12 Jan
2016
12 Jan
'16
5:50 a.m.
On Monday 11 January 2016 19:41:30 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 11 January 2016 22:51:40 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Thats all 10 shots in the center 10 ring, actually in the 1/4 sized X
ring in the middle of the ten ring. Thats just slightly better than one
minute of angle error asd the 100 yard targets x is only about 7/8" in
diameter. I had a barrel that would do that, 45 years ago, but burned
it out because its pet load was about a 63,000 psi load, hot enough to
take a fraction of a micron worth of steel out of the throat of the
chamber with every shot, so I only managed to put about 3500 holes in
things before a bullet first went thru the target sideways because the
rifling didn't spin it up. But it sure was fun while it lasted. Once a
fellow on the next bench called it to my attention that there was a
horse fly sitting on the upper right corner of my target, so I moved the
aim a little and ask "do you mean that one" as the rifle spoke and
recoiled. He said I missed, I said lets go see, and a 100 meter walk
later at the target, was looking at a bullethole where the fly had been,
with blood around the hole. He had to concede that one. ;-) That same
barrel put venison in the freezer twice at 500 meter+ distances too.
But the next barrel never shot near as well, with any load. Yeah, I
load my own too, cheaper by about half that way.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On Monday 11 January 2016 13:16:41 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
American guns again. ;-) Translation, please, for those of us who are
less familiar with the idea of shooting everything that moves. I did
try to look it up on Google, but I couldn't understand the
explanations either.
Lisi On Monday 11 January 2016 17:42:05 Gene Heskett
wrote:
At the target range, thats a 200-10x statement. :) On Monday 11 January 2016 09:55:52 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
> On Monday 11 January 2016 13:29:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I just ran iceweasel to check, it /thinks/ its the default!
> > But in /etc/alternatives www-browser -> lynx
> > and x-www-browser -> vivaldi
> >
> > And, there is no reference to iceweasel anyplace in
> > /etc/alternatives...
>
> I can vouch that once you have made the mistake of setting
> Iceweasel as default browser you can't undo it. See below:
>
> "The way to 'undo' Firefox being the default browser is always
> to set another browser as the default browser."
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/980646
>
> But that only works if the browser you want to choose allows
> it! Chrome says it doesn't and Konqueror seems not to.
>
> But in practice, the fact that Iceweasel now thinks that it is
> my default browser (I set it to default to find out for Gene's
> benefit how to unset it) doesn't seem to have much effect. If
> it does start to have an effect, I shall uninstall it, its
> conf. files, its hidden files etc. and reinstall it. I can
> only advise you to do the same, Gene - and next time I want to
> try something out for a similar reason I shan't risk doing it
> on my desktop machine. I couldn't believe that "Set as
> Default" couldn't just be _undone_ if one wanted!!! So I set
> it as default in order to unset it - and am stuck.
>
> So, Gene: Uninstall Iceweasel. Nuke Mozilla and Iceweasel
> from your machine, every last scrap. And if you have a reason
> why you really want Iceweasel, reinstall it *from* *the*
> *repositories*.
>
> Lisi
I looked at that, but it takes a lot of stuff with it. And I'm
not 110% sure it would put them back on a reinstall.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Or use another browser.
https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers
It doesn't do any harm Iceweasel thinking it is default if nothing
else agrees and the system is not using it as default. But that
is a nasty trick, refusing to be unset like that. Worthy of M$
and Apple. Unworthy of an Open source program.
Lisi