains nothing but its own checksum.
Let's say it is CRC-32, so this file must be 4 bytes long.

A: There might be some smart mathematical way of finding it out (or proving that none exists), if you know how the algorithm works.
But since I'm lazy and CRC32 has only 2^32 values, I would brute force it. While waiting for the algorithm to go through all 2^32 values, I would use Google and Stack Overflow to find whether somebody has a solution to it.
In case of SHA-1, MD5 and other more-or-less cryptographically secure algorithms, I would get intimidated by the mathematicians who designed those algorithms and just give up.
EDIT 1: Brute forcing... This far I've found one; CC4FBB6A in big-endian encoding. There might still be more. I'm checking 4 different encodings: ASCII uppercase and lowercase, and binary big-endian and little-endian.
EDIT 2: Brute force done. Here are the results:
CC4FBB6A (big-endian)
FFFFFFFF (big-endian & little-endian)
32F3B737 (uppercase ASCII)
The code is here. On my overclocked C2Q6600 that takes about 1.5 hours to run. Now that program is single-threaded, but it would be easy to make it multi-threaded, which would give a nice linear scalability.

A: Aside from Jerry Coffin and Esko Luontola's good answers to an unusual problem, I'd like to add:
Mathematically, we're looking for X such that F(X) = X, where F is the checksum function, and X is the data itself.
Since the checksum's output is of fixed size, and the input we are looking for is of the same size, there is no guarantee that such an X even exists! It could very well be that every input value of the fixed size is correlated with a different value of that size.
EDIT: Your question didn't specify the exact way the checksum is supposed to be formatted within the file, so I assumed you mean the byte-representation of the checksum. When strings and encodings and formatted-strings come to play, things become more complex.

A: Lacking any specific guidance to the contrary, I'd define the checksum of nonexistent data as a nonexistent checksum, so creating an empty file would fulfill the requirement.
Another typical method is a negative checksum -- i.e. after the data you write a value that makes the checksum of the whole file (including the checksum) come out to zero. In this case, you write a checksum of 0, and it all works out.

A: Brute force. This is Adler32, which I haven't implemented before, and didn't bother testing, so it's quite likely I've messed it up. I wouldn't expect a corrected version to run significantly slower, though, unless I've done something colossally wrong.
This assumes that the 32bit checksum value is written to the file little-endian (I didn't find a fixed point with it big-endian):
#include <iostream>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <iomanip>

const int modulus = 65521;

void checkAllAdlers(uint32_t sofar, int depth, uint32_t a, uint32_t b) {
    if (depth == 4) {
        if ((b << 16) + a == sofar) {
            std::cout << "Got a fixed point: 0x" <<
                std::hex << std::setw(8) << std::setfill('0') <<
                sofar << "\n";
        }
        return;
    }
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < 256; ++i) {
        uint32_t newa = a + i;
        if (newa >= modulus) newa -= modulus;
        uint32_t newb = b + a;
        if (newb >= modulus) newb -= modulus;

        checkAllAdlers(sofar + (i << (depth*8)), depth + 1, newa, newb);
    }
    return;
}

int main() {
    checkAllAdlers(0, 0, 1, 0);
}

Output:
$ g++     adler32fp.cpp   -o adler32fp -O3 && time ./adler32fp
Got a fixed point: 0x03fb01fe

real    0m31.215s
user    0m30.326s
sys     0m0.015s

[Edit: several bugs fixed already, I have no confidence whatever in the correctness of this code ;-) Anyway, you get the idea: a 32 bit checksum which uses each byte of input only once is very cheap to brute force. Checksums are usually designed to be fast to compute, whereas hashes are usually much slower, even though they have superficially similar effects. If your checksum was "2 rounds of Adler32" (meaning that the target checksum was the result of computing the checksum and then computing the checksum of that checksum) then my recursive approach wouldn't help so much, there'd be proportionally less in common between inputs with a common prefix. MD5 has 4 rounds, SHA-512 has 80.]

A: Brute force it. CRC-32 gives you a string of length 8 containing digits and letters of A-F (in other words, it's a hexadecimal number). Try every combination, giving you 168 = many possibilities. Then hash each possibility and see if it gives you the original string.
You can try optimizing it by assuming the solution will use each character no more than two or three times, this might make it finish faster.
If you have access to a CRC32 implementation, you can also try to break the algorithm and find a solution much faster, but I have no idea how you'd do this.

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Oh wow! Wendy, your pagoda birdhouse quilt is gorgeous!! My bird fancier husband may "need" this one. I love the soft colored fabrics that you have used but he may need more "manly" colors. We are anxiously awaiting Thanksgiving here in snowy WI. Really feels like the holidays. Enjoy your special thankful day, being with family, we are thankful for ours. Blessings to all.
Happy Thanksgiving to you. When I count my blessings, you are certainly one of them., Thank you for all you do for making our world of quilting so wonderful and, for your friendship.
Another fun quilt! I'm counting my blessings along with you. Also counting you as one of my blessings! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Your quilting is so beautiful, Wendy! How do you make your feathers without having a very thread-dense spine? I love quilting feathers, but don't always love it when the spine shows up more than the plumes due to thread build up.
Oh, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours Wendy!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well. When I look at those yo-yo's, they look like they are puckered up for a kiss. Maybe there will be a mistletoe version?
Happy Thanksgiving! Such a beautiful project, it really made me smile. Thank you for sharing and have a wonderful creative day!
Wendy, I am thankful for your inspiration and willingness to share your quilting knowledge. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!!!
How beautiful! I love this quilt!
Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving. Love your thread collection.
That really is an adorable quilt. Love the pagoda.


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