TGW-1213
Chapter: Truth or dare?
Characters: ava, bill, capt flink, Dagger, David, eva, Jonathan, julie, Kimi, persta, Prez. Ryuki, Taritha, Teresa
Location: Catia's pride, Jon's home
Truth or dare?
27 comics.
The Gentle Wolf
A modern adventure webcomic
I had figured they had back-up systems and unused computers to fall
back on, if I had the cash, I’d had a copy or two of our computers
just for that reason. Julie, get ready, your about to find out just
how much “FUN” impsec is to work for 😉
That makes sense, anything that’s getting shipped to any core vendors
would need core-tech compatible ships to dock / unload with. Hopefully,
the trade / hot war will be over in a year or so, if not sooner.
*If I had the cash*
Each time I buy a new computer, the old one goes into the attic.
I have never sold any and most of them are in working order.
Same goes for networking equipment. And various disks with software.
So in a case of a disaster, I will be able to make a small
network and I have most of my data in various places.
Including two external HDDs with the most precious data
(family photos mostly 😉 ) kept in a fireproof safe.
I don’t think it’s rated against EMP pulses,
but it’s a Faraday cage anyway.
I hear that, by 2002 I had a packard hell(bell) 2 deskpros,
and a compac tower, it’s how I showed my sons the joy’s
of lan gaming 🙂 it wasn’t long before I had built my first tower
and retired the deskpros and upgraded the compac to an ATX.
Giggle of the day. ‘Relax Julie, we will talk later.’
Easy for Kimi to say.
Pres. Ryuki seems to be saying the right things.
Maybe all is well, but they have more to gain than
before. We will see.
I still want to know where Bill keeps his gun.
Looking at him here, and back in 644,
that vest doesn’t look like it has any
extra room to pack that cannon.
Let alone one with a suppressor.
Could be a cross-draw back holster, or just PC’s magic.
I’ve seen a few people tuck it in the back of their pants,
which can’t be handy or comfortable.
My son has a holster that tucks inside his pants in the front
that he has to pull up on to free the gun, but that’s a 9mm,
not a .44 mag!
But that would explain why Bill likes to stand a lot.
Cross-draw like Dean Martin had in that one Matt Helm movie?
I suppose it could work if someone had a bit of curvature of
the spine, but it doesn’t look like Bill does. And he has lost
weight since we first met him in Admiral Borogrov’s office.
Good job, Bill!
I have a bit of a gut (40 excess pounds is just “a bit”, right?),
and under a sweater can carry a snubby revolver to the left
of the belt buckle without it showing, even when I sit. But a
snubby is far from what Bill was using in 644. PC? Is it
hand-wavium in action?
Nah. Bill doesn’t keep the suppressor mounted,
he just carries it for social reasons.
It’s a breech lock, so it’s quick to mount when needed.
Things like Mala’s weapon collection aren’t hand-wavium,
they’re a running joke in this comic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBirvyzU9Do
I’ve posted before,. and with different vids of various
people and shapes,. carrying multiple ‘hidden weapons’.!
also, i am Tereasa sized an (almost)build.. (5’5″ , 111lbs.)
i carry at least 5 weapons (2 firearms) Daily, and no one
noticed or said anything in over five years,.!
The upside down one on the left ankle surprised me, but then he pulled
the short sword off the right side. That was somewhat on the large side.
Baggy shirts can hide A LOT.
I figured as much, by all rights she should clank when she walks!
Or at least make a shink! sound…
I’d be terrified of a sudden sneeze attack myself 😛
Bill prefers to carry his Glock 22 in a Remora holster on the right
side of the small of his back. Most people don’t know this but old
Bill is a southpaw.
Pretty much like Matt Helm, but he carried the American version of the
English P90. Smallish 9mm frame, I had heard what it was, but it’s
been TOO long for this guy…
I didn’t know .44 mag came in a snub-nose version, unless it was a .357.
Matt Helm carried a Hy Hunter Bolomauser,. a AR-7 pistol variant in .22..
the P90 is Belgium in 5.7 x 28mm. (from Stargate SG1 fame)
“9mm frame” you might be thinking the Walter pp (smaller PPK) used in
a ‘few’ scenes used by extras…
Smith & Wesson 629 2″ barrel (usually 3 inch) snubby.
You guys know way more about guns than I ever will,
it never was my thing. Word of mouth and YouTube is
rarely actuate…
Last panel, Bill looks like he’s backing away from a vampire.
It’s Kimi, and she talking seriously, I’d be worried
if she was walking my way too heh. Worse yet,
Kathy and with a pissed face! She makes Bruce Lee
look sluggish…
Odd thing happened today. I was looking through some DVDs I had burned with
some programs I hadn’t used in a long while (Mid 20 teens). I ran across a game
I used to enjoy playing titled “Plague: Evolved”. In it you basically try to wipe out
the human race with a plague you evolve by solving tasks in the game. At one
time I was pretty good at it. “Won” more often than I didn’t. So I loaded it up and
started to play. Then I realized I didn’t want to play such a game any more.
Somehow since March of 2020 I find I am not interested in such scenarios.
Another thing post March of 2020. I used to enjoy reading books about “the
end of the world as we know it”. Different kinds of natural disasters. I find I do
not enjoy reading such books any more. Could it be they hit too close to home?
I have that game on Steam as well, there are scenarios you can play
now on it now to cure the disease rather than wipe out the people.
I don’t play it much anymore either after 2020, that was a lousy year
for all. It’s when I found out about my heart and in after the new year
is when I was told my cancer was back :/
The CIA’s worm reformatting hard drives along with erasing the BIOS
EPROM was overkill. Just writing zeros to the first few bites of the
BIOS EPROM will brick any PC pretty much permanently. I don’t know
enough about Macs to say what would kill one but if you wiped the
BIOS EPROM you would have to replace it. As for the hard drive, just
writing zeros to the first part of the MFD (master file directory) would
wipe the disc as well as a full on format. The MFD tells the OS what
files are on disc and where the first segment is located. Blitzing the
MFD will effectively erase the disc. Plus it’s faster.
I guess they wanted to make sure that no one would be able to get
any kind of networking was possible after the worm was triggered,
but yeah, that was WAY overkill. I had a deskpro killed by a hacker
that way, running Win95, they used the backdoor that MS left in
it. Wrote 0’s to the boot sector, and reflashed the BIOS to 0…
Oh yeah, I was pissed… it’s why I bought my first tower. The HHD
was savable, but the MOBO was trashed.
I have been recovering data from HDDs with boot sector
overwritten and even more. It’s a lot of work, but doable.
Helps if you know how many partitions there were.
Especially in linux file systems, they have several copies of
superblock scattered across the whole disk. It’s not so easy
to make them totally unrecoverable.
So no, overwriting the whole disk with 0s is not an overkill.
Most modern motherboards have TWO separate images of BIOS/UEFI.
In case the first one is corrupted,
the computer boots using the second one.
So erasing the first block won’t do the trick.
PC – This is episode 11213?