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86,195 | In Season 3's "[Point of No Return](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_No_Return_%28Babylon_5%29)", Londo asks Lady Morella to "see" for him. He explains his request:
>
> I need you to see for me. I believe that I have been touched. That I
> am meant for something greater. A greater darkness or a greater good
> ... | 2015/04/14 | [
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] | The prophecy is alluded to again in the closing novel to the *Legions of Fire* trilogy, *Out of the Darkness*, which covers most of the story of Centauri Prime after Londo took the throne. This is not admittedly in-the-show canon, but it's mostly canon as far as the creator Joe Stracynzski is concerned.
In the lead-up... | The one who is already dead was Morden, not only was he believed dead by earth, but he was in the blast radius of the Nuke detonation at Z'hadum (and had his flesh burned away)
It wasn't Sheridan, because not killing Sheridan didn't get him out of having to die at G'Kar's hands, he still had to surrender himself to hi... |
86,195 | In Season 3's "[Point of No Return](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_No_Return_%28Babylon_5%29)", Londo asks Lady Morella to "see" for him. He explains his request:
>
> I need you to see for me. I believe that I have been touched. That I
> am meant for something greater. A greater darkness or a greater good
> ... | 2015/04/14 | [
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] | The prophecy is alluded to again in the closing novel to the *Legions of Fire* trilogy, *Out of the Darkness*, which covers most of the story of Centauri Prime after Londo took the throne. This is not admittedly in-the-show canon, but it's mostly canon as far as the creator Joe Stracynzski is concerned.
In the lead-up... | If we take this as a timeline of opportunities then in order.
1. "You must save the eye that does not see." What eye does Londo have the opportunity to save?
>
> Towards the end of G'kar's imprisonment Cartagia declares he doesn't like how G'kar looks at him. Keeping in the theme of the Long Night of Londo Molari, ... |
86,195 | In Season 3's "[Point of No Return](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_No_Return_%28Babylon_5%29)", Londo asks Lady Morella to "see" for him. He explains his request:
>
> I need you to see for me. I believe that I have been touched. That I
> am meant for something greater. A greater darkness or a greater good
> ... | 2015/04/14 | [
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] | According to "Asked & Answered Volume 5", JMS has made the following comments about Lady Morella's prophecy.
* "You must save the eye that does not see."
JMS says:
>
> There's another way to look at this...
>
>
> I.
>
>
> Eye.
>
>
> We never actually saw how she spelled or meant this.
>
>
> Given Londo's ba... | The one who is already dead is most likely John Sheridan. He died at Z'ha'dum. In the future when he and Delenn are Londo's prisoners Londo lets them go dispite his masters wanting them executed.
In season one Londo "saved" an Eye that does not see. Londo, with the help of the Shadows, recovered an ancient Centauri ar... |
86,195 | In Season 3's "[Point of No Return](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_No_Return_%28Babylon_5%29)", Londo asks Lady Morella to "see" for him. He explains his request:
>
> I need you to see for me. I believe that I have been touched. That I
> am meant for something greater. A greater darkness or a greater good
> ... | 2015/04/14 | [
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] | According to "Asked & Answered Volume 5", JMS has made the following comments about Lady Morella's prophecy.
* "You must save the eye that does not see."
JMS says:
>
> There's another way to look at this...
>
>
> I.
>
>
> Eye.
>
>
> We never actually saw how she spelled or meant this.
>
>
> Given Londo's ba... | The one who is already dead was Morden, not only was he believed dead by earth, but he was in the blast radius of the Nuke detonation at Z'hadum (and had his flesh burned away)
It wasn't Sheridan, because not killing Sheridan didn't get him out of having to die at G'Kar's hands, he still had to surrender himself to hi... |
169,480 | The objective is to determine the best 18650 cells to replace the ones in my laptop battery.
To do that, I need to know the minimum voltage the battery controller accepts before ordering the OS to shutdown the laptop. So, I have discharged my battery until the laptop refuses to turn on. I opened the battery case and... | 2015/05/07 | [
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] | I had a similar question. From reading application notes and presentation slides by companies like International Rectifier, Zetex, IXYS :
* The trick is in the heat transfer. In the linear region, a MOSFET will be dissipating more heat. The MOSFETs made for linear region are designed to have better heat transfer.
* M... | Yes, you can use power MOSFETs intended for switching applications in their linear region, but this is not what I recommend for your purpose.
Stick to BJTs for demonstration amplifiers. The reason is that their bias requirements are more predictable in voltage, and it is therefore easier to create circuits to bias the... |
8,130,486 | I tried Googling and browsing through PHP docs but I can't find a limit on the maximum size of a script that PHP can execute. If there is any, what is it? | 2011/11/15 | [
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] | Size of the script is irrelevant. You need to have enough memory to run it. This means your web server (apache, nginx, etc) needs to be able to run without hitting the dreaded OOM. | I would imagine it would be what the limit on your memory is minus a heck of a lot of overhead. |
76,420 | I read this sentence somewhere today, but I think that the *of* would fit better here than *for*, don't you think?
>
> The cause *for* the original problem will be analysed in the normal maintenance hours.
>
>
>
I find myself sometimes thinking when I should use *for* and *of* and I cannot reach a conclusion. A f... | 2012/07/30 | [
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] | [This ngram](http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cause+for%2Ccause+of&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3) would suggest that *cause for* is not as frequently used as "cause of". "Cause for" seems to mean "a valid reason for", as in "cause for alarm". "Cause of" implies a causal relationship, as... | To my mind, *cause for* is only felicitous with positive outcomes:
>
> *His arrival was the cause for much rejoicing*, *great joy*, *unbridled celebration*, ...
>
>
>
As opposed to:
>
> *His arrival was the cause for much handwringing*, *great panic*, *unbridled flight*, ...
>
>
>
— all of which sound s... |
76,420 | I read this sentence somewhere today, but I think that the *of* would fit better here than *for*, don't you think?
>
> The cause *for* the original problem will be analysed in the normal maintenance hours.
>
>
>
I find myself sometimes thinking when I should use *for* and *of* and I cannot reach a conclusion. A f... | 2012/07/30 | [
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] | [This ngram](http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cause+for%2Ccause+of&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3) would suggest that *cause for* is not as frequently used as "cause of". "Cause for" seems to mean "a valid reason for", as in "cause for alarm". "Cause of" implies a causal relationship, as... | Prepositions don’t necessarily translate one for one. It’s the *problem’s cause*, no matter which way you look at it.
Consider Latin *casus belli*. That might be translated at *war’s case* or *case for war*. Notice it is not *case ∗of war*.
Sometimes the English word *for* looks towards the future, and sometimes it l... |
76,420 | I read this sentence somewhere today, but I think that the *of* would fit better here than *for*, don't you think?
>
> The cause *for* the original problem will be analysed in the normal maintenance hours.
>
>
>
I find myself sometimes thinking when I should use *for* and *of* and I cannot reach a conclusion. A f... | 2012/07/30 | [
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] | Prepositions don’t necessarily translate one for one. It’s the *problem’s cause*, no matter which way you look at it.
Consider Latin *casus belli*. That might be translated at *war’s case* or *case for war*. Notice it is not *case ∗of war*.
Sometimes the English word *for* looks towards the future, and sometimes it l... | To my mind, *cause for* is only felicitous with positive outcomes:
>
> *His arrival was the cause for much rejoicing*, *great joy*, *unbridled celebration*, ...
>
>
>
As opposed to:
>
> *His arrival was the cause for much handwringing*, *great panic*, *unbridled flight*, ...
>
>
>
— all of which sound s... |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | This is exactly what happened when Mansa Musa went on pilgrimage to Mecca
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali)
*Musa's journey was documented by several eyewitnesses along his route, who were in awe of his wealth and extensive procession, and records exist in a variety of sources, including ... | Yes, imagine that gold represents something like the king's favour.
There's limited gold, the king owns it all, and you need gold to pay your taxes. Thus you need to work for the king to get the gold you need to pay your taxes.
If there's suddenly another source of gold, people no longer work for the king, etc. |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | It depends on how it's spend, and the culture of the good kingdom.
There was a King in history who went to another country and spend a crapton of gold. This caused the value of gold in that country to go down and with the value of each coin tied to the value of gold it meant everything needed more coins to buy. 2 copp... | Yes, imagine that gold represents something like the king's favour.
There's limited gold, the king owns it all, and you need gold to pay your taxes. Thus you need to work for the king to get the gold you need to pay your taxes.
If there's suddenly another source of gold, people no longer work for the king, etc. |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | Yes, definitely, but it takes a lot of gold and a lot of time.
Basically, when a country has a large, long-term influx of wealth, the wealth-generating part of the economy will tend to drive out everything else. This happened to the Spanish Empire in real life: New World gold and silver poured into Spain and Spain spe... | As a short-term move, the Land of Bad might buy up some crucial resource, such as food, ores and even weapons, haul them out of the Land of Good—and then blockade it.
Under ordinary circumstances, the Land of Good would now have a lot of gold and use that to import whatever it needs. But, while it’s under a military e... |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | Yes, definitely, but it takes a lot of gold and a lot of time.
Basically, when a country has a large, long-term influx of wealth, the wealth-generating part of the economy will tend to drive out everything else. This happened to the Spanish Empire in real life: New World gold and silver poured into Spain and Spain spe... | It depends on how it's spend, and the culture of the good kingdom.
There was a King in history who went to another country and spend a crapton of gold. This caused the value of gold in that country to go down and with the value of each coin tied to the value of gold it meant everything needed more coins to buy. 2 copp... |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | It depends on how it's spend, and the culture of the good kingdom.
There was a King in history who went to another country and spend a crapton of gold. This caused the value of gold in that country to go down and with the value of each coin tied to the value of gold it meant everything needed more coins to buy. 2 copp... | You can play on exchange rates of gold and silver in respective countries.
And yes, with a complication twist it happened before, see the [Opium Wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars).
Simplified, China was selling tea only for silver. When the cheap silver sources in Europe and European colonies was deplet... |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | This is exactly what happened when Mansa Musa went on pilgrimage to Mecca
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali)
*Musa's journey was documented by several eyewitnesses along his route, who were in awe of his wealth and extensive procession, and records exist in a variety of sources, including ... | It depends on how it's spend, and the culture of the good kingdom.
There was a King in history who went to another country and spend a crapton of gold. This caused the value of gold in that country to go down and with the value of each coin tied to the value of gold it meant everything needed more coins to buy. 2 copp... |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | As a short-term move, the Land of Bad might buy up some crucial resource, such as food, ores and even weapons, haul them out of the Land of Good—and then blockade it.
Under ordinary circumstances, the Land of Good would now have a lot of gold and use that to import whatever it needs. But, while it’s under a military e... | Yes, imagine that gold represents something like the king's favour.
There's limited gold, the king owns it all, and you need gold to pay your taxes. Thus you need to work for the king to get the gold you need to pay your taxes.
If there's suddenly another source of gold, people no longer work for the king, etc. |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | It depends on who has more gold/Wealth. If kingdom bad had much more wealth than kingdom good; then yes it is possible. Then there is also the issue of gold reserves. I am guessing both countries have access to gold mines. If kingdom Bad just discovered a huge deposit of gold then they can indeed pull off this strategy... | It depends on how it's spend, and the culture of the good kingdom.
There was a King in history who went to another country and spend a crapton of gold. This caused the value of gold in that country to go down and with the value of each coin tied to the value of gold it meant everything needed more coins to buy. 2 copp... |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | Yes, definitely, but it takes a lot of gold and a lot of time.
Basically, when a country has a large, long-term influx of wealth, the wealth-generating part of the economy will tend to drive out everything else. This happened to the Spanish Empire in real life: New World gold and silver poured into Spain and Spain spe... | You can play on exchange rates of gold and silver in respective countries.
And yes, with a complication twist it happened before, see the [Opium Wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars).
Simplified, China was selling tea only for silver. When the cheap silver sources in Europe and European colonies was deplet... |
134,678 | A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad's invasion. So... | 2018/12/24 | [
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] | This is exactly what happened when Mansa Musa went on pilgrimage to Mecca
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali)
*Musa's journey was documented by several eyewitnesses along his route, who were in awe of his wealth and extensive procession, and records exist in a variety of sources, including ... | As a short-term move, the Land of Bad might buy up some crucial resource, such as food, ores and even weapons, haul them out of the Land of Good—and then blockade it.
Under ordinary circumstances, the Land of Good would now have a lot of gold and use that to import whatever it needs. But, while it’s under a military e... |
2,670 | This came up in one of my groups today. That we could not color bend, or mix 3d printing filaments. I have researched but I am not finding anything talking about Plastic mixing in an extruder.
Why is it that we cannot take say a Diamond hotend, or a hotend with 5+ inputs, and mix any color we want? (assuming all the s... | 2016/08/23 | [
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] | I just started with google and phrase "3d printing color mixing" and on the first place (in fact first two were valueless adverts) I got this [Instructables - DIY Full Color Mixing 3D Printer](http://www.instructables.com/id/Full-Color-Mixing-3D-Printer/?ALLSTEPS).
**How it works?**
It uses magenta / cyan / yellow fi... | As darth\_pixel points out, people have had limited success with feeding multiple colors into a diamond hotend and mixing them, but I would argue this is not truly what you're looking for.
The problem is that when feeding multiple filaments into a diamond-style hotend, the colors do not naturally mix completely: if yo... |
2,670 | This came up in one of my groups today. That we could not color bend, or mix 3d printing filaments. I have researched but I am not finding anything talking about Plastic mixing in an extruder.
Why is it that we cannot take say a Diamond hotend, or a hotend with 5+ inputs, and mix any color we want? (assuming all the s... | 2016/08/23 | [
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] | I just started with google and phrase "3d printing color mixing" and on the first place (in fact first two were valueless adverts) I got this [Instructables - DIY Full Color Mixing 3D Printer](http://www.instructables.com/id/Full-Color-Mixing-3D-Printer/?ALLSTEPS).
**How it works?**
It uses magenta / cyan / yellow fi... | The three in one print head [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S1lJ6.jpg) is the closest to your concept of gradient printing and does some nice transitions. But does not meet your color mixing.
Which I assume your looking for there is something like blue ... |
2,670 | This came up in one of my groups today. That we could not color bend, or mix 3d printing filaments. I have researched but I am not finding anything talking about Plastic mixing in an extruder.
Why is it that we cannot take say a Diamond hotend, or a hotend with 5+ inputs, and mix any color we want? (assuming all the s... | 2016/08/23 | [
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] | I just started with google and phrase "3d printing color mixing" and on the first place (in fact first two were valueless adverts) I got this [Instructables - DIY Full Color Mixing 3D Printer](http://www.instructables.com/id/Full-Color-Mixing-3D-Printer/?ALLSTEPS).
**How it works?**
It uses magenta / cyan / yellow fi... | If you clearly observe the geometry of the print it has printed in different colours .the part is designed in such a way that it has the small height gap between the each colour but we cannot seen this gap in one projection plane..
We can print only in direct drive extrusion .by changing the filament of different colou... |
2,670 | This came up in one of my groups today. That we could not color bend, or mix 3d printing filaments. I have researched but I am not finding anything talking about Plastic mixing in an extruder.
Why is it that we cannot take say a Diamond hotend, or a hotend with 5+ inputs, and mix any color we want? (assuming all the s... | 2016/08/23 | [
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] | As darth\_pixel points out, people have had limited success with feeding multiple colors into a diamond hotend and mixing them, but I would argue this is not truly what you're looking for.
The problem is that when feeding multiple filaments into a diamond-style hotend, the colors do not naturally mix completely: if yo... | If you clearly observe the geometry of the print it has printed in different colours .the part is designed in such a way that it has the small height gap between the each colour but we cannot seen this gap in one projection plane..
We can print only in direct drive extrusion .by changing the filament of different colou... |
2,670 | This came up in one of my groups today. That we could not color bend, or mix 3d printing filaments. I have researched but I am not finding anything talking about Plastic mixing in an extruder.
Why is it that we cannot take say a Diamond hotend, or a hotend with 5+ inputs, and mix any color we want? (assuming all the s... | 2016/08/23 | [
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] | The three in one print head [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S1lJ6.jpg) is the closest to your concept of gradient printing and does some nice transitions. But does not meet your color mixing.
Which I assume your looking for there is something like blue ... | If you clearly observe the geometry of the print it has printed in different colours .the part is designed in such a way that it has the small height gap between the each colour but we cannot seen this gap in one projection plane..
We can print only in direct drive extrusion .by changing the filament of different colou... |
1,422,195 | It's as the title states. I do not have two pcs at the moment to test this myself, but I'm curious if I could use one pc to ping the other, and vice versa, if they were both connected to the same router? | 2019/04/06 | [
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] | This should just worktm, assuming that:
1. Both PCs are on the same network, or
both PCs are on their own network and a router has been properly setup to route between these.
2. Neither has a firewall configured to block pings (more formal ICMP echo request).
3. You use a regular router and not some multi device com... | Yes. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any reason you suspect it to not work?
As long as the computers are both on the same netmask, you'll be able to ping them. If they're both pointed to the router and are using that box as the default gateway you'll be fine. Pretty much the only way it won't work is if you ... |
296,738 | Subtract is considered the only correct verb, while substract is considered wrong or at least "very" obsolete. However, here is a guy, whose mother tongue is obviously English, and who uses substract all the time <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-ha8va91o&index=6&list=PLNUL7DzXzp_J4TztZYOVtayTfp0DV1z5H>
so I think th... | 2015/12/30 | [
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] | Oxford Online Dictionary states that the verb [**substract**](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/substract) is **now nonstandard and rare** meaning the following:
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> [With object] and without object **Mathematics = subtract**.
>
>
>
Now, if you search the word **substract** in [Mathematics Sta... | Being French native and having also some Latin background "substract and substraction" sound really good, on the other end if I use subtract or subtraction,
something is missing. I guess time will tell.... |
18,628 | I have a computer that runs on 12v from two parallel lead acid batteries. I need to be able to swap the battery banks for fresh ones every now and then without ever losing power to my equipment.
I can do this by replacing one battery at a time, that's no problem, however I'm curious about best practices when swapping ... | 2011/08/25 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18628",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/2920/"
] | The battery voltage is unlikely to change much during pulsing. See text below and measure with an oscilloscope.
The graph below shows typical lead acid charge curves at different rates of charge and states of battery charge. When pulse charging - when charging is off the voltage will be at about the rest state for th... | The battery itself is a pretty big capacitor you should be fine. Take a look at the output using an oscilloscope |
874,105 | In Firefox (or IE or whatever), when the tab is closed, I remember you could be notified of this, and I'd like to notify my Flex app and tell it to close (whenever it's possible) all the connexions that are opened.
Does anybody know the way to do this? | 2009/05/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/874105",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/106140/"
] | You have to listen to the onbeforeunload event from the browser.
See here for more details : <http://seanmonahan.org/2009/03/19/preventing-users-from-accidently-navigating-away-from-your-flex-app/> | Generally you have no control over when tab is closed and when flash/flex application is destroyed. So you should not attempt to take any actions on such event, since they may be easily preempted and your deinitialization logic would be disrupted.
In your case (closing connections) you should note that all connection... |
49,906,547 | I'm quite new to Django and Wagtail, and I'm having some difficulty with what I think is a very basic use.
How do I allow Wagtail to edit an existing view's template, while serving that template using Django's serving mechanism?
Assume I have an app (HomePage) created to serve the site's main index (/). I have the Ho... | 2018/04/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/49906547",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9665953/"
] | Since your site's home page is not a Page object in the Wagtail sense, I'd suggest looking at Wagtail's facilities for managing non-page content - [snippets](http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v2.0.1/topics/snippets.html) and [ModelAdmin](http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v2.0.1/reference/contrib/modeladmin/index.html) would be possibl... | One way do that, is to let Wagtail serve your homepage. You will need to change your project's url configuration accordingly, to make wagtail's urls serve the root of your site.
Then, you can pack your dynamic content into a custom template\_tag and include in your homepage html template. |
13,898,993 | I have a c# application where I am reading individual columns of stored procedure results into output class objects. However if the number of columns in the stored procedure changes, i have to rewrite the data access layer code.
Is there any way where changing the number of columns in the output stored procedure doesn... | 2012/12/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13898993",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1907393/"
] | There are ORM tools that can automatically generate data access layer code for you. In the case of .NET, there is the Entity Framework.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ef.aspx> | If you are going to change the structure of the data returned and you rely on that structure it will always result in code changes whether your do your own mapping, use an ORM, or rely on a simple `DataTable` as a container. |
13,898,993 | I have a c# application where I am reading individual columns of stored procedure results into output class objects. However if the number of columns in the stored procedure changes, i have to rewrite the data access layer code.
Is there any way where changing the number of columns in the output stored procedure doesn... | 2012/12/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13898993",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1907393/"
] | There are ORM tools that can automatically generate data access layer code for you. In the case of .NET, there is the Entity Framework.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ef.aspx> | I personally believe that, Data-First model in EF may work in this scenario. Also was going through ExpandoObjects in c# 4.5. Maybe this can work too. |
228,758 | Does anybody know of a free VNC viewer for Windows which allows one to specify a username? Specifically, I'm trying to find one to connect to my OS X shared desktop from Windows. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I just haven't been able to find one today. | 2011/01/04 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/228758",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/43065/"
] | When I have setup VNC to access a Mac (a couple of times), you just had to define an access password for the client and this got you to whatever screen was active for the current user on the Mac, so no username was needed? Happy to be corrected by Mac experts. | I'm having the same trouble. I found one VNC client, JollysFastVNC, a Mac client, which allows you to specify a user name at login, but it's not free. |
202,954 | I was hoping for a reference request for a book on basic/introductory condensed matter field theory. In addition to the usual topics I am looking for books with reference to **classical physics** (classical Lagrangian/Hamiltonian mechanics etc). At the moment I am looking at;
* Field theories of condensed matter physi... | 2015/08/27 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/202954",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/58401/"
] | I think you should get Altland's book.
Fradkin's book is more advanced and covers more modern (and important) topics. It also provides an excellent bibliography. However if you try to follow the derivation and reproduce the result you are likely to be disappointed. I have read in detail the Quantum Hall effect chapter... | For an introduction, I think you can't go wrong with Altland and Simon's (A&S) book. Fradkin's derivations will seem like they leave a lot to be desired, but it's obvious to me that a more experienced physicist would be able to cope with them. For example, if you take a look at both of their presentations on the path i... |
131,152 | Is there a way to get this box to list the local and network drives first instead of listing favorites and libraries first? I have a user who claims this is how this box was until fairly recently but I have not made any changes nor pushed out any big updates. Now that he mentions it, its starting to bug me too. Thanks. | 2010/04/14 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/131152",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/48714/"
] | I would just add the resources to your "Favorites" Library and that should have them show up. | Alternatively, there's a useful utility that allows you to fully customise what you have in the 'save as' container [Places](http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=Places) |
16,893,017 | Using Java (with Eclipse) and Tomcat server I have developed a project.
The way I will deploy this software will be just copy and paste the classes files and project to tomcat-->webapps folder and then copy this tomcat to client's PC then client will start tomcat and will open browser with given URL.
Now my question ... | 2013/06/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16893017",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2231600/"
] | If you mean installation wizard like you typically see on Windows you should use one of the available tools for setup creation.
Take a look on [Advanced Installer](http://www.advancedinstaller.com/java.html), and others or read this discussion: [Multiplatform Installer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1029079/mul... | A better alternative of what you are doing could be package all your class, jsps and other resources into a `war` file. And you'll have some sort of installation file. With this file you can now procede to install it inside tomcat or any other compatible server.
However, you still need to configure external resources ... |
126,652 | I'm wondering this from a legal standpoint and an installation-issue standpoint. I'm considering pre-ordering Visual Studio 2010 for future use in some home projects, and you cannot pre-order a full version, only an upgrade version.
On the [preorder page](http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Visual-Studio-2010-Profess... | 2010/04/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/126652",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5070/"
] | Well, Eclipse is another development tool. You qualify.
Unlike some of their other products, Microsoft seems to want to encourage anyone to get and use their development tools - there's a free version of Visual Studio, which has most of the functionality you'd need, so if they can get you to purchase an "upgrade" lice... | A couple of months ago on their site they basically said anyone qualifies for the upgrade - you can use Perl, Python, anything at all. They also said they don't check for anything being installed prior. |
126,652 | I'm wondering this from a legal standpoint and an installation-issue standpoint. I'm considering pre-ordering Visual Studio 2010 for future use in some home projects, and you cannot pre-order a full version, only an upgrade version.
On the [preorder page](http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Visual-Studio-2010-Profess... | 2010/04/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/126652",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5070/"
] | After sending an e-mail to a Microsoft Store rep, he had the following response:
>
> I apologize for the confusion on this matter. It would have been more accurate, perhaps, to list the system requirements for the Visual Studio 2010 upgrade as "Any Microsoft developer tool," as tools from other software companies do ... | Well, Eclipse is another development tool. You qualify.
Unlike some of their other products, Microsoft seems to want to encourage anyone to get and use their development tools - there's a free version of Visual Studio, which has most of the functionality you'd need, so if they can get you to purchase an "upgrade" lice... |
126,652 | I'm wondering this from a legal standpoint and an installation-issue standpoint. I'm considering pre-ordering Visual Studio 2010 for future use in some home projects, and you cannot pre-order a full version, only an upgrade version.
On the [preorder page](http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Visual-Studio-2010-Profess... | 2010/04/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/126652",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5070/"
] | After sending an e-mail to a Microsoft Store rep, he had the following response:
>
> I apologize for the confusion on this matter. It would have been more accurate, perhaps, to list the system requirements for the Visual Studio 2010 upgrade as "Any Microsoft developer tool," as tools from other software companies do ... | A couple of months ago on their site they basically said anyone qualifies for the upgrade - you can use Perl, Python, anything at all. They also said they don't check for anything being installed prior. |
962 | **What I want:**
**What I have:**
So basically I need to use curves to make a quarter circle. What is a good trick to do that? | 2013/06/12 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/962",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/628/"
] | ### Curves Circle method
1. Add > Curve > Circle,
2. In Edit mode go to *Curve* > *Control Points* > *Set handle Type* and set it to to *Free*.
3. Then delete one *knot* point, and adjust the remaining *knot* and *handles* as in the image below.
**What I have:**
So basically I need to use curves to make a quarter circle. What is a good trick to do that? | 2013/06/12 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/962",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/628/"
] | ### Curves Circle method
1. Add > Curve > Circle,
2. In Edit mode go to *Curve* > *Control Points* > *Set handle Type* and set it to to *Free*.
3. Then delete one *knot* point, and adjust the remaining *knot* and *handles* as in the image below.
](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VJBhN.png)
In the *Tool Shelf*... |
962 | **What I want:**
**What I have:**
So basically I need to use curves to make a quarter circle. What is a good trick to do that? | 2013/06/12 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/962",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/628/"
] | ### Curves Circle method
1. Add > Curve > Circle,
2. In Edit mode go to *Curve* > *Control Points* > *Set handle Type* and set it to to *Free*.
3. Then delete one *knot* point, and adjust the remaining *knot* and *handles* as in the image below.
**What I have:**
So basically I need to use curves to make a quarter circle. What is a good trick to do that? | 2013/06/12 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/962",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/628/"
] | But can you use something else for the process? What you can do (and what I usually do when I need something like that) is a nice workaround that gives perfect curves:
1. Add a circle (mesh).
2. Erase the vertices that you dont need so you can get a "quarter curve" made from edges.
3. Convert the mesh object to a curv... | You can use ***Curve Profiles*** from the ***Curve Extra Objects*** add-on. You can install it by going to *User Preferences*, then go to *Add*-->*Curve*-->*Curve Profiles*.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VJBhN.png)
In the *Tool Shelf*... |
962 | **What I want:**
**What I have:**
So basically I need to use curves to make a quarter circle. What is a good trick to do that? | 2013/06/12 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/962",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/628/"
] | But can you use something else for the process? What you can do (and what I usually do when I need something like that) is a nice workaround that gives perfect curves:
1. Add a circle (mesh).
2. Erase the vertices that you dont need so you can get a "quarter curve" made from edges.
3. Convert the mesh object to a curv... | I did some visual only tests and came up with .552285 of the percentage of the Bezier curve vertex locations. I made a 200 inch diameter circle with 128 segments. A Bezier curve with 2 segments will have the 2 segments vertex hit the circle (as close as I could tell from my closest zoom) with control point 1 at 0, 0, 0... |
962 | **What I want:**
**What I have:**
So basically I need to use curves to make a quarter circle. What is a good trick to do that? | 2013/06/12 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/962",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/628/"
] | You can use ***Curve Profiles*** from the ***Curve Extra Objects*** add-on. You can install it by going to *User Preferences*, then go to *Add*-->*Curve*-->*Curve Profiles*.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VJBhN.png)
In the *Tool Shelf*... | I did some visual only tests and came up with .552285 of the percentage of the Bezier curve vertex locations. I made a 200 inch diameter circle with 128 segments. A Bezier curve with 2 segments will have the 2 segments vertex hit the circle (as close as I could tell from my closest zoom) with control point 1 at 0, 0, 0... |
24,713,361 | I have a MS Access file containing hundred of tables, I should create these tables using C# at runtime. So I should generate a script and use that query inside C# to create the tables.
Is there a way that MS Access can generate this SQL script automatically?
Best regards | 2014/07/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24713361",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3446201/"
] | No, Access itself cannot automatically create DDL (CREATE TABLE ...) code like SQL Server can. It is entirely possible that some third-party product might be able to scan through an Access database and write DDL statements for each table, but recommendations for such a third-party product would be off-topic on Stack Ov... | You can use an SSIS package to generate the create table command.
Start a new SSIS package. Add a connection manager for the Access database.
Then add a connection manager for a SQL Server database.
When you configure the dataflow task. Select the Access database as the source, then the SQL server as the destination. W... |
54,324 | I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order.
I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so? | 2012/06/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/54324",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15330/"
] | I haven't seen any Spotlight metadata that counts the number an app is launched, you can, however, use the Date Last opened as a reference.
Open your /Applications folder and right click on the sort bar (where it says name, date modified, Size, etc.) and select Date Last Opened. Click on that to sort by that column an... | A tool like [Alfred](http://www.alfredapp.com/) could be nice for your workflow and another tool like [Slife](http://code.google.com/p/slife/)
>
> Slife is an activity browser for the MacOS X. When the Slife client
> runs, it observes as you interact with applications, documents and web
> sites in your computer. It... |
54,324 | I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order.
I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so? | 2012/06/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/54324",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15330/"
] | I haven't seen any Spotlight metadata that counts the number an app is launched, you can, however, use the Date Last opened as a reference.
Open your /Applications folder and right click on the sort bar (where it says name, date modified, Size, etc.) and select Date Last Opened. Click on that to sort by that column an... | The iOS multi-task bar (double tap on the home button to bring up) displays apps in the order they were last used. Not a frequency sort, but a last-used sort, which may be closer than your icon arrangement to frequency-or-use, and thus possibly a quicker way to find an app you use frequently. |
54,324 | I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order.
I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so? | 2012/06/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/54324",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15330/"
] | I haven't seen any Spotlight metadata that counts the number an app is launched, you can, however, use the Date Last opened as a reference.
Open your /Applications folder and right click on the sort bar (where it says name, date modified, Size, etc.) and select Date Last Opened. Click on that to sort by that column an... | I have a friend that works at Apple, he is in charge of designing the iPhone cases. I try not to annoy him on how to he should do his job and what suggestions I have, but I once mentioned about arranging the icons based on frequency of use. He said that many people have sent them letters regarding this issue. My respon... |
54,324 | I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order.
I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so? | 2012/06/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/54324",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15330/"
] | ### No, this isn't a native feature.
As of a default installation on iOS 6, this isn't possible. Like you mentioned, desktops in OSX can automatically re-arrange due to use, but iOS does not include any features along this line.
I would really enjoy this feature. You could always [recommend this to Apple](http://www.... | A tool like [Alfred](http://www.alfredapp.com/) could be nice for your workflow and another tool like [Slife](http://code.google.com/p/slife/)
>
> Slife is an activity browser for the MacOS X. When the Slife client
> runs, it observes as you interact with applications, documents and web
> sites in your computer. It... |
54,324 | I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order.
I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so? | 2012/06/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/54324",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15330/"
] | The iOS multi-task bar (double tap on the home button to bring up) displays apps in the order they were last used. Not a frequency sort, but a last-used sort, which may be closer than your icon arrangement to frequency-or-use, and thus possibly a quicker way to find an app you use frequently. | A tool like [Alfred](http://www.alfredapp.com/) could be nice for your workflow and another tool like [Slife](http://code.google.com/p/slife/)
>
> Slife is an activity browser for the MacOS X. When the Slife client
> runs, it observes as you interact with applications, documents and web
> sites in your computer. It... |
54,324 | I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order.
I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so? | 2012/06/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/54324",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15330/"
] | ### No, this isn't a native feature.
As of a default installation on iOS 6, this isn't possible. Like you mentioned, desktops in OSX can automatically re-arrange due to use, but iOS does not include any features along this line.
I would really enjoy this feature. You could always [recommend this to Apple](http://www.... | The iOS multi-task bar (double tap on the home button to bring up) displays apps in the order they were last used. Not a frequency sort, but a last-used sort, which may be closer than your icon arrangement to frequency-or-use, and thus possibly a quicker way to find an app you use frequently. |
54,324 | I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order.
I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so? | 2012/06/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/54324",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15330/"
] | ### No, this isn't a native feature.
As of a default installation on iOS 6, this isn't possible. Like you mentioned, desktops in OSX can automatically re-arrange due to use, but iOS does not include any features along this line.
I would really enjoy this feature. You could always [recommend this to Apple](http://www.... | I have a friend that works at Apple, he is in charge of designing the iPhone cases. I try not to annoy him on how to he should do his job and what suggestions I have, but I once mentioned about arranging the icons based on frequency of use. He said that many people have sent them letters regarding this issue. My respon... |
54,324 | I want to know if there's a quick way to find out the number of times one opens each app so that we can know which apps are really used by us frequently and we can sort them in that order.
I've tried to Google it but couldn't find any information that is really useful. Is it possible to do so? | 2012/06/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/54324",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15330/"
] | The iOS multi-task bar (double tap on the home button to bring up) displays apps in the order they were last used. Not a frequency sort, but a last-used sort, which may be closer than your icon arrangement to frequency-or-use, and thus possibly a quicker way to find an app you use frequently. | I have a friend that works at Apple, he is in charge of designing the iPhone cases. I try not to annoy him on how to he should do his job and what suggestions I have, but I once mentioned about arranging the icons based on frequency of use. He said that many people have sent them letters regarding this issue. My respon... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | I would advocate openly communicating your grievances.
"Jon, I feel unfairly judged when you respond to me in that way."
"Harriet, my interactions with you leave me wanting to avoid interacting with you because I do not like responses that make me feel so different."
Be direct. Be transparent. Focus on communicating... | I have a really good poker face, which works well in situations like this. If someone asks me a stupid question like, "do you have diabetes?" I just give them a blank stare, then I go back to what I was doing. I do not respond to stuff like that.
You should not respond because these questions are often inappropriate. ... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | Getting into conversations with people that ask questions like a machine-gun can be difficult. The kinds of questions this person is asking don't give you much room to exit the conversation politely.
You need to take control of the conversation in order to direct it in ways that suit you rather than be constantly led ... | Different people communicate in different ways. That's a fact that you can't ignore. Some people communicate in ways that annoy you, without any malicious intent whatsoever. If that is the situation, then you can do something about it. (On the other hand, the person may just be an ass, in which case there are other met... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | Getting into conversations with people that ask questions like a machine-gun can be difficult. The kinds of questions this person is asking don't give you much room to exit the conversation politely.
You need to take control of the conversation in order to direct it in ways that suit you rather than be constantly led ... | Ah, you have the "chatterbox" problem.
In most bigger firms the problem solves by itself once they meet other people sharing their trait. In smaller firms it could happen that they are alone.
What now happens is the typical vicious circle: The talker tries to find people to talk with. Being at work the coworkers have... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | I would advocate openly communicating your grievances.
"Jon, I feel unfairly judged when you respond to me in that way."
"Harriet, my interactions with you leave me wanting to avoid interacting with you because I do not like responses that make me feel so different."
Be direct. Be transparent. Focus on communicating... | Different people communicate in different ways. That's a fact that you can't ignore. Some people communicate in ways that annoy you, without any malicious intent whatsoever. If that is the situation, then you can do something about it. (On the other hand, the person may just be an ass, in which case there are other met... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | Getting into conversations with people that ask questions like a machine-gun can be difficult. The kinds of questions this person is asking don't give you much room to exit the conversation politely.
You need to take control of the conversation in order to direct it in ways that suit you rather than be constantly led ... | I have a really good poker face, which works well in situations like this. If someone asks me a stupid question like, "do you have diabetes?" I just give them a blank stare, then I go back to what I was doing. I do not respond to stuff like that.
You should not respond because these questions are often inappropriate. ... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | Ah, you have the "chatterbox" problem.
In most bigger firms the problem solves by itself once they meet other people sharing their trait. In smaller firms it could happen that they are alone.
What now happens is the typical vicious circle: The talker tries to find people to talk with. Being at work the coworkers have... | Don't feel you need to justify yourself! Just come back with a non-committal answer and if he persists, come back with (fictitious) things that are increasingly improbable and a grin, and he'll soon get the idea. "Oh I can't have sugar any more but I haven't got the paperwork with me ;) :$" etc... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | I would advocate openly communicating your grievances.
"Jon, I feel unfairly judged when you respond to me in that way."
"Harriet, my interactions with you leave me wanting to avoid interacting with you because I do not like responses that make me feel so different."
Be direct. Be transparent. Focus on communicating... | Don't feel you need to justify yourself! Just come back with a non-committal answer and if he persists, come back with (fictitious) things that are increasingly improbable and a grin, and he'll soon get the idea. "Oh I can't have sugar any more but I haven't got the paperwork with me ;) :$" etc... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | I would advocate openly communicating your grievances.
"Jon, I feel unfairly judged when you respond to me in that way."
"Harriet, my interactions with you leave me wanting to avoid interacting with you because I do not like responses that make me feel so different."
Be direct. Be transparent. Focus on communicating... | Memorize this:
>
> * I need to think for a while. (use very flat intonation)
> * Are you crazy, what is there to think about?
> * Yeah, I really need to think for a while.
> * (makes a strange face)
>
>
>
You've stalled them. You never say how long you intend to think, and you don't promise you will actively *get... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | I would advocate openly communicating your grievances.
"Jon, I feel unfairly judged when you respond to me in that way."
"Harriet, my interactions with you leave me wanting to avoid interacting with you because I do not like responses that make me feel so different."
Be direct. Be transparent. Focus on communicating... | Ah, you have the "chatterbox" problem.
In most bigger firms the problem solves by itself once they meet other people sharing their trait. In smaller firms it could happen that they are alone.
What now happens is the typical vicious circle: The talker tries to find people to talk with. Being at work the coworkers have... |
59,701 | I work in a small office and as a result have to interact with said colleague mostly everyday. Whenever we are alone, which is quite a lot as we share the same room, he wants to chat me up. He brings up topics of religion, politics, food habits etc, and though he lets me speak my mind he has this habit of reacting afte... | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59701",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45209/"
] | Ah, you have the "chatterbox" problem.
In most bigger firms the problem solves by itself once they meet other people sharing their trait. In smaller firms it could happen that they are alone.
What now happens is the typical vicious circle: The talker tries to find people to talk with. Being at work the coworkers have... | Memorize this:
>
> * I need to think for a while. (use very flat intonation)
> * Are you crazy, what is there to think about?
> * Yeah, I really need to think for a while.
> * (makes a strange face)
>
>
>
You've stalled them. You never say how long you intend to think, and you don't promise you will actively *get... |
34,441 | The geologic column and fossil record contained within has been used to support the theory of evolution. How do creationists explain it instead? | 2014/11/10 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/34441",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/15134/"
] | Short Answer: Catastrophism
===========================
>
> "*The theory that massive catastrophes occurred in earth's past, substantially altering the Earth and its life via mountain uplift, rapid deposition, and mass extinctions. [source](http://creationwiki.org/Catastrophism#cite_note-berkeley-0)*"
>
>
>
Young... | Dr. Kent Hovind makes a good presentation in many of his videos, such as these here
[Dr. Kent Hovind disproves the geologic column](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bk5FG_2zbQ)
Additionally, you can look up Kent Hovind's 7-part [Creation Seminar](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kent+hovind+creation+semi... |
34,441 | The geologic column and fossil record contained within has been used to support the theory of evolution. How do creationists explain it instead? | 2014/11/10 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/34441",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/15134/"
] | Short Answer: Catastrophism
===========================
>
> "*The theory that massive catastrophes occurred in earth's past, substantially altering the Earth and its life via mountain uplift, rapid deposition, and mass extinctions. [source](http://creationwiki.org/Catastrophism#cite_note-berkeley-0)*"
>
>
>
Young... | Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whol... |
34,441 | The geologic column and fossil record contained within has been used to support the theory of evolution. How do creationists explain it instead? | 2014/11/10 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/34441",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/15134/"
] | The long-age view of the geologic column is uniformitarian, in which the rock layers represent time, and burial order of fossils represents the order of evolution. In contrast, the young-earth creationist explanation is catastrophic, where the rock layers represent a big watery catastrophe (Noah's flood) and the burial... | Dr. Kent Hovind makes a good presentation in many of his videos, such as these here
[Dr. Kent Hovind disproves the geologic column](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bk5FG_2zbQ)
Additionally, you can look up Kent Hovind's 7-part [Creation Seminar](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kent+hovind+creation+semi... |
34,441 | The geologic column and fossil record contained within has been used to support the theory of evolution. How do creationists explain it instead? | 2014/11/10 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/34441",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/15134/"
] | The long-age view of the geologic column is uniformitarian, in which the rock layers represent time, and burial order of fossils represents the order of evolution. In contrast, the young-earth creationist explanation is catastrophic, where the rock layers represent a big watery catastrophe (Noah's flood) and the burial... | Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whol... |
34,441 | The geologic column and fossil record contained within has been used to support the theory of evolution. How do creationists explain it instead? | 2014/11/10 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/34441",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/15134/"
] | Dr. Kent Hovind makes a good presentation in many of his videos, such as these here
[Dr. Kent Hovind disproves the geologic column](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bk5FG_2zbQ)
Additionally, you can look up Kent Hovind's 7-part [Creation Seminar](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kent+hovind+creation+semi... | Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whol... |
158,443 | I've completed Arkham Origins, and am playing through New Game Plus. I'm at the Firefly fight on the bridge, and can't recall how to win. I'm at the point where he's basically defeated, and Batman says "I should grapple onto Firefly".
I grapple on, and we fly around the bridge a bit. Batman falls off, and I grapple on... | 2014/03/03 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/158443",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/32055/"
] | [This video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4ozmKqkPY) describes how to beat this particular attack. Apparently it can simply be countered. The first "attack" can also be countered, with the option of recovering instead (grappling back onto Firefly).
[Jeff's comment](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/158443... | Repeatedly press the counter button after grappling on |
259,143 | Previously I had a 5000 watt King garage heater which turned out to be too small for our new garage. I just bought a 10kw Duraheat garage heater and it keeps tripping. The manual says it uses 42 amps. Is my breaker rated for 30 amps total or 60 amps?
It is a Square DP-4075 common trip and each pole says 30. The wiring ... | 2022/10/23 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/259143",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/158137/"
] | A dual 30A breaker can serve 30 Amps, not 60. Fortunately your #6 wire is large enough for a 60 (though some would go with #4). | There are 3 different pieces here - current (A), voltage (V), power (W). For a resistive load (like a typical electric heater), W = V x A.
In a standard US setup, V = 120V on a single breaker (120V hot, relative to neutral = 0V) and V = 240V on a double breaker (240V hot to hot, each hot 120V to neutral).
The current... |
259,143 | Previously I had a 5000 watt King garage heater which turned out to be too small for our new garage. I just bought a 10kw Duraheat garage heater and it keeps tripping. The manual says it uses 42 amps. Is my breaker rated for 30 amps total or 60 amps?
It is a Square DP-4075 common trip and each pole says 30. The wiring ... | 2022/10/23 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/259143",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/158137/"
] | It's 30 amp total. What's weird is the #6 AWG wiring, which is good for at least 55 amps. You can change out your breaker to whatever the instructions for your heater call for provided it doesn't call for a breaker size that exceeds the wire rating. The instructions always need to be followed. | There are 3 different pieces here - current (A), voltage (V), power (W). For a resistive load (like a typical electric heater), W = V x A.
In a standard US setup, V = 120V on a single breaker (120V hot, relative to neutral = 0V) and V = 240V on a double breaker (240V hot to hot, each hot 120V to neutral).
The current... |
52,227,237 | I have a reconstructed object with accumulated effects of lighting as shown below, which looks quite dirty:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OvUNT.png)
I want to make the body of the object to have a more uniform color
(cleaner) while keeping the fine details of lette... | 2018/09/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/52227237",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7154833/"
] | A mixture model is clever, but IMO overkill; it's assigning the "most likely" pixel value based on a model that has very few good statistical properties.
I think traditional computer vision is your friend here for repeatability and ease of implementation: rank filters are one possibility, and they're well established ... | Have you tried using CLAHE? It is a version of local contrast normalisation. The local nature of it helps balance out contrast across the image. For color images it works in HSV space. It works best on natural scenes though so for this a bilateral filter as mentioned by Cris Luengo may work best.
<http://scikit-image.... |
15,502 | Am I right to think the following announcement wrong in its use of the indefinite article?
>
> Do you need **a help** in Biology or Chemistry? Consider joining our
> Friday Chemistry and Biology Tutoring Club.
>
>
>
Shouldn't it read instead:
>
> Do you need **help** in Biology or Chemistry? Consider joining o... | 2014/01/08 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/15502",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/2127/"
] | In the first, second, and fourth sample sentences, you already have a subject, *the password*, *a boarding pass* and *the food*, and therefore don't need to include an **it**. Although it may be more common to use in other languages, the **it** part is left out in English (I'm not sure if leaving it in is incorrect gra... | I wonder if I have understood your question correctly. However I'll try to answer.
In English verbs are normally used with the subject they refer to. This is because most verbs do not change their ending to adapt to a singular or plural subject. For example, we say *"you **are**"* both when we are talking to one perso... |
253,948 | My iPhone 5S shows iOS 10.0 in available update but for iPhone 5 it shows different. It shows iOS 9.3.5.
What's is the problem ?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lCYKu.png) | 2016/09/22 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/253948",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/202522/"
] | The iPhone already downloaded the 9.3.5 update and can't download / install iOS 10 until that is dealt with. Either remove this download from the iPhone, or install the update and later update to iOS 10.
To delete the update:
* Go to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage.
* Tap Delete Update, and tap Delete Upd... | It doesn't show as an available Download but rather shows that it's already downloaded and is waiting for you to hit the *Install Now* button so what you'd like to do is navigate to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage under the STORAGE group and you could then delete the downloaded update.
You... |
384,450 | We have many esx host in branch. To manage them, we using vsphere client for each of them. Brach office and head office is connected with VPN based IP. For each branch is connected with 1 Mbps banwidth to head office.
In our head office, we have about 5 esx host managed with one vcenter management. I want to add esx ho... | 2012/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/384450",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/119246/"
] | That should work fine as long as there are no firewall rules that block the management traffic.
Whether or not your "VPN quality" declines is completely dependent on the bandwidth currently available through the VPN and how much of that bandwidth is being used. That said, there's typically not a whole lot of traffic b... | It should work without problems, but(!):
1. Guest console view will be considerably slow on 1Mbit line.
2. Be careful to disable any live migration and load balancing features (if vCenter decides it wants to migrate a large machine from your head office, to your branch office over 1MBit line, it will take a lot of tim... |
384,450 | We have many esx host in branch. To manage them, we using vsphere client for each of them. Brach office and head office is connected with VPN based IP. For each branch is connected with 1 Mbps banwidth to head office.
In our head office, we have about 5 esx host managed with one vcenter management. I want to add esx ho... | 2012/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/384450",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/119246/"
] | We do exactly this kind of thing for lots of remote ESXi boxes, so long as you've got the right ports open then you'll have no issue whatsoever. | It should work without problems, but(!):
1. Guest console view will be considerably slow on 1Mbit line.
2. Be careful to disable any live migration and load balancing features (if vCenter decides it wants to migrate a large machine from your head office, to your branch office over 1MBit line, it will take a lot of tim... |
70,754 | I wish to construct this sentence in a better manner, avoiding the repeated use of principle. Yet doing away with the repeated word principle in each bullet point will cause the principle name to be read differently.
Suggestions?
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user
> interface design. S... | 2015/10/13 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/70754",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/12071/"
] | I'd do it this way...
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design.
>
>
>
The list of **some of the principles --**
>
> Structure
>
> Simplicity
>
> Visibility
>
> Tolerance
>
> Feedback
>
> Reusability
>
>
>
**OR**
The **principles of** -
... | I think you can leave out the second "principle". It is implied.
>
> Some of these include:
>
>
>
As for dealing with the list items, you might write:
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design. This might include the **following types**:
>
>
> Structure
>
> Simplici... |
70,754 | I wish to construct this sentence in a better manner, avoiding the repeated use of principle. Yet doing away with the repeated word principle in each bullet point will cause the principle name to be read differently.
Suggestions?
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user
> interface design. S... | 2015/10/13 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/70754",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/12071/"
] | I'd do it this way...
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design.
>
>
>
The list of **some of the principles --**
>
> Structure
>
> Simplicity
>
> Visibility
>
> Tolerance
>
> Feedback
>
> Reusability
>
>
>
**OR**
The **principles of** -
... | I think the best way to go about this is to **either retain it as is** or else **add a small blurb** in front of each bullet point so that the repetition is ***camouflaged*** as given in [this article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_user_interface_design).
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the ... |
70,754 | I wish to construct this sentence in a better manner, avoiding the repeated use of principle. Yet doing away with the repeated word principle in each bullet point will cause the principle name to be read differently.
Suggestions?
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user
> interface design. S... | 2015/10/13 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/70754",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/12071/"
] | Instead of having a multiple co-ordination of entire noun phrases, the Original Poster could just use a co-ordination of modifiers with a single head noun:
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design. These principles include the *Structure, Simplicity, Visibility, Tolerance, Feed... | I'd do it this way...
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design.
>
>
>
The list of **some of the principles --**
>
> Structure
>
> Simplicity
>
> Visibility
>
> Tolerance
>
> Feedback
>
> Reusability
>
>
>
**OR**
The **principles of** -
... |
70,754 | I wish to construct this sentence in a better manner, avoiding the repeated use of principle. Yet doing away with the repeated word principle in each bullet point will cause the principle name to be read differently.
Suggestions?
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user
> interface design. S... | 2015/10/13 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/70754",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/12071/"
] | I think you can leave out the second "principle". It is implied.
>
> Some of these include:
>
>
>
As for dealing with the list items, you might write:
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design. This might include the **following types**:
>
>
> Structure
>
> Simplici... | I think the best way to go about this is to **either retain it as is** or else **add a small blurb** in front of each bullet point so that the repetition is ***camouflaged*** as given in [this article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_user_interface_design).
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the ... |
70,754 | I wish to construct this sentence in a better manner, avoiding the repeated use of principle. Yet doing away with the repeated word principle in each bullet point will cause the principle name to be read differently.
Suggestions?
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user
> interface design. S... | 2015/10/13 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/70754",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/12071/"
] | Instead of having a multiple co-ordination of entire noun phrases, the Original Poster could just use a co-ordination of modifiers with a single head noun:
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design. These principles include the *Structure, Simplicity, Visibility, Tolerance, Feed... | I think you can leave out the second "principle". It is implied.
>
> Some of these include:
>
>
>
As for dealing with the list items, you might write:
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design. This might include the **following types**:
>
>
> Structure
>
> Simplici... |
70,754 | I wish to construct this sentence in a better manner, avoiding the repeated use of principle. Yet doing away with the repeated word principle in each bullet point will cause the principle name to be read differently.
Suggestions?
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user
> interface design. S... | 2015/10/13 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/70754",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/12071/"
] | Instead of having a multiple co-ordination of entire noun phrases, the Original Poster could just use a co-ordination of modifiers with a single head noun:
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the quality of user interface design. These principles include the *Structure, Simplicity, Visibility, Tolerance, Feed... | I think the best way to go about this is to **either retain it as is** or else **add a small blurb** in front of each bullet point so that the repetition is ***camouflaged*** as given in [this article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_user_interface_design).
>
> UI design principles focus on improving the ... |
12,057 | I have MacOs 10.6.6 and a Western Digital external 2.5'' HDD USB 3.0 pre-formatted to NTFS. I try to format the drive do HSF+ with DiskUtility program, but it says:
Error: -9944: File system formatter failed
I think I've tried almost all combinations; I tried to set up 1 or 2 partitions with different sizes; journaled... | 2011/04/14 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/12057",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/5651/"
] | As an alternative if you cannot get reader working, the process of printing and scanning your document seems laborious, have you thought of just a screenshot of the document? This should be digitally exactly the same, and you could even open it in preview and "Print to PDF" as you wanted.
This would also be not editab... | I just encountered this same problem in Jan 2015, using OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) and Adobe Reader XI (11.0.10). My experience confirmed what bmike said in the accepted answer:
>
> If Adobe isn't preparing the file for print until after you hit print in the Adobe dialog - then your only recourse is faking it out by def... |
38,094,021 | I am making an application in PHP in which user names are showing in URL like
www.mysite.com/user/shahroze
I want to encrypt the name something like that
www.mysite.com/user/ZxtccQO58
how can i do that to save my sensitive data? | 2016/06/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/38094021",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5460464/"
] | Use HTTPS, everything except the site address is encrypted in transit. Note that the entire URL will probably be in the server logs. | For each user have a column in database with a random string and use it in URL (when adding random string for the user you will have to check if it's taken or not so that it doesn't come to overlapping). Although that will work, there is no need to do that because it's secure enough without it, but if you really want t... |
421,498 | I got VMware image in 4 files:
* image.vmdk
* image-s001.vmdk
* image-s002.vmdk
* image-s003.vmdk
The 1st (image.vmdk) is only an small XML file, and the actual images are in the 3 segments.
I want run the image in the Virtualbox HEADLESS - so, i havn't access to Virtualbox GUI.
AFAIK, the Virtualbox can use/conver... | 2012/05/07 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/421498",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/132594/"
] | VMware Converter can combine the disk images into one file. It can also convert to OVF and other VM formats.
You'll need to do this on a regular workstation, then move the file over to your VirtualBox host. | With Virtualbox GUI, you just have to choose the 1st image.vmdk as disk for your virtual machine. |
181,340 | So I'm trying to trade Pokemon between two generation 1 games (Red and Yellow), but I can't quite seem to figure out how. I can find no explanations or guides on the internet anywhere.
So I hook my GBA SP and GBA with together with the connector cable, and then in both games go up to the lady in the Poke Centers and t... | 2014/08/17 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/181340",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/54902/"
] | Well, I just figured out. I had this colonist stuck to a medical bed with no legs and was receiving decent treatment and food, I just converted the whole room to a prison and the colonist fell out of bed and a message appeared that she needed to be rescued. I just let her starve to death. | The proper way of killing a fellow colonist would be to draft another colonist, give him/her a gun and force them to shoot the incapacitated colonist. Or you could use an improvised turret and force attack the colonist. |
181,340 | So I'm trying to trade Pokemon between two generation 1 games (Red and Yellow), but I can't quite seem to figure out how. I can find no explanations or guides on the internet anywhere.
So I hook my GBA SP and GBA with together with the connector cable, and then in both games go up to the lady in the Poke Centers and t... | 2014/08/17 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/181340",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/54902/"
] | There are a few ways to kill incapacitated colonists or prisoners.
On the health tab, select the Operations sub tab and you can schedule a number of operations. To simply kill the patient, select Euthanize. If you're feeling diabolical, you can also harvest body parts before putting them out of their misery. Removing ... | Well, I just figured out. I had this colonist stuck to a medical bed with no legs and was receiving decent treatment and food, I just converted the whole room to a prison and the colonist fell out of bed and a message appeared that she needed to be rescued. I just let her starve to death. |
181,340 | So I'm trying to trade Pokemon between two generation 1 games (Red and Yellow), but I can't quite seem to figure out how. I can find no explanations or guides on the internet anywhere.
So I hook my GBA SP and GBA with together with the connector cable, and then in both games go up to the lady in the Poke Centers and t... | 2014/08/17 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/181340",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/54902/"
] | There are a few ways to kill incapacitated colonists or prisoners.
On the health tab, select the Operations sub tab and you can schedule a number of operations. To simply kill the patient, select Euthanize. If you're feeling diabolical, you can also harvest body parts before putting them out of their misery. Removing ... | The proper way of killing a fellow colonist would be to draft another colonist, give him/her a gun and force them to shoot the incapacitated colonist. Or you could use an improvised turret and force attack the colonist. |
459,535 | I'd like to turn on Google's two authentication factor on but first I'd like to understand how it works.
Specifically I'd like to use the Google app for smartphones (btw I checked the FAQ and this is *not* a question about smartphone but a question where smartphone are on-topic because they interface with a computer).... | 2012/08/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/459535",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/101799/"
] | Everyone is downloading the exact same Authenticator app at the same time. When launched for the first time, the app will ask for your Google login information and at the same time generate a unique ID for your phone (kind of like the serial number on RSA devices.) That unique ID will then be linked to your Google acco... | Yes, it's "seeded" to your specific account. If you lose your phone you redownload the software. This destroys the capability of the old software to provide the needed key to get in (it uses the old salt, your newly d/l'd and logged in software uses the new one it just created). You redownload it using the process you ... |
459,535 | I'd like to turn on Google's two authentication factor on but first I'd like to understand how it works.
Specifically I'd like to use the Google app for smartphones (btw I checked the FAQ and this is *not* a question about smartphone but a question where smartphone are on-topic because they interface with a computer).... | 2012/08/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/459535",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/101799/"
] | Yes, it's "seeded" to your specific account. If you lose your phone you redownload the software. This destroys the capability of the old software to provide the needed key to get in (it uses the old salt, your newly d/l'd and logged in software uses the new one it just created). You redownload it using the process you ... | You can use Google Authenticator with a lot of services which support two-factor authentication. When you enable 2FA at service settings you get a QR code. This QR code contains the secret key. You scan it with the Google Authenticator app on your phone so the service and application know the same secret key. Based on ... |
459,535 | I'd like to turn on Google's two authentication factor on but first I'd like to understand how it works.
Specifically I'd like to use the Google app for smartphones (btw I checked the FAQ and this is *not* a question about smartphone but a question where smartphone are on-topic because they interface with a computer).... | 2012/08/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/459535",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/101799/"
] | Everyone is downloading the exact same Authenticator app at the same time. When launched for the first time, the app will ask for your Google login information and at the same time generate a unique ID for your phone (kind of like the serial number on RSA devices.) That unique ID will then be linked to your Google acco... | You can use Google Authenticator with a lot of services which support two-factor authentication. When you enable 2FA at service settings you get a QR code. This QR code contains the secret key. You scan it with the Google Authenticator app on your phone so the service and application know the same secret key. Based on ... |
35,983 | Is this possible using some clever bitcoin script? The intention is to get more privacy. I can give different addresses to different people still no one can guess how much I make in total. I can do this by generating several key pairs but I will have to save all the private keys somewhere. If I can come up with a way t... | 2015/02/10 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35983",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/23302/"
] | One private key maps onto two addresses - one that uses an uncompressed public key, and one that uses a compressed public key.
What you might also be interested in is [a deterministic wallet](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet) - a Bitcoin wallet holding multiple addresses generated from one private key /... | What you are looking for are [Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet). You can create one for example with the [Electrum](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Electrum) wallet.
Also see the tags [deterministic](/questions/tagged/deterministic "show questions tagged 'deterministic'") ... |
35,983 | Is this possible using some clever bitcoin script? The intention is to get more privacy. I can give different addresses to different people still no one can guess how much I make in total. I can do this by generating several key pairs but I will have to save all the private keys somewhere. If I can come up with a way t... | 2015/02/10 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35983",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/23302/"
] | What you are looking for are [Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet). You can create one for example with the [Electrum](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Electrum) wallet.
Also see the tags [deterministic](/questions/tagged/deterministic "show questions tagged 'deterministic'") ... | Besides the HD wallet technology, you might want to investigate "[stealth addresses](http://www.coindesk.com/stealth-addresses-secret-bitcoin-privacy/)" that are new to Bitcoin. Not aware of any easy to use wallets supporting stealth addresses yet, unless you are into the Darkwallet.
The libbitcoin framework currentl... |
35,983 | Is this possible using some clever bitcoin script? The intention is to get more privacy. I can give different addresses to different people still no one can guess how much I make in total. I can do this by generating several key pairs but I will have to save all the private keys somewhere. If I can come up with a way t... | 2015/02/10 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35983",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/23302/"
] | One private key maps onto two addresses - one that uses an uncompressed public key, and one that uses a compressed public key.
What you might also be interested in is [a deterministic wallet](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet) - a Bitcoin wallet holding multiple addresses generated from one private key /... | Besides the HD wallet technology, you might want to investigate "[stealth addresses](http://www.coindesk.com/stealth-addresses-secret-bitcoin-privacy/)" that are new to Bitcoin. Not aware of any easy to use wallets supporting stealth addresses yet, unless you are into the Darkwallet.
The libbitcoin framework currentl... |
12,266 | Now that Google's new Privacy Policy will combine data from their various services...
**Will Google associate me to my activity on one service even if I am not logged in to that service? Did they always do this?**
With the new policy I suspect that if I am logged in and Google search for kittens I may get suggested e... | 2012/02/29 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12266",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/8120/"
] | [Google Privacy Preview](http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/preview/)
"We may collect information about the services that you use and how you use them, like when you visit a website that uses our advertising services or you view and interact with our ads and content. This information includes: "
* Device informat... | I think the response is yes.
Be aware google have the **whole** history of your browser even on non-google site because of google third party scripts.
Example : google knows you visited this page because of Google Analytics and JQuery CDN.
When you GET this page, your browser GET Jquery on google CDN and send the loc... |
12,266 | Now that Google's new Privacy Policy will combine data from their various services...
**Will Google associate me to my activity on one service even if I am not logged in to that service? Did they always do this?**
With the new policy I suspect that if I am logged in and Google search for kittens I may get suggested e... | 2012/02/29 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12266",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/8120/"
] | [Google Privacy Preview](http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/preview/)
"We may collect information about the services that you use and how you use them, like when you visit a website that uses our advertising services or you view and interact with our ads and content. This information includes: "
* Device informat... | There is no mechanism to ensure ANY COMPANY, be it Google, MS, etc., is sharing your cookies. They can do so with "flashing" (real quickly) on a temporary basis, where no one would notice, having little to complain about. Aside from this, let's suppose they provided due diligence and never tracked, doesn't stop you fro... |
12,266 | Now that Google's new Privacy Policy will combine data from their various services...
**Will Google associate me to my activity on one service even if I am not logged in to that service? Did they always do this?**
With the new policy I suspect that if I am logged in and Google search for kittens I may get suggested e... | 2012/02/29 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12266",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/8120/"
] | I think the response is yes.
Be aware google have the **whole** history of your browser even on non-google site because of google third party scripts.
Example : google knows you visited this page because of Google Analytics and JQuery CDN.
When you GET this page, your browser GET Jquery on google CDN and send the loc... | There is no mechanism to ensure ANY COMPANY, be it Google, MS, etc., is sharing your cookies. They can do so with "flashing" (real quickly) on a temporary basis, where no one would notice, having little to complain about. Aside from this, let's suppose they provided due diligence and never tracked, doesn't stop you fro... |
70,372 | **What's wrong**
I know the chord shapes in my progression (G C G Am D G), the scale pattern underneath and I know the song I'm playing by heart. And yet - while I start soloing the song is gone. I can't make it sound like the song even though I'm highlighting SOME chord tones, for each chord in the progression.
**Ho... | 2018/04/26 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/70372",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/35014/"
] | At the beginning, with no chord pattern obvious, it could have been any old song. However, the bass and drums ( and occasional keyboard and possible guitar) shape things into the well-known sequence. Unmistakable. He is actually playing parts of the song and the guitar breaks associated. So, for anyone knowing the song... | As best I can tell, his guitar part is following the backing track, drums, bass, and I hear a rhythm guitar part in there also, I don't hear the song until the backing track comes in. However, I am aware that it's possible to play rhythm and melody lines alternately back and forth to create the forward motion that make... |
70,372 | **What's wrong**
I know the chord shapes in my progression (G C G Am D G), the scale pattern underneath and I know the song I'm playing by heart. And yet - while I start soloing the song is gone. I can't make it sound like the song even though I'm highlighting SOME chord tones, for each chord in the progression.
**Ho... | 2018/04/26 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/70372",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/35014/"
] | You have to know the song. The chords alone do not make a song (even though many of us start writing with rhythm riff). I am interpreting your question as asking how do you structure a meaningful solo over chords rather than what is this guy doing. If you really know your chords, substitutions, poly-chords, etc, you ca... | As best I can tell, his guitar part is following the backing track, drums, bass, and I hear a rhythm guitar part in there also, I don't hear the song until the backing track comes in. However, I am aware that it's possible to play rhythm and melody lines alternately back and forth to create the forward motion that make... |
70,372 | **What's wrong**
I know the chord shapes in my progression (G C G Am D G), the scale pattern underneath and I know the song I'm playing by heart. And yet - while I start soloing the song is gone. I can't make it sound like the song even though I'm highlighting SOME chord tones, for each chord in the progression.
**Ho... | 2018/04/26 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/70372",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/35014/"
] | At the beginning, with no chord pattern obvious, it could have been any old song. However, the bass and drums ( and occasional keyboard and possible guitar) shape things into the well-known sequence. Unmistakable. He is actually playing parts of the song and the guitar breaks associated. So, for anyone knowing the song... | You have to know the song. The chords alone do not make a song (even though many of us start writing with rhythm riff). I am interpreting your question as asking how do you structure a meaningful solo over chords rather than what is this guy doing. If you really know your chords, substitutions, poly-chords, etc, you ca... |
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