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124,647 | Can Color Temperature Orange (CTO) gels be used to improve the [Color Rendering Index](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index) (CRI) of a light source with a mediocre CRI?
For example can a CTO gel improve the CRI of a “tungsten balanced” LED source rated at 3200k with a CRI of 82?
Similarly, can Color... | 2021/04/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/124647",
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] | Someone is going to come along with better 'numbers' for this, but imagine the Histogram of a picture of a clown in a flower garden.
Then add a slope [filter] to that histogram.
You still have a very wobbly line, but with a slope to it.
I can only see a non-flat light emitter being the same in practise.
I spent... | When visually evaluating color prints, we always wanted a light source with a high CRI. We could purchase light booths and lamps. Initially, Kodak recommended the use of a 40W fluorescent tube Cool White mounted together with a 60W tungsten standard household bulb. Photofinishing inspection tables used several pairs. T... |
124,647 | Can Color Temperature Orange (CTO) gels be used to improve the [Color Rendering Index](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index) (CRI) of a light source with a mediocre CRI?
For example can a CTO gel improve the CRI of a “tungsten balanced” LED source rated at 3200k with a CRI of 82?
Similarly, can Color... | 2021/04/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/124647",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/95237/"
] | Someone is going to come along with better 'numbers' for this, but imagine the Histogram of a picture of a clown in a flower garden.
Then add a slope [filter] to that histogram.
You still have a very wobbly line, but with a slope to it.
I can only see a non-flat light emitter being the same in practise.
I spent... | You might improve it a bit, but you shouldn't bother.
CRI is defined by how close the spectrum is to a black body with that temperature.
Simple filters like those two in question will never actually fix any problems of the light. However, changing color temperature will usually slightly change CRI as well. This is a c... |
124,647 | Can Color Temperature Orange (CTO) gels be used to improve the [Color Rendering Index](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index) (CRI) of a light source with a mediocre CRI?
For example can a CTO gel improve the CRI of a “tungsten balanced” LED source rated at 3200k with a CRI of 82?
Similarly, can Color... | 2021/04/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/124647",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
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] | **Filters don't add anything, they only attenuate (reduce) part of what is already there more than they reduce other parts of what is already there.**
If the light source has a low CRI due to missing portions of the visible spectrum, then no filter will improve that.
If the light source has a low CRI due to one singl... | It depends on why the source has a low CRI... is it due to one measurement being extremely far off, is it due to many measures being notably off, or is it due to all measures being somewhat off?
If it was a single measurement being relatively high (or range centered around a single max value) then a filter could theor... |
124,647 | Can Color Temperature Orange (CTO) gels be used to improve the [Color Rendering Index](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index) (CRI) of a light source with a mediocre CRI?
For example can a CTO gel improve the CRI of a “tungsten balanced” LED source rated at 3200k with a CRI of 82?
Similarly, can Color... | 2021/04/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/124647",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/95237/"
] | It depends on why the source has a low CRI... is it due to one measurement being extremely far off, is it due to many measures being notably off, or is it due to all measures being somewhat off?
If it was a single measurement being relatively high (or range centered around a single max value) then a filter could theor... | When visually evaluating color prints, we always wanted a light source with a high CRI. We could purchase light booths and lamps. Initially, Kodak recommended the use of a 40W fluorescent tube Cool White mounted together with a 60W tungsten standard household bulb. Photofinishing inspection tables used several pairs. T... |
124,647 | Can Color Temperature Orange (CTO) gels be used to improve the [Color Rendering Index](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index) (CRI) of a light source with a mediocre CRI?
For example can a CTO gel improve the CRI of a “tungsten balanced” LED source rated at 3200k with a CRI of 82?
Similarly, can Color... | 2021/04/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/124647",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/95237/"
] | **Filters don't add anything, they only attenuate (reduce) part of what is already there more than they reduce other parts of what is already there.**
If the light source has a low CRI due to missing portions of the visible spectrum, then no filter will improve that.
If the light source has a low CRI due to one singl... | When visually evaluating color prints, we always wanted a light source with a high CRI. We could purchase light booths and lamps. Initially, Kodak recommended the use of a 40W fluorescent tube Cool White mounted together with a 60W tungsten standard household bulb. Photofinishing inspection tables used several pairs. T... |
124,647 | Can Color Temperature Orange (CTO) gels be used to improve the [Color Rendering Index](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index) (CRI) of a light source with a mediocre CRI?
For example can a CTO gel improve the CRI of a “tungsten balanced” LED source rated at 3200k with a CRI of 82?
Similarly, can Color... | 2021/04/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/124647",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/95237/"
] | **Filters don't add anything, they only attenuate (reduce) part of what is already there more than they reduce other parts of what is already there.**
If the light source has a low CRI due to missing portions of the visible spectrum, then no filter will improve that.
If the light source has a low CRI due to one singl... | You might improve it a bit, but you shouldn't bother.
CRI is defined by how close the spectrum is to a black body with that temperature.
Simple filters like those two in question will never actually fix any problems of the light. However, changing color temperature will usually slightly change CRI as well. This is a c... |
124,647 | Can Color Temperature Orange (CTO) gels be used to improve the [Color Rendering Index](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index) (CRI) of a light source with a mediocre CRI?
For example can a CTO gel improve the CRI of a “tungsten balanced” LED source rated at 3200k with a CRI of 82?
Similarly, can Color... | 2021/04/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/124647",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/95237/"
] | You might improve it a bit, but you shouldn't bother.
CRI is defined by how close the spectrum is to a black body with that temperature.
Simple filters like those two in question will never actually fix any problems of the light. However, changing color temperature will usually slightly change CRI as well. This is a c... | When visually evaluating color prints, we always wanted a light source with a high CRI. We could purchase light booths and lamps. Initially, Kodak recommended the use of a 40W fluorescent tube Cool White mounted together with a 60W tungsten standard household bulb. Photofinishing inspection tables used several pairs. T... |
278,958 | Could I have some feedback on this <https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/6443482> rejected edit please? The first rejection says "This edit defaces the post in order to promote a product or service, or is deliberately destructive." which clearly isn't the case. The next two say "This edit deviates from the ... | 2014/12/10 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/278958",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/470014/"
] | I think I see what you're trying to do with that edit -- rearranging the existing text to make the question clearer. Moving the description of the error to the beginning of the question was definitely a good idea, as was removing the sign-off/thanks bit.
The final paragraph in your proposal is a problem, however; you'... | Without looking too deeply into it, you have changed some of the code in the Question,
When you change code in a question, especially a question about an error message, you run the risk of changing or fixing the issue that's giving the OP trouble. For some people, that's an automatic reject. |
297,942 | Things like the first-order completeness theorem and the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem are considered foundational in mathematical logic.
The modern approach seems to be, usually, to interpret a "model" specifically as a set in some other (typically first-order) "set metatheory." So when we talk about a model of PA, for in... | 2018/04/15 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/297942",
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] | I don’t know the history well enough for a full answer, but here is a partial answer, on the mathematical aspects. When you write:
>
> It is clear that these researchers were not talking about using first-order ZFC as a metatheory […] And yet they were obviously talking about something. Did they have a different noti... | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine has correctly remarked that one need not specify a precise set-theoretic metatheory in order to prove something like the completeness theorem. This remark is borne out if we look at, for example, Gödel's original papers.
Gödel's collected works have been published by Oxford University Press, and... |
297,942 | Things like the first-order completeness theorem and the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem are considered foundational in mathematical logic.
The modern approach seems to be, usually, to interpret a "model" specifically as a set in some other (typically first-order) "set metatheory." So when we talk about a model of PA, for in... | 2018/04/15 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/297942",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/24611/"
] | I don’t know the history well enough for a full answer, but here is a partial answer, on the mathematical aspects. When you write:
>
> It is clear that these researchers were not talking about using first-order ZFC as a metatheory […] And yet they were obviously talking about something. Did they have a different noti... | As Andreas Blass pointed out, the meta-theory can be ordinary mathematics, at least in theory. In practice, without an explicit meta-theory, authority figures decide what is allowed, and what not. Tarski (like Cantor before him) learned this lesson the hard way, as can be read in accounts of [Tarski's theorem about cho... |
297,942 | Things like the first-order completeness theorem and the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem are considered foundational in mathematical logic.
The modern approach seems to be, usually, to interpret a "model" specifically as a set in some other (typically first-order) "set metatheory." So when we talk about a model of PA, for in... | 2018/04/15 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/297942",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/24611/"
] | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine has correctly remarked that one need not specify a precise set-theoretic metatheory in order to prove something like the completeness theorem. This remark is borne out if we look at, for example, Gödel's original papers.
Gödel's collected works have been published by Oxford University Press, and... | As Andreas Blass pointed out, the meta-theory can be ordinary mathematics, at least in theory. In practice, without an explicit meta-theory, authority figures decide what is allowed, and what not. Tarski (like Cantor before him) learned this lesson the hard way, as can be read in accounts of [Tarski's theorem about cho... |
50,153 | Today I need some tips on reusing mash potato. And not the "don't do it" tip. I mean, how can I fry it?
So far I've pretty much limited my reuse of mash potato to fried pattie-type things, but I found this doesn't work so great with every mash potato I come across. Sometimes it's either too dry or too wet. How can I f... | 2014/11/28 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/50153",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/29292/"
] | For one half of your problem: You can add a little bit of milk to dry mashed potato to make it moister, if it's too dry to use in a given application. The other half is a little more difficult, but instant mashed potato can be used to sort of "soak up" some of the moisture to make it drier. | >
> For instance could I later add cheese or even an egg or some other bonding agent so it stays together in the pan long enough to seal and survive being manipulated a little with an egg-flip?
>
>
>
Yes, use an egg. It will dramatically affect how well things hold together.
Depending on the intended application,... |
10,511,293 | I've customized my navigationBar UIBarButtons using appearance in ios 5. However it is also editing the appearance of the DONE bar button on top of my keyboard (look at the image below to understand the button I'm talking about). How can I access that button's class, so I can customize that button separately?
![enter ... | 2012/05/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10511293",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1362704/"
] | You have to make sure you have the "user\_likes" scope. Then you use the graph api by doing a ('me/likes'), and put a condition on it (if name=='yourpage'). | You can get user likes with permissions in application or if your application is a canvas application you can get it with this way;
[Fans-only content in facebook with asp.net C# sdk](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6595259/fans-only-content-in-facebook-with-asp-net-c-sharp-sdk) |
600,613 | I am trying to connect a DIP switch (A6A-16R specifically) to some MCU IO pins. From looking at a reference schematic, they connected the Com line to GND. I was curious how that works? Shouldn't it be connected to VCC so that if the dip switch is 'ON,' the respective MCU input is high? If 'off' it'll be floating (When ... | 2021/12/16 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/600613",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/262004/"
] | You should never leave the input of an MCU floating. Then any noise will change it between high or low, you never know which.
But it is very common to have all types of switches connect to ground. Then you have a pull-up resistor connected to (or often om modern MCU's, built into the MCU pin and enabled via software) ... | You can connect it in any way you want. This is not specific yo DIP switches as this is a more genral problem, discussed many times already.
ON could either connect to ground or to VCC, but OFF state can't leave a pin floating.
So depending on what kind of internal resistors your MCU has, you can do it with internal ... |
33,886 | There're several companies out there that sell "extended" batteries for smartphones. For example, Nokia Lumia 820 standard battery has 1450 mAh capacity and the extended one has 1600 mAh capacity - 9% more.
Now a smartphone typically runs less than one day before the battery is drained. Let it be 20 hours on standard ... | 2013/01/31 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/33886",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
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] | Intuitively it seems reasonable to say that you only need the extra battery life if you frequently let your battery run out (implying you do not charge often enough, or long enough). So, how often do people recharge their phones? Is this a problem many people encounter? You might find the 2011 paper by Ferreira et al. ... | Personally at-least, I can say a firm yes, though not as much as having a second battery (but normally getting an extended battery means you still have the original as well.) It also has a negative impact though, because typically the extended battery alters the shape of the phone. This greatly limits what accessories ... |
33,886 | There're several companies out there that sell "extended" batteries for smartphones. For example, Nokia Lumia 820 standard battery has 1450 mAh capacity and the extended one has 1600 mAh capacity - 9% more.
Now a smartphone typically runs less than one day before the battery is drained. Let it be 20 hours on standard ... | 2013/01/31 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/33886",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/814/"
] | Intuitively it seems reasonable to say that you only need the extra battery life if you frequently let your battery run out (implying you do not charge often enough, or long enough). So, how often do people recharge their phones? Is this a problem many people encounter? You might find the 2011 paper by Ferreira et al. ... | Reasons to buy a new battery:
1. As a spare battery.
2. Existing battery no longer holds a full charge.
3. Existing battery has insufficient charge for user's usage/charging habits.
In the case of #3, the user probably won't be satisfied with a form-fitting, 10% extended battery and will instead be forced to ... |
33,886 | There're several companies out there that sell "extended" batteries for smartphones. For example, Nokia Lumia 820 standard battery has 1450 mAh capacity and the extended one has 1600 mAh capacity - 9% more.
Now a smartphone typically runs less than one day before the battery is drained. Let it be 20 hours on standard ... | 2013/01/31 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/33886",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/814/"
] | Intuitively it seems reasonable to say that you only need the extra battery life if you frequently let your battery run out (implying you do not charge often enough, or long enough). So, how often do people recharge their phones? Is this a problem many people encounter? You might find the 2011 paper by Ferreira et al. ... | It makes a difference for my teen-age daughter. I realize that's a single data point, but I bet she's not alone.
By having an extended battery on her iPhone, she tends to use it more every day. Prior to having the battery, she sometimes had to make choices about how much to use during the day based on what her needs ... |
463,393 | So I have Apple XServe 2, 1 (Earlier 2008 model)
I am trying to install ESXi 5.1 on it. I've read it that it's possible. I'be burnt the ESXi ISO to a dvd-r. I am now trying to boot from it but I have no luck on that. I've looked at: Startup Disk, and I dont see my cd listed there as bootable.
I've also tried the Pow... | 2013/01/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/463393",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/152205/"
] | The XServe 2,1 is **not** on the [ESXi 5.1 HCL](http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDcQFjAA&url=http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl&ei=sCHpUPyCCImR0QGm_oCAAg&usg=AFQjCNEXuH3H1BNILfm7AMoBNO0jQXhT-g&sig2=2-ywHuKKNPlm94SrOfXDfg&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.dmQ). The XServer 3,1 i... | I installed ESXi 6 on my early 2008 Xserve. From a CD, brunt from the iso downloaded from vmware.com
Worked like a charm and the Xserve is on the HCL for Vmware. So no problems there. UNLESS - you have the Raid card. If you have the Apple RAID card in your Xserve server, AFAIK (still) ESXi will not see more than one d... |
27,848,430 | I am working on a sign-up page. At the bottom of the page I want to add a label says : "Have an account?" and a button with title "Log In".
The result I'm trying to accomplish here is that this line "Have an account? Log In" will always be centered no matter what screen size of the device is. Unfortunately, I haven't ... | 2015/01/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27848430",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4394894/"
] | You could drag and drop a new view onto your view controller and place the button and label on that view. Then resize the new view to fit the content. Finally, horizontally center the view.
Now instead of having to horizontally center the two controls, you are only centering their container, thus preserving their layo... | If I understand the question correctly:
Select an object, click on the align button in the bottom right of your storyboard window
And add a constraint "Horizontal centre in container" |
22,410 | Suppose a defendant and his attorney were meeting before court and were completely alone at the time of the discussion and the attorney asked her client if he would pass a drug test if the judge desired one.
If the defendant answered, "No," and the attorney then gave that information to both the D.A. and the judge, an... | 2017/09/04 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/22410",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/13403/"
] | There are several questions in U.S. law. Most likely none of them would provide a criminal defendant with a helpful remedy.
**1. Was the attorney-client privilege actually breached?**
An attorney is authorized to disclose secrets in the furtherance of a representation, and it isn't clear if this did or did not furth... | You haven't tagged this with a jurisdiction, so I shall answer about the one I am familiar with (England and Wales):
England and Wales does not use the concept of "fruit of the poisoned tree". The fact that evidence was privileged would not invalidate it. As such, the only thing that a a person in such a position coul... |
1,131,246 | I recently bought a small USB device that acts as an "HID keyboard device" (standard USB keyboard)
It has only one key, which is bound to a lowercase 'b'.
I want it to be rebound to something else, and several options come to mind:
1. Software rebind. Easy and simple, but I don't want to configure each
machine I con... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1131246",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/481080/"
] | Why don't you build your own? Just take an old Keyboard you are not using, track the keys and rebuild with only the key you want to use! Somethink like this:
[One-Key-Keyboard](http://www.instructables.com/id/One-Key-Keyboard-Hack/?ALLSTEPS)
[USB-Keyboard](http://www.instructables.com/id/Hacking-a-USB-Keyboard/?ALLST... | A software rebinding is the most sensible solution here. Check out autohotkey. It has an entire scripting language, and can do some really interesting things with your arguably bizarre one-key keyboard (Even LONG key combinations - which I can imagine becoming VERY strange and fun): "<https://www.autohotkey.com/>" |
1,131,246 | I recently bought a small USB device that acts as an "HID keyboard device" (standard USB keyboard)
It has only one key, which is bound to a lowercase 'b'.
I want it to be rebound to something else, and several options come to mind:
1. Software rebind. Easy and simple, but I don't want to configure each
machine I con... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1131246",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/481080/"
] | Why don't you build your own? Just take an old Keyboard you are not using, track the keys and rebuild with only the key you want to use! Somethink like this:
[One-Key-Keyboard](http://www.instructables.com/id/One-Key-Keyboard-Hack/?ALLSTEPS)
[USB-Keyboard](http://www.instructables.com/id/Hacking-a-USB-Keyboard/?ALLST... | If there's a custom driver for Windows that allows reprogramming the device, install [usbsnoop](https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/) or similar software, capture the USB traffic while rebinding it to different keys, figure out the protocol and implement your own rebinding tool or just [repeat the traffic](http:/... |
8,019 | I am moving and will be switching one of my accounts to a local bank. I was wondering what is the best way to determine a banks financial stability? Does the Federal Reserve publish something? If so, can it be trusted since they are the morons that caused a lot of the recent bank mess? | 2011/04/27 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/8019",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/965/"
] | It generally doesn't matter since the Government guarantees accounts at most banks. Just make sure it is FDIC insured (or NCUA if it is a credit union) and you will be fine even if the bank goes insolvent.
In any event, I'd strongly suggest joining a credit union instead of a bank. The fees are much lower and I've fou... | This [site](http://www.depositaccounts.com/banks/health.aspx) lists the [texas ratio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_ratio) for banks. This ratio attempts to determine how much capital a bank has in order to cover loan losses. I always deposit my money into at least two (2) different banks. I make sure at least one... |
8,019 | I am moving and will be switching one of my accounts to a local bank. I was wondering what is the best way to determine a banks financial stability? Does the Federal Reserve publish something? If so, can it be trusted since they are the morons that caused a lot of the recent bank mess? | 2011/04/27 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/8019",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/965/"
] | It generally doesn't matter since the Government guarantees accounts at most banks. Just make sure it is FDIC insured (or NCUA if it is a credit union) and you will be fine even if the bank goes insolvent.
In any event, I'd strongly suggest joining a credit union instead of a bank. The fees are much lower and I've fou... | [BankRate.com](http://www.bankrate.com/rates/safe-sound/bank-ratings-search.aspx) has always been useful to me to compare banks. Here's a list to their system which is updated quarterly.
<http://www.bankrate.com/rates/safe-sound/bank-ratings-search.aspx> |
916,407 | I'm using JPA and I am using second-level cache for all the reference entities.
Everything's working well, I can get the entities from second-level cache is they were already been selected before.
Now, I have two applications, they both use the same database (so they both use the same table, values, etc).
1.The read-... | 2009/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/916407",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/113230/"
] | I have not used Hibernate, but at least if you use JPA it is possible to override even a single annotation with a deployment descriptor file. You should also be able to override also any vendor specific property with the deployment descriptor.
Unfortunately I cannot give you an example but hope this helps you. | So Therefore, I think the current solution is to replace all the annotations of each entities with Hibernate mapping files, so that for different deployment (application as well), we could use different Hibernate mapping files. |
183,672 | I've been sitting on getting a flame gradient achieved since I didn't know how to get it to be seamless between two objects. I used very basic mapping, but of course it looks rudimentary:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Se9RV.png)
And here's the screens o... | 2020/06/22 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/183672",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/99141/"
] | If you use the "Object" output from the "Texture Coordinates" node on both shaders, and then set the origin of both objects to the same location, the seam should disappear.
Example :
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DMnKE.png)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t7nUQ.png)
Head node setu... |
2,559,127 | I am storing a running total in a Decimal(10,2) field and adding to it as items are processed.
update foo set bar = bar + '3.15'
About 20% of the times a warning is issued "Data truncated for column 'bar' at row 4"
This warning is never issued if the update value is not quoted.
Should decimal values be quoted? | 2010/04/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2559127",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Of course not.
Integers and floats are not strings and should never be quoted. Only MySQL even allows quotes around them. | No, The decimal values are specified as is. If you quote them it will interpret as a varchar. |
2,559,127 | I am storing a running total in a Decimal(10,2) field and adding to it as items are processed.
update foo set bar = bar + '3.15'
About 20% of the times a warning is issued "Data truncated for column 'bar' at row 4"
This warning is never issued if the update value is not quoted.
Should decimal values be quoted? | 2010/04/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2559127",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Of course not.
Integers and floats are not strings and should never be quoted. Only MySQL even allows quotes around them. | No! Quotes are used for strings only, like text, char, varchar, etc |
2,559,127 | I am storing a running total in a Decimal(10,2) field and adding to it as items are processed.
update foo set bar = bar + '3.15'
About 20% of the times a warning is issued "Data truncated for column 'bar' at row 4"
This warning is never issued if the update value is not quoted.
Should decimal values be quoted? | 2010/04/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2559127",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | No, The decimal values are specified as is. If you quote them it will interpret as a varchar. | No! Quotes are used for strings only, like text, char, varchar, etc |
53 | Josh asked the following question on meta:
[What is the proper way to deal with questions that are off-topic?](https://cogsci.meta.stackexchange.com/q/50/21)
This is a general topic which is practically the same across the entire network. Is there a need to rephrase these questions on this meta site? | 2012/01/21 | [
"https://cogsci.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/53",
"https://cogsci.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://cogsci.meta.stackexchange.com/users/21/"
] | I did this for two specific reasons:
1. **I felt this particular question is an important one and is worth duplicating**
Ideally we will have users of this site who are not familiar with the Stack Exchange network, or how we do things here. While the content *is* available over at Meta Stack Overflow, that can be a...... | I feel there is no reason to duplicate general rules which we inherit from the network. Only when those rules would deviate from default rules it would be worth discussing them here.
Perhaps it might be nice to compose one post containing all the 'inherited' rules, with links linking to them on [MSO](https://meta.stac... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | Without knowing more specifics about your use case, it's not clear which one is "best." [Notifications](http://dgo.to/notifications) & [Subscriptions](http://dgo.to/subscriptions) modules differ in important respects, though the former is actually a fork of the latter. Subscriptions, being the older one, is both more s... | Another option may be using [message module](https://drupal.org/project/message) and [message notify](https://drupal.org/project/message_notify) (both with stable releases with more than 10K installation).
From the module description page:
>
> This module provides a method for sending a message via a notifier plugin... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | Without knowing more specifics about your use case, it's not clear which one is "best." [Notifications](http://dgo.to/notifications) & [Subscriptions](http://dgo.to/subscriptions) modules differ in important respects, though the former is actually a fork of the latter. Subscriptions, being the older one, is both more s... | i have used the subscriptions module and it works fine.
I have allowed authentified users to subscribe for certain content types of certains taxonomies.
The emails can be sent at a certain periodicity and the email templates can be modified using mail\_edit.
I used an option that send a digest email once a week comb... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | I nearly the same question [over here](http://groups.drupal.org/node/251038). There I got this helpful answer from the maintainer of the [Rules module](http://drupalmodules.com/module/rules).
>
> "My guess is you haven't tried Rules too much. All skepticism aside,
> Rules is the right choice. Those two modules have ... | Another option may be using [message module](https://drupal.org/project/message) and [message notify](https://drupal.org/project/message_notify) (both with stable releases with more than 10K installation).
From the module description page:
>
> This module provides a method for sending a message via a notifier plugin... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | I am using [the Flag module](https://drupal.org/project/flag) which has a pretty good Rules integration and it works great for simple "event > condition > action (send email)" notifications. | i have used the subscriptions module and it works fine.
I have allowed authentified users to subscribe for certain content types of certains taxonomies.
The emails can be sent at a certain periodicity and the email templates can be modified using mail\_edit.
I used an option that send a digest email once a week comb... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | I nearly the same question [over here](http://groups.drupal.org/node/251038). There I got this helpful answer from the maintainer of the [Rules module](http://drupalmodules.com/module/rules).
>
> "My guess is you haven't tried Rules too much. All skepticism aside,
> Rules is the right choice. Those two modules have ... | I am using [the Flag module](https://drupal.org/project/flag) which has a pretty good Rules integration and it works great for simple "event > condition > action (send email)" notifications. |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | Without knowing more specifics about your use case, it's not clear which one is "best." [Notifications](http://dgo.to/notifications) & [Subscriptions](http://dgo.to/subscriptions) modules differ in important respects, though the former is actually a fork of the latter. Subscriptions, being the older one, is both more s... | The [Total Subscription](https://www.drupal.org/project/total_subscription) module is another alternative for subscriptions. Some details about it (from its project page):
>
> Total Subscription provides functionality which would allow the user to subscribe to node pages, taxonomy terms, etc. The main feature which d... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | I am using [the Flag module](https://drupal.org/project/flag) which has a pretty good Rules integration and it works great for simple "event > condition > action (send email)" notifications. | The [Total Subscription](https://www.drupal.org/project/total_subscription) module is another alternative for subscriptions. Some details about it (from its project page):
>
> Total Subscription provides functionality which would allow the user to subscribe to node pages, taxonomy terms, etc. The main feature which d... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | Another option may be using [message module](https://drupal.org/project/message) and [message notify](https://drupal.org/project/message_notify) (both with stable releases with more than 10K installation).
From the module description page:
>
> This module provides a method for sending a message via a notifier plugin... | The [Total Subscription](https://www.drupal.org/project/total_subscription) module is another alternative for subscriptions. Some details about it (from its project page):
>
> Total Subscription provides functionality which would allow the user to subscribe to node pages, taxonomy terms, etc. The main feature which d... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | I nearly the same question [over here](http://groups.drupal.org/node/251038). There I got this helpful answer from the maintainer of the [Rules module](http://drupalmodules.com/module/rules).
>
> "My guess is you haven't tried Rules too much. All skepticism aside,
> Rules is the right choice. Those two modules have ... | The [Total Subscription](https://www.drupal.org/project/total_subscription) module is another alternative for subscriptions. Some details about it (from its project page):
>
> Total Subscription provides functionality which would allow the user to subscribe to node pages, taxonomy terms, etc. The main feature which d... |
11,809,402 | Which is the best module for notifications and subscriptions for D7 which is actively maintained and has a stable release ? .. Is there any which exist ?
What are the possible alternatives that one can use to implement the subscription and notifications via email to a group of subscribed users ? | 2012/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11809402",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1192651/"
] | How about the seemingly popular module [Subscriptions](http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions/)? It's been around since 2003 and is actively maintened with stable releases for Drupal 6 and 7. From their site:
>
> This module enables users to subscribe to be notified of changes to
> nodes or taxonomies, such as new ... | The [Total Subscription](https://www.drupal.org/project/total_subscription) module is another alternative for subscriptions. Some details about it (from its project page):
>
> Total Subscription provides functionality which would allow the user to subscribe to node pages, taxonomy terms, etc. The main feature which d... |
71,833,916 | I am making a Undertale-Based game on Scratch, and I am trying to make a health counter that shows how much health you have. I could always make the variable viewable but I want it to fit in with the game and not stick out like a sore thumb. I've seen other games like Candy Clicker do this but I don't know how they mak... | 2022/04/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/71833916",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/17609807/"
] | To do a sprite counter similar to Candy Clicker, you would need to use clones. You need to create a sprite with costumes for 0-9 numbers. Then you would need to have that sprite clone itself for however many digits you want to display, let's say 3, and then set its costume to the letter number of the variable that the ... | Just put the variable in a "Say Block" and put that in a "Forever Loop". |
1,808 | Why are there multiple ways for expressing the same sound?
In English, for example, you can say "axe" or "aks," or when "c" sounds like "s" like in "face."
This phenomenon exists in many different languages. Is it just the evolution of pronunciation of certain letters that once had different sounds? | 2012/04/17 | [
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/1808",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/users/467/"
] | This is a very common phenomenon, where a sound in a language can be spelled in multiple ways, or a certain spelling can have multiple pronunciations.
To give a quick answer to your question: **Written and spoken forms of a language can change independently.**
Let's start by looking at the two cases you mention: |x| ... | There is rarely a one-to-one mapping from sequences of sound to sequences of letters. The extent to which the same sound will be represented using different spellings will depend on issues such as historical usage (e.g., dialect changes over time), how the word was derived (e.g., whether it was borrowed from another la... |
1,808 | Why are there multiple ways for expressing the same sound?
In English, for example, you can say "axe" or "aks," or when "c" sounds like "s" like in "face."
This phenomenon exists in many different languages. Is it just the evolution of pronunciation of certain letters that once had different sounds? | 2012/04/17 | [
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/1808",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/users/467/"
] | This is a very common phenomenon, where a sound in a language can be spelled in multiple ways, or a certain spelling can have multiple pronunciations.
To give a quick answer to your question: **Written and spoken forms of a language can change independently.**
Let's start by looking at the two cases you mention: |x| ... | Words borrowed from other languages are a big source of rare spellings for existing sounds. If the original spelling and pronunciation are both kept, a new way of spelling might have been introduced. Prior to writing, only the pronunciation could be borrowed so the problem could not occur.
In some languages it is cus... |
45,527,457 | Fetch next from Cursor - > returns the next row from cursor . In Redshift how can I add it to variable or is there any way I can insert fetched cursor data to another table..
and also Is it possible to use for loop in Redshift?? | 2017/08/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/45527457",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7159514/"
] | Amazon Redshift supports industry-standard SQL based initially on PostgreSQL 8.0.2. There is no *for loop* in SQL.
In additional, Amazon Redshift supports the creation of [User Defined Functions](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/user-defined-functions.html). These are written in Python, which does support... | fyi.. as of v1.0.7562, Redshift is rolling out support for stored procs, with cursors, etc.
<https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_CREATE_PROCEDURE.html>
<https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/declare.html>
<https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_PLpgSQL-statements.html> |
67,576 | I am currently designing a complex app for a large energy corporation and I need to provide diagrams explaining the dimensions of my UI elements, layout constraints, typefaces, colours etc to my developer.
I was wondering if there is a resourceful way of doing this which will save time for both parties?
I want my d... | 2014/11/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/67576",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/57286/"
] | Before you settle on a "Home" call to action review your task flows. If you are more than 2 levels deep and can't "cancel" or "back" out to the home screen you may have too deep a hierarchy. Try and do what you can to flatten so that you can utilize "back" or "cancel". "Home" is a non-standard action in mobile. This is... | What is the intended task for this workflow? What would be the task for the last page? For example: if the last page is a utility for e.g. configuring, you can provide a button/banner in the content which says "Gets started", "Continue" whatever,... which brings the user back to the entry point of the standard workflow... |
67,576 | I am currently designing a complex app for a large energy corporation and I need to provide diagrams explaining the dimensions of my UI elements, layout constraints, typefaces, colours etc to my developer.
I was wondering if there is a resourceful way of doing this which will save time for both parties?
I want my d... | 2014/11/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/67576",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/57286/"
] | Before you settle on a "Home" call to action review your task flows. If you are more than 2 levels deep and can't "cancel" or "back" out to the home screen you may have too deep a hierarchy. Try and do what you can to flatten so that you can utilize "back" or "cancel". "Home" is a non-standard action in mobile. This is... | The iOS navigation controller is intended for content that is hierarchical by nature, not for free browsing with a back button.
In the example below, I marked all non-hierarchic jumps with a #
List of all movies > movie details > list of actors in that movie # actor details > list of movies he played in # movie deta... |
67,576 | I am currently designing a complex app for a large energy corporation and I need to provide diagrams explaining the dimensions of my UI elements, layout constraints, typefaces, colours etc to my developer.
I was wondering if there is a resourceful way of doing this which will save time for both parties?
I want my d... | 2014/11/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/67576",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/57286/"
] | Before you settle on a "Home" call to action review your task flows. If you are more than 2 levels deep and can't "cancel" or "back" out to the home screen you may have too deep a hierarchy. Try and do what you can to flatten so that you can utilize "back" or "cancel". "Home" is a non-standard action in mobile. This is... | You have three options here (listed in order of growing complexity & amount of functionality):
1. Top navigation in the header/breadcrumbs works fine for monofunctional app with two-level navigation.
2. Bottom menu for cases with 3-5 main functions... |
67,576 | I am currently designing a complex app for a large energy corporation and I need to provide diagrams explaining the dimensions of my UI elements, layout constraints, typefaces, colours etc to my developer.
I was wondering if there is a resourceful way of doing this which will save time for both parties?
I want my d... | 2014/11/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/67576",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/57286/"
] | Before you settle on a "Home" call to action review your task flows. If you are more than 2 levels deep and can't "cancel" or "back" out to the home screen you may have too deep a hierarchy. Try and do what you can to flatten so that you can utilize "back" or "cancel". "Home" is a non-standard action in mobile. This is... | Side bar with a home option.
Reason: when user goes through hierarchical menus he knows what he's doing and he would need to go back in most cases.
So having home button anywhere on screen all the time is bad idea as it occupies some unnecessary space.
Only when he finds himself wrong he needs a home which he can ... |
6,166 | I'm in my 40s now. And a bit overweight. And with arthritis here and there.
I trained in karate and then kung fu years ago. Then recently, about 18 months ago, returned to martial arts after years and years of no training.
Here's the thing. In class, I perform on the same level as people half my age. But between clas... | 2016/03/13 | [
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/6166",
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com",
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/6847/"
] | When training, the body experiences damage. In the resting phase between training, the body heals and overcompensates for the damage done. Around the second day after a training session, you experience the most benefit from that single session. By the third day, your body begins detraining.
If you overtrain, your body... | Training martial arts is a good activity for health, but there is no guarantee that it will fix your weight or arthritis. For that you need either luck, youth, or a diet and exercise plan specifically made for your purposes. |
28,171 | If I open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 and run a unit test then VS creates a new .vsmdi file in the Solution Items folder and gives it the next number available e.g. My Solution2.vsmdi.
Any idea why VS is doing this and how I can get it to stop doing this? | 2008/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28171",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1463/"
] | It appears that the [VSMDI problem is a known bug and has been around since VS2005 Team System](http://web.archive.org/web/20080302162715/http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/06/23/Beware_the_Team_Test_VSMDI_file.aspx) but it has no clear fix as yet. Another reason to NOT use MS Test.
An MSDN blog ... | An [old post but](http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/06/23/Beware_the_Team_Test_VSMDI_file.aspx) vsmdi is a meta data file created by the test system. |
28,171 | If I open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 and run a unit test then VS creates a new .vsmdi file in the Solution Items folder and gives it the next number available e.g. My Solution2.vsmdi.
Any idea why VS is doing this and how I can get it to stop doing this? | 2008/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28171",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1463/"
] | I work around this by always checking out the .vsmdi.
It seems that this only happens when the .vsmdi file is read-only, e.g. not checked-out in a version control system that uses that kind of lock-local-files behavior (Perforce etc). | An [old post but](http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/06/23/Beware_the_Team_Test_VSMDI_file.aspx) vsmdi is a meta data file created by the test system. |
28,171 | If I open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 and run a unit test then VS creates a new .vsmdi file in the Solution Items folder and gives it the next number available e.g. My Solution2.vsmdi.
Any idea why VS is doing this and how I can get it to stop doing this? | 2008/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28171",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1463/"
] | Assuming that the VSMDI file is under source control, here's a Microsoft Support article about this issue: [Multiple vsmdi Files after Running Team Test with VSMDI file under Source Control](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957358)
Which says:
*Someone ran a test while someone else was modifying the vsmdi file.
Team ... | An [old post but](http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/06/23/Beware_the_Team_Test_VSMDI_file.aspx) vsmdi is a meta data file created by the test system. |
28,171 | If I open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 and run a unit test then VS creates a new .vsmdi file in the Solution Items folder and gives it the next number available e.g. My Solution2.vsmdi.
Any idea why VS is doing this and how I can get it to stop doing this? | 2008/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28171",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1463/"
] | It appears that the [VSMDI problem is a known bug and has been around since VS2005 Team System](http://web.archive.org/web/20080302162715/http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/06/23/Beware_the_Team_Test_VSMDI_file.aspx) but it has no clear fix as yet. Another reason to NOT use MS Test.
An MSDN blog ... | I work around this by always checking out the .vsmdi.
It seems that this only happens when the .vsmdi file is read-only, e.g. not checked-out in a version control system that uses that kind of lock-local-files behavior (Perforce etc). |
28,171 | If I open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 and run a unit test then VS creates a new .vsmdi file in the Solution Items folder and gives it the next number available e.g. My Solution2.vsmdi.
Any idea why VS is doing this and how I can get it to stop doing this? | 2008/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28171",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1463/"
] | It appears that the [VSMDI problem is a known bug and has been around since VS2005 Team System](http://web.archive.org/web/20080302162715/http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/06/23/Beware_the_Team_Test_VSMDI_file.aspx) but it has no clear fix as yet. Another reason to NOT use MS Test.
An MSDN blog ... | Assuming that the VSMDI file is under source control, here's a Microsoft Support article about this issue: [Multiple vsmdi Files after Running Team Test with VSMDI file under Source Control](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957358)
Which says:
*Someone ran a test while someone else was modifying the vsmdi file.
Team ... |
28,171 | If I open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 and run a unit test then VS creates a new .vsmdi file in the Solution Items folder and gives it the next number available e.g. My Solution2.vsmdi.
Any idea why VS is doing this and how I can get it to stop doing this? | 2008/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28171",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1463/"
] | Assuming that the VSMDI file is under source control, here's a Microsoft Support article about this issue: [Multiple vsmdi Files after Running Team Test with VSMDI file under Source Control](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957358)
Which says:
*Someone ran a test while someone else was modifying the vsmdi file.
Team ... | I work around this by always checking out the .vsmdi.
It seems that this only happens when the .vsmdi file is read-only, e.g. not checked-out in a version control system that uses that kind of lock-local-files behavior (Perforce etc). |
12,990,292 | I have created a simple browser in c# for a couple family members. I want to set it as the default browser either from an installer or from the program. I want to do the same thing as Chrome or Firefox does when it asks you if you want to set it as default. I can set up command line processing, all I need to know is ho... | 2012/10/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12990292",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1396481/"
] | Perhaps <http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/configuration/how-can-i-configure-the-default-internet-browser-> has the information you want. So you can check these entries at startup and they are not what you want you can set them!
Having created your own browser I assume you are able to use the Microsoft.Win32.Registr... | Yes, you can change it using registry entries as @Mattias told you. But it is a really bad idea , if you do that you are hurting user experience.
In a corporate environment, domain policies already have support to make this things.
You also can establish local (nor domain) policies using GPedit.msc. Change registry e... |
64,291 | I stumbled across this article <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/12/21/science-faction-is-theoretical-physics-becoming-softer-than-anthropology/>
It got me thinking. Why do we really care to make predictions, if we can't falsify them?
I'm certainly not talking about all of theoretical physics, I'... | 2013/05/12 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64291",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/23094/"
] | The idea that every prediction should be falsifiable is good as a first approximation. But the science is complex, and in it everything is linked to everything, almost literally. So actually we never know if some unfalsifiable prediction would be of any use. It can become falsifiable later. It can lead to some ideas wh... | Your question is essentially asking for opinions and will therefore likely be closed, but I think what you're missing is the fact that in any discipline where theoretical questions are inextricably linked with experimental questions it's impossible to judge in advance which theoretical questions are going to have pract... |
64,291 | I stumbled across this article <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/12/21/science-faction-is-theoretical-physics-becoming-softer-than-anthropology/>
It got me thinking. Why do we really care to make predictions, if we can't falsify them?
I'm certainly not talking about all of theoretical physics, I'... | 2013/05/12 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64291",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/23094/"
] | Physicists are tasked to construct models of reality that are internally consistent and that have predictive power. Working on black holes and Hawking radiation fits this bill.
The growing theoretical framework on black hole thermodynamics is absolutely essential to eliminate any internal inconsistencies that seemed ... | Your question is essentially asking for opinions and will therefore likely be closed, but I think what you're missing is the fact that in any discipline where theoretical questions are inextricably linked with experimental questions it's impossible to judge in advance which theoretical questions are going to have pract... |
64,291 | I stumbled across this article <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/12/21/science-faction-is-theoretical-physics-becoming-softer-than-anthropology/>
It got me thinking. Why do we really care to make predictions, if we can't falsify them?
I'm certainly not talking about all of theoretical physics, I'... | 2013/05/12 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64291",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/23094/"
] | I will have a go at an answer.
Many good theoretical physicists attempt to create the Theory Of Everything (TOE): a mathematical theory that will model anything we observe in physical reality.
Very many of them are concentrating their effort on some model using [string theory](http://superstringtheory.com/basics/inde... | Your question is essentially asking for opinions and will therefore likely be closed, but I think what you're missing is the fact that in any discipline where theoretical questions are inextricably linked with experimental questions it's impossible to judge in advance which theoretical questions are going to have pract... |
64,291 | I stumbled across this article <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/12/21/science-faction-is-theoretical-physics-becoming-softer-than-anthropology/>
It got me thinking. Why do we really care to make predictions, if we can't falsify them?
I'm certainly not talking about all of theoretical physics, I'... | 2013/05/12 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64291",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/23094/"
] | First of all, one has to distinguish between indirect and direct predictions theories. For example concerning theories describing physics at very high energy regimes, such as energy scales where quantum gravity effects are expected to kick in, it is clear to everybody that these high energy scales are with the current ... | Your question is essentially asking for opinions and will therefore likely be closed, but I think what you're missing is the fact that in any discipline where theoretical questions are inextricably linked with experimental questions it's impossible to judge in advance which theoretical questions are going to have pract... |
64,291 | I stumbled across this article <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/12/21/science-faction-is-theoretical-physics-becoming-softer-than-anthropology/>
It got me thinking. Why do we really care to make predictions, if we can't falsify them?
I'm certainly not talking about all of theoretical physics, I'... | 2013/05/12 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64291",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/23094/"
] | Physicists are tasked to construct models of reality that are internally consistent and that have predictive power. Working on black holes and Hawking radiation fits this bill.
The growing theoretical framework on black hole thermodynamics is absolutely essential to eliminate any internal inconsistencies that seemed ... | The idea that every prediction should be falsifiable is good as a first approximation. But the science is complex, and in it everything is linked to everything, almost literally. So actually we never know if some unfalsifiable prediction would be of any use. It can become falsifiable later. It can lead to some ideas wh... |
64,291 | I stumbled across this article <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/12/21/science-faction-is-theoretical-physics-becoming-softer-than-anthropology/>
It got me thinking. Why do we really care to make predictions, if we can't falsify them?
I'm certainly not talking about all of theoretical physics, I'... | 2013/05/12 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64291",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/23094/"
] | Physicists are tasked to construct models of reality that are internally consistent and that have predictive power. Working on black holes and Hawking radiation fits this bill.
The growing theoretical framework on black hole thermodynamics is absolutely essential to eliminate any internal inconsistencies that seemed ... | I will have a go at an answer.
Many good theoretical physicists attempt to create the Theory Of Everything (TOE): a mathematical theory that will model anything we observe in physical reality.
Very many of them are concentrating their effort on some model using [string theory](http://superstringtheory.com/basics/inde... |
64,291 | I stumbled across this article <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/12/21/science-faction-is-theoretical-physics-becoming-softer-than-anthropology/>
It got me thinking. Why do we really care to make predictions, if we can't falsify them?
I'm certainly not talking about all of theoretical physics, I'... | 2013/05/12 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64291",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/23094/"
] | Physicists are tasked to construct models of reality that are internally consistent and that have predictive power. Working on black holes and Hawking radiation fits this bill.
The growing theoretical framework on black hole thermodynamics is absolutely essential to eliminate any internal inconsistencies that seemed ... | First of all, one has to distinguish between indirect and direct predictions theories. For example concerning theories describing physics at very high energy regimes, such as energy scales where quantum gravity effects are expected to kick in, it is clear to everybody that these high energy scales are with the current ... |
156,221 | One of the races in my sci-fi universe is the Ceratons a race of bipedal (more hunched build) that look similar to triceratops. Their race is well known as skilled geneticists having a hand in disease prevention and creation as well as gene splicing. A segment of Ceraton society is dedicated to the creation of life.
T... | 2019/09/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/156221",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/51720/"
] | **Lack of Change**
Ultimately, if your Ceratons have a post-scarcity society, have already altered their environment accordingly, altered themselves via their existing genetic technology so that their environment, their resources and their genetic disposition are all in perfect balance, then there's no need for a soci... | If they are skilled geneticists could they not simply halt any regression and evolution through altering the gene pool?
Seems like if I could choose the lazy path I would. |
156,221 | One of the races in my sci-fi universe is the Ceratons a race of bipedal (more hunched build) that look similar to triceratops. Their race is well known as skilled geneticists having a hand in disease prevention and creation as well as gene splicing. A segment of Ceraton society is dedicated to the creation of life.
T... | 2019/09/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/156221",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/51720/"
] | **Lack of Change**
Ultimately, if your Ceratons have a post-scarcity society, have already altered their environment accordingly, altered themselves via their existing genetic technology so that their environment, their resources and their genetic disposition are all in perfect balance, then there's no need for a soci... | >
> how could a society be able to function continuously for hundreds of millions of years?
>
>
>
Since there are no examples of how this could have happened in human lifetimes, so this would is free to imagination.
Some possible examples:
* **Ceratons are anti-social, coming together rarely/ only for purposes o... |
156,221 | One of the races in my sci-fi universe is the Ceratons a race of bipedal (more hunched build) that look similar to triceratops. Their race is well known as skilled geneticists having a hand in disease prevention and creation as well as gene splicing. A segment of Ceraton society is dedicated to the creation of life.
T... | 2019/09/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/156221",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/51720/"
] | **Lack of Change**
Ultimately, if your Ceratons have a post-scarcity society, have already altered their environment accordingly, altered themselves via their existing genetic technology so that their environment, their resources and their genetic disposition are all in perfect balance, then there's no need for a soci... | Look at human society and scale up.
You're thinking about millions of years from a human perspective, and from a human perspective it's a really long time. From a Ceraton perspective it's a drop in the ocean. Societies don't change much within a lifetime outside traumatic events, they change generation by generation. ... |
156,221 | One of the races in my sci-fi universe is the Ceratons a race of bipedal (more hunched build) that look similar to triceratops. Their race is well known as skilled geneticists having a hand in disease prevention and creation as well as gene splicing. A segment of Ceraton society is dedicated to the creation of life.
T... | 2019/09/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/156221",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/51720/"
] | Look at human society and scale up.
You're thinking about millions of years from a human perspective, and from a human perspective it's a really long time. From a Ceraton perspective it's a drop in the ocean. Societies don't change much within a lifetime outside traumatic events, they change generation by generation. ... | If they are skilled geneticists could they not simply halt any regression and evolution through altering the gene pool?
Seems like if I could choose the lazy path I would. |
156,221 | One of the races in my sci-fi universe is the Ceratons a race of bipedal (more hunched build) that look similar to triceratops. Their race is well known as skilled geneticists having a hand in disease prevention and creation as well as gene splicing. A segment of Ceraton society is dedicated to the creation of life.
T... | 2019/09/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/156221",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/51720/"
] | Look at human society and scale up.
You're thinking about millions of years from a human perspective, and from a human perspective it's a really long time. From a Ceraton perspective it's a drop in the ocean. Societies don't change much within a lifetime outside traumatic events, they change generation by generation. ... | >
> how could a society be able to function continuously for hundreds of millions of years?
>
>
>
Since there are no examples of how this could have happened in human lifetimes, so this would is free to imagination.
Some possible examples:
* **Ceratons are anti-social, coming together rarely/ only for purposes o... |
2,405,529 | [I read that SHA-1 is being retired from the FIPS 180-2 standard.](http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/03/rsa-sha-competition.aspxhttp://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/03/rsa-sha-competition.aspx)
Apparently there are weaknesses in SHA-1 that led to this decision. Can anyone elaborate on the basis for that decision? Are there i... | 2010/03/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2405529",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/48082/"
] | Sha1, Sha0, md4 and md5 have all been found to be insecure over the past few years. The problem is that if an attacker can generate 2 different messages that produce the same resulting hash, this is called a collision. This causes a lot of problems for PKI's, password management, file integrity checks and more. Current... | Windows Vista and later supports SHA-2 in the Microsoft Enhanced RSA and AES Cryptographic Provider for CryptoAPI, and the .NET Framework has supported SHA-2 since .NET 1.1. |
2,405,529 | [I read that SHA-1 is being retired from the FIPS 180-2 standard.](http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/03/rsa-sha-competition.aspxhttp://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/03/rsa-sha-competition.aspx)
Apparently there are weaknesses in SHA-1 that led to this decision. Can anyone elaborate on the basis for that decision? Are there i... | 2010/03/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2405529",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/48082/"
] | Sha1, Sha0, md4 and md5 have all been found to be insecure over the past few years. The problem is that if an attacker can generate 2 different messages that produce the same resulting hash, this is called a collision. This causes a lot of problems for PKI's, password management, file integrity checks and more. Current... | Most platforms now support the SHA-2 family. However, SHA-1 is still used in many applications, like SSL, and will be in use for a while.
A competition for "SHA-3" is well underway. It might be reasonable to jump from SHA-1 to the new SHA-3 standard when it arrives. |
2,405,529 | [I read that SHA-1 is being retired from the FIPS 180-2 standard.](http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/03/rsa-sha-competition.aspxhttp://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/03/rsa-sha-competition.aspx)
Apparently there are weaknesses in SHA-1 that led to this decision. Can anyone elaborate on the basis for that decision? Are there i... | 2010/03/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2405529",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/48082/"
] | Windows Vista and later supports SHA-2 in the Microsoft Enhanced RSA and AES Cryptographic Provider for CryptoAPI, and the .NET Framework has supported SHA-2 since .NET 1.1. | Most platforms now support the SHA-2 family. However, SHA-1 is still used in many applications, like SSL, and will be in use for a while.
A competition for "SHA-3" is well underway. It might be reasonable to jump from SHA-1 to the new SHA-3 standard when it arrives. |
77,838 | Tail hooks help drastically reduce an aircraft's speed during landing, and would therefore reduce the necessity of having long runways.
So why doesn't tail hook technology be implemented into commercial aircraft? | 2020/05/04 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/77838",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/29654/"
] | Because passengers ***really*** don't like enduring that kind of deceleration on landing. Scares them. Injures them. And if Junior is playing with his seatbelt latch at the wrong moment, there's a real risk of a fatal injury.
And because you still need the runways for any aircraft not equipped with this equipment, and... | I don't know if you've seen videos of aircraft carrier landings, but:
1) They have to slam the aircraft into the ground to guarantee the hook will connect. The G forces from this and the subsequent rapid deceleration are too high for your grandma to cope with, so passenger numbers will fall, seatbelts need to be redes... |
77,838 | Tail hooks help drastically reduce an aircraft's speed during landing, and would therefore reduce the necessity of having long runways.
So why doesn't tail hook technology be implemented into commercial aircraft? | 2020/05/04 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/77838",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/29654/"
] | Because passengers ***really*** don't like enduring that kind of deceleration on landing. Scares them. Injures them. And if Junior is playing with his seatbelt latch at the wrong moment, there's a real risk of a fatal injury.
And because you still need the runways for any aircraft not equipped with this equipment, and... | In addition, to withstand carrier landings, planes with tail hooks have to be very stoutly constructed. This reduces their useful payload, something that commercial carriers want to avoid. |
77,838 | Tail hooks help drastically reduce an aircraft's speed during landing, and would therefore reduce the necessity of having long runways.
So why doesn't tail hook technology be implemented into commercial aircraft? | 2020/05/04 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/77838",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/29654/"
] | Because passengers ***really*** don't like enduring that kind of deceleration on landing. Scares them. Injures them. And if Junior is playing with his seatbelt latch at the wrong moment, there's a real risk of a fatal injury.
And because you still need the runways for any aircraft not equipped with this equipment, and... | Weight and cost.
A tailhook landing puts a great deal of stress on an airframe, airplane structures would have to be reinforced along the frame to distribute the force across it and hold together. Airplane passenger seats would need 4 or 5 point safety harnesses to keep the passengers from getting injured on landing.... |
77,838 | Tail hooks help drastically reduce an aircraft's speed during landing, and would therefore reduce the necessity of having long runways.
So why doesn't tail hook technology be implemented into commercial aircraft? | 2020/05/04 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/77838",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/29654/"
] | Weight and cost.
A tailhook landing puts a great deal of stress on an airframe, airplane structures would have to be reinforced along the frame to distribute the force across it and hold together. Airplane passenger seats would need 4 or 5 point safety harnesses to keep the passengers from getting injured on landing.... | I don't know if you've seen videos of aircraft carrier landings, but:
1) They have to slam the aircraft into the ground to guarantee the hook will connect. The G forces from this and the subsequent rapid deceleration are too high for your grandma to cope with, so passenger numbers will fall, seatbelts need to be redes... |
77,838 | Tail hooks help drastically reduce an aircraft's speed during landing, and would therefore reduce the necessity of having long runways.
So why doesn't tail hook technology be implemented into commercial aircraft? | 2020/05/04 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/77838",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/29654/"
] | Weight and cost.
A tailhook landing puts a great deal of stress on an airframe, airplane structures would have to be reinforced along the frame to distribute the force across it and hold together. Airplane passenger seats would need 4 or 5 point safety harnesses to keep the passengers from getting injured on landing.... | In addition, to withstand carrier landings, planes with tail hooks have to be very stoutly constructed. This reduces their useful payload, something that commercial carriers want to avoid. |
92 | This seems to come up from time to time, and I'm on the fence as to whether it's an acceptable question. Here's the most recent example...
* [Is Craft a good fit for a project w/ social network features?](https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/q/4149/45)
So maybe we can sort it out once and for all... **Is Craft SE a rea... | 2014/10/16 | [
"https://craftcms.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92",
"https://craftcms.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://craftcms.meta.stackexchange.com/users/45/"
] | I know this kind of input from fellow developers is exceptionally helpful when starting a project. But, I do not think these kinds of questions are a good fit for the StackExchange site for a these two reasons...
1. The answers that get posted tend to be opinion based and are not ones where there is a clear CORRECT a... | In my opinion there's no better place asking these questions than here in Craft SE. It's not just about code!
All I'd do is to give them all the same tag. So that new users can better find and read through them. Maybe this helps a little to avoid duplicates. |
530,775 | I realize this is a very vague question, so I'm not looking for specifics, just suggestions...
I wrote a JavaFX application in NetBeans, which automagically builds it into a jar, jnlp, and html page. After uploading these files onto my webserver, I can navigate to the page and everything works, *on the computer I deve... | 2009/02/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/530775",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19147/"
] | Turns out it was because I was using the NetBeans generated JNLPs. Take a look at [this article](http://www.dieajax.com/2008/12/19/10-minute-javafx-tutorial-deploy-javafx-applets-and-applications-both-online-and-offline/). It describes exactly the problem I was having and how to fix it, towards the bottom. In a nutshel... | It worked fine for me. One thing I noticed is that there was a security check dialog box (trust content from Sun?) and a Sun advert saying how great JavaFX was :-).
Make sure these aren't starting up **behind** your browser window - it won't continue to run until you trust the content, and I've seen that behavior befo... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | [PowerShell 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell#PowerShell_2.0), without any doubts. I reckon it fulfils all your requirements, and its Integrated Scripting Environment does syntax highlighting and has nice debugging support, including breakpoints and step-by-step execution. | I don't like the ISE, but I'm spoiled with the Visual Studio IDE for other development. Some people like the free PowerGUI replacement: <http://www.powergui.org>. It appears to have Intellisense-like functionality.
The only objection I can think of for PowerShell is it requires the framework, and requires the 3.5 fram... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | unless you're looking for wmi and dotnet specifics, I have found python to be an excellent scripting tool for all platforms. it does cover almost all of your requirements
otherwise, I suppose powershell is the way to go, although it does require the dotnet framework to be installed. | We have been using VBScript for years, and only recently started to look into PowerShell(V2). VBScript has its shortcomings, but it has served us well, so I don't see a reason to abandon our past investments in it. On the other hand, PowerShell is ment to be the Windows scripting language standard and the support will ... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | [PowerShell 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell#PowerShell_2.0), without any doubts. I reckon it fulfils all your requirements, and its Integrated Scripting Environment does syntax highlighting and has nice debugging support, including breakpoints and step-by-step execution. | We have been using VBScript for years, and only recently started to look into PowerShell(V2). VBScript has its shortcomings, but it has served us well, so I don't see a reason to abandon our past investments in it. On the other hand, PowerShell is ment to be the Windows scripting language standard and the support will ... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | I don't like the ISE, but I'm spoiled with the Visual Studio IDE for other development. Some people like the free PowerGUI replacement: <http://www.powergui.org>. It appears to have Intellisense-like functionality.
The only objection I can think of for PowerShell is it requires the framework, and requires the 3.5 fram... | We have been using VBScript for years, and only recently started to look into PowerShell(V2). VBScript has its shortcomings, but it has served us well, so I don't see a reason to abandon our past investments in it. On the other hand, PowerShell is ment to be the Windows scripting language standard and the support will ... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | [PowerShell 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell#PowerShell_2.0), without any doubts. I reckon it fulfils all your requirements, and its Integrated Scripting Environment does syntax highlighting and has nice debugging support, including breakpoints and step-by-step execution. | As a large factor in the answer, I would ask which scripting language is **easiest to deploy** into your environment. Consider the following scripting languages and an all-Windows infrastructure:
* **CMD** (batchfiles): Already deployed to all systems, because builtin to Windows since forever.
* **vbscript**: Already ... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | unless you're looking for wmi and dotnet specifics, I have found python to be an excellent scripting tool for all platforms. it does cover almost all of your requirements
otherwise, I suppose powershell is the way to go, although it does require the dotnet framework to be installed. | As a large factor in the answer, I would ask which scripting language is **easiest to deploy** into your environment. Consider the following scripting languages and an all-Windows infrastructure:
* **CMD** (batchfiles): Already deployed to all systems, because builtin to Windows since forever.
* **vbscript**: Already ... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | unless you're looking for wmi and dotnet specifics, I have found python to be an excellent scripting tool for all platforms. it does cover almost all of your requirements
otherwise, I suppose powershell is the way to go, although it does require the dotnet framework to be installed. | I'd use Visual C# 2005 or 2008 Express. It meets all of your requirements, the Express versions of Visual Studio are free (as in beer), the .NET Framework (especially if you select 2005) is likely already on your servers, and it lets you tap into some of your existing development skills for some really fancy stuff.
Of... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | As a large factor in the answer, I would ask which scripting language is **easiest to deploy** into your environment. Consider the following scripting languages and an all-Windows infrastructure:
* **CMD** (batchfiles): Already deployed to all systems, because builtin to Windows since forever.
* **vbscript**: Already ... | I'd use Visual C# 2005 or 2008 Express. It meets all of your requirements, the Express versions of Visual Studio are free (as in beer), the .NET Framework (especially if you select 2005) is likely already on your servers, and it lets you tap into some of your existing development skills for some really fancy stuff.
Of... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | [PowerShell 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell#PowerShell_2.0), without any doubts. I reckon it fulfils all your requirements, and its Integrated Scripting Environment does syntax highlighting and has nice debugging support, including breakpoints and step-by-step execution. | I'd use Visual C# 2005 or 2008 Express. It meets all of your requirements, the Express versions of Visual Studio are free (as in beer), the .NET Framework (especially if you select 2005) is likely already on your servers, and it lets you tap into some of your existing development skills for some really fancy stuff.
Of... |
90,289 | I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there.
Anyway on to the question...
**The Situation**
We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a handful of PowerShell scripts performing various tasks within the... | 2009/12/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/90289",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3105/"
] | [PowerShell 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell#PowerShell_2.0), without any doubts. I reckon it fulfils all your requirements, and its Integrated Scripting Environment does syntax highlighting and has nice debugging support, including breakpoints and step-by-step execution. | unless you're looking for wmi and dotnet specifics, I have found python to be an excellent scripting tool for all platforms. it does cover almost all of your requirements
otherwise, I suppose powershell is the way to go, although it does require the dotnet framework to be installed. |
561,323 | I am constructing a sentence which uses the word "Recent" twice.
The sentence is "the land use changes in recent years are greatly affecting the recent climate."
I would like to avoid one "recent" in the above sentence. | 2021/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/561323",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/131313/"
] | It's not quite a synonym as the meaning of the word is not quite the same, but you could use the word "current", to refer to what's happening to the recent climate is quite likely still happening. Or if you want a more recent-like sounding replacement, go into the specifics about what the part of "recent years" entail.... | >
> I would like to avoid one "recent" in
>
>
> "the land use changes in recent years are greatly affecting the recent climate."
>
>
>
An effect always follows after a cause—so my advice would be to change the verb tense.
You are defining a cause ("land use changes") as being "recent," so change the verb tense ... |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | It might be a shortage. Look behind EVERY connector on your mainboard. Those USB to front cables and Audio cables. There might be a tiny little pin that is bend so it touches another pin, causing a shortage.
Also, check at that area, but behind the mainbord to look for damages. | Assuming I had one at hand I would try swapping the power supply. Lacking that I would remove as much load from the power supply as possible.
Every time I've had a machine that suddenly turned itself off very quickly after turning on it was a dying power supply. Note that these supplies always have shown good on a pow... |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | This could be a variety of problems, as I had a very similar issue a couple of months ago. Any component in your machine could be the cause. Mine was caused by both a damaged PSU and motherboard, they had to be replaced (fortunately only for postage fees using warranty).
Sorry to say this will be a fairly lengthy test... | It could be something as simple as a stuck reset switch or something shorting in the front panel. Try unplugging all jumpers from the motherboard except the power switch. |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | It might be a shortage. Look behind EVERY connector on your mainboard. Those USB to front cables and Audio cables. There might be a tiny little pin that is bend so it touches another pin, causing a shortage.
Also, check at that area, but behind the mainbord to look for damages. | I had a computer with the same problem, I found a bunch of hair and dust stuck between the heat sink and the fan, basically blocking most of the air flow from the heat sink, I cleaned it out, reassembled and so far so good. Good luck. |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | I had the same problem. My cpu is older. I changed the battery on the motherboard and it resolved this issue. Bought the battery at an office store for 3 bucks. Fairly common. Probably could get from Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. | It could be something as simple as a stuck reset switch or something shorting in the front panel. Try unplugging all jumpers from the motherboard except the power switch. |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | I had the same problem. My cpu is older. I changed the battery on the motherboard and it resolved this issue. Bought the battery at an office store for 3 bucks. Fairly common. Probably could get from Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. | I had a computer with the same problem, I found a bunch of hair and dust stuck between the heat sink and the fan, basically blocking most of the air flow from the heat sink, I cleaned it out, reassembled and so far so good. Good luck. |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | I had the same problem. My cpu is older. I changed the battery on the motherboard and it resolved this issue. Bought the battery at an office store for 3 bucks. Fairly common. Probably could get from Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. | It might be a shortage. Look behind EVERY connector on your mainboard. Those USB to front cables and Audio cables. There might be a tiny little pin that is bend so it touches another pin, causing a shortage.
Also, check at that area, but behind the mainbord to look for damages. |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | I had the same problem. My cpu is older. I changed the battery on the motherboard and it resolved this issue. Bought the battery at an office store for 3 bucks. Fairly common. Probably could get from Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. | Assuming I had one at hand I would try swapping the power supply. Lacking that I would remove as much load from the power supply as possible.
Every time I've had a machine that suddenly turned itself off very quickly after turning on it was a dying power supply. Note that these supplies always have shown good on a pow... |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | It might be a shortage. Look behind EVERY connector on your mainboard. Those USB to front cables and Audio cables. There might be a tiny little pin that is bend so it touches another pin, causing a shortage.
Also, check at that area, but behind the mainbord to look for damages. | It could be something as simple as a stuck reset switch or something shorting in the front panel. Try unplugging all jumpers from the motherboard except the power switch. |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | This could be a variety of problems, as I had a very similar issue a couple of months ago. Any component in your machine could be the cause. Mine was caused by both a damaged PSU and motherboard, they had to be replaced (fortunately only for postage fees using warranty).
Sorry to say this will be a fairly lengthy test... | Assuming I had one at hand I would try swapping the power supply. Lacking that I would remove as much load from the power supply as possible.
Every time I've had a machine that suddenly turned itself off very quickly after turning on it was a dying power supply. Note that these supplies always have shown good on a pow... |
556,288 | When pressing the power button, my computer starts making start-up noises, but after a few seconds it shuts down. Then, after 2-3 seconds, it automatically starts turning on again and a few seconds later it shuts down again. In other words, it is stuck in an infinite loop of *turn on , turn off, turn on, turn off* and ... | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/556288",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/34556/"
] | This could be a variety of problems, as I had a very similar issue a couple of months ago. Any component in your machine could be the cause. Mine was caused by both a damaged PSU and motherboard, they had to be replaced (fortunately only for postage fees using warranty).
Sorry to say this will be a fairly lengthy test... | I had a computer with the same problem, I found a bunch of hair and dust stuck between the heat sink and the fan, basically blocking most of the air flow from the heat sink, I cleaned it out, reassembled and so far so good. Good luck. |
13,490 | SDL DXA 1.2 prerequisites states "DXA 1.2 requires SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1"
Which specific hotfix rollups are required for DXA 1.2?
<https://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20DXA-v2/GUID-DD402008-D5C5-4DCA-A74F-893272D2B659> | 2015/12/17 | [
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com/questions/13490",
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com",
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com/users/29/"
] | The Hotfix Roll up for SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 is available at SDLTridionWorld (requires login to download). The documentation for the installation is available [HERE](http://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20Tridion%20full%20documentation-v1/GUID-1D775071-CA2D-4CAE-8742-77A96AB19E9B).
<https://www.sdltridionw... | The list of hotfixes contained in 2013 SP1 HR1 can be found in the [online documentation](http://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20Tridion%20full%20documentation-v1/GUID-E3179627-AD2D-493C-A2E0-FC396E7806F7).
DXA 1.2 was most likely built on HR1 systems, so I don't believe there will be any documentation as... |
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