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91,589 | If this [link](http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/) is to be believed, then colemak/capewell/arensito are the layouts that make the fingers move the least amount of distance over the keyboard.
It looks like Colemak is the best supported one of the three, and the most similar to QWERTY.
Does anyone here have ... | 2010/01/05 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/91589",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/19004/"
] | When you log off, your session is ended, i.e. any programs you were running and your desktop, etc. and you return to the welcome screen. The PC still on, and there are system-level applications and services running.
When you shut down, everything stops running and the PC is powered off. | Log off will log out of your session, but the computer will remain running. You have the option to log in under another user.
Shutdown will logout and turn the computer off :) |
91,589 | If this [link](http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/) is to be believed, then colemak/capewell/arensito are the layouts that make the fingers move the least amount of distance over the keyboard.
It looks like Colemak is the best supported one of the three, and the most similar to QWERTY.
Does anyone here have ... | 2010/01/05 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/91589",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/19004/"
] | When you log off, your session is ended, i.e. any programs you were running and your desktop, etc. and you return to the welcome screen. The PC still on, and there are system-level applications and services running.
When you shut down, everything stops running and the PC is powered off. | Have you tried it? When you logoff, you logoff the current user and return to the login-screen. When you shutdown, you shutdown the computer wich then will be switched off. |
25,812 | I gave a interview at a great company on 21st May so technically its been 8 business days. The interview went great. I gave 2 interviews: one phone interview and final in-person interview.
The first interview went really well that it went from 1 (it was suppose to be 1 hour only) to 3 hours of technical questions (pro... | 2014/06/03 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/25812",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/20900/"
] | As with all job searches, until you have something in hand, you should move on and continue your search. Assuming you have done that, I would at least wait until the beginning of the 4th week, before contacting them. Since the indication you were given was up to three weeks, contacting before then is unnecessary, *unle... | >
> I gave a interview at a great company on 28th May so technically its
> been 8 business days. The interview went great. I gave 2 interviews:
> one phone interview and final in-person interview.
>
>
>
Was this in the U.S.? Or in the U.K.? Or elsewhere?
The reason being is in general I would say yes, you can t... |
25,812 | I gave a interview at a great company on 21st May so technically its been 8 business days. The interview went great. I gave 2 interviews: one phone interview and final in-person interview.
The first interview went really well that it went from 1 (it was suppose to be 1 hour only) to 3 hours of technical questions (pro... | 2014/06/03 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/25812",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/20900/"
] | As with all job searches, until you have something in hand, you should move on and continue your search. Assuming you have done that, I would at least wait until the beginning of the 4th week, before contacting them. Since the indication you were given was up to three weeks, contacting before then is unnecessary, *unle... | My general course of action in this type of scenario has always been to make contact, but only to express your thanks for the consideration and the interview, and your excitement at the prospect of working for their company. The benefit of this approach is that you get to establish contact again, hopefully putting your... |
30,328 | How do you OCR an tiff file using Tesseract's interface in c#?
Currently I only know how to do it using the executable. | 2008/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/30328",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3249/"
] | Take a look at [tessnet](http://www.pixel-technology.com/freeware/tessnet2/) | The source code seemed to be geared for an executable, you might need to rewire stuffs a bit so it would build as a DLL instead. I don't have much experience with Visual C++ but I think it shouldn't be too hard with some research. My guess is that someone might have had made a library version already, you should try Go... |
30,328 | How do you OCR an tiff file using Tesseract's interface in c#?
Currently I only know how to do it using the executable. | 2008/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/30328",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3249/"
] | The source code seemed to be geared for an executable, you might need to rewire stuffs a bit so it would build as a DLL instead. I don't have much experience with Visual C++ but I think it shouldn't be too hard with some research. My guess is that someone might have had made a library version already, you should try Go... | Disclaimer: I work for Atalasoft
Our [OCR module supports Tesseract](http://www.atalasoft.com/products/dotimage/ocr) and if that proves to not be good enough, you can upgrade to a better engine and just change one line of code (we provide a common interface to multiple OCR engines). |
30,328 | How do you OCR an tiff file using Tesseract's interface in c#?
Currently I only know how to do it using the executable. | 2008/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/30328",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3249/"
] | Take a look at [tessnet](http://www.pixel-technology.com/freeware/tessnet2/) | Disclaimer: I work for Atalasoft
Our [OCR module supports Tesseract](http://www.atalasoft.com/products/dotimage/ocr) and if that proves to not be good enough, you can upgrade to a better engine and just change one line of code (we provide a common interface to multiple OCR engines). |
180,750 | Is there a way to take substrings of a string with .bat/.cmd files?
For example given the string "hello.txt" is there a way to strip the .txt?
EDIT: Also is there a more general way to do this, not under the assumption that it is a file name or file path? | 2008/10/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/180750",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3153/"
] | For substring and other interesting "variable substitution" methods you can get help with:
>
> set /?
>
>
>
For string parsing (e.g. finding a '.' in a string) try
>
> for /?
>
>
> | Best way is just to install python (or perl)
Believe me, I've tried almost everything, and it's just headache to do text manipulation in 'DOS' (or actually anything else). |
180,750 | Is there a way to take substrings of a string with .bat/.cmd files?
For example given the string "hello.txt" is there a way to strip the .txt?
EDIT: Also is there a more general way to do this, not under the assumption that it is a file name or file path? | 2008/10/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/180750",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3153/"
] | For substring and other interesting "variable substitution" methods you can get help with:
>
> set /?
>
>
>
For string parsing (e.g. finding a '.' in a string) try
>
> for /?
>
>
> | For an arbitrary string, I don't think so.
For this very example, `%~n1` will resolve to a name without extension. |
15,015 | We've been working on/off on an account/bar header for a large corporate site for nearly a year now.
We've got so many stakeholders that nobody can ever agree what should go there!
What tools/ways/arguments do UX pros have for sorting this stuff out!
We have quantitave stats on header links useage, but many of those... | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15015",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/4597/"
] | **Do [A/B testing](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/24/the-ultimate-guide-to-a-b-testing/).**
By getting direct knowledge of what works or what doesn't from the analytical data collected by the tests from your user's behaviours, **data will speak by itself instead of each other's personal assumptions** (both th... | 1) Establish users problem that lead to this project
2) Check if this problem was real (e.g. use event tracking in Google Analytics to check users paths)
If real:
3) Establish clear and measurable objectives
4) Check what solutions will be easiest and fastest to develop
5) Do Multivariate Testing.
6) Choose best sol... |
15,015 | We've been working on/off on an account/bar header for a large corporate site for nearly a year now.
We've got so many stakeholders that nobody can ever agree what should go there!
What tools/ways/arguments do UX pros have for sorting this stuff out!
We have quantitave stats on header links useage, but many of those... | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15015",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/4597/"
] | I think its **more about politics and people** than about statics and testings. Nevertheless those give substance to your arguments.
In mettings at presenting your design:
* Keep in mind what history and interests your colleagues stand for. Be prepared for it and have arguments for that.
* Identify who is against you... | **Do [A/B testing](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/24/the-ultimate-guide-to-a-b-testing/).**
By getting direct knowledge of what works or what doesn't from the analytical data collected by the tests from your user's behaviours, **data will speak by itself instead of each other's personal assumptions** (both th... |
15,015 | We've been working on/off on an account/bar header for a large corporate site for nearly a year now.
We've got so many stakeholders that nobody can ever agree what should go there!
What tools/ways/arguments do UX pros have for sorting this stuff out!
We have quantitave stats on header links useage, but many of those... | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15015",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/4597/"
] | **Do [A/B testing](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/24/the-ultimate-guide-to-a-b-testing/).**
By getting direct knowledge of what works or what doesn't from the analytical data collected by the tests from your user's behaviours, **data will speak by itself instead of each other's personal assumptions** (both th... | I just read a great article on this from UX Magazine:
<http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/design-by-numbers-quantifying-the-subjective/>
In short, map the task to audience goals.
If it doesn't meet a goal, then it doesn't matter what a stakeholder thinks. |
15,015 | We've been working on/off on an account/bar header for a large corporate site for nearly a year now.
We've got so many stakeholders that nobody can ever agree what should go there!
What tools/ways/arguments do UX pros have for sorting this stuff out!
We have quantitave stats on header links useage, but many of those... | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15015",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/4597/"
] | I think its **more about politics and people** than about statics and testings. Nevertheless those give substance to your arguments.
In mettings at presenting your design:
* Keep in mind what history and interests your colleagues stand for. Be prepared for it and have arguments for that.
* Identify who is against you... | 1) Establish users problem that lead to this project
2) Check if this problem was real (e.g. use event tracking in Google Analytics to check users paths)
If real:
3) Establish clear and measurable objectives
4) Check what solutions will be easiest and fastest to develop
5) Do Multivariate Testing.
6) Choose best sol... |
15,015 | We've been working on/off on an account/bar header for a large corporate site for nearly a year now.
We've got so many stakeholders that nobody can ever agree what should go there!
What tools/ways/arguments do UX pros have for sorting this stuff out!
We have quantitave stats on header links useage, but many of those... | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15015",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/4597/"
] | 1) Establish users problem that lead to this project
2) Check if this problem was real (e.g. use event tracking in Google Analytics to check users paths)
If real:
3) Establish clear and measurable objectives
4) Check what solutions will be easiest and fastest to develop
5) Do Multivariate Testing.
6) Choose best sol... | I just read a great article on this from UX Magazine:
<http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/design-by-numbers-quantifying-the-subjective/>
In short, map the task to audience goals.
If it doesn't meet a goal, then it doesn't matter what a stakeholder thinks. |
15,015 | We've been working on/off on an account/bar header for a large corporate site for nearly a year now.
We've got so many stakeholders that nobody can ever agree what should go there!
What tools/ways/arguments do UX pros have for sorting this stuff out!
We have quantitave stats on header links useage, but many of those... | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15015",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/4597/"
] | I think its **more about politics and people** than about statics and testings. Nevertheless those give substance to your arguments.
In mettings at presenting your design:
* Keep in mind what history and interests your colleagues stand for. Be prepared for it and have arguments for that.
* Identify who is against you... | I just read a great article on this from UX Magazine:
<http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/design-by-numbers-quantifying-the-subjective/>
In short, map the task to audience goals.
If it doesn't meet a goal, then it doesn't matter what a stakeholder thinks. |
210,783 | I understand it is better **to automate BDD specifications below the user interface** whenever possible.
For example and quoting from Gojko Adzic's book: *Specification by Example*:
>
> Don't check business logic through the user interface
>
>
>
My question is then: ***What are the specific use cases when using ... | 2013/09/07 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/210783",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/101669/"
] | There are two distinct cases that might fall under the category of "using the UI" that you mentioned above, and they have different cases when it would make sense to use them:
1: specifying something using the UI concepts, language or elements - specific use cases that would justify this would be important rendering ... | My opinion is that BDD verification in the UI makes a lot of sense if the person writing the test isn't the person who wrote the application. Or if you just want more thorough testing to prove that when a user goes to your application, it will actually work and you really want to know that a relative path to an ajax se... |
348,584 | When I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I created a large partition on the hard drive to encrypt with TrueCrypt. Turns out I'm not using the amount of space I thought I would be for encrypting data, and I'm running out of space in my root partition.
Is it possible to resize a TrueCrypt partition with something like GPar... | 2011/10/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/348584",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/62157/"
] | TrueCrypt partitions aren't resizeable. You need to create new TrueCrypt partition of larger size. Maybe even two of them, as the data must be stored somewhere at the time of reformatting, and it still must be safe (encrypted). Recently I was extending size of my Truecrypt partition and used USB-HDD + TrueCrypt to hold... | I have yet to test it, but [this project](https://bitbucket.org/j0s3f/extcv/) does claim to support re-sizing volumes without formatting. |
348,584 | When I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I created a large partition on the hard drive to encrypt with TrueCrypt. Turns out I'm not using the amount of space I thought I would be for encrypting data, and I'm running out of space in my root partition.
Is it possible to resize a TrueCrypt partition with something like GPar... | 2011/10/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/348584",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/62157/"
] | TrueCrypt partitions aren't resizeable. You need to create new TrueCrypt partition of larger size. Maybe even two of them, as the data must be stored somewhere at the time of reformatting, and it still must be safe (encrypted). Recently I was extending size of my Truecrypt partition and used USB-HDD + TrueCrypt to hold... | You can only resize *encrypted system partitions* and you must do it while the encrypted operating system is running.
On Windows 7 I just used the regular tools to increase the size of the partition (Disk Management > Extend Volume).
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[Source:]... |
348,584 | When I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I created a large partition on the hard drive to encrypt with TrueCrypt. Turns out I'm not using the amount of space I thought I would be for encrypting data, and I'm running out of space in my root partition.
Is it possible to resize a TrueCrypt partition with something like GPar... | 2011/10/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/348584",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/62157/"
] | I have yet to test it, but [this project](https://bitbucket.org/j0s3f/extcv/) does claim to support re-sizing volumes without formatting. | You can only resize *encrypted system partitions* and you must do it while the encrypted operating system is running.
On Windows 7 I just used the regular tools to increase the size of the partition (Disk Management > Extend Volume).
---
[Source:]... |
104,643 | First, there was a cute animation that played on the first of April. Now a rainbow unicorn can be clearly seen on the Stack Overflow Dev Days 2011 advert. There seems to be a trend here. Is the site actually run by a secret cult that worships unicorns?
**Artist's impression of a unicorn:**
[![pencil sketch of a unic... | 2011/08/31 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104643",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/162460/"
] | >
> Is the site actually run by a secret cult that worships unicorns?
>
>
>
Yes. Yes it is.
Well, not necessarily *secret* anymore, since I've answered this question. | I prefer narwhals.
 |
569,656 | Wall of text? Feel free to jump to the four related questions towards the bottom!
I had a [previous post](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/561225/how-to-buffer-balanced-xlr-audio-signal-while-forwarding-phantom-power) discussing how to build a pop-free, electronically controlled mute circuit that goes i... | 2021/06/05 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/569656",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/8494/"
] | Your XLR wiring is incorrect, it should be between pins 2 and 3, not 1 and 2! | The key to any pop-free solution is to ensure that there’s no DC across the switch contacts, which includes any capacitor leakage, static charge etc. this is a tall order because the amount of energy required to generate an audible pop is tiny. This can be mitigated by activating the circuit progressively (over tens or... |
122,870 | I need to get all test classes (classes with isTest Annotation) in an Org..
Is there anyway to filter test classes out of all the Apex Classes | 2016/05/22 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/122870",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/28984/"
] | You can go to "Setup > Develop > Apex Test Execution". There you can press on the button "Select Tests...", this will list all the current test classes in your org. | I would use a command prompt search, like this:
findstr /L /I /M "@IsTest" \*.cls |
13,233,375 | I have a \*.jar file and i want to use some classes from it. Among the others, it contains class "a" from package "com.a.a" and package "com.a.a.a.a.e" with class "a". When i try to access the class as "com.a.a.a.a.e.a", there is an error: com.a.a.a.a cannot be resolved to a type. It happens because compiler tries to g... | 2012/11/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13233375",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/502144/"
] | Quote from the JLS:
>
> A simple name may occur in contexts where it may potentially be
> interpreted as the name of a variable, a type, or a package. In these
> situations, the rules of §6.5 specify that a variable will be chosen
> in preference to a type, and that a type will be chosen in preference
> to a pack... | Use Java Code Conventions - <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html> - and you will NEVER have such errors.
If you want to access jar - decompile it, fix it and assemble it back. |
13,233,375 | I have a \*.jar file and i want to use some classes from it. Among the others, it contains class "a" from package "com.a.a" and package "com.a.a.a.a.e" with class "a". When i try to access the class as "com.a.a.a.a.e.a", there is an error: com.a.a.a.a cannot be resolved to a type. It happens because compiler tries to g... | 2012/11/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13233375",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/502144/"
] | The JAR you're trying to use has most likely been [obfuscated](http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development/how-obfuscation-helps-protect-java-from-reverse-engineering/444), probably for the purpose of preventing what you're trying to do. Some Java obfuscators change the package, class, method, and vari... | Use Java Code Conventions - <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html> - and you will NEVER have such errors.
If you want to access jar - decompile it, fix it and assemble it back. |
13,233,375 | I have a \*.jar file and i want to use some classes from it. Among the others, it contains class "a" from package "com.a.a" and package "com.a.a.a.a.e" with class "a". When i try to access the class as "com.a.a.a.a.e.a", there is an error: com.a.a.a.a cannot be resolved to a type. It happens because compiler tries to g... | 2012/11/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13233375",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/502144/"
] | The JAR you're trying to use has most likely been [obfuscated](http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development/how-obfuscation-helps-protect-java-from-reverse-engineering/444), probably for the purpose of preventing what you're trying to do. Some Java obfuscators change the package, class, method, and vari... | Quote from the JLS:
>
> A simple name may occur in contexts where it may potentially be
> interpreted as the name of a variable, a type, or a package. In these
> situations, the rules of §6.5 specify that a variable will be chosen
> in preference to a type, and that a type will be chosen in preference
> to a pack... |
94,715 | I've got windows 7 pro running on my file server and my main desktop. Each has a gigabit network connection and I'm connected to a gigabit switch. However, when trying to copy some large files, it's running pretty slow at a measly 12-15 MB/s
The data is coming from a 7200RPM SATA drive (which I think should be good ... | 2010/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/94715",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3471/"
] | I'm running Windows 7 using Parallels/Boot Camp on a 3.4 Ghz Quad Core i7 with 16 gigs of RAM. Network transfer speeds were between 2 - 60k per second, until I followed the advice in [a Cake404 post](http://cake404.com/2011/08/slow-file-transfers-with-macbook-or-imac-when-running-windows/) regarding Broadcom network ca... | 1. Click on Start
2. Type "Local Security Policy" and press `Enter`
3. Navigate to **Security Settings** > **Local Policies** > **Security Options**
4. Set the following settings:
**Network security**: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients > untick "require 128-bit encryption
**... |
94,715 | I've got windows 7 pro running on my file server and my main desktop. Each has a gigabit network connection and I'm connected to a gigabit switch. However, when trying to copy some large files, it's running pretty slow at a measly 12-15 MB/s
The data is coming from a 7200RPM SATA drive (which I think should be good ... | 2010/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/94715",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3471/"
] | I hate to say this is Windows voodoo. I've seen improvements from disabling firewalls/anti-virus to using RAM disks, changing gigabit nics from PCI to PCIe, using faster switches, jumbo frames, flow control and shorter & better cables.
Funny when I download files from a samba box I seem to get better performance, but ... | 1. Click on Start
2. Type "Local Security Policy" and press `Enter`
3. Navigate to **Security Settings** > **Local Policies** > **Security Options**
4. Set the following settings:
**Network security**: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients > untick "require 128-bit encryption
**... |
94,715 | I've got windows 7 pro running on my file server and my main desktop. Each has a gigabit network connection and I'm connected to a gigabit switch. However, when trying to copy some large files, it's running pretty slow at a measly 12-15 MB/s
The data is coming from a 7200RPM SATA drive (which I think should be good ... | 2010/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/94715",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3471/"
] | I hate to say this is Windows voodoo. I've seen improvements from disabling firewalls/anti-virus to using RAM disks, changing gigabit nics from PCI to PCIe, using faster switches, jumbo frames, flow control and shorter & better cables.
Funny when I download files from a samba box I seem to get better performance, but ... | I have a Win 7 Pro Laptop (quad core) 1GB LAN
A linksys WRT1900AC with a Red Nas 3TB hdd.
My speed was 10Mb/s for wireless or wired file transfer to the NAS.
I did all of the following testing the wireless with no success, at the end I tried the ethernet and I got 63MB/s NOW!!!!!!
So I don't know what setting or regi... |
94,715 | I've got windows 7 pro running on my file server and my main desktop. Each has a gigabit network connection and I'm connected to a gigabit switch. However, when trying to copy some large files, it's running pretty slow at a measly 12-15 MB/s
The data is coming from a 7200RPM SATA drive (which I think should be good ... | 2010/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/94715",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3471/"
] | I'm running Windows 7 using Parallels/Boot Camp on a 3.4 Ghz Quad Core i7 with 16 gigs of RAM. Network transfer speeds were between 2 - 60k per second, until I followed the advice in [a Cake404 post](http://cake404.com/2011/08/slow-file-transfers-with-macbook-or-imac-when-running-windows/) regarding Broadcom network ca... | Requirement for full speed ethernet transfers (75% of 1000 every transfer +) is a Non-blocking, wire-speed transmission switch!
Switches:
* ZyXEL's GS1100-16 16 Port Desktop GbE Switch is a 16-port 10/100/1000 switch (I'm getting 700-800Mbit or 80Mbyte transfers)
* ZyXEL's GS1100-24 The GS1100-24 is a 24-port 10/100/... |
94,715 | I've got windows 7 pro running on my file server and my main desktop. Each has a gigabit network connection and I'm connected to a gigabit switch. However, when trying to copy some large files, it's running pretty slow at a measly 12-15 MB/s
The data is coming from a 7200RPM SATA drive (which I think should be good ... | 2010/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/94715",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3471/"
] | I hate to say this is Windows voodoo. I've seen improvements from disabling firewalls/anti-virus to using RAM disks, changing gigabit nics from PCI to PCIe, using faster switches, jumbo frames, flow control and shorter & better cables.
Funny when I download files from a samba box I seem to get better performance, but ... | One thing that is worth a try before going crazy with anything else is to switch the driver to not use Auto Negotiate for the speed but set it to 100MB/Full Duplex, test the transfer speed and then set it to 10MB/Full Duplex and test the transfer speed. |
68,180 | They say you should drink your wine in the 24 hours window since you have uncorked it. But what about using the wine in flavor bases to give sauces a sweet taste? Is it ok to use white wine for sauces even 2 weeks after you have uncorked it as long as it does not have a foul taste? | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/68180",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/42285/"
] | There's no rule that you have to drink your wine 24 hours after un-corking it, in fact some wines can taste better after 24 hours. 3 or 4 days is fine in many cases, and some wines are still drinkable a week after opening. This can be extended by refrigerating your wine after opening, white or red, you can get 2 weeks ... | Depending on what you're cooking, you might be able to use it if it's *just* past its best.
For example I make a red wine and smoked garlic pasta sauce. It normally has a tiny bit of vinegar in and robust (if not rough) red wine. So if the wine is past its best, just omit the vinegar.
The equivalent for white is pr... |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | There's Slick, JGame, GLib (very new, rather buggy), and XNA (C#, similar to Java). Take your pick.
-Slick: <http://goo.gl/CXsp>
-JGame: <http://goo.gl/Kdjrj>
-GLib: <http://goo.gl/LGFAw>
-XNA: <http://goo.gl/n4X1A> | Libgdx is brilliant and includes support for TMX such as tiled. <https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/>
You can also combine this with box2d fairly easily. |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I don't know about Java Game Engines, but your *"Can't load IA 32-bit .dll on a AMD 64-bit platform"* problem can be solved by uninstalling the 64-bit version of Java, and installing the 32-bit version instead. (It may be possible to have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions running in parallel, but if you're not doing 64-b... | Libgdx is brilliant and includes support for TMX such as tiled. <https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/>
You can also combine this with box2d fairly easily. |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I'd recommend purchasing the book "Developing Games in Java" by David Brackeen, it includes a tile-based game framework which seems excellent (I haven't implemented anything with it yet though).
[Link to amazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1592730051)
You could also download the code without getting... | Just to address your secondary issue, you can run Slick on a 64 bit architecture without needing to uninstall 64-bit java...
All you need to do is grab the latest [LWGJL jar](http://lwjgl.org/download.php) file and import it into your project. Then you need to load the naitive libraries (including the win64 dll) from ... |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Just to address your secondary issue, you can run Slick on a 64 bit architecture without needing to uninstall 64-bit java...
All you need to do is grab the latest [LWGJL jar](http://lwjgl.org/download.php) file and import it into your project. Then you need to load the naitive libraries (including the win64 dll) from ... | Libgdx is brilliant and includes support for TMX such as tiled. <https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/>
You can also combine this with box2d fairly easily. |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I'd recommend purchasing the book "Developing Games in Java" by David Brackeen, it includes a tile-based game framework which seems excellent (I haven't implemented anything with it yet though).
[Link to amazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1592730051)
You could also download the code without getting... | checkout this <http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/> |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I'd recommend purchasing the book "Developing Games in Java" by David Brackeen, it includes a tile-based game framework which seems excellent (I haven't implemented anything with it yet though).
[Link to amazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1592730051)
You could also download the code without getting... | I don't know about Java Game Engines, but your *"Can't load IA 32-bit .dll on a AMD 64-bit platform"* problem can be solved by uninstalling the 64-bit version of Java, and installing the 32-bit version instead. (It may be possible to have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions running in parallel, but if you're not doing 64-b... |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I'd recommend purchasing the book "Developing Games in Java" by David Brackeen, it includes a tile-based game framework which seems excellent (I haven't implemented anything with it yet though).
[Link to amazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1592730051)
You could also download the code without getting... | There's Slick, JGame, GLib (very new, rather buggy), and XNA (C#, similar to Java). Take your pick.
-Slick: <http://goo.gl/CXsp>
-JGame: <http://goo.gl/Kdjrj>
-GLib: <http://goo.gl/LGFAw>
-XNA: <http://goo.gl/n4X1A> |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I'd recommend purchasing the book "Developing Games in Java" by David Brackeen, it includes a tile-based game framework which seems excellent (I haven't implemented anything with it yet though).
[Link to amazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1592730051)
You could also download the code without getting... | [PulpCore](http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/) is utterly cool, supports tiling, but uses a software renderer and cannot run as a desktop application. Its development paradigm is very, very similar to Flash, except it has the benefit of being Java ;).
[Slick](http://slick.cokeandcode.com/) also supports tiling,... |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I'd recommend purchasing the book "Developing Games in Java" by David Brackeen, it includes a tile-based game framework which seems excellent (I haven't implemented anything with it yet though).
[Link to amazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1592730051)
You could also download the code without getting... | Libgdx is brilliant and includes support for TMX such as tiled. <https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/>
You can also combine this with box2d fairly easily. |
903,760 | Can anyone recommend a good Java game engine for developing simple tile-based games?
I'm looking for an engine that will allow me to build maps using something like Tiled www.mapeditor.org
Slick is exactly what I'm looking for, slick.cokeandcode.com but I can't get it working on Vista-64. The best I can manage is:Can... | 2009/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/903760",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | checkout this <http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/> | Libgdx is brilliant and includes support for TMX such as tiled. <https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/>
You can also combine this with box2d fairly easily. |
17,184,449 | The 'traditional' way to install an IPA file is via iTunes.
Its nice the way Test Flight and other tools allow doing this remotely, by downloading from an install link on the web or email.
I tried adding an IPA file to a remote server, and downloading, but Safari informed me "I don't know what to do with this file"... | 2013/06/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17184449",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/404201/"
] | The search term you're looking for is "over the air" distribution. Try the guide [here](http://shinydevelopment.com/blog/over-the-air-ios-provisioning-and-distribution/) | Enterprise distribution Over The Air
<http://help.apple.com/iosdeployment-apps/mac/1.1/?lang=en-us#app43ad871e> |
17,184,449 | The 'traditional' way to install an IPA file is via iTunes.
Its nice the way Test Flight and other tools allow doing this remotely, by downloading from an install link on the web or email.
I tried adding an IPA file to a remote server, and downloading, but Safari informed me "I don't know what to do with this file"... | 2013/06/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17184449",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/404201/"
] | The search term you're looking for is "over the air" distribution. Try the guide [here](http://shinydevelopment.com/blog/over-the-air-ios-provisioning-and-distribution/) | In a nutshell, these are the steps:
* in Xcode, use the Product->Archive command to archive your project.
* select the archive in the Organizer window and click the Distribute button
* choose Ad Hoc/Enterprise deployment
* when filling in the fields in the wizard, be sure to enter the URL where the application will be... |
66,846,750 | I am studying for my AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification and I am confused with the difference between AWS Lambda & AWS Elastic Beanstalk. From my understanding, for both services you upload your code to AWS and AWS essentially manages the underlying infrastructure for you.
I know with Lambda you upload your code to ... | 2021/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66846750",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14852773/"
] | Elastic beanstalk and lambda are very different though some of the features may look similar. At high level, elastic beanstalk deploys a long running application whereas lambda deploys short running code function
1. Lambda can at maximum run for 15 minutes, whereas EB can run continuously. Generally, we deploy website... | Lambda is run based on specific trigger events.. and it exits as soon as its work is over. |
66,846,750 | I am studying for my AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification and I am confused with the difference between AWS Lambda & AWS Elastic Beanstalk. From my understanding, for both services you upload your code to AWS and AWS essentially manages the underlying infrastructure for you.
I know with Lambda you upload your code to ... | 2021/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66846750",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14852773/"
] | Elastic beanstalk and lambda are very different though some of the features may look similar. At high level, elastic beanstalk deploys a long running application whereas lambda deploys short running code function
1. Lambda can at maximum run for 15 minutes, whereas EB can run continuously. Generally, we deploy website... | All great (and exam-specific) points by SmartCoder. If I may add a general ancillary comment:
Wittgenstein said, "In most cases, the meaning of a word is its use." I think this maxim is remarkably apt for software engineering too. In the context of your question, those two AWS services are used for significantly diffe... |
66,846,750 | I am studying for my AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification and I am confused with the difference between AWS Lambda & AWS Elastic Beanstalk. From my understanding, for both services you upload your code to AWS and AWS essentially manages the underlying infrastructure for you.
I know with Lambda you upload your code to ... | 2021/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66846750",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14852773/"
] | All great (and exam-specific) points by SmartCoder. If I may add a general ancillary comment:
Wittgenstein said, "In most cases, the meaning of a word is its use." I think this maxim is remarkably apt for software engineering too. In the context of your question, those two AWS services are used for significantly diffe... | Lambda is run based on specific trigger events.. and it exits as soon as its work is over. |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | Most-likely yes
---------------
Using animals because it's clearer (and relatively the same, evolution-wise), if you're talking like you'll have intelligent octopi on planet A and clever tool-using monkeys as dominant species on planet B, yes, definitely your flora (and fauna) will be different. Depending on the local... | Assuming that life does form on each planet independently, on its own (i.e., not a form of panspermia), and it forms on each of them during a concurrent time frame, **there's no reason to expect the biology found on each planet would be even remotely similar to the others.**
There may be some similarities due to the c... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | You can have vastly different flora in two adjacent valleys or mountain heights, so unconnected planets would definitely have them.
It would be weird if they all had the same flora, not the other way around. | One must recognize that four planets in the same orbit would be stable for at most a very short time. But even without perturbed orbits or collisions the planets would have different histories. One planet might experience a gamma-ray burst while its opposite is shielded, which makes a different history. If the Earth ha... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | One must recognize that four planets in the same orbit would be stable for at most a very short time. But even without perturbed orbits or collisions the planets would have different histories. One planet might experience a gamma-ray burst while its opposite is shielded, which makes a different history. If the Earth ha... | Assuming that life does form on each planet independently, on its own (i.e., not a form of panspermia), and it forms on each of them during a concurrent time frame, **there's no reason to expect the biology found on each planet would be even remotely similar to the others.**
There may be some similarities due to the c... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | Most-likely yes
---------------
Using animals because it's clearer (and relatively the same, evolution-wise), if you're talking like you'll have intelligent octopi on planet A and clever tool-using monkeys as dominant species on planet B, yes, definitely your flora (and fauna) will be different. Depending on the local... | One must recognize that four planets in the same orbit would be stable for at most a very short time. But even without perturbed orbits or collisions the planets would have different histories. One planet might experience a gamma-ray burst while its opposite is shielded, which makes a different history. If the Earth ha... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | You can have vastly different flora in two adjacent valleys or mountain heights, so unconnected planets would definitely have them.
It would be weird if they all had the same flora, not the other way around. | Assuming that life does form on each planet independently, on its own (i.e., not a form of panspermia), and it forms on each of them during a concurrent time frame, **there's no reason to expect the biology found on each planet would be even remotely similar to the others.**
There may be some similarities due to the c... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | Most-likely yes
---------------
Using animals because it's clearer (and relatively the same, evolution-wise), if you're talking like you'll have intelligent octopi on planet A and clever tool-using monkeys as dominant species on planet B, yes, definitely your flora (and fauna) will be different. Depending on the local... | Quite certainly yes.
Assuming that your planets have stable orbits, and perfectly identical starting conditions, varying flora and fauna in my opinion is guaranteed.
Every one of the planets will have it's share of chance events, influencing everything on the planet in big or small ways.
Things like the dinosaur k... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | Quite certainly yes.
Assuming that your planets have stable orbits, and perfectly identical starting conditions, varying flora and fauna in my opinion is guaranteed.
Every one of the planets will have it's share of chance events, influencing everything on the planet in big or small ways.
Things like the dinosaur k... | Assuming that life does form on each planet independently, on its own (i.e., not a form of panspermia), and it forms on each of them during a concurrent time frame, **there's no reason to expect the biology found on each planet would be even remotely similar to the others.**
There may be some similarities due to the c... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | You can have vastly different flora in two adjacent valleys or mountain heights, so unconnected planets would definitely have them.
It would be weird if they all had the same flora, not the other way around. | Part One : To panspermia or not to panspermia, that is the question
-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Panspermia (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) 'all ', and σπέρμα (sperma)
> 'seed') is the hypothesis, first proposed in the 5th
> century BC by the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, that... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | Most-likely yes
---------------
Using animals because it's clearer (and relatively the same, evolution-wise), if you're talking like you'll have intelligent octopi on planet A and clever tool-using monkeys as dominant species on planet B, yes, definitely your flora (and fauna) will be different. Depending on the local... | Part One : To panspermia or not to panspermia, that is the question
-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Panspermia (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) 'all ', and σπέρμα (sperma)
> 'seed') is the hypothesis, first proposed in the 5th
> century BC by the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, that... |
231,788 | This solar system contains four earths. These earths, however, are opposite from each other in relation to the sun and their moons are vastly different. Say the moons and earths produce the same amount of forces and keep a stable orbit, at the same orbital speed, in the same orbital plane. Would it be feasible that the... | 2022/06/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/231788",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/96863/"
] | You can have vastly different flora in two adjacent valleys or mountain heights, so unconnected planets would definitely have them.
It would be weird if they all had the same flora, not the other way around. | Quite certainly yes.
Assuming that your planets have stable orbits, and perfectly identical starting conditions, varying flora and fauna in my opinion is guaranteed.
Every one of the planets will have it's share of chance events, influencing everything on the planet in big or small ways.
Things like the dinosaur k... |
1,041,753 | I'm trying to replace a HDD with a SSD of slightly smaller size. The machine runs Windows 7 and has two partitions.
The source HDD is 250 GB has the two partitions, and about 60 GB of the HDD is in use. The destination drive is 240 GB. I used Gparted to ensure the partitioned size of the source is 20 GB smaller than t... | 2016/02/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1041753",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/173513/"
] | >
> The source HDD is 250 GB has the two partitions, and about 60 GB of the HDD is in use. The destination drive is 240 GB. I used Gparted to ensure the partitioned size of the source is 20 GB smaller than the capacity of the destination.
>
>
>
In this case, add 20GB of slack space for the shrink was not enough. I... | I have been using Macrium Reflect free for 4-5 years now and highly recommend it.
Download it, run it, check the system reserved and the C drive, click "Clone this disk.., and follow your nose....
If you're using partition C for the system and D for data (my recommendation), you can resize C after cloning using the Wi... |
2,443 | In Samurai Champloo, how in the world did Sara realize her son was dead while talking to the pinwheel guy? | 2013/02/11 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2443",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1453/"
] | She had some sort of extrasensory perception, which is proven by the fact that she was blind, but still proficient in fighting. Also, she tells Fuu that she is able to sense things she cannot see, and she can sense Momo hidden in her clothes. When she fights Muugen, she tells him she can sense his anger, meaning she co... | Though this answer is about 4 years late but I just got done rewatching Samurai Champloo recently so here it goes!
So the little shrine with the statue in it that the pinwheel guy is sitting behind is called a Jizo statue. Which is a shrine women who have had miscarriages, abortions, or grieving go to pray. That being ... |
2,443 | In Samurai Champloo, how in the world did Sara realize her son was dead while talking to the pinwheel guy? | 2013/02/11 | [
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] | She had some sort of extrasensory perception, which is proven by the fact that she was blind, but still proficient in fighting. Also, she tells Fuu that she is able to sense things she cannot see, and she can sense Momo hidden in her clothes. When she fights Muugen, she tells him she can sense his anger, meaning she co... | She mentioned to Muugen that being blind, she adapted the ability to sense the aura of individuals as each is significantly different.
The pinwheel suggested to the viewers the sons dead. But it was the boxes the man was travelling with that actually gave it away. Boxes the size of a human head. Sara was able to sense... |
2,443 | In Samurai Champloo, how in the world did Sara realize her son was dead while talking to the pinwheel guy? | 2013/02/11 | [
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] | She had some sort of extrasensory perception, which is proven by the fact that she was blind, but still proficient in fighting. Also, she tells Fuu that she is able to sense things she cannot see, and she can sense Momo hidden in her clothes. When she fights Muugen, she tells him she can sense his anger, meaning she co... | I think I took it simply.
The masked guy was still making the same threat even though Sara already failed her mission. He could have killed her son already but that wasn't the case, so Sara in her realization thought her son was probably dead already thus the masked guy holds no hostage (i.e her son). |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | One oft-used idiom for remaining silent is ["keeping your own counsel"](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/keep-your-own-counsel) (Cambridge Dictionaries)
* to not say what your opinions are | If you are looking specifically for a mouth-oriented phrase that is not "muzzled" then ["tight-lipped"](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tight-lipped?s=t) could be used, though it does not imply *complete and utter* silence:
>
> (Adj) 1. speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
>
>
> |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | Metaphors for keeping quiet are generally transitive, for example *muzzled* or *gagged*.
>
> The protestors were effectively gagged by the court order.
>
> Opposition leaders accused him of muzzling the news media [example from [ODO](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/muzzle)]
>
>
>
The reas... | "Stifle yourself, Dingbat!" Archie to Edith Bunker, from *All In The Family* by Norman Lear, circa 1971. |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | Metaphors for keeping quiet are generally transitive, for example *muzzled* or *gagged*.
>
> The protestors were effectively gagged by the court order.
>
> Opposition leaders accused him of muzzling the news media [example from [ODO](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/muzzle)]
>
>
>
The reas... | One oft-used idiom for remaining silent is ["keeping your own counsel"](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/keep-your-own-counsel) (Cambridge Dictionaries)
* to not say what your opinions are |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
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] | It was [explained](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/215831/98955) that you wouldn't choose to *muzzle* yourself. I don't think you would [*put a damper on*](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+a+damper+on) your speech either. But there is [*self-censorship*](http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/se... | If you are looking specifically for a mouth-oriented phrase that is not "muzzled" then ["tight-lipped"](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tight-lipped?s=t) could be used, though it does not imply *complete and utter* silence:
>
> (Adj) 1. speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
>
>
> |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | I think the figure of speech you're looking for is to **hold your tongue**.
>
> **hold one's tongue** ([TFD](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/hold+tongue))
>
>
> Fig. to refrain from speaking; to refrain from saying something unpleasant. I felt like scolding her, but I held my tongue. Hold your tongue, John. You... | If you are looking specifically for a mouth-oriented phrase that is not "muzzled" then ["tight-lipped"](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tight-lipped?s=t) could be used, though it does not imply *complete and utter* silence:
>
> (Adj) 1. speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
>
>
> |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | Wearing a muzzle could be used metaphorically, but the meaning would not be clear. To me it conveys the idea of being forced not to talk. Choosing to keep silent can be expressed as:
to [keep mum](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/keep+mum) or keep one's mouth shut:
>
> * refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent;... | One oft-used idiom for remaining silent is ["keeping your own counsel"](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/keep-your-own-counsel) (Cambridge Dictionaries)
* to not say what your opinions are |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
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] | Some say that they're keeping their lips zipped where I'm from, but its more associated with secrets... But it can work. "He kept his lips sealed when he knew he ought to say something about... his manager?" What's the context? Either way, there's probably more creative ones. Clammed up is one...
Coming at the questio... | If you are looking specifically for a mouth-oriented phrase that is not "muzzled" then ["tight-lipped"](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tight-lipped?s=t) could be used, though it does not imply *complete and utter* silence:
>
> (Adj) 1. speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
>
>
> |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | Wearing a muzzle could be used metaphorically, but the meaning would not be clear. To me it conveys the idea of being forced not to talk. Choosing to keep silent can be expressed as:
to [keep mum](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/keep+mum) or keep one's mouth shut:
>
> * refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent;... | If you are looking specifically for a mouth-oriented phrase that is not "muzzled" then ["tight-lipped"](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tight-lipped?s=t) could be used, though it does not imply *complete and utter* silence:
>
> (Adj) 1. speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
>
>
> |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Metaphors for keeping quiet are generally transitive, for example *muzzled* or *gagged*.
>
> The protestors were effectively gagged by the court order.
>
> Opposition leaders accused him of muzzling the news media [example from [ODO](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/muzzle)]
>
>
>
The reas... | Wearing a muzzle could be used metaphorically, but the meaning would not be clear. To me it conveys the idea of being forced not to talk. Choosing to keep silent can be expressed as:
to [keep mum](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/keep+mum) or keep one's mouth shut:
>
> * refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent;... |
215,825 | To wear blinkers or blinders is used metaphorically to mean choosing deliberately not to see or ignore the truth; to wear ear plugs refers to one voluntarily choosing not to listen. How about the mouth?
Can choosing to keep silent when one oughtn't be metaphorically referred to as **wearing a muzzle?** | 2014/12/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215825",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | I think the figure of speech you're looking for is to **hold your tongue**.
>
> **hold one's tongue** ([TFD](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/hold+tongue))
>
>
> Fig. to refrain from speaking; to refrain from saying something unpleasant. I felt like scolding her, but I held my tongue. Hold your tongue, John. You... | One oft-used idiom for remaining silent is ["keeping your own counsel"](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/keep-your-own-counsel) (Cambridge Dictionaries)
* to not say what your opinions are |
204,284 | The difference between ‘He had only been there for a few minutes’ and ‘He had been there only for a few minutes.’ ?
The ‘only’ was put in different position. | 2019/04/07 | [
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] | By moving the "only" past the "been there" part, it adds emphasis to the "few minutes"
Two situations would illustrate the difference in usage:
1. A man is standing in a bus line. He had only been there for a few minutes, when the bus arrived.
2. A man is cheered by seeing the bus arrive; he had been there only for a... | There is no significant difference in meaning, and both are correct.
>
> He had only been there for a few minutes
>
>
>
emphasizes the shortness of the time more strongly than the other version.
By the way, "for" can be omitted (elided) in either case
>
> He had only been there a few minutes
>
>
> He had bee... |
204,284 | The difference between ‘He had only been there for a few minutes’ and ‘He had been there only for a few minutes.’ ?
The ‘only’ was put in different position. | 2019/04/07 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/204284",
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] | By moving the "only" past the "been there" part, it adds emphasis to the "few minutes"
Two situations would illustrate the difference in usage:
1. A man is standing in a bus line. He had only been there for a few minutes, when the bus arrived.
2. A man is cheered by seeing the bus arrive; he had been there only for a... | Actually, there are more options.
The ones you proposed:
1. He had only been there for a few minutes.
2. He had been there only for a few minutes.
but also
3. He had been there for only a few minutes.
I disagree with the other answers (so far), which seem to suggest choices #1 and #2 are equally 100% correct, or e... |
708,766 | 5.18.9-arch1-1
Dell XPS 15 9510
I am running arch linux on xmonad. I do not have a login manager. On boot, I simply login via the tty and run startx to start my x session. This behavior is exactly what I want.
However, when I sleep or hibernate via systemctl sleep/hibernate, upon waking I am thrown right back into my... | 2022/07/06 | [
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/708766",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com",
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] | You should be able to do this from a start-up script.
With the i3 window manager, you can execute a shell script from the i3 config to execute programs and move them to the appropriate workspace.
There are a few other ways to run scripts on startup, e.g. cron, rc.local, init.d.
Source: <https://www.baeldung.com/li... | >
> However, when I sleep or hibernate via systemctl sleep/hibernate, upon
> waking I am thrown right back into my graphical environment. I find
> this behavior to be insecure because I do not have to reauthenticate.
>
>
>
Create a hook on sleep/hibernate/resume to launch an external screen locker is simpler and k... |
51,816 | a developer I'm working with is having a difficult time serving 404 errors on dynamically generated pages (they get created when the request is made by querying the database to see if the content exists)
He has told me (paraphrasing) that it's too late to serve the error because the page has already started loading by... | 2013/08/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/51816",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20253/"
] | Your third option will be the option to consider here. A proper 301 redirect to the new content will let the crawlers know, that the content has moved. They will keep the page rank and move it to the new domain.
As far as your Webmaster Tools are concerned, you will have to use the [Change of Address](https://support.... | Make a sitemap of the current page structure now, and do all 301 redirects for every page (*.htaccess*), quite easily since the structure is more or less the same.
And then make changes also in Webmaster Tools and resubmit new sitemap. |
51,816 | a developer I'm working with is having a difficult time serving 404 errors on dynamically generated pages (they get created when the request is made by querying the database to see if the content exists)
He has told me (paraphrasing) that it's too late to serve the error because the page has already started loading by... | 2013/08/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/51816",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20253/"
] | Your third option will be the option to consider here. A proper 301 redirect to the new content will let the crawlers know, that the content has moved. They will keep the page rank and move it to the new domain.
As far as your Webmaster Tools are concerned, you will have to use the [Change of Address](https://support.... | I concur with what the previous commenters have said.
I would also recommend using an on-page checker (a <http://www.w3.org/> checker or an seo site auditor <http://www.link-assistant.com/website-auditor/>) to check if the redirects are set up correctly.
this will also show you what pages have canonical tags, special... |
51,816 | a developer I'm working with is having a difficult time serving 404 errors on dynamically generated pages (they get created when the request is made by querying the database to see if the content exists)
He has told me (paraphrasing) that it's too late to serve the error because the page has already started loading by... | 2013/08/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/51816",
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] | I concur with what the previous commenters have said.
I would also recommend using an on-page checker (a <http://www.w3.org/> checker or an seo site auditor <http://www.link-assistant.com/website-auditor/>) to check if the redirects are set up correctly.
this will also show you what pages have canonical tags, special... | Make a sitemap of the current page structure now, and do all 301 redirects for every page (*.htaccess*), quite easily since the structure is more or less the same.
And then make changes also in Webmaster Tools and resubmit new sitemap. |
44,138 | I'm looking for a quote by Pema Chodron. In my memory, she's having a discussion with a Zen master, and the quote goes something like this;
Pema: "what do you do when things fall apart?"
Zen Master: "I stay"
I seem to remember it being in her book When Things Fall Apart, but I searched it for the word 'stay' and I c... | 2021/02/25 | [
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] | Here is the quote I was looking for last year,
>
> I once asked the Zen master Kobun Chino Roshi how he related with fear, and he said, "I agree. I agree."
>
>
>
It is on page 9 of my copy, which is a 2005 edition printed on the Element imprint of HarperCollins. | >
> “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be
> continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in
> no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.
> To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ”
>
>
>
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: He... |
427,920 | I am looking for libraries that would help in programatically manipulating EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files. Basically, what I want to do is following:
* Show / Hide preexisting layers in the EPS file (toggle them on and off)
* Fill (color) named shapes in the EPS file
* Retrieve coordinates of named points in the ... | 2009/01/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/427920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2260/"
] | PDF is not manipulable since it is not possible to change any existing parts of a pdf (in general) only add stuff. EPS is the same as PostScript except that it has a boundary header.
Problem with doing what you want is that PS is a programming language whose output (mostly) is some kind of image. So the question coul... | I am not aware of any available libraries for this but you may be able to build something to meet your needs based on [epstool](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm) from Ghostscript/GSview |
427,920 | I am looking for libraries that would help in programatically manipulating EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files. Basically, what I want to do is following:
* Show / Hide preexisting layers in the EPS file (toggle them on and off)
* Fill (color) named shapes in the EPS file
* Retrieve coordinates of named points in the ... | 2009/01/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/427920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2260/"
] | This is extremely difficult and here is why: a PS file is a program whose execution results in pixels put on a page. Instruction in a PS program are at the level of "draw a line using the current pen and color" or "rotate the coordinate system by 90 degrees" but there is no notion of layers or complex objects like you ... | I am not aware of any available libraries for this but you may be able to build something to meet your needs based on [epstool](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm) from Ghostscript/GSview |
427,920 | I am looking for libraries that would help in programatically manipulating EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files. Basically, what I want to do is following:
* Show / Hide preexisting layers in the EPS file (toggle them on and off)
* Fill (color) named shapes in the EPS file
* Retrieve coordinates of named points in the ... | 2009/01/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/427920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2260/"
] | PDF is not manipulable since it is not possible to change any existing parts of a pdf (in general) only add stuff. EPS is the same as PostScript except that it has a boundary header.
Problem with doing what you want is that PS is a programming language whose output (mostly) is some kind of image. So the question coul... | I think your best bet is to generate a PDF from the EPS and then manipulate the PDF. Then back to EPS. PDF is much more "manipulable" than is EPS. |
427,920 | I am looking for libraries that would help in programatically manipulating EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files. Basically, what I want to do is following:
* Show / Hide preexisting layers in the EPS file (toggle them on and off)
* Fill (color) named shapes in the EPS file
* Retrieve coordinates of named points in the ... | 2009/01/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/427920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2260/"
] | This is extremely difficult and here is why: a PS file is a program whose execution results in pixels put on a page. Instruction in a PS program are at the level of "draw a line using the current pen and color" or "rotate the coordinate system by 90 degrees" but there is no notion of layers or complex objects like you ... | I think your best bet is to generate a PDF from the EPS and then manipulate the PDF. Then back to EPS. PDF is much more "manipulable" than is EPS. |
427,920 | I am looking for libraries that would help in programatically manipulating EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files. Basically, what I want to do is following:
* Show / Hide preexisting layers in the EPS file (toggle them on and off)
* Fill (color) named shapes in the EPS file
* Retrieve coordinates of named points in the ... | 2009/01/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/427920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2260/"
] | This is extremely difficult and here is why: a PS file is a program whose execution results in pixels put on a page. Instruction in a PS program are at the level of "draw a line using the current pen and color" or "rotate the coordinate system by 90 degrees" but there is no notion of layers or complex objects like you ... | PDF is not manipulable since it is not possible to change any existing parts of a pdf (in general) only add stuff. EPS is the same as PostScript except that it has a boundary header.
Problem with doing what you want is that PS is a programming language whose output (mostly) is some kind of image. So the question coul... |
43,943 | Ok, so the title is not how it's suggested, I know the point of having a degree, I obtained two which I worked very hard to get.
The question that I am trying to ask, or, the point that I'm trying to make is that, in the United Kingdom, at every possible avenue where I tried to progress into the industry (I'm a softw... | 2015/04/10 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43943",
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] | This question is quite speculative. You can't generalize how "the company" would react to discovering this, because every company is lead by humans, and humans are different.
However, discovering that someone lied about their qualifications for years is a revelation which paints their character in a very bad light. It... | Isn't it better just to tell the truth? If you start fibbing, then you have to always remember which fib you told to whom, and one lie always seems to require more to lies to keep the truth from coming out. It eventually becomes exhausting to maintain your appearances, and you slip up. And doesn't it just stink to have... |
43,943 | Ok, so the title is not how it's suggested, I know the point of having a degree, I obtained two which I worked very hard to get.
The question that I am trying to ask, or, the point that I'm trying to make is that, in the United Kingdom, at every possible avenue where I tried to progress into the industry (I'm a softw... | 2015/04/10 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43943",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/33985/"
] | This question is quite speculative. You can't generalize how "the company" would react to discovering this, because every company is lead by humans, and humans are different.
However, discovering that someone lied about their qualifications for years is a revelation which paints their character in a very bad light. It... | Not having a degree, yet claiming you *do* is **fraud**. If you get caught, people might report you and eventually you can get arrested for it.
It's quite a severe crime, don't think too lightly of it. |
43,943 | Ok, so the title is not how it's suggested, I know the point of having a degree, I obtained two which I worked very hard to get.
The question that I am trying to ask, or, the point that I'm trying to make is that, in the United Kingdom, at every possible avenue where I tried to progress into the industry (I'm a softw... | 2015/04/10 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43943",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/33985/"
] | Not having a degree, yet claiming you *do* is **fraud**. If you get caught, people might report you and eventually you can get arrested for it.
It's quite a severe crime, don't think too lightly of it. | Isn't it better just to tell the truth? If you start fibbing, then you have to always remember which fib you told to whom, and one lie always seems to require more to lies to keep the truth from coming out. It eventually becomes exhausting to maintain your appearances, and you slip up. And doesn't it just stink to have... |
43,943 | Ok, so the title is not how it's suggested, I know the point of having a degree, I obtained two which I worked very hard to get.
The question that I am trying to ask, or, the point that I'm trying to make is that, in the United Kingdom, at every possible avenue where I tried to progress into the industry (I'm a softw... | 2015/04/10 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43943",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/33985/"
] | I help to hire people straight out of university. There are two things you're missing.
>
> To which, no one asked for any proof or what my final grades were.
>
>
>
No - they would have gone straight to your university and asked them.
Candidates can exaggerate, lie, or misremember - institutions don't. They didn'... | Isn't it better just to tell the truth? If you start fibbing, then you have to always remember which fib you told to whom, and one lie always seems to require more to lies to keep the truth from coming out. It eventually becomes exhausting to maintain your appearances, and you slip up. And doesn't it just stink to have... |
43,943 | Ok, so the title is not how it's suggested, I know the point of having a degree, I obtained two which I worked very hard to get.
The question that I am trying to ask, or, the point that I'm trying to make is that, in the United Kingdom, at every possible avenue where I tried to progress into the industry (I'm a softw... | 2015/04/10 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43943",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/33985/"
] | I help to hire people straight out of university. There are two things you're missing.
>
> To which, no one asked for any proof or what my final grades were.
>
>
>
No - they would have gone straight to your university and asked them.
Candidates can exaggerate, lie, or misremember - institutions don't. They didn'... | Not having a degree, yet claiming you *do* is **fraud**. If you get caught, people might report you and eventually you can get arrested for it.
It's quite a severe crime, don't think too lightly of it. |
50,981 | We're playing a cross-over nwod game where some of the players are mages and others are vampires. Our moros mage asked if he could effect vampire body (heal, empower, dampen) with his death arcana in the same way that a life mage effects living beings. I wasn't able to find anything on the books about it, and am unsure... | 2014/11/17 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/50981",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/15669/"
] | I have no big knowledge of NWoD, but since its (more or less) based on the oWoD I can bring you the old rule used by my ST, that hopefully will be helpful: to do something with vampire's body mage had to join "life sphere" with "matter" (usually only one dot, in more complicated operations two), since vampires were bot... | Vampires' not alive son, and Life is strictly about anything that breathes.
Mind don't work too. Again, anything that has a brain pulse counts when it comes to affecting others. Vampires don't have em', don't need em' and it can't work in the first place. Now unless you're making the judgement that their brains are "w... |
50,981 | We're playing a cross-over nwod game where some of the players are mages and others are vampires. Our moros mage asked if he could effect vampire body (heal, empower, dampen) with his death arcana in the same way that a life mage effects living beings. I wasn't able to find anything on the books about it, and am unsure... | 2014/11/17 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/50981",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/15669/"
] | In general, Death replaces Life directly. Spells that do not involve Life can affect kindred as normal without requiring Death conjunctional. All these spells are handled as improvised, since few Mages would take the effort to codify them into rotes.
For any spell that directly targets a vampire, Blood Potency gets a... | Vampires' not alive son, and Life is strictly about anything that breathes.
Mind don't work too. Again, anything that has a brain pulse counts when it comes to affecting others. Vampires don't have em', don't need em' and it can't work in the first place. Now unless you're making the judgement that their brains are "w... |
50,981 | We're playing a cross-over nwod game where some of the players are mages and others are vampires. Our moros mage asked if he could effect vampire body (heal, empower, dampen) with his death arcana in the same way that a life mage effects living beings. I wasn't able to find anything on the books about it, and am unsure... | 2014/11/17 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/50981",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/15669/"
] | In general, Death replaces Life directly. Spells that do not involve Life can affect kindred as normal without requiring Death conjunctional. All these spells are handled as improvised, since few Mages would take the effort to codify them into rotes.
For any spell that directly targets a vampire, Blood Potency gets a... | I have no big knowledge of NWoD, but since its (more or less) based on the oWoD I can bring you the old rule used by my ST, that hopefully will be helpful: to do something with vampire's body mage had to join "life sphere" with "matter" (usually only one dot, in more complicated operations two), since vampires were bot... |
3,424,027 | For the past month I've been using Scrapy for a web crawling project I've begun.
This project involves pulling down the full document content of all web pages in a single domain name that are reachable from the home page. Writing this using Scrapy was quite easy, but it simply runs too slowly. In 2-3 days I can only p... | 2010/08/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3424027",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/384954/"
] | This my be fault of server not Scrapy. Server may be not so fast as you want or may be it (or webmaster) detects crawling and limit speed for this connection/cookie.
Do you use proxy? This may slow down crawling too.
This may be Scrapy wisdom, if you will crawl too intensive you may get ban on this server. For my C++ [... | Scrapy allows you to determine the number of concurrent requests and the delay between the requests in [its settings](http://doc.scrapy.org/topics/settings.html). |
3,424,027 | For the past month I've been using Scrapy for a web crawling project I've begun.
This project involves pulling down the full document content of all web pages in a single domain name that are reachable from the home page. Writing this using Scrapy was quite easy, but it simply runs too slowly. In 2-3 days I can only p... | 2010/08/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3424027",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/384954/"
] | This my be fault of server not Scrapy. Server may be not so fast as you want or may be it (or webmaster) detects crawling and limit speed for this connection/cookie.
Do you use proxy? This may slow down crawling too.
This may be Scrapy wisdom, if you will crawl too intensive you may get ban on this server. For my C++ [... | Do you know where the bottleneck is?. As whalebot.helmsman pointed out, the limit may not be on Scrapy itself, but on the server you're crawling.
You should start by finding out whether the bottleneck is the network or CPU. |
3,424,027 | For the past month I've been using Scrapy for a web crawling project I've begun.
This project involves pulling down the full document content of all web pages in a single domain name that are reachable from the home page. Writing this using Scrapy was quite easy, but it simply runs too slowly. In 2-3 days I can only p... | 2010/08/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3424027",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/384954/"
] | Scrapy allows you to determine the number of concurrent requests and the delay between the requests in [its settings](http://doc.scrapy.org/topics/settings.html). | Do you know where the bottleneck is?. As whalebot.helmsman pointed out, the limit may not be on Scrapy itself, but on the server you're crawling.
You should start by finding out whether the bottleneck is the network or CPU. |
41,911,740 | whenever I open android device monitor ,I see this (image attached) blank screen where nothing is working.
Actually i want to access the sqlite so I was using android device monitor, but i don't know what happened to this, it is started behaving abnormally.
please help!
![weird blank screen where nothing is working]... | 2017/01/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/41911740",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7483266/"
] | I see from the screenshot this is regarding a windows machine but it may be the same issue as on the OS X, on OS X Android Device monitor does not seem to work on jdk1.8.0\_162. Installing a previous version worked for me. If you install java jdk1.8.0\_151 or anything earlier from the archive and delete your 16X versio... | Please follow the following steps:
1. Note that you will have to downgrade to version 1.8.0\_151,
downgrading to 1.8.0\_152 will not help.
2. Download and install the older version -
<https://filehippo.com/mac/download_java_development_kit_for_mac/78808/>
3. Check if the older version is installed by running the comma... |
700,791 | A friend of mine had an assignment on a USB drive but it stopped working. On her computer the drive appears but when you go to the folder it says "inaccessible". I tried it on my computer and it appears to recognize the hardware but the drive never mounts. What can I try to recover the data? I hate to say it but the me... | 2014/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/700791",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/137864/"
] | It is a well known fact that T-Mobile uses several unused ranges as if they were rfc1918 ranges. Continual complaining to T-mobile might help the situation. This is clearly T-mobiles fault and the blame can't be pointed anywhere else. | Disclaimer: I don't know if this is still an issue, I am not a T-Mobile user and the newest posts about this are a couple of years old. Even if they have fixed it this post may be useful in dealing with other carriers.
Afaict there is no law that protects against such IP abuse where providers use public addresses the... |
86,645 | **How can I ensure that the whole RAM was zeroed-out?** Does a reboot (Power On Self Test) clear whole memory before system is booted? Or does a Linux kernel zero memory before proceeding?
I am familiar with [cold boot attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack) and [TRESOR countermeasure](https://en.wikip... | 2015/04/22 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86645",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/71955/"
] | During the [POST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test), the BIOS traditionally performs a "memory test" which entails writing to and rereading the whole of the physical RAM. However, this process can take a non-negligible amount of time, and is rather bad at detecting bad memory (it reliably detects only *v... | On [Tails](https://tails.boum.org/) it does!
Other than that I am not aware of any other popular operating system that does this by default, so if someone inserted your RAM sticks into some kind of OS written for the purpose of snooping your data (it would likely have to be an essentially bespoke kernel to avoid any R... |
86,645 | **How can I ensure that the whole RAM was zeroed-out?** Does a reboot (Power On Self Test) clear whole memory before system is booted? Or does a Linux kernel zero memory before proceeding?
I am familiar with [cold boot attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack) and [TRESOR countermeasure](https://en.wikip... | 2015/04/22 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86645",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/71955/"
] | During the [POST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test), the BIOS traditionally performs a "memory test" which entails writing to and rereading the whole of the physical RAM. However, this process can take a non-negligible amount of time, and is rather bad at detecting bad memory (it reliably detects only *v... | Reboot no, not anymore.
Today systems are designed to be able to sustain the RAM content very well for stand-by/sleep/hibernate or any type of suspended states and for other purposes like persistent RAM disks. Unless the software does special things to clear RAM content (like TrueCrypt does if you run truecrypt /wipec... |
86,645 | **How can I ensure that the whole RAM was zeroed-out?** Does a reboot (Power On Self Test) clear whole memory before system is booted? Or does a Linux kernel zero memory before proceeding?
I am familiar with [cold boot attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack) and [TRESOR countermeasure](https://en.wikip... | 2015/04/22 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86645",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/71955/"
] | During the [POST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test), the BIOS traditionally performs a "memory test" which entails writing to and rereading the whole of the physical RAM. However, this process can take a non-negligible amount of time, and is rather bad at detecting bad memory (it reliably detects only *v... | On virtual machines it seems memory isn't cleared. In IncludeOS (includeos.org) we use this to store crash data in memory (as the IP stack and IO system might not be functional) and pick up the crash report after rebooting the system.
We've tested this on qemu/kvm and Vmware ESXi. We have not tested on bare metal. |
86,645 | **How can I ensure that the whole RAM was zeroed-out?** Does a reboot (Power On Self Test) clear whole memory before system is booted? Or does a Linux kernel zero memory before proceeding?
I am familiar with [cold boot attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack) and [TRESOR countermeasure](https://en.wikip... | 2015/04/22 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86645",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/71955/"
] | On [Tails](https://tails.boum.org/) it does!
Other than that I am not aware of any other popular operating system that does this by default, so if someone inserted your RAM sticks into some kind of OS written for the purpose of snooping your data (it would likely have to be an essentially bespoke kernel to avoid any R... | Reboot no, not anymore.
Today systems are designed to be able to sustain the RAM content very well for stand-by/sleep/hibernate or any type of suspended states and for other purposes like persistent RAM disks. Unless the software does special things to clear RAM content (like TrueCrypt does if you run truecrypt /wipec... |
86,645 | **How can I ensure that the whole RAM was zeroed-out?** Does a reboot (Power On Self Test) clear whole memory before system is booted? Or does a Linux kernel zero memory before proceeding?
I am familiar with [cold boot attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack) and [TRESOR countermeasure](https://en.wikip... | 2015/04/22 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86645",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/71955/"
] | On [Tails](https://tails.boum.org/) it does!
Other than that I am not aware of any other popular operating system that does this by default, so if someone inserted your RAM sticks into some kind of OS written for the purpose of snooping your data (it would likely have to be an essentially bespoke kernel to avoid any R... | On virtual machines it seems memory isn't cleared. In IncludeOS (includeos.org) we use this to store crash data in memory (as the IP stack and IO system might not be functional) and pick up the crash report after rebooting the system.
We've tested this on qemu/kvm and Vmware ESXi. We have not tested on bare metal. |
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