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1,676 | Do you know of an app for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7 that let me use stackoverflow.com and hast most (if not all) features of the site itself. Maybe there is one currently in development? I was hoping for a more streamlined user experience on my current and future smartphone. | 2010/10/07 | [
"https://stackapps.com/questions/1676",
"https://stackapps.com",
"https://stackapps.com/users/3617/"
] | Not only does [Stacky](http://stacky.codeplex.com) *claim* to support Windows Phone 7, **it actually does!** :) And I am building a WP7 client using it. Here are some early\*\* screen shots:
 features of the site itself. Maybe there is one currently in development? I was hoping for a more streamlined user experience on my current and future smartphone. | 2010/10/07 | [
"https://stackapps.com/questions/1676",
"https://stackapps.com",
"https://stackapps.com/users/3617/"
] | Not only does [Stacky](http://stacky.codeplex.com) *claim* to support Windows Phone 7, **it actually does!** :) And I am building a WP7 client using it. Here are some early\*\* screen shots:
---
Love the look of these apps - Stack Overflow and the Metro UI are a great combination.
Using the excellent Stacky library as a sta... |
1,676 | Do you know of an app for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7 that let me use stackoverflow.com and hast most (if not all) features of the site itself. Maybe there is one currently in development? I was hoping for a more streamlined user experience on my current and future smartphone. | 2010/10/07 | [
"https://stackapps.com/questions/1676",
"https://stackapps.com",
"https://stackapps.com/users/3617/"
] | I'm pretty slow to the battle... but I love just StackOverflow so i'm working on my own quick & dirty client. Just to show my profile details and maybe some of the latest questions... Just for me to read when i'm on the road... I'm no Jon Skeet or anything.
Warning, no design work has been done WHATSOEVER!
I'm hostin... | **UPDATE:** App now on Marketplace - see [Overflow7 - Stack Exchange sites on Windows Phone 7](https://stackapps.com/questions/1942/overflow7-stack-exchange-sites-on-windows-phone-7)
---
Love the look of these apps - Stack Overflow and the Metro UI are a great combination.
Using the excellent Stacky library as a sta... |
793,636 | What are common methods / official standards for surfacing event or calendar data?
My use case is that I want to aggregate event information from several different websites into a single calendar or event listing (this is on an intranet, we have control over all websites). I want to ask the websites to present their ... | 2009/04/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/793636",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/45814/"
] | Present the **calendar data** as [RFC 2445](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt) [iCalendar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar) format.
Present a **syndication feed** of updates as [RFC 5023](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt) [AtomPub](http://atompub.org/) format. | Take a look at [Duke University's Data Feeds](http://www.oit.duke.edu/web-multimedia/web/calendar/). They provide calendar/event feeds in RSS and custom XML. They've also posted sample PHP/JavaScript code for how to consume their feeds. You might want to have the sites on your intranet provide their feeds in one of tho... |
793,636 | What are common methods / official standards for surfacing event or calendar data?
My use case is that I want to aggregate event information from several different websites into a single calendar or event listing (this is on an intranet, we have control over all websites). I want to ask the websites to present their ... | 2009/04/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/793636",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/45814/"
] | I would recommend publishing the source information using hCalendar. You can then use a parsing library or service to convert from hCalendar to iCalendar (or some other useful format, like XML or JSON).
The benefit over publishing iCalendar directly is twofold:
1. You only need to publish a single version of your inf... | Take a look at [Duke University's Data Feeds](http://www.oit.duke.edu/web-multimedia/web/calendar/). They provide calendar/event feeds in RSS and custom XML. They've also posted sample PHP/JavaScript code for how to consume their feeds. You might want to have the sites on your intranet provide their feeds in one of tho... |
793,636 | What are common methods / official standards for surfacing event or calendar data?
My use case is that I want to aggregate event information from several different websites into a single calendar or event listing (this is on an intranet, we have control over all websites). I want to ask the websites to present their ... | 2009/04/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/793636",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/45814/"
] | Present the **calendar data** as [RFC 2445](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt) [iCalendar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar) format.
Present a **syndication feed** of updates as [RFC 5023](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt) [AtomPub](http://atompub.org/) format. | I would recommend publishing the source information using hCalendar. You can then use a parsing library or service to convert from hCalendar to iCalendar (or some other useful format, like XML or JSON).
The benefit over publishing iCalendar directly is twofold:
1. You only need to publish a single version of your inf... |
793,636 | What are common methods / official standards for surfacing event or calendar data?
My use case is that I want to aggregate event information from several different websites into a single calendar or event listing (this is on an intranet, we have control over all websites). I want to ask the websites to present their ... | 2009/04/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/793636",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/45814/"
] | Present the **calendar data** as [RFC 2445](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt) [iCalendar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar) format.
Present a **syndication feed** of updates as [RFC 5023](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt) [AtomPub](http://atompub.org/) format. | I suggest using an Atom feed with XHTML entries containing hCalendar records. |
793,636 | What are common methods / official standards for surfacing event or calendar data?
My use case is that I want to aggregate event information from several different websites into a single calendar or event listing (this is on an intranet, we have control over all websites). I want to ask the websites to present their ... | 2009/04/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/793636",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/45814/"
] | I would recommend publishing the source information using hCalendar. You can then use a parsing library or service to convert from hCalendar to iCalendar (or some other useful format, like XML or JSON).
The benefit over publishing iCalendar directly is twofold:
1. You only need to publish a single version of your inf... | I suggest using an Atom feed with XHTML entries containing hCalendar records. |
512,386 | What is the rule of thumb in performance characteristics and differences between 7200rpm (SATA/SAS) and 15000rpm (SAS) hard disc drives of the same generation? | 2013/05/31 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/512386",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/110020/"
] | It's a case of math. I/O-per-second is determined by the following calculation:
Random I/O = 1000/ (average latency + seek time)
For a 7.2K RPM drive, a seek-time of 8.5ms and latency of 4.16 gives an IOPS number of 78.
For a 15K RPM drive, a seek-time of 2.6ms and latency of 2.0ms gives an IOPS number of 217 .
... | In short, they have different characteristics and purposes...
7200rpm disks are bigger and slower. 10000rpm and 15000rpm disks are smaller and faster. The latter are meant for high transactional and high random I/O workloads. The former are better for sequential transfer and high capacity requirements.
From HP's do... |
512,386 | What is the rule of thumb in performance characteristics and differences between 7200rpm (SATA/SAS) and 15000rpm (SAS) hard disc drives of the same generation? | 2013/05/31 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/512386",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/110020/"
] | In short, they have different characteristics and purposes...
7200rpm disks are bigger and slower. 10000rpm and 15000rpm disks are smaller and faster. The latter are meant for high transactional and high random I/O workloads. The former are better for sequential transfer and high capacity requirements.
From HP's do... | From a value point of view, one can often get better real world performance out of more SATA 7.2k drives than fewer SAS 15k drives with the price being similar. You'll notice that larger buildouts like Backblaze use SATA and that's because the value is so much better and if you use multiple SATA drives, the performance... |
512,386 | What is the rule of thumb in performance characteristics and differences between 7200rpm (SATA/SAS) and 15000rpm (SAS) hard disc drives of the same generation? | 2013/05/31 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/512386",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/110020/"
] | It's a case of math. I/O-per-second is determined by the following calculation:
Random I/O = 1000/ (average latency + seek time)
For a 7.2K RPM drive, a seek-time of 8.5ms and latency of 4.16 gives an IOPS number of 78.
For a 15K RPM drive, a seek-time of 2.6ms and latency of 2.0ms gives an IOPS number of 217 .
... | From a value point of view, one can often get better real world performance out of more SATA 7.2k drives than fewer SAS 15k drives with the price being similar. You'll notice that larger buildouts like Backblaze use SATA and that's because the value is so much better and if you use multiple SATA drives, the performance... |
33,073 | *Background*. I am a bachelor student who is interested in research related to category theory, monads and Haskell, and I want to find a topic for my bachelor’s thesis in that area.
I have looked at the paper
* [Eugenio Moggi](http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MoggiE/), “[Notions of Computations and Monads](http://www... | 2015/11/13 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/33073",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/19600/"
] | There have been a number of developments with regards to the use of monads in the theory of computation since Eugenio Moggi's work. I am not able to give a comprehensive account, but here are some points that I am familiar with, others can chime in with their answers.
### Specific examples of monads
You do not have t... | This [paper](http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/more.pdf) gives some important recent work using monads. |
488,369 | I found information about install problems with the release of the NIC drivers of VMware ESXi 5.1 on Power Edge Dell Servers, the install stop with this error message "No network adapters were detected"
<http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2012/05/08/no-network-adapters-were-detected-error-mes... | 2013/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/488369",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/164056/"
] | If you're having a problem with a Dell server, use the Dell ESXi image, as it had the agents and monitoring hooks built-in.
It seems like you're trying to ask how to add drivers to ESXi on non-Dell/non-HP hardware. If that's the case...
**[Use supported hardware.](http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.... | The topic is old but if other people face the same problem:
I recently had the same issue , and could solve it following this blog's method:
<https://www.v-front.de/2014/12/how-to-make-your-unsupported-nic-work.html>
It basically uses a script to inject the specified nic driver into the specified ESXi iso version. T... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | **A Space Marine enjoys the dubious type of longevity called "immortal until killed". Several Chapter Masters boast lifespans of over a thousand years of age. There are also Chaos Marines who are still alive (such as it is) for over ten thousand years, living in the Eye of Chaos.**
>
> * [Commander Dante](http://wh40... | Ye Dante is old, so is Logan of the Space Wolves. He was alive and commanding Space Wolves during the first siege of Armageddon. ( 444.M41 ). Current date of the universe is in the mid 42 tho nobody agrees totaly on this matter.
By Black Library dates date is around 102.M42.
(Like a Phoenix on the Wing: The Early Ca... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | **A Space Marine enjoys the dubious type of longevity called "immortal until killed". Several Chapter Masters boast lifespans of over a thousand years of age. There are also Chaos Marines who are still alive (such as it is) for over ten thousand years, living in the Eye of Chaos.**
>
> * [Commander Dante](http://wh40... | While Thaddeus' answer does answer the question as it was asked, I thought I would post this to provide some extra context to his answer by providing evidence of the longest a non-interred (as in non-Dreadnought) marine could live for.
In the novel Salamander by Nick Kyme, Brother Sergeant Dak'ir discovers the wreckag... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | **A Space Marine enjoys the dubious type of longevity called "immortal until killed". Several Chapter Masters boast lifespans of over a thousand years of age. There are also Chaos Marines who are still alive (such as it is) for over ten thousand years, living in the Eye of Chaos.**
>
> * [Commander Dante](http://wh40... | I know this is an old, answered question, but it's worth noting that in the novel "The Crimson King" it is actually revealed that Astartes aren't "functionally immortal"
>
> In an age of peace, a legionary might endure for millennia or more, but he would not live forever.
> The immortality of the Legions was a myth
... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | **A Space Marine enjoys the dubious type of longevity called "immortal until killed". Several Chapter Masters boast lifespans of over a thousand years of age. There are also Chaos Marines who are still alive (such as it is) for over ten thousand years, living in the Eye of Chaos.**
>
> * [Commander Dante](http://wh40... | Try talking about Sigismund, he was a truly old warrior when he died, and it was even noted in his final fight against Abaddon that his speed had decreased significantly in his ancient body. He was still powerful, but this was also one of the most skilled, stubborn and downright legendary duelists of the imperium's his... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | While Thaddeus' answer does answer the question as it was asked, I thought I would post this to provide some extra context to his answer by providing evidence of the longest a non-interred (as in non-Dreadnought) marine could live for.
In the novel Salamander by Nick Kyme, Brother Sergeant Dak'ir discovers the wreckag... | Ye Dante is old, so is Logan of the Space Wolves. He was alive and commanding Space Wolves during the first siege of Armageddon. ( 444.M41 ). Current date of the universe is in the mid 42 tho nobody agrees totaly on this matter.
By Black Library dates date is around 102.M42.
(Like a Phoenix on the Wing: The Early Ca... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | I know this is an old, answered question, but it's worth noting that in the novel "The Crimson King" it is actually revealed that Astartes aren't "functionally immortal"
>
> In an age of peace, a legionary might endure for millennia or more, but he would not live forever.
> The immortality of the Legions was a myth
... | Ye Dante is old, so is Logan of the Space Wolves. He was alive and commanding Space Wolves during the first siege of Armageddon. ( 444.M41 ). Current date of the universe is in the mid 42 tho nobody agrees totaly on this matter.
By Black Library dates date is around 102.M42.
(Like a Phoenix on the Wing: The Early Ca... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | Ye Dante is old, so is Logan of the Space Wolves. He was alive and commanding Space Wolves during the first siege of Armageddon. ( 444.M41 ). Current date of the universe is in the mid 42 tho nobody agrees totaly on this matter.
By Black Library dates date is around 102.M42.
(Like a Phoenix on the Wing: The Early Ca... | Try talking about Sigismund, he was a truly old warrior when he died, and it was even noted in his final fight against Abaddon that his speed had decreased significantly in his ancient body. He was still powerful, but this was also one of the most skilled, stubborn and downright legendary duelists of the imperium's his... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | While Thaddeus' answer does answer the question as it was asked, I thought I would post this to provide some extra context to his answer by providing evidence of the longest a non-interred (as in non-Dreadnought) marine could live for.
In the novel Salamander by Nick Kyme, Brother Sergeant Dak'ir discovers the wreckag... | I know this is an old, answered question, but it's worth noting that in the novel "The Crimson King" it is actually revealed that Astartes aren't "functionally immortal"
>
> In an age of peace, a legionary might endure for millennia or more, but he would not live forever.
> The immortality of the Legions was a myth
... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | While Thaddeus' answer does answer the question as it was asked, I thought I would post this to provide some extra context to his answer by providing evidence of the longest a non-interred (as in non-Dreadnought) marine could live for.
In the novel Salamander by Nick Kyme, Brother Sergeant Dak'ir discovers the wreckag... | Try talking about Sigismund, he was a truly old warrior when he died, and it was even noted in his final fight against Abaddon that his speed had decreased significantly in his ancient body. He was still powerful, but this was also one of the most skilled, stubborn and downright legendary duelists of the imperium's his... |
36,391 | I'm looking for a fantasy book series I read ca 2000 (IIRC, it was unfinished then).
* The story centered around political events in a kingdom and capital, and the rise of a magical/clerical sect.
* I vividly remember the first book dealing with a group of brothers taking a long voyage down a river, and stopping at a... | 2013/06/01 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36391",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14967/"
] | I know this is an old, answered question, but it's worth noting that in the novel "The Crimson King" it is actually revealed that Astartes aren't "functionally immortal"
>
> In an age of peace, a legionary might endure for millennia or more, but he would not live forever.
> The immortality of the Legions was a myth
... | Try talking about Sigismund, he was a truly old warrior when he died, and it was even noted in his final fight against Abaddon that his speed had decreased significantly in his ancient body. He was still powerful, but this was also one of the most skilled, stubborn and downright legendary duelists of the imperium's his... |
185,761 | I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host my Subversion repos on it, but have started doing this locally; therefore, I have no use for the server any more.
However,... | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/185761",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24210/"
] | Don't know what you do with your computers. For some people, it could store some files for access on the web, maybe host a programming project, put up a web page for a local event.
Otherwise, folding at home, SETI at home, anything hosted by BOINC (see [this article](http://www.pcworld.com/article/171126/12_worthy_cau... | Don't forget [Folding at home](http://folding.stanford.edu/ "Folding at home") :) |
185,761 | I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host my Subversion repos on it, but have started doing this locally; therefore, I have no use for the server any more.
However,... | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/185761",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24210/"
] | Look into tor (The Onion Router). If you have a fair amount of bandwidth, and specially if you have unlimited traffic, your server could be a valuable addtition to the tor network. Have a look for yourself and see if it sounds useful: <http://www.torproject.org/> | Don't forget [Folding at home](http://folding.stanford.edu/ "Folding at home") :) |
185,761 | I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host my Subversion repos on it, but have started doing this locally; therefore, I have no use for the server any more.
However,... | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/185761",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24210/"
] | You could run a long running torrent server for free software projects like ubuntu, centos, etc etc, basically allowing quite a few people to benefit from this bandwidth. Should also be completely legal. Maintenance would also be very low.
If you wanted to be more involved you could do full mirroring / hosting. | Don't forget [Folding at home](http://folding.stanford.edu/ "Folding at home") :) |
185,761 | I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host my Subversion repos on it, but have started doing this locally; therefore, I have no use for the server any more.
However,... | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/185761",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24210/"
] | Look into tor (The Onion Router). If you have a fair amount of bandwidth, and specially if you have unlimited traffic, your server could be a valuable addtition to the tor network. Have a look for yourself and see if it sounds useful: <http://www.torproject.org/> | Don't know what you do with your computers. For some people, it could store some files for access on the web, maybe host a programming project, put up a web page for a local event.
Otherwise, folding at home, SETI at home, anything hosted by BOINC (see [this article](http://www.pcworld.com/article/171126/12_worthy_cau... |
185,761 | I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host my Subversion repos on it, but have started doing this locally; therefore, I have no use for the server any more.
However,... | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/185761",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24210/"
] | Don't know what you do with your computers. For some people, it could store some files for access on the web, maybe host a programming project, put up a web page for a local event.
Otherwise, folding at home, SETI at home, anything hosted by BOINC (see [this article](http://www.pcworld.com/article/171126/12_worthy_cau... | The first thing that popped into my mind was file serving for Open Source projects, many of which are struggling to establish mirrors. |
185,761 | I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host my Subversion repos on it, but have started doing this locally; therefore, I have no use for the server any more.
However,... | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/185761",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24210/"
] | Look into tor (The Onion Router). If you have a fair amount of bandwidth, and specially if you have unlimited traffic, your server could be a valuable addtition to the tor network. Have a look for yourself and see if it sounds useful: <http://www.torproject.org/> | You could run a long running torrent server for free software projects like ubuntu, centos, etc etc, basically allowing quite a few people to benefit from this bandwidth. Should also be completely legal. Maintenance would also be very low.
If you wanted to be more involved you could do full mirroring / hosting. |
185,761 | I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host my Subversion repos on it, but have started doing this locally; therefore, I have no use for the server any more.
However,... | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/185761",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24210/"
] | Look into tor (The Onion Router). If you have a fair amount of bandwidth, and specially if you have unlimited traffic, your server could be a valuable addtition to the tor network. Have a look for yourself and see if it sounds useful: <http://www.torproject.org/> | The first thing that popped into my mind was file serving for Open Source projects, many of which are struggling to establish mirrors. |
185,761 | I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host my Subversion repos on it, but have started doing this locally; therefore, I have no use for the server any more.
However,... | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/185761",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24210/"
] | You could run a long running torrent server for free software projects like ubuntu, centos, etc etc, basically allowing quite a few people to benefit from this bandwidth. Should also be completely legal. Maintenance would also be very low.
If you wanted to be more involved you could do full mirroring / hosting. | The first thing that popped into my mind was file serving for Open Source projects, many of which are struggling to establish mirrors. |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I would recommend the [infrastructures.org](http://www.infrastructures.org/index.shtml) site. It may be a bit outdated, but the concepts are solid. Think about your infrastructure as a whole, which will have a lot more pieces than just configuration management software. Their checklist is a good starting point - using ... | I see two projects here. The first one being building out a holistic management system being asked here, the other being a standardization. Even if you need to stick with all the different base operating systems, for whatever reason, you need to get a handle on the release proliferation. Before too long, if not already... |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I highly recommend contacting the folks at Reductive Labs and getting a supported install of Puppet. Puppet can handle a *huge* range of platforms, and if management wants to spend money, Reductive will provide the experience of a commercial offering, and will give you more than your money's worth. The strength of Pupp... | I don't know of anything that will support something "out of the box" for such a wide variety of platforms. And I'm guessing that your management wants something commercial for that reason. Personally, I'd tell them to butt out, they're not the ones that'll be "managing" it anyway. But then, I'm from the old 'n cranky ... |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I highly recommend contacting the folks at Reductive Labs and getting a supported install of Puppet. Puppet can handle a *huge* range of platforms, and if management wants to spend money, Reductive will provide the experience of a commercial offering, and will give you more than your money's worth. The strength of Pupp... | Since you started to have a look at cfengine, and your management want a commercial package, try Nova (the commercial version of cfengine) : <http://www.cfengine.com/nova>
Same as cfengine 3, with extra features (database management, ldap connection, extra reporting, monitoring, etc). |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I don't know of anything that will support something "out of the box" for such a wide variety of platforms. And I'm guessing that your management wants something commercial for that reason. Personally, I'd tell them to butt out, they're not the ones that'll be "managing" it anyway. But then, I'm from the old 'n cranky ... | If you have the budget, one recommendation would be to use one of the [IBM Tivoli System Automation](http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/system-automationproductline/) products. From their website:
>
> One of the key management capabilities that the product family offers is a single point of control for ma... |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I highly recommend contacting the folks at Reductive Labs and getting a supported install of Puppet. Puppet can handle a *huge* range of platforms, and if management wants to spend money, Reductive will provide the experience of a commercial offering, and will give you more than your money's worth. The strength of Pupp... | I see two projects here. The first one being building out a holistic management system being asked here, the other being a standardization. Even if you need to stick with all the different base operating systems, for whatever reason, you need to get a handle on the release proliferation. Before too long, if not already... |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I would recommend the [infrastructures.org](http://www.infrastructures.org/index.shtml) site. It may be a bit outdated, but the concepts are solid. Think about your infrastructure as a whole, which will have a lot more pieces than just configuration management software. Their checklist is a good starting point - using ... | If you have the budget, one recommendation would be to use one of the [IBM Tivoli System Automation](http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/system-automationproductline/) products. From their website:
>
> One of the key management capabilities that the product family offers is a single point of control for ma... |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I highly recommend contacting the folks at Reductive Labs and getting a supported install of Puppet. Puppet can handle a *huge* range of platforms, and if management wants to spend money, Reductive will provide the experience of a commercial offering, and will give you more than your money's worth. The strength of Pupp... | If you have the budget, one recommendation would be to use one of the [IBM Tivoli System Automation](http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/system-automationproductline/) products. From their website:
>
> One of the key management capabilities that the product family offers is a single point of control for ma... |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I would recommend the [infrastructures.org](http://www.infrastructures.org/index.shtml) site. It may be a bit outdated, but the concepts are solid. Think about your infrastructure as a whole, which will have a lot more pieces than just configuration management software. Their checklist is a good starting point - using ... | Since you started to have a look at cfengine, and your management want a commercial package, try Nova (the commercial version of cfengine) : <http://www.cfengine.com/nova>
Same as cfengine 3, with extra features (database management, ldap connection, extra reporting, monitoring, etc). |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I highly recommend contacting the folks at Reductive Labs and getting a supported install of Puppet. Puppet can handle a *huge* range of platforms, and if management wants to spend money, Reductive will provide the experience of a commercial offering, and will give you more than your money's worth. The strength of Pupp... | I would recommend the [infrastructures.org](http://www.infrastructures.org/index.shtml) site. It may be a bit outdated, but the concepts are solid. Think about your infrastructure as a whole, which will have a lot more pieces than just configuration management software. Their checklist is a good starting point - using ... |
62,531 | I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5) , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of view is to have all of these syst... | 2009/09/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/62531",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1592/"
] | I don't know of anything that will support something "out of the box" for such a wide variety of platforms. And I'm guessing that your management wants something commercial for that reason. Personally, I'd tell them to butt out, they're not the ones that'll be "managing" it anyway. But then, I'm from the old 'n cranky ... | Since you started to have a look at cfengine, and your management want a commercial package, try Nova (the commercial version of cfengine) : <http://www.cfengine.com/nova>
Same as cfengine 3, with extra features (database management, ldap connection, extra reporting, monitoring, etc). |
22,256 | It has happened many times and i have ignored it everytime.
Yesterday it happened again .
I was travelling in a train and saw a fly (insect) flying near my seat.
Train was running at a speed of around of 100 km/hr.
So according to the physics rules , my speed will also be 100 km/hr as i am sitting inside the train... | 2012/03/12 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/22256",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/8108/"
] | Have a look at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_invariance>. This is not too mathematical and explains what's going on.
The basic idea is that there is no such thing as absolute motion. For example, because the earth is rotating as I sit here typing I'm moving at about 800 miles per hour. Why am I not splattered... | The fly is flying in the air inside the closed train. As this air moves with the train (you don't feel the wind blow), the fly can just fly in the air in your frame of reference. If it is flying with 20 km/h in the train, it is 120 km/hr relative to the earth. |
625,487 | Entropy is a starting point for many advanced theoretical statistical mechanics books but beyond it just being negative or positive, what does it actually tell you? Specifically, what does the magnitude of it's change tell you? Most of these textbooks spend so long talking about it only to just leave it be and do other... | 2021/03/29 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/625487",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/192611/"
] | >
> Entropy is a starting point for many advanced theoretical statistical
> mechanics books but beyond it just being negative or positive, what
> does it actually tell you? Specifically, what does the magnitude of
> it's change tell you?
>
>
>
For one thing, it tells you if a process is irreversible the entropy ge... | As a chemical engineer, I regard this from a very different perspective. Entropy and entropy change are a critical part of the definition and change in Gibbs free energy. Gibbs free energy is the basis in chemical engineering for not only assessing whether a mechanical process or work can be done. It is critical in the... |
255,649 | I have created a site lookup column (with 2 additional columns) on my parent site. I'm using this site lookup column on a list in a child site to populate location. I have created a Flow to send an email when a new item is created in the child's list. I want to include the location in the body of the email, but it is n... | 2019/01/11 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/255649",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/80815/"
] | You are using the SharePoint List item action in Flow right?
For better working with fields and so one use **HTTP request and create REST API** get to the SharePoint list, I always using it this way. | In the dynamic contents window in Flow, select "see more" to show all of the columns. |
164,718 | The description of the [*sanctuary*](https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/sanctuary) spell says (PHB, p. 272):
>
> You ward a creature within range against attack. Until the spell ends, **any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack or a harmful spell must first make a Wisdom saving throw.** On a failed sa... | 2020/02/12 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/164718",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/36082/"
] | A creature cannot be actively affected by two instances of the same spell, this includes the warded creature; one saving throw is made
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The rules on "[Combining Magical Effects](https:/... | The [Combining Magical Effects](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/spellcasting#CombiningMagicalEffects) section of the Basic Rules states:
>
> The effects of different spells add together while the durations of those spells overlap. **The effects of the same spell cast multiple times don't combine, howeve... |
47,040 | This tree is located in an urban park in USDA zone 3a with winter temperatures to -40 deg Celsius. It has a trunk about six inches in diameter and is about thirty feet tall. In the winter I mistakenly identified it as Quercus macrocarpa or the Bur oak due to the prominent corky wings on the branches.
Now that the tree... | 2019/08/01 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/47040",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/499/"
] | Classic elm leaf; tree shape is not very American elm. So ,rock elm ,ulmus thomasii, Twigs have corky wings like a winged elm ( winged elm grow further south ). However , there are some introduced elm species like English elm that are similar but they do not have specific climate ranges ( in the US). | When I saw the leaves I thought Elm, so this led me to Ulmus alata, but in the specified location it is way out of normal range. Is there by any chance any sign of leaf miner which might tend to confirm elm of a sort? The specimen sort of has the beginnings of an elm vase shape, and U. alata is a slow grower, perhaps p... |
31,661 | I'm about to upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I intend on backing up applications, documents, downloads, and other files to a Mac formatted external USB harddrive.
Recently, I attempted to copy a VMWare Fusion created virtual machine to the drive, and then from that drive, move it to an Ubuntu host. The vir... | 2009/08/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/31661",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/8719/"
] | You should use a Mac-format drive, so that it can properly store all the ownerships, permissions, and important parts of files that might otherwise be lost.
(If you only had a FAT32 drive, then you could have created a sparse image on there, mount that on your Mac, and copy the data onto it.)
Personally, I'd use Supe... | I upgraded my Mac OS X the same way you described and it worked without any problems. I don't quite understand how Snow Leopard knows, that the user named Tomas that owned the files on the external drive on Leopard is the same Tomas on Snow Leopard, but all permissions are the same as they were before the upgrade.
And... |
130,755 | I'm trying to self-study this problem and I found a bizarre problem with an unusual circuit.
I have never faced this in all the problems that I have solved. What do they mean by finding the equivalent resistance between b and e. I don't even know if... | 2014/09/25 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/130755",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/50158/"
] | The first helpful step is to re-draw the schematic:
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.imgur.com%2fbDRGx.png) – Schematic created using [CircuitLab](https://www.circuitlab.com/)
Here I've ignored all other terminals because they do... | Looking just at B, C, and E ...
 |
254,094 | More often than never (that would be around several times a day, and about half the questions asked under the [android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android "show questions tagged 'android'") tag), questions can be answered using *basic debugging*.
Reading the stacktrace, following the breadcrumb to the ... | 2014/05/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254094",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/671543/"
] | We expect askers at Stack Overflow to have some basic troubleshooting skills, and to have used those skills to narrow down the problem to a specific part of the code. If the OP hasn't provided that specificity (in essence, they've posted a "what's wrong with my code, it doesn't work" question), close it as **"Insuffici... | Leave the question open and downvote. There is no "not enough effort to solve the problem yourself" close reason and that's how the community team likes it.
[further reading](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/253890/110707) |
254,094 | More often than never (that would be around several times a day, and about half the questions asked under the [android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android "show questions tagged 'android'") tag), questions can be answered using *basic debugging*.
Reading the stacktrace, following the breadcrumb to the ... | 2014/05/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254094",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/671543/"
] | We expect askers at Stack Overflow to have some basic troubleshooting skills, and to have used those skills to narrow down the problem to a specific part of the code. If the OP hasn't provided that specificity (in essence, they've posted a "what's wrong with my code, it doesn't work" question), close it as **"Insuffici... | Consider taking a page from the PHP folks' book here: create a few [canonical posts](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8028957/how-to-fix-headers-already-sent-error-in-php) for [commonly-googled errors](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12769982/reference-what-does-this-error-mean-in-php) and then dup-close everyth... |
254,094 | More often than never (that would be around several times a day, and about half the questions asked under the [android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android "show questions tagged 'android'") tag), questions can be answered using *basic debugging*.
Reading the stacktrace, following the breadcrumb to the ... | 2014/05/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254094",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/671543/"
] | We expect askers at Stack Overflow to have some basic troubleshooting skills, and to have used those skills to narrow down the problem to a specific part of the code. If the OP hasn't provided that specificity (in essence, they've posted a "what's wrong with my code, it doesn't work" question), close it as **"Insuffici... | I have noticed a lot of these questions under the PHP tag. I normally downvote the question and ask the people to do some basic debugging. Depending on the response I choose to remove my downvote or further vote to close the question as a *duplicate of ...* (or as a *problem that can no longer be reproduced*). |
254,094 | More often than never (that would be around several times a day, and about half the questions asked under the [android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android "show questions tagged 'android'") tag), questions can be answered using *basic debugging*.
Reading the stacktrace, following the breadcrumb to the ... | 2014/05/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254094",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/671543/"
] | Leave the question open and downvote. There is no "not enough effort to solve the problem yourself" close reason and that's how the community team likes it.
[further reading](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/253890/110707) | I have noticed a lot of these questions under the PHP tag. I normally downvote the question and ask the people to do some basic debugging. Depending on the response I choose to remove my downvote or further vote to close the question as a *duplicate of ...* (or as a *problem that can no longer be reproduced*). |
254,094 | More often than never (that would be around several times a day, and about half the questions asked under the [android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android "show questions tagged 'android'") tag), questions can be answered using *basic debugging*.
Reading the stacktrace, following the breadcrumb to the ... | 2014/05/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254094",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/671543/"
] | Consider taking a page from the PHP folks' book here: create a few [canonical posts](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8028957/how-to-fix-headers-already-sent-error-in-php) for [commonly-googled errors](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12769982/reference-what-does-this-error-mean-in-php) and then dup-close everyth... | I have noticed a lot of these questions under the PHP tag. I normally downvote the question and ask the people to do some basic debugging. Depending on the response I choose to remove my downvote or further vote to close the question as a *duplicate of ...* (or as a *problem that can no longer be reproduced*). |
70,949 | After leaving school I set myself the goal of completely digitalizing my note-system. Because of this I now scan all hand-written notes and make digital notes while in lectures and keep them nicely ordered on my laptop.
After a couple of days I realized, I could as well share these notes with my co-students having the... | 2016/06/07 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/70949",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/56299/"
] | You have just discovered some of the seemingly irrational ways in which students sabotage themselves and behave contrary to their own interests, and how they sometimes do this precisely in response to an attempt to help them by offering them useful resources.
Professors constantly struggle with this issue: do I offer ... | Your main concern appears to be the pedagogical aspect of posting your notes so widely. Is it your responsibility to worry about whether it is doing your co-students a disservice? @DanRomik is pretty articulate in his answer about faculty struggling with this same question in all aspects of course design and administra... |
10,939,706 | I tried to use MeioUpload Behavior from [here](http://www.meiocodigo.com/projects/meioupload/) but it doesn't really work in cakephp 2.x.
If you can suggest something similar?
Thank you! | 2012/06/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10939706",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/938542/"
] | My [FileStorage](https://github.com/burzum/FileStorage) plugin.
Read the instructions carefully and the whole text. It is dead easy to use if you follow them. The behavior will just *validate* but not handle the actual upload. Use the StorageManager and an adapter that matches your requirements (Local FS, S3, Dropbox.... | If you are looking for a AJAX-based, multi-file upload plugin, the [AjaxMultiUpload](https://github.com/srs81/CakePHP-AjaxMultiUpload) plugin might be helpful. And it works on CakePHP 2.x. |
10,939,706 | I tried to use MeioUpload Behavior from [here](http://www.meiocodigo.com/projects/meioupload/) but it doesn't really work in cakephp 2.x.
If you can suggest something similar?
Thank you! | 2012/06/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10939706",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/938542/"
] | I've been using the cakephp2.0 branch of this FileUpload plugin with success:
<https://github.com/webtechnick/CakePHP-FileUpload-Plugin> | If you are looking for a AJAX-based, multi-file upload plugin, the [AjaxMultiUpload](https://github.com/srs81/CakePHP-AjaxMultiUpload) plugin might be helpful. And it works on CakePHP 2.x. |
10,939,706 | I tried to use MeioUpload Behavior from [here](http://www.meiocodigo.com/projects/meioupload/) but it doesn't really work in cakephp 2.x.
If you can suggest something similar?
Thank you! | 2012/06/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10939706",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/938542/"
] | Check this very simple and straight forward way of doing it (read the readme.md thoroughly), did the job for me could even create thumbnails :
<https://github.com/malikov/cakephp2.0-image-upload> | If you are looking for a AJAX-based, multi-file upload plugin, the [AjaxMultiUpload](https://github.com/srs81/CakePHP-AjaxMultiUpload) plugin might be helpful. And it works on CakePHP 2.x. |
72,903 | I know the OSI model has seven layers. Can you consider a LAN to exist without layer 2 and just layer 1? The answers that I saw on Quora were not clear. Some of the answers on Quora came close to indicating that only the physical layer was needed.
I would think that a switch and the data link layer would be needed to ... | 2021/03/09 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/72903",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/74367/"
] | The OSI model is just a model. That means it describes an idealized concept, rather than anything in the real world. So the question is really hypothetical. If you create a network with only one layer, you are not conforming to the OSI model, so at that point, the question becomes moot. Also, there's no strict definiti... | In addition to local addressing (see *MAC address*), L2 is doing the framing - so essentially, no, you can't get away without L2.
You can avoid addressing by using point-to-point links only - one interface per peer, and likely a lot of meshing (forwarding nodes), but there's no alternative to framing.
Of course, you ... |
72,903 | I know the OSI model has seven layers. Can you consider a LAN to exist without layer 2 and just layer 1? The answers that I saw on Quora were not clear. Some of the answers on Quora came close to indicating that only the physical layer was needed.
I would think that a switch and the data link layer would be needed to ... | 2021/03/09 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/72903",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
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] | The OSI model is just a model. That means it describes an idealized concept, rather than anything in the real world. So the question is really hypothetical. If you create a network with only one layer, you are not conforming to the OSI model, so at that point, the question becomes moot. Also, there's no strict definiti... | Imagine a telegraph network carrying Morse Code as a layer-1 network. You can communicate to others in a point-to-point fashion.
If you want to communicate to more than one endpoint, queue up messages for asynchronous delivery (when the recipient isn't physically present at the telegraph office), have a billing scheme... |
72,903 | I know the OSI model has seven layers. Can you consider a LAN to exist without layer 2 and just layer 1? The answers that I saw on Quora were not clear. Some of the answers on Quora came close to indicating that only the physical layer was needed.
I would think that a switch and the data link layer would be needed to ... | 2021/03/09 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/72903",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
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] | The OSI model is just a model. That means it describes an idealized concept, rather than anything in the real world. So the question is really hypothetical. If you create a network with only one layer, you are not conforming to the OSI model, so at that point, the question becomes moot. Also, there's no strict definiti... | You have to define a 'local area network' before you can theoretically strip away 90% of the features of it and ask whether it still exists.
A 'layer 1 only network' is a simple electrical circuit with devices that modulate and interpolate the voltage on the circuit to some end. A radio with a speaker connected to it ... |
72,903 | I know the OSI model has seven layers. Can you consider a LAN to exist without layer 2 and just layer 1? The answers that I saw on Quora were not clear. Some of the answers on Quora came close to indicating that only the physical layer was needed.
I would think that a switch and the data link layer would be needed to ... | 2021/03/09 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/72903",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/74367/"
] | You have to define a 'local area network' before you can theoretically strip away 90% of the features of it and ask whether it still exists.
A 'layer 1 only network' is a simple electrical circuit with devices that modulate and interpolate the voltage on the circuit to some end. A radio with a speaker connected to it ... | In addition to local addressing (see *MAC address*), L2 is doing the framing - so essentially, no, you can't get away without L2.
You can avoid addressing by using point-to-point links only - one interface per peer, and likely a lot of meshing (forwarding nodes), but there's no alternative to framing.
Of course, you ... |
72,903 | I know the OSI model has seven layers. Can you consider a LAN to exist without layer 2 and just layer 1? The answers that I saw on Quora were not clear. Some of the answers on Quora came close to indicating that only the physical layer was needed.
I would think that a switch and the data link layer would be needed to ... | 2021/03/09 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/72903",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/74367/"
] | You have to define a 'local area network' before you can theoretically strip away 90% of the features of it and ask whether it still exists.
A 'layer 1 only network' is a simple electrical circuit with devices that modulate and interpolate the voltage on the circuit to some end. A radio with a speaker connected to it ... | Imagine a telegraph network carrying Morse Code as a layer-1 network. You can communicate to others in a point-to-point fashion.
If you want to communicate to more than one endpoint, queue up messages for asynchronous delivery (when the recipient isn't physically present at the telegraph office), have a billing scheme... |
100,662 | I am currently practicing the first movement of the 2nd Rachmaninoff piano concerto. Luckily I have no troubles reaching the chords in the left hand (Maybe because I am left-handed? The only time it comes in handy..). However I do have troubles with the 2nd and 3rd chords of the right hand. The ones on the picture:
[!... | 2020/06/09 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/100662",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/44653/"
] | Almost; the '2' and '4' don't have a corresponding note but are the second half of the quarter notes. The arrows below indicate how the rhythm is to be counted:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZhPq.jpg) | The note flags have meaning, so your quarter notes need to be on 1+ and 3+ while your sketch places them on 2 and 4. Basically, the quarter notes are "early eighths", stealing time from the could-have-been-quarter notes before them. |
363,795 | [This link explains how to create static files from dynamic content using Nginx](http://mark.ossdl.de/2009/07/nginx-to-create-static-files-from-dynamic-content/).
My question is this: can I achieve the same **if login sessions are involved**. ie. when I want to serve content to **only registered users** and not otherw... | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/363795",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/110091/"
] | I think you'll be better off looking at [Varnish](https://www.varnish-cache.org/) for this, nginx has very limited caching functionality.
With nginx you can detect cookie data and use that to force the user a different cache key as shown [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20130317092133/https://syslog.tv/2010/04/18/ne... | You can use [HttpSsiModule](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSsiModule) wherever you need dynamic works (Session vs.) |
43,301 | My company wants me to have internet at my apartment, as in emergency I can work from home. Company pays monthly internet bill. Also first time installation charges. But recently I moved into a new apartment and my company asked AT&T to transfer internet service from my old apartment to new apartment. But in the first ... | 2015/01/15 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/43301",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/24733/"
] | Of course you don't have to pay them - you just might not like the result.
As a matter of law - given that I am not a lawyer - I am not aware of any requirement for a company to pay employees business-related expenses. An example might be having a cell phone, and [according to this article companies aren't required to... | It appears so. I suppose you could try saying that you don't want to pay for it and won't have Internet installed, but that could be detrimental to your career.
There is no law that says your company has to pay for your Internet unless you have some kind of contract with them that says you will.
If anything, your bes... |
187,074 | Recently, I've been thinking about trying to make a website have a hidden ip, and make it so that it is extremely hard to find the real ip. I want to have it use proxies so that you can connect to the proxy server to connect to the real site. That way, it would never get blocked as I could keep adding new proxies for i... | 2018/06/04 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/187074",
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] | >
> Making websites use proxies?
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The question is the wrong way. A web server does not **use** a proxy. A web server is just listening for incoming connections. Instead the client which connects to the server might use knowingly or transparently use a proxy which then forwards the original clients traffic to ... | If you want a freely accessible website, then you can't hide the IP and hostname of your frontend. And the bans will relate to them.
You can make a private service on the tor network, but then the site will be visible only for the tor users.
The hosting company, where your frontend works, will know a lot more about y... |
187,074 | Recently, I've been thinking about trying to make a website have a hidden ip, and make it so that it is extremely hard to find the real ip. I want to have it use proxies so that you can connect to the proxy server to connect to the real site. That way, it would never get blocked as I could keep adding new proxies for i... | 2018/06/04 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/187074",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/179544/"
] | >
> Making websites use proxies?
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The question is the wrong way. A web server does not **use** a proxy. A web server is just listening for incoming connections. Instead the client which connects to the server might use knowingly or transparently use a proxy which then forwards the original clients traffic to ... | >
> Recently, I've been thinking about trying to make a website have a hidden ip, and make it so that it is extremely hard to find the real ip. I want to have it use proxies so that you can connect to the proxy server to connect to the real site
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That is what *reverse proxies* are made for, and it is the comm... |
299,754 | Is there a [Wget](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget) or cURL type command line utility native to [Windows Vista](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista)? How does it work? | 2011/06/20 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/299754",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/86735/"
] | There is no Wget alternative really. You can use [Wget for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm) and assign the path in your environment variables to get it working how you want. | Native cURL for Windows is available [here](http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?search=curl&function=search). There are many flavors available- with SSL support, without SSL support. You don't need the extra baggage of [Cygwin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin) and the likes, just one small EXE file. |
299,754 | Is there a [Wget](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget) or cURL type command line utility native to [Windows Vista](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista)? How does it work? | 2011/06/20 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/299754",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/86735/"
] | Native cURL for Windows is available [here](http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?search=curl&function=search). There are many flavors available- with SSL support, without SSL support. You don't need the extra baggage of [Cygwin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin) and the likes, just one small EXE file. | I'd just use [Cygwin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin) and install the wanted libraries... I have always done that...
In the past, I searched for alternatives, yes. But Cygwin is just the best tool for the job. |
77 | While going through some rapids, we slid across a jagged rock and it put a huge gouge in the bow of my fiberglass canoe. What method and process is best for repairing it, so that next time I hit some rocks they don't immediately break through and swamp the canoe? | 2012/01/24 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/77",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/68/"
] | They sell fiberglass repair kits at most boating stores which are made for this exact sort of repair. It includes a fiber glass cloth which you put over the damaged area, as well as a resin / hardening agent to hold the patch in place. Any kit you buy should have instructions for applying the patch in it. | During the trip: duct tape. It's strong and flexible and it's easy to carry 3 or 4 feet with you. I've used it to repair a yoke in the middle of nowhere.
Once you're home: a little fiberglass cloth and some epoxy resin. Or if it's more a deep scratch than a gouge, just the resin. |
66,438 | Having read the answers to [Is it better for iOS to sync Gmail contacts using Exchange ActiveSync or the CardDAV protocol?](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/65527/is-it-better-for-ios-to-sync-gmail-contacts-using-exchange-activesync-or-the-car), I switched off Contacts on the Exchange account, and set up CardD... | 2012/10/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/66438",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/16602/"
] | My understanding is that CardDAV does not push changes from server to clients, but rather requires that clients poll the server. Perhaps you have polling turned off?
1. Launch **Settings**.
2. Select **Mail, Contacts, Calendars**.
3. Select **Fetch New Data**.
4. Under the **Fetch** heading, is **Manually** selected? ... | This is not normal. I just set up Google CardDav on my iPhone 4. I was adding a contact to Google that was already in my iPhone. While I was reading the info off my phone and typing it into Gmail, it showed up immediately on my phone.
I can't tell you why your contacts are not updating immediately, but it is definite... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | Get a USB device. Put all secrets on the USB, preferably in a KeePass file. In the documentation, tell the new person where the USB is and how to unlock it, but put the device in a secure physical location like the owner's office, the company safe, a secure deposit box, etc. Somewhere out of the reach of the public, an... | Create 'emergency use only' accounts
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For most systems, you will have some kind of privileged accounts that are used in their everyday administration, those may or may not be personalized depending on your organization policy.
As for any credentials, you may lose access to them for... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | This isn't another idea on how to do it per se, rather a point to flag up something that has not yet been discussed but is very important. I'm proceeding from a standpoint that these secrets are really business critical.
Testing.
Some disaster recovery scenarios have been posited. Some are simple, some are more compl... | Your solution, in order to be comprehensive, *must* be a combination of procedural and technical controls. The best way to understand it is to see technological controls as providing the capability to enhance your procedural security. They make some controls possible, and others easier to execute.
With this in mind, ... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | Most of the answers here relate to the handling of credentials, probably due to this explicit question in the OP:
>
> What's the best way to manage the "secrets" (passwords, private keys, MFA access) in this documentation to ensure it remains comprehensive without compromising security?
>
>
>
However, the title a... | This isn't another idea on how to do it per se, rather a point to flag up something that has not yet been discussed but is very important. I'm proceeding from a standpoint that these secrets are really business critical.
Testing.
Some disaster recovery scenarios have been posited. Some are simple, some are more compl... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | Maybe a better solution to your situation is to design the system such that even if you are hit by a bus, and your credentials are lost forever, nothing bad happens.
Perhaps it's best to think of the problem as two problems, *authentication* and *authorization*.
Authentication establishes that you are who you claim t... | Most of the answers here relate to the handling of credentials, probably due to this explicit question in the OP:
>
> What's the best way to manage the "secrets" (passwords, private keys, MFA access) in this documentation to ensure it remains comprehensive without compromising security?
>
>
>
However, the title a... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | Create 'emergency use only' accounts
------------------------------------
For most systems, you will have some kind of privileged accounts that are used in their everyday administration, those may or may not be personalized depending on your organization policy.
As for any credentials, you may lose access to them for... | This isn't another idea on how to do it per se, rather a point to flag up something that has not yet been discussed but is very important. I'm proceeding from a standpoint that these secrets are really business critical.
Testing.
Some disaster recovery scenarios have been posited. Some are simple, some are more compl... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | Maybe a better solution to your situation is to design the system such that even if you are hit by a bus, and your credentials are lost forever, nothing bad happens.
Perhaps it's best to think of the problem as two problems, *authentication* and *authorization*.
Authentication establishes that you are who you claim t... | This isn't another idea on how to do it per se, rather a point to flag up something that has not yet been discussed but is very important. I'm proceeding from a standpoint that these secrets are really business critical.
Testing.
Some disaster recovery scenarios have been posited. Some are simple, some are more compl... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | My advice would be to remove the secrets from the drop-box and store them elsewhere. Your instructions have to be easily human readable by anyone, but they can include instructions on how to get access to the properly secured part of the data. That lets you separate the accessibility side of things from the security si... | Get a USB device. Put all secrets on the USB, preferably in a KeePass file. In the documentation, tell the new person where the USB is and how to unlock it, but put the device in a secure physical location like the owner's office, the company safe, a secure deposit box, etc. Somewhere out of the reach of the public, an... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | Most of the answers here relate to the handling of credentials, probably due to this explicit question in the OP:
>
> What's the best way to manage the "secrets" (passwords, private keys, MFA access) in this documentation to ensure it remains comprehensive without compromising security?
>
>
>
However, the title a... | Your solution, in order to be comprehensive, *must* be a combination of procedural and technical controls. The best way to understand it is to see technological controls as providing the capability to enhance your procedural security. They make some controls possible, and others easier to execute.
With this in mind, ... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | Get a USB device. Put all secrets on the USB, preferably in a KeePass file. In the documentation, tell the new person where the USB is and how to unlock it, but put the device in a secure physical location like the owner's office, the company safe, a secure deposit box, etc. Somewhere out of the reach of the public, an... | I'm in a very similar situation as the sole IT admin for a mid-size company with a lot of scattered, loosely related custom software on different platforms. Worse than that, I wrote all the software for the company over the last ten years, from their POS system to online reservations, a homebrew CMS, employee training ... |
106,855 | I work as the primary developer and IT administrator for a small business. I want to ensure that business can continue even if I suddenly become unavailable for some reason. Much of what I do requires access to a number of servers, (through key-based ssh), cloud services, and other secure infrastructure of applications... | 2015/11/30 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106855",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/70458/"
] | My advice would be to remove the secrets from the drop-box and store them elsewhere. Your instructions have to be easily human readable by anyone, but they can include instructions on how to get access to the properly secured part of the data. That lets you separate the accessibility side of things from the security si... | Create 'emergency use only' accounts
------------------------------------
For most systems, you will have some kind of privileged accounts that are used in their everyday administration, those may or may not be personalized depending on your organization policy.
As for any credentials, you may lose access to them for... |
179,994 | I wired up 4 new double gang boxes for a fish room I’m building. On the first double gang box in the fish room I tied into an existing outlet on the same wall that faces opposite for the room on the other side of the wall. I then wired the outlet that shares the double gang box with the gfci. I made sure everything was... | 2019/12/09 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/179994",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/109942/"
] | Move all wires to LINE
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Placing any wires on LOAD is incorrect unless you have a *very specific reason* to do that.
"I have more wires to attach and don't know where else to put them" is *not* a specific reason.
If the GFCI fails with all wires on LINE, then the GFCI is defective.
If you ha... | So are you saying you put a GFCI outlet on a GFCI protected branch circuit?
Have you tried pressing the test and reset on the new outlet? With some brands of GFCI’s they need both the test and reset to be cycled to activate them after losing power or for the first time install this could be a problem if you have this... |
198,634 | I have a table which contains 3 nvarchar(255) columns and a combination of these 3 columns must be unique. Normally I would create a Unique constraint, but in this case, I am hitting the 900 byte limit. Since I have to support SQL Server 2000, I can not use Include columns to get around this situation. | 2008/10/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/198634",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4441/"
] | If I understand you correctly, you could use a trigger and on the Insert or Update check to see if the combination of the values is unique prior to making the change. You could also do the same via a stored procedure. | You could hash the 3 columns, using MD5 or SHA1, and create a unqiue constraint on the hashed value.
How easy it is to implement depends on where you INSERTs/UPDATEs come from.
If they only come from your application, then it should be relatively easy to implement.
If they come from multiple sources you can look int... |
198,634 | I have a table which contains 3 nvarchar(255) columns and a combination of these 3 columns must be unique. Normally I would create a Unique constraint, but in this case, I am hitting the 900 byte limit. Since I have to support SQL Server 2000, I can not use Include columns to get around this situation. | 2008/10/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/198634",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4441/"
] | 255 seems pretty arbitrary. With that in mind, any chance that nvarchar(150)'s would be adequate? Or some combination that results in <= 900 bytes? | You could hash the 3 columns, using MD5 or SHA1, and create a unqiue constraint on the hashed value.
How easy it is to implement depends on where you INSERTs/UPDATEs come from.
If they only come from your application, then it should be relatively easy to implement.
If they come from multiple sources you can look int... |
198,634 | I have a table which contains 3 nvarchar(255) columns and a combination of these 3 columns must be unique. Normally I would create a Unique constraint, but in this case, I am hitting the 900 byte limit. Since I have to support SQL Server 2000, I can not use Include columns to get around this situation. | 2008/10/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/198634",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4441/"
] | If I understand you correctly, you could use a trigger and on the Insert or Update check to see if the combination of the values is unique prior to making the change. You could also do the same via a stored procedure. | Another idea: could you add a column that stores a hash of those values cat'd together? SQL 2000 supports an extended stored procedure for md5 sums that you could call from a trigger to create the hash. |
198,634 | I have a table which contains 3 nvarchar(255) columns and a combination of these 3 columns must be unique. Normally I would create a Unique constraint, but in this case, I am hitting the 900 byte limit. Since I have to support SQL Server 2000, I can not use Include columns to get around this situation. | 2008/10/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/198634",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4441/"
] | If I understand you correctly, you could use a trigger and on the Insert or Update check to see if the combination of the values is unique prior to making the change. You could also do the same via a stored procedure. | 255 seems pretty arbitrary. With that in mind, any chance that nvarchar(150)'s would be adequate? Or some combination that results in <= 900 bytes? |
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"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | Yes, as owner of the question you can always edit, vote to close/reopen or delete it. | This is, IMHO, one of the best uses for closing (vs. simple deletion): it allows the author (or other editors) to expand on what little good might exist in an otherwise poor question, while reacting to criticism. When sufficiently improved, the question can then be re-opened and answered, without piles of now-offtopic ... |
288 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [What is a “closed” question?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question)
>
>
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When a question has been marked "Closed," is the user who asked it (the OP) allowed to edit it? Editing and rewording might make the question valid. Without editing abi... | 2009/06/28 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/288",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1391/"
] | This is, IMHO, one of the best uses for closing (vs. simple deletion): it allows the author (or other editors) to expand on what little good might exist in an otherwise poor question, while reacting to criticism. When sufficiently improved, the question can then be re-opened and answered, without piles of now-offtopic ... | Also people with enough reputation can edit any questions. Open, Closed or even Deleted questions (10k+) |
316,847 | Is it correct to start a sentence with the word "different"?
for example:
>
> **Different table structures are listed below.**
>
>
>
or should it be:
>
> **Various table structures are listed below.**
>
>
>
Does it make any difference?
**EDIT:**
More context: I would like to point out and describe simil... | 2016/03/31 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/316847",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/168112/"
] | With the lack of any other context, I would inturpet this sentence as:
>
> Table structures, that are different from each other, are listed below
>
>
>
So with that in mind I think your sentence is perfectly acceptable. | Much depends on the *exact* context...
You'd be more likely to use ***different*** in a context where you've *already* presented one or more table structures (i.e. - where it means ***other***).
And you'd be more likely to use ***various*** where the table structures actually presented are a non-exhaustive list (i.e.... |
756 | I remember back a few months ago when I was really into the SciFi&Fantassy SE site, there would be constant notifications when someone would ping you or mention your name.
When I left the site for a brief period and came back and I no longer receive these notifications. Is this an issue for all sites? | 2014/01/09 | [
"https://graphicdesign.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/756",
"https://graphicdesign.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2504/"
] | The two flags were for "very low quality", which I declined. VLQ is [rarely appropriate](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/160754/216955 "Why are the moderators being so strict with quality related flags recently?"). That flag basically means "[this is so bad that it provides no value and needs to be deleted](https://me... | I flagged it because if you visit the links you have to search for the actual templates which would, to me, make it spam and appear as an advertisement.
Even though the site links to [here](http://www.companyfolders.com/design/freebies) it should really link [here](http://www.companyfolders.com/design/die-cut-folder-... |
6,462,302 | I'm looking for a smoothing algorithm which retains the same number of points. Does such an algorithm exist for smoothing? Every algorithm I've seen reduces the number of data points. | 2011/06/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6462302",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/449511/"
] | One possibility would be a moving average -- e.g., each output point is the average of the last 10 points. Obviously, with this the first few points aren't smoothed as much. | I suppose it depends on what you are trying to do. You could use spline interpolation, which is just a generalization of the idea of a moving average or box car filter. (Formally speaking, B-spline interpolation is equivalent to iterating a moving average as many times as the degree of the spline.)
However, the trade ... |
35,682,393 | Quoting OReilly :
Tuple : An ordered collection of data elements.
Bag : An unordered coection of tuples.
I am fairly new to pig, and this may be a trivial question, but I need help in understanding how a tuple is an "ordered" collection of elements, whereas a bag is not.
Thanks. | 2016/02/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/35682393",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5975818/"
] | Think of the most simple example - a nicely formatted, unsorted CSV file.
When you read the file into PIG, each row is a tuple. A collection of fields. Each field has its position; it makes sense to speak of 'the first field', 'the 3rd field' and 'the last field'.
However, the order of those rows, is meaningless. Si... | The Tuple defines as " ordered elements " and where as bag defines a " unordered tuple ".
You can understand using simple example -
Suppose there is a college , which has variety of branch i.e CSE,ME,EC,EI,EN etc. Each branch has HOD,Asst.Professor, Professor, Peon.
Tuple : The collection of details of each Branc... |
29,026 | Can PHP/mySQL handle 1,000,000 unique users onlinie at the same time? Or should we use a more powerful system like Zend? Or does it depend more on the web hosting systems like load balancing, etc? | 2010/12/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/29026",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | If you have 1 million *simultaenous users*, that means you'd need to be getting at least 300 million visitors a day (and close to a billion *pages* per day)\*. When you're in those numbers, then you're Facebook or Google and at that point, it doesn't *matter* what language or framework you used to begin with, because y... | In theory, PHP and MYSQL will handle an infinite connections query, it's more depending on your global Hardware infrastructure than on your software.
If you got a lot of HI-Perf servers with a high speed connection backbone, you'll be able to handle a lot of traffic, but, for my own experience, if you've got a website... |
347,478 | Does IIS7 have an in-built mechanism, or are extensions available, for providing web-application-firewall type behavior?
For example, dozens of successive attempts come in that look like scan attempts (eg <http://linux.m2osw.com/zmeu-attack>). Or dozens come in with obvious XSS or maybe SQL Injection attributes. I'm ... | 2012/01/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/347478",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24434/"
] | The Microsoft [UrlScan](http://www.iis.net/download/urlscan) tool is probably a good thing for you to look at. Microsoft does a fairly poor job, IMO, promoting the tool. You can find [some good third-party references](http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/938/urlscan-3-reference/) on it, thought. In a nutshell, it's an add-on... | The Request Filtering Module is a built-in module (installable as an IIS Role Service through Roles in Server Manager) that has rough feature parity with URLScan, but uses the IIS configuration system instead of INI files.
[Wade's blog](http://blogs.iis.net/wadeh/archive/2008/12/18/filtering-for-sql-injection-on-iis-7... |
9,602,416 | I have a requirement to develop a B2C application for Android and iOS, an I was asked to use Sybase Unwired Platform.
I found many documents and I read most of them.
But, so far, there's something I'm missing.
On sybase.com, they say: "*Sybase Unwired Platform enables you to embrace mobility across your entire organiz... | 2012/03/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9602416",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/993126/"
] | I am working on Windows Mobile app to work with SUP to interface customer's back-end system. As far as I know, current SUP supports MBS(Message based synchronization) only for iOS. For other devices, RBS(Replication based sync) can be used. Basically SUP allows developers to design MBO(Mobile business object) to wrap t... | Your requirement can be full filled in two ways. One is by developing hybrid web container app using the sybase unwired platform(These apps are used for decision making), which needs zero coding(You can customize the app using javascript,html5 and css).
The other approach is developing native apps for android and ios.... |
9,602,416 | I have a requirement to develop a B2C application for Android and iOS, an I was asked to use Sybase Unwired Platform.
I found many documents and I read most of them.
But, so far, there's something I'm missing.
On sybase.com, they say: "*Sybase Unwired Platform enables you to embrace mobility across your entire organiz... | 2012/03/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9602416",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/993126/"
] | You can design a diagram of MBOs in Sybase Unwired Workspace. This diagram has two purposes:
* To be deployed to a server
* To generate code
Code can be generated for multiple platforms[0]. See Sybase's entry about [Object API Code Generation](http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.d... | I am working on Windows Mobile app to work with SUP to interface customer's back-end system. As far as I know, current SUP supports MBS(Message based synchronization) only for iOS. For other devices, RBS(Replication based sync) can be used. Basically SUP allows developers to design MBO(Mobile business object) to wrap t... |
9,602,416 | I have a requirement to develop a B2C application for Android and iOS, an I was asked to use Sybase Unwired Platform.
I found many documents and I read most of them.
But, so far, there's something I'm missing.
On sybase.com, they say: "*Sybase Unwired Platform enables you to embrace mobility across your entire organiz... | 2012/03/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9602416",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/993126/"
] | You can design a diagram of MBOs in Sybase Unwired Workspace. This diagram has two purposes:
* To be deployed to a server
* To generate code
Code can be generated for multiple platforms[0]. See Sybase's entry about [Object API Code Generation](http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.d... | Your requirement can be full filled in two ways. One is by developing hybrid web container app using the sybase unwired platform(These apps are used for decision making), which needs zero coding(You can customize the app using javascript,html5 and css).
The other approach is developing native apps for android and ios.... |
2,415,224 | I am starting a new project in VB /.Net Framework 2.0 for a company corporate website with data driven forms. So should I go further with Asp.net MVC or Asp.Net web forms and WHY ??? We are not ready for Ajax now but later.
And also we have DevExpress components. | 2010/03/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2415224",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/249593/"
] | Actually I see ASP.NET MVC as next generation in that it is an evolution - trying to be a better programming environment, as software development for web apps asks for something more testable.
It is a huge beast. Decide based on features whether you need it. MVC has less documentation and is a lot harder to master tha... | ASP.Net MVC is not "next generation" ASP.Net. It's an alternative approach to design that can be more beneficial depending on the kind of project you're working with. Without more information about the particular type of project you're working on no one can give you any informed recommendations. |
181,244 | This is a follow up to a long series of questions [seen here before](https://serverfault.com/questions/56868/hosting-service-with-wordpress-auto-install). That is the most recent one I could find, and it is about a year old.
I am trying to help out a friend, to just get him started up with a WP blog for easy creation ... | 2010/09/15 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/181244",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/40097/"
] | I know you specify "other than Dreamhost", but...I just recently set up a wordpress site for a non-profit using Dreamhost. If it is a true, registered-with-IRS-non-profit, Dreamhost offers [free hosting](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Non-profit_Discount) to 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations. So that may be an ad... | There's a difference between "just set up" and "full-service". With Wordpress, the difference is critical.
If someone "just sets up" Wordpress for your friend, the inevitable security and version updates become his problem. Because WordPress is so popular, vulnerabilities are specifically targeted by spammers and link... |
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