Astronomer

That only let's you decide what time they'll be applied. I prefer the new option (if it works) to not apply them at all until or unless I decide to do it.

With the option that I selected, I'm only notified of the updates. I have to manually choose to download and install. I'll put it to the test when the next updates show up.

I really, REALLY, hate Windows 10's automatic installation of updates. Sometimes, those forced updates break things in Windows. I also hate when I'm in a rush and my laptop tells me to not shutdown because an update is in progress. There is a way to take back full control of those updates: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3085136/windows/two-ways-to-control-or-stop-windows-10-updates.html I selected option 2 in the first way, "Notify for Download and notify for install". That's it. Control is now back in my hands. It's my PC, not Microsoft's, and they aren't my IT department who can impose their policies on me. I can now wait a little while to see if there are problems with patches and updates before I apply them.

The Sadies:

Happy b-day Bullwink Jr!

Gorgeous! I'd sell my left nut to be hiking there right now. The sooner I can leave Boring Flatland, Ontario the better. The BC Rocky Mountains is where we'll be retiring to (eventually).

He's a bad hombre...

Beautiful images!

You haven't lived until you've experienced some moose-head...

Did I or anyone say there wasn't corruption up here? JHC, we had 10 fucking years of Stephen Harper, and our new pro-environment Liberal government just approved a LNG pipeline despite much opposition. Anyway, this topic is about herr Trump. If you want to start a thread about Canadian Politics, go for it.

It's absolutely essential (along with LightRoom), especially if you shoot in Camera RAW, which is essentially the digital equivalent of a negative. For my nature, landscape and architecture shots, I don't change photo elements other than removing spots from dust on the lens or the odd power line. For my "artistic" shots, like the coloured glass or the colours on the bike, I'll play with the image. Because the RAW files have all the information that the sensor collects, they tend to be washed out and flat. I do all the work manually that the camera does when it saves as a .jpg based on the presets in the camera. I'd rather control the image processing and output rather than use what some engineer at Canon or Nikon etc decided the settings should be Photoshop is not a bad thing, in fact it's quite the opposite. It's a problem when photographers or advertisers pass off unreality as reality, or make hilarious mistakes. That's where the term "Photoshopped" became a verb for making a stupid or bad edit on a photo. It's like any other tool. A hammer can build a house or smash a window.

Yup, pretty much. For this one, I converted to black and white and hand-coloured the flowers.

Dear man, I am not so much a Hilary/Dem supporter, as I am more appalled at the ideology and actions of the modern Republican party. The houses they controlled were useless and vindictive, their slate of candidates this year was a rogues gallery of corruption, stupidity, misogyny, and racism, and out of that sorry lot Donald Trump was victorious? If you choose "The Donald " as your president, you will get exactly what you deserve.

"She has committed many crimes, but the only way they will come to light..." You're in possession of some secret trove of information that you can't release because of fear of men in black helicopters? Alex Jones fan, then?

I use VMWare ESXi (free version) in my home server rack. Make sure you get the version for your make/model server from the manufacturer's website. In the VMWare environment, you can create virtual switches if you want http://www.rustyhann.com/ESXi-05-Create-vSwitch.pdf (handy if you want to run a virtual SOPHOS UTM server, for example https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx).

This is hilarious and well-edited regardless of which side you're voting for. My favourite scenes are the look on Hillary's face after Bill and Donald's daughter "make eye contact", and where Donald goes "...muh?"

I don't watch TV (other than science documentaries and photography seminars) We cut the satellite dish 4 years ago. I'd suggest you avoid Faux Fox news and Breitbart. Hillary's indiscretions were dumb and amateur-hour, but not illegal, apparently.

Nice spin, courtesy of the RNC, but incorrect. Do some original research yourself. The Bush administration failed to store its emails, as required by law (ref. Presidential Records Act), and then refused to comply with a congressional subpoena seeking some of those emails. It beggars credibility that there are no emails for several days from Dick Cheney's office around the period leading up to the Iraq war (the one with the false pretext i.e. "weapons of mass destruction"). It took a whistle-blower to come forward to reveal that the law was being willfully broken by the administration.

"...never permanently lost..." due to good fortune and incompetence on the part of those tasked with destroying them, not through an honest attempt to retain emails that were legally required to be retained. They were on private servers in an attempt to keep them "dark".