XI. The Nine Situations

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground: (1) Dispersive ground; (2) facile ground; (3) contentious ground; (4) open ground; (5) ground of intersecting highways; (6) serious ground; (7) difficult ground; (8) hemmed-in ground; (9) desperate ground.

( Types of terrain defined )
( Responses to different types of terrain )

What is death ground to you?

This is part of a series on The Art of War (孫子兵法) by Sun Zi (孫子).

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Banazir

Meaning: OK, I admit, this is me sometimes.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

No, I'm not really going to start an "Uncool Word of the Month". While we're on the subject, though: what's yours?

Mine is "webinar".

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Banazir

What is your favorite time travel story?

( Nanowrimo: The Stream of Memory )
( Time-travel and the Eldar )

So, how does time travel work in your favorite universe? Is it deterministic? One-way forward? One-way backward? Why do you like it that way?

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Banazir

Meaning: It's important not to let your weaknesses define you.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

What is your favorite CMS, any why?

triestine and martinsamuel have suggested Joomla, and we have one of those, but currently, I'm still mainly using TikiWiki. I also had a MediaWiki installation, but at the moment, I don't even know where it resides.

Suggestions are welcome!

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Banazir

Greetings! In addition to trying to rid myself of browser woes, I seek solutions and/or commiseration for the following problems (in Windows):

• Thunderbird hogging the CPU or hanging. Have you ever had Mozilla Thunderbird just become unresponsive for no apparent reason, until you have to go into Task Manager and kill it? This doesn't seem to happen much in Linux, although I have had it happen once or twice (where I had to kill it from the command line).


• Trillian Pro spontaneously losing window dockings. I always attach all of my IM windows to a single container called "Multi-IM", but sometimes, when people send me messages, their window re-docks to "Away". I have Trillian Preferences set to Default Appearance -> Contact Windows -> Container: Multi-IM, so this shouldn't happen.


• Flash making Firefox unresponsive. Sometimes I will be watching something in YouTube, or just loading a Flash site, when suddenly I get an hourglass or spinning circle, and Firefox just locks up for a few seconds to a minute. There's nothing loading; it just becomes unresponsive. Occasionally the application will ask me if I want to disable scripts on that page (which I take to mean "in that tab for that page", but maybe it persists across tabs?

Anyway, has anyone ever encountered one of the above problems, or heard of them, and if so, do you know of any solutions? Thanks!

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Banazir