INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You'll need Java installed on your computer in order to run the program that will convert your GPX files. You can download for Java from the Java website. Once you've downloaded the installer, follow the prompts to install Java. This free, open-source program can read and convert all GuitarPro file formats. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This begins downloading the correct installer for your operating system. You'll find this in your Downloads folder once it finishes downloading. Windows may warn you about starting an unknown program. You can change this if you'd like, but most users won't need to. You're now ready to convert your GPX files to GP5 format.

SUMMARY: Install Java. Visit the TuxGuitar download site. Click the Download button. Double-click the downloaded installer. Click Run if prompted by Windows. Click Next when prompted. Click I accept the agreement and then click Next. Click Next to accept the default installation location. Click Next to start installation. Click Finish after installation is complete. Double-click the TuxGuitar shortcut on your desktop.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Most cats should be spayed or neutered at an early age. The cat will be tamer and desexing decreases the risk of your cat developing certain cancers, such as uterine tumors in female cats. Most vets will not spay or neuter your kitty until they weigh about two pounds, so discuss the right time with your vet. Another benefit is that you won't have to deal with your female cat going into heat, or your male cat spraying indoors and roaming outside to look for a mate. The only cats that shouldn't be fixed are those that are purebred and are intentionally being used for breeding by experienced and ethical breeders. Sterilization is a more expensive alternative allows your cat to keep its hormones. In this case, you should have both a sterilized male and female cat so that they can satisfy each other's needs. Sterilized cats will still go through heats and will maintain normal cat behavior, such as roaming (if there is no mate in the house) or spraying (not all full male cats spray). In order to raise a cat properly, you need to provide it with regular veterinary care. When a cat is young, it typically only needs to have an annual exam, in which the veterinarian checks its overall health and updates any vaccines or medications that it needs. Once your cat gets old, it will likely need veterinary checkups more often, usually every six months. Veterinary checkups may seem like a waste of money if your cat is generally healthy, but they can actually save you money in the long run. Finding a health problem early on and getting early treatment can reduce costs, along with your cat's pain and suffering. When bringing your cat in for a checkup, discuss flea medications and vaccinations with your veterinarian. For flea medications, they will most likely recommend a regular flea repellent treatment, such as Frontline and Trifexis, that you will apply at home. It is important to keep up to date with this medication so that your cat does not experience a flea infestation. Get the vaccinations and vaccination boosters that your veterinarian suggests. They will make suggestions based on your cat's risk of exposure and the health history. The veterinarian may suggest vaccinations for panleukopenia, herpesvirus, calicivirus, rabies, feline leukemia, chlamydiosis, infectious peritonitis, immunodeficiency, bordetella, and giardiasis.

SUMMARY: Have your cat desexed. Take your cat in for preventative veterinary exams. Keep up to date with preventative medication.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: In a simple substitution cipher, you can assigning letter values to other letters. For example, A may equal C and and F might equal J. Make sure you don't choose easy combinations like A = B or A = Z. They'll be easily broken. Make decoder rings. Those decoder rings you got in a box of cereal years ago may come in handy, but you can make your own too if you want. Write your letters, A through Z, in a large circle. Then, write the substituted letters inside the large circle to form their own smaller circle. Now you'll have a key for your cipher. Randomize the cipher. Once you've got your keys and your friends have theirs too, you can cut out both rings from the paper. Turn the smaller ring inside the larger outer ring to create new substitutions. When you pass your note, write what A equals, and the reader will know where to set their rings. To make a slightly more complicated substitution cipher, you can make your own simple symbols to stand in for letters. The more each symbol looks different than the letter it represents, the harder the code will be to crack. Make sure each symbol is also simple and easy to draw quickly. Create a key for your new language. Make a master key that shows which letter matches up with each symbol. As you practice writing in your new script, you'll become more familiar with the symbols, but you'll need a key at first to remember which is which. Share the key with friends. Your language won't be of much use if only you can read the notes you pass! Share the key with your friends, advising them to keep it safe so that no one else finds and learns the symbols. Write your messages in the new language. Practice the symbols until you can read and write them as quickly as your native language. It'll take a while, but you'll get to know the symbols well over time. For example, swap A with () Alpha, B with () Beta, C with () Chi, etc. from the Greek alphabet.. Use similar characters for missing letters. Some foreign alphabets may not contain all the letters in your language. Greek doesn't have Y, but there's a visually similar Upsilon (Y in capitals), so you might use that instead. Make sure your reader knows that you're going to be substituting some letters for others not in the language. Test some examples. For example: "See you tonight" becomes " ," with "you" subbed out for "thou" because Greek doesn't have a character for "Y". Numbers tend to stick out in messages with a lot of text, so try to find a better way to to hide them in your cipher. For example, replace the "8" in "See you tonight, 8 o'clock" with "(128/2)". The 8 is replaced by a simple math: the square root of (128/2=64)=8. It's relatively easy to crack a substitution code, because you're still using your native language and only swapping out the letters for other letters or symbols. Words like "and", "you" and "the", which will show up frequently in your messages, and can be found out and used to piece together parts of a key. Common letters like E, T and A also help code-breakers to decipher your message.

SUMMARY:
Substitute letters for other letters. Substitute your own symbols for letters. Substitute letters from another language. Substitute equations for numbers. Be aware that substitution ciphers can be broken.