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170,473 | A major plot point for my story is the Protagonist stumbling upon a planet that was purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy (at the edge of the galaxy) as it's being used by high level government officials to conduct a secret trade of a commodity that only this planet has and that uses the planet's population to harvest.
It was recently pointed out to me that my original idea (IE. a network of jammers) wouldn't meet the science of being able to hide a planet from star maps / ship scanners / etc. So the question is:
What are some plausible ways for an government agency to hide a planet from normal travelers / star maps / sensors / etc.?
Based on comments so far, I've been thinking...would there be a way to make the planet look like a black hole from any sensors/scans that would fool people from wanting to go to that area of space?
*(Thanks in advance for your consideration of this question. I greatly appreciate the feedback provided already. Thanks)* | 2020/03/05 | [
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] | **It has a secret identity.**
The universe is full of crappy planets that no-one would want to visit. Lava worlds. Stinking gas giants. Acid blasting Venuses. Atmosphereless Mercury hellscapes.
Your planet is just another one of these - not a place for life of any kind, or machines, or anything but a note in the charts. Or so the story goes. But if for some reason you orbit it, you may realize that what you see does not match what is listed for this planet in this system.
The residents of the planet maintain the secret identity by limiting or preventing radio transmissions, artificial lights, or anything else that might at a distance give away the fact that there is more to this planet than the star charts state. | Make your planet hard to spot, and uninteresting. Play the odds.
There's a lot of planets.
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The Milky Way is estimated to have over 100 billion stars each with at least one planet. If you had 1000 ships each visiting a star per day it would take 275,000 years to visit them all.
Space is big. Planets are not.
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Space is really, really, really, astonishingly, mind-bogglingly big. On that scale planets are not. 99.9% of the mass of a solar system is in its star, that 0.1% is left over for planets. Rocky, Earth-like planets are particularly small. We live a small crumb of the universe; a peculuarly wet and warm and stable crumb, but a crumb.
Planets are hard to see.
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Planets emit no light of their own, only reflected starlight.
Currently we spot planets which are very large and/or very close to their star. Large, close planets [make their star wobble just a little bit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanets#Radial_velocity), and we can see that if the wobble is large enough. Or, if their orbit happens to be in line with the Earth, [we can see them as they pass in front of the star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_method) ***if we happen to be looking just then***.
Even if spotted, someone or something then has to pay particular attention to it out of the 100 billion planets.
Your "secret" planet.
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Even with advanced technology, the fundamentals remain: out of the hundreds of billions of planets, someone has to spot and take an interest in your planet. Don't give them a reason.
Pick an area far away from civilization centers which would have good star-scanning capability. Perhaps on the opposite side of the galactic center. In that area choose a massive star with a large [habitable zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone) and nothing of particular interest in the system. Pick an uninteresting rocky planet at the far edge of the zone. Such a small, far away planet will not cause its star to wobble, nor will it be likely to be caught in a transient. This minimizes the chances it will be spotted at all.
Control your emissions to avoid any tell-tale traces of human activity in the atmosphere which might suggest that it's occupied. Excessive amounts of methane, short-lived radioactive material, and so on.
That's about it. Depending on your technological level, it's not necessary to hide underground, or avoid having satellites in orbit, or otherwise mask your surface and orbital activities. They can't be detected from a distance, and there's no reason for anyone to visit for an up close look.
Have a cover story.
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Just in case anyone does visit, have a cover story and a reason to keep yourself a secret. You're an independent, quasi-legal mining operation and you'll pay handsomely (but not too handsomely) if the interloper would kindly keep quiet about their operation.
After they leave and their ship is well away from your planet, maybe their ship has an "accident".
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> ...would there be a way to make the planet look like a black hole from any sensors/scans that would fool people from wanting to go to that area of space?
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Not without getting into absurd technology.
Unlike in the movies, black holes aren't particularly any more dangerous to get near than any other object of a similar mass. If a star turns into a black hole you don't suddenly get sucked in, it has the same gravity as before.
Presuming you can't change the mass/gravitational pull of the planet, it has to be a planetary mass black hole with the same gravity as a planet. Which is to say not much on an astronomical scale. It would pose no danger to anyone entering the system.
Then there's replicating the key aspects of a black hole: [gravitational lensing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens) and the event horizon. [A black hole the mass of the Earth would have an event horizon of about 1 cm](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=black+hole+1+earth+mass) meaning any light within 1 cm cannot escape. Light which gets close will be bent. If you can replicate this, you effectively have planetary cloaking technology.
Very large black holes may have [accretion discs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk). If large and violent enough this might be something space-farers want to stay away from, but again, this is a tiny black hole. |
170,473 | A major plot point for my story is the Protagonist stumbling upon a planet that was purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy (at the edge of the galaxy) as it's being used by high level government officials to conduct a secret trade of a commodity that only this planet has and that uses the planet's population to harvest.
It was recently pointed out to me that my original idea (IE. a network of jammers) wouldn't meet the science of being able to hide a planet from star maps / ship scanners / etc. So the question is:
What are some plausible ways for an government agency to hide a planet from normal travelers / star maps / sensors / etc.?
Based on comments so far, I've been thinking...would there be a way to make the planet look like a black hole from any sensors/scans that would fool people from wanting to go to that area of space?
*(Thanks in advance for your consideration of this question. I greatly appreciate the feedback provided already. Thanks)* | 2020/03/05 | [
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] | >
> A major plot point for my story is the Protagonist stumbling upon a planet that was purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy (at the edge of the galaxy)
>
>
>
This reminds me of the Isaac Asimov novel *The Stars, Like Dust*, where at one point a character points out that the odds of arriving near an inhabited star after doing a blind jump is astronomical - I don't recall the exact number offhand but it's something like 250,000,000,000,000 to 1. Of course, if you're blind jumping around stars, the odds are slightly better, but still very, very low - there's an estimate 250,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way, after all. Now, since the rather astronomical numbers of space travel aren't really easy to wrap a head around, it's easy to handwave numbers, but it'd still be better if you didn't. Which means there should be a reason that the protagonist *knows* about the planet, but also a reason that no one wants to go there. Which means that the government isn't hiding this planet by denying all knowledge, but rather they're hiding this planet using some kind of a trick to make people not want to go there. And the answer should be simple enough - Area 51.
Area 51 is an American military installation which serves as an experimental test facility for the United States Air Force. It's also the location which serves as the basis for several conspiracy theories of government cover-ups and UFO landings. (There was also a minor event to storm Area 51 a while back). But everyone, of course, knows that even if there *was* secrets, they wouldn't be in Area 51, because only crackpots believe in Area 51. Which, ironically, makes Area 51 the *best* place to store UFO coverups, if they did exist.
So what if there was a galaxy-spanning Empire which needed to hide things on a planet, but it was impossible to conceal that they were doing things involving the planet. They could hide whatever it was they were doing, of course, but they couldn't hide that they were involved with the planet. It would seem that the optimal strategy would be disinformation - turn that planet into an 'Area 51' equivalent - the official story is that it's a test planet for the Imperial Navy. Sure, there are *crackpots* who believe that the Navy is up to something even more top secret there - but those are the crackpots and anyone smart enough to have a ship that can travel through hyperspace knows better than that, not to mention that the planet is sufficiently guarded (because it's a military facility). In short, you now have an excuse for a military presence to guard the base and a justification for any weird rumors - they'll just be written off as crackpots. And, all the while, of course, the Empire will be throwing out false information about a completely fictitious planet in a completely fictitious star system which is there actual base - no coordinates, of course, but supplies being marked 'to Destination X', fake invoices, the works. | If you do not really care about the scientific accuracy of your story, there can be some generator that can transfer the planet into slipstream space, or the Star Wars equivalent of hyperspace. Perhaps your protagonist got there by some quirk in the space-time continuum. Let your imagination fly! If you are not bound by the shackles of reality, anything can be possible. |
170,473 | A major plot point for my story is the Protagonist stumbling upon a planet that was purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy (at the edge of the galaxy) as it's being used by high level government officials to conduct a secret trade of a commodity that only this planet has and that uses the planet's population to harvest.
It was recently pointed out to me that my original idea (IE. a network of jammers) wouldn't meet the science of being able to hide a planet from star maps / ship scanners / etc. So the question is:
What are some plausible ways for an government agency to hide a planet from normal travelers / star maps / sensors / etc.?
Based on comments so far, I've been thinking...would there be a way to make the planet look like a black hole from any sensors/scans that would fool people from wanting to go to that area of space?
*(Thanks in advance for your consideration of this question. I greatly appreciate the feedback provided already. Thanks)* | 2020/03/05 | [
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] | **It has a secret identity.**
The universe is full of crappy planets that no-one would want to visit. Lava worlds. Stinking gas giants. Acid blasting Venuses. Atmosphereless Mercury hellscapes.
Your planet is just another one of these - not a place for life of any kind, or machines, or anything but a note in the charts. Or so the story goes. But if for some reason you orbit it, you may realize that what you see does not match what is listed for this planet in this system.
The residents of the planet maintain the secret identity by limiting or preventing radio transmissions, artificial lights, or anything else that might at a distance give away the fact that there is more to this planet than the star charts state. | You do not really need to. All you really want is that nobody visits the system your planet is in.
The system is far away so going there requires lots of money and far enough from trade routes that even smugglers and pirates have no reason to go that far from authority.
The area of space is also distant from possible assistance and thus going anywhere near your system requires a permit from the government for the specific locations you plan to visit at specific times and activities you plan to perform. So that help can find you, if something goes wrong, of course.
Your government has reserved the area for its future expansion and other nearby governments have accepted that claim, at least provisionally, so that they do not visit the area without asking your permission and providing the necessary documentation of planned activity. They also accept your authority to enforce those rules.
You already provided the full survey data on the system for general access. It is fully accurate and gives no excuse to think something is wrong or interesting with the system and go see for yourself. Admittedly it does omit certain peculiar details about one of the planets but if the substance really is unique to the planet, nobody can deduce its existence from the public data on the system. No reason to fabricate lies that some routine check might discover and label as "invalid, send someone to get valid data". |
170,473 | A major plot point for my story is the Protagonist stumbling upon a planet that was purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy (at the edge of the galaxy) as it's being used by high level government officials to conduct a secret trade of a commodity that only this planet has and that uses the planet's population to harvest.
It was recently pointed out to me that my original idea (IE. a network of jammers) wouldn't meet the science of being able to hide a planet from star maps / ship scanners / etc. So the question is:
What are some plausible ways for an government agency to hide a planet from normal travelers / star maps / sensors / etc.?
Based on comments so far, I've been thinking...would there be a way to make the planet look like a black hole from any sensors/scans that would fool people from wanting to go to that area of space?
*(Thanks in advance for your consideration of this question. I greatly appreciate the feedback provided already. Thanks)* | 2020/03/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/170473",
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] | You do not really need to. All you really want is that nobody visits the system your planet is in.
The system is far away so going there requires lots of money and far enough from trade routes that even smugglers and pirates have no reason to go that far from authority.
The area of space is also distant from possible assistance and thus going anywhere near your system requires a permit from the government for the specific locations you plan to visit at specific times and activities you plan to perform. So that help can find you, if something goes wrong, of course.
Your government has reserved the area for its future expansion and other nearby governments have accepted that claim, at least provisionally, so that they do not visit the area without asking your permission and providing the necessary documentation of planned activity. They also accept your authority to enforce those rules.
You already provided the full survey data on the system for general access. It is fully accurate and gives no excuse to think something is wrong or interesting with the system and go see for yourself. Admittedly it does omit certain peculiar details about one of the planets but if the substance really is unique to the planet, nobody can deduce its existence from the public data on the system. No reason to fabricate lies that some routine check might discover and label as "invalid, send someone to get valid data". | Dyson Sphere around the planet with a cloaking surface on the exterior (vanta-black and EM spectrum absorbing materials) |
170,473 | A major plot point for my story is the Protagonist stumbling upon a planet that was purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy (at the edge of the galaxy) as it's being used by high level government officials to conduct a secret trade of a commodity that only this planet has and that uses the planet's population to harvest.
It was recently pointed out to me that my original idea (IE. a network of jammers) wouldn't meet the science of being able to hide a planet from star maps / ship scanners / etc. So the question is:
What are some plausible ways for an government agency to hide a planet from normal travelers / star maps / sensors / etc.?
Based on comments so far, I've been thinking...would there be a way to make the planet look like a black hole from any sensors/scans that would fool people from wanting to go to that area of space?
*(Thanks in advance for your consideration of this question. I greatly appreciate the feedback provided already. Thanks)* | 2020/03/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/170473",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | **It has a secret identity.**
The universe is full of crappy planets that no-one would want to visit. Lava worlds. Stinking gas giants. Acid blasting Venuses. Atmosphereless Mercury hellscapes.
Your planet is just another one of these - not a place for life of any kind, or machines, or anything but a note in the charts. Or so the story goes. But if for some reason you orbit it, you may realize that what you see does not match what is listed for this planet in this system.
The residents of the planet maintain the secret identity by limiting or preventing radio transmissions, artificial lights, or anything else that might at a distance give away the fact that there is more to this planet than the star charts state. | Hide in plain site [pun intended].
Where is the Second Foundation located?
The real problem with your premise is that of moving the goods. Just as with embezzlers on Earth today, it's relatively easy to disguise whatever is being done to collect the special sauce; it's much harder to ship it off-planet without a stack of incoming and outgoing cargo ships. That's what you need to figure out how to hid. |
118,244 | I am in a difficult situation and I am looking for some guidance. I have done my research and I have come to the conclusion that it is best for my mental health to take master and leave. Unfortunately, I already have a master's degree (in another field) and I am a 4th year PhD student and have only one year left to complete my PhD. Also, I am the first PhD student of my adviser. I realize that, I am extremely close to finishing and will probably be encouraged to continue. However, my mental health has been declining over the past several years.
Earlier this year my dog (who was everything to me) passed away from cancer and I never really had a chance to grieve and have been continuously working since then. His passing caused me to spiral into a much deeper depression than I was in before and in the past several weeks, I have been had episodes of de-personalization, where I have a memory of something that I have done in the past but I was proud of that. But, then that memory is not mine anymore. It seems it's a different person. I know this is related to the stress that I have been accumulating over the past few months and it is getting worse now. The only thing that alleviates my depression is that the thought of leaving academia and this town to move on with my life. I can honestly say that after finally deciding that getting master degree and leave out, is what I want to do now and I haven't been happier in years. Even though, it isn't finalized I think this is a good indication that I am making the right decision.
I have also realized that I don't want or need a PhD to get a job that I want. I really just want to go into forestry or be a greenhouse manager. I am burnt out, unhappy, unmotivated, and uninterested with my research because I can't get anything to work and don't expect to be able to complete my research in the next year. The main reason I feel I'm in grad school at this point is that I feel like I would disappoint my adviser. I know that's not a good reason to stay, especially since staying might be more detrimental for her chances for tenure than just finding another student to replace me on my project. I have decided to tell her that I am thinking about getting master degree and leave tomorrow to gauge her reaction. I need to have her approval before I do leave because I have been her student for 6 years now and need her reference. So if she is not on board with my plan to getting master degree and leave out, then I think I have to stay, but I know my work will suffer a lot in the next year and I doubt my ability to finish my research on time.
What I am wondering is whether or not I am justified in wanting to getting master degree and leave out, if it is bad to have two masters degrees? Will I still be able to find a job if I leave with a second masters? | 2018/10/11 | [
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] | Your own health is more important than any degree. You should attend to that. If you can do both, perhaps working with a therapist while deemphasizing your degree work for a while, then that might be an option. Stress and depression are very serious.
Your advisor seems to be invested in you, so you may have an option of a pause or a slower rate of progress. But a second masters won't impede your current goals so it doesn't sound (from here - which is far away) as a poor option.
However, if you can find a therapist who can help you with the health issues, he or she would be a better source of advice on your future plans than anything you will get here. In fact you may get advice of a complete different sort that neither you, your advisor, nor the community here could think of.
But for the direct question, I can't think of any downside to having more than one master's degree. | My close friend had some sort of similar situation like you. Except, that she wanted to continue the academia and get a PhD but she decided to take a master and leave and even change her field cause her adviser was awful. But she had a master degree in another country and get another one in the US. And right now, she's studying a new PhD again in the US with much much better adviser and I expect that she will get a really good job after her graduation. So it's not bad even it could be good for you to have two master degrees due to your mental issues and depression that you want to leave academia. Also, based on your desired job after graduation, I think a master degree will be fitted well to desired job's qualifications. So, do the right thing to make yourself happier cause taking PhD will not make you happy right now. |
118,244 | I am in a difficult situation and I am looking for some guidance. I have done my research and I have come to the conclusion that it is best for my mental health to take master and leave. Unfortunately, I already have a master's degree (in another field) and I am a 4th year PhD student and have only one year left to complete my PhD. Also, I am the first PhD student of my adviser. I realize that, I am extremely close to finishing and will probably be encouraged to continue. However, my mental health has been declining over the past several years.
Earlier this year my dog (who was everything to me) passed away from cancer and I never really had a chance to grieve and have been continuously working since then. His passing caused me to spiral into a much deeper depression than I was in before and in the past several weeks, I have been had episodes of de-personalization, where I have a memory of something that I have done in the past but I was proud of that. But, then that memory is not mine anymore. It seems it's a different person. I know this is related to the stress that I have been accumulating over the past few months and it is getting worse now. The only thing that alleviates my depression is that the thought of leaving academia and this town to move on with my life. I can honestly say that after finally deciding that getting master degree and leave out, is what I want to do now and I haven't been happier in years. Even though, it isn't finalized I think this is a good indication that I am making the right decision.
I have also realized that I don't want or need a PhD to get a job that I want. I really just want to go into forestry or be a greenhouse manager. I am burnt out, unhappy, unmotivated, and uninterested with my research because I can't get anything to work and don't expect to be able to complete my research in the next year. The main reason I feel I'm in grad school at this point is that I feel like I would disappoint my adviser. I know that's not a good reason to stay, especially since staying might be more detrimental for her chances for tenure than just finding another student to replace me on my project. I have decided to tell her that I am thinking about getting master degree and leave tomorrow to gauge her reaction. I need to have her approval before I do leave because I have been her student for 6 years now and need her reference. So if she is not on board with my plan to getting master degree and leave out, then I think I have to stay, but I know my work will suffer a lot in the next year and I doubt my ability to finish my research on time.
What I am wondering is whether or not I am justified in wanting to getting master degree and leave out, if it is bad to have two masters degrees? Will I still be able to find a job if I leave with a second masters? | 2018/10/11 | [
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] | Your own health is more important than any degree. You should attend to that. If you can do both, perhaps working with a therapist while deemphasizing your degree work for a while, then that might be an option. Stress and depression are very serious.
Your advisor seems to be invested in you, so you may have an option of a pause or a slower rate of progress. But a second masters won't impede your current goals so it doesn't sound (from here - which is far away) as a poor option.
However, if you can find a therapist who can help you with the health issues, he or she would be a better source of advice on your future plans than anything you will get here. In fact you may get advice of a complete different sort that neither you, your advisor, nor the community here could think of.
But for the direct question, I can't think of any downside to having more than one master's degree. | The answer is yes. I have two MS degrees. Take care of yourself and your health first. Good luck with everything. |
118,244 | I am in a difficult situation and I am looking for some guidance. I have done my research and I have come to the conclusion that it is best for my mental health to take master and leave. Unfortunately, I already have a master's degree (in another field) and I am a 4th year PhD student and have only one year left to complete my PhD. Also, I am the first PhD student of my adviser. I realize that, I am extremely close to finishing and will probably be encouraged to continue. However, my mental health has been declining over the past several years.
Earlier this year my dog (who was everything to me) passed away from cancer and I never really had a chance to grieve and have been continuously working since then. His passing caused me to spiral into a much deeper depression than I was in before and in the past several weeks, I have been had episodes of de-personalization, where I have a memory of something that I have done in the past but I was proud of that. But, then that memory is not mine anymore. It seems it's a different person. I know this is related to the stress that I have been accumulating over the past few months and it is getting worse now. The only thing that alleviates my depression is that the thought of leaving academia and this town to move on with my life. I can honestly say that after finally deciding that getting master degree and leave out, is what I want to do now and I haven't been happier in years. Even though, it isn't finalized I think this is a good indication that I am making the right decision.
I have also realized that I don't want or need a PhD to get a job that I want. I really just want to go into forestry or be a greenhouse manager. I am burnt out, unhappy, unmotivated, and uninterested with my research because I can't get anything to work and don't expect to be able to complete my research in the next year. The main reason I feel I'm in grad school at this point is that I feel like I would disappoint my adviser. I know that's not a good reason to stay, especially since staying might be more detrimental for her chances for tenure than just finding another student to replace me on my project. I have decided to tell her that I am thinking about getting master degree and leave tomorrow to gauge her reaction. I need to have her approval before I do leave because I have been her student for 6 years now and need her reference. So if she is not on board with my plan to getting master degree and leave out, then I think I have to stay, but I know my work will suffer a lot in the next year and I doubt my ability to finish my research on time.
What I am wondering is whether or not I am justified in wanting to getting master degree and leave out, if it is bad to have two masters degrees? Will I still be able to find a job if I leave with a second masters? | 2018/10/11 | [
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] | Your own health is more important than any degree. You should attend to that. If you can do both, perhaps working with a therapist while deemphasizing your degree work for a while, then that might be an option. Stress and depression are very serious.
Your advisor seems to be invested in you, so you may have an option of a pause or a slower rate of progress. But a second masters won't impede your current goals so it doesn't sound (from here - which is far away) as a poor option.
However, if you can find a therapist who can help you with the health issues, he or she would be a better source of advice on your future plans than anything you will get here. In fact you may get advice of a complete different sort that neither you, your advisor, nor the community here could think of.
But for the direct question, I can't think of any downside to having more than one master's degree. | 1. My sister has two master's.
2. I advise finishing since you are so close. At least have a negotiation with the advisor. Phrase it as a request for help to make it seem less adversarial...but it is really a negotiation. He has some interest in you passing the goal. Since you will bail anyways, might as well see what is absolute minimum needed to get you out with the sticker. You can still go off and be a firewatcher in New Mexico or whatever, WITH the degree. But keep your options open. Push that ball over the goal.
3. I know academia can be a bummer trip, but I don't think crying for your dog is a reasonable reason to bail. My Dad died when I was 19 and away in the military. And I did my job. Life comes at us all. You will see plenty more deaths as you age. It's part of life and part of growing up. People expect you to keep on keeping on. |
118,244 | I am in a difficult situation and I am looking for some guidance. I have done my research and I have come to the conclusion that it is best for my mental health to take master and leave. Unfortunately, I already have a master's degree (in another field) and I am a 4th year PhD student and have only one year left to complete my PhD. Also, I am the first PhD student of my adviser. I realize that, I am extremely close to finishing and will probably be encouraged to continue. However, my mental health has been declining over the past several years.
Earlier this year my dog (who was everything to me) passed away from cancer and I never really had a chance to grieve and have been continuously working since then. His passing caused me to spiral into a much deeper depression than I was in before and in the past several weeks, I have been had episodes of de-personalization, where I have a memory of something that I have done in the past but I was proud of that. But, then that memory is not mine anymore. It seems it's a different person. I know this is related to the stress that I have been accumulating over the past few months and it is getting worse now. The only thing that alleviates my depression is that the thought of leaving academia and this town to move on with my life. I can honestly say that after finally deciding that getting master degree and leave out, is what I want to do now and I haven't been happier in years. Even though, it isn't finalized I think this is a good indication that I am making the right decision.
I have also realized that I don't want or need a PhD to get a job that I want. I really just want to go into forestry or be a greenhouse manager. I am burnt out, unhappy, unmotivated, and uninterested with my research because I can't get anything to work and don't expect to be able to complete my research in the next year. The main reason I feel I'm in grad school at this point is that I feel like I would disappoint my adviser. I know that's not a good reason to stay, especially since staying might be more detrimental for her chances for tenure than just finding another student to replace me on my project. I have decided to tell her that I am thinking about getting master degree and leave tomorrow to gauge her reaction. I need to have her approval before I do leave because I have been her student for 6 years now and need her reference. So if she is not on board with my plan to getting master degree and leave out, then I think I have to stay, but I know my work will suffer a lot in the next year and I doubt my ability to finish my research on time.
What I am wondering is whether or not I am justified in wanting to getting master degree and leave out, if it is bad to have two masters degrees? Will I still be able to find a job if I leave with a second masters? | 2018/10/11 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/118244",
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] | 1. My sister has two master's.
2. I advise finishing since you are so close. At least have a negotiation with the advisor. Phrase it as a request for help to make it seem less adversarial...but it is really a negotiation. He has some interest in you passing the goal. Since you will bail anyways, might as well see what is absolute minimum needed to get you out with the sticker. You can still go off and be a firewatcher in New Mexico or whatever, WITH the degree. But keep your options open. Push that ball over the goal.
3. I know academia can be a bummer trip, but I don't think crying for your dog is a reasonable reason to bail. My Dad died when I was 19 and away in the military. And I did my job. Life comes at us all. You will see plenty more deaths as you age. It's part of life and part of growing up. People expect you to keep on keeping on. | My close friend had some sort of similar situation like you. Except, that she wanted to continue the academia and get a PhD but she decided to take a master and leave and even change her field cause her adviser was awful. But she had a master degree in another country and get another one in the US. And right now, she's studying a new PhD again in the US with much much better adviser and I expect that she will get a really good job after her graduation. So it's not bad even it could be good for you to have two master degrees due to your mental issues and depression that you want to leave academia. Also, based on your desired job after graduation, I think a master degree will be fitted well to desired job's qualifications. So, do the right thing to make yourself happier cause taking PhD will not make you happy right now. |
118,244 | I am in a difficult situation and I am looking for some guidance. I have done my research and I have come to the conclusion that it is best for my mental health to take master and leave. Unfortunately, I already have a master's degree (in another field) and I am a 4th year PhD student and have only one year left to complete my PhD. Also, I am the first PhD student of my adviser. I realize that, I am extremely close to finishing and will probably be encouraged to continue. However, my mental health has been declining over the past several years.
Earlier this year my dog (who was everything to me) passed away from cancer and I never really had a chance to grieve and have been continuously working since then. His passing caused me to spiral into a much deeper depression than I was in before and in the past several weeks, I have been had episodes of de-personalization, where I have a memory of something that I have done in the past but I was proud of that. But, then that memory is not mine anymore. It seems it's a different person. I know this is related to the stress that I have been accumulating over the past few months and it is getting worse now. The only thing that alleviates my depression is that the thought of leaving academia and this town to move on with my life. I can honestly say that after finally deciding that getting master degree and leave out, is what I want to do now and I haven't been happier in years. Even though, it isn't finalized I think this is a good indication that I am making the right decision.
I have also realized that I don't want or need a PhD to get a job that I want. I really just want to go into forestry or be a greenhouse manager. I am burnt out, unhappy, unmotivated, and uninterested with my research because I can't get anything to work and don't expect to be able to complete my research in the next year. The main reason I feel I'm in grad school at this point is that I feel like I would disappoint my adviser. I know that's not a good reason to stay, especially since staying might be more detrimental for her chances for tenure than just finding another student to replace me on my project. I have decided to tell her that I am thinking about getting master degree and leave tomorrow to gauge her reaction. I need to have her approval before I do leave because I have been her student for 6 years now and need her reference. So if she is not on board with my plan to getting master degree and leave out, then I think I have to stay, but I know my work will suffer a lot in the next year and I doubt my ability to finish my research on time.
What I am wondering is whether or not I am justified in wanting to getting master degree and leave out, if it is bad to have two masters degrees? Will I still be able to find a job if I leave with a second masters? | 2018/10/11 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/118244",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/99123/"
] | 1. My sister has two master's.
2. I advise finishing since you are so close. At least have a negotiation with the advisor. Phrase it as a request for help to make it seem less adversarial...but it is really a negotiation. He has some interest in you passing the goal. Since you will bail anyways, might as well see what is absolute minimum needed to get you out with the sticker. You can still go off and be a firewatcher in New Mexico or whatever, WITH the degree. But keep your options open. Push that ball over the goal.
3. I know academia can be a bummer trip, but I don't think crying for your dog is a reasonable reason to bail. My Dad died when I was 19 and away in the military. And I did my job. Life comes at us all. You will see plenty more deaths as you age. It's part of life and part of growing up. People expect you to keep on keeping on. | The answer is yes. I have two MS degrees. Take care of yourself and your health first. Good luck with everything. |
2,353 | We are a small team that just created a website. We used Scrum and it worked very well for us. But now we have to shift our focus to marketing that website.
We would like to keep Scrum as our development method, but it does not seem to handle the requirements of marketing very well.
Problems are for example:
* stories that have external dependencies, like waiting for a callback. Those tasks are very often not "done" at the end of a sprint.
* many stories have a strict deadline and are lost in the one dimensional backlog that is sorted by importance
* new opportunities (e.g. an interview is scheduled) come in on a daily basis. Having them in the system just as timeboxed "handle interviews"-story seems very crude.
Does anyone know best practices to integrate marketing into a Scrum process?
Or is there a different lightweight process that our marketing team could use? | 2011/05/19 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/2353",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/1293/"
] | You can keep most of Scrum engineering practices but resign from time boxing and put [Kanban](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_%28development%29) over it. Kanban can be pretty easily organized in a way that allows you to put high-priority new tasks (interviews in your example) on the top of the backlog at any time.
You are also encouraged to visualize different information important for the team or the project. This can work very well with having your deadline attached to specific tasks. This way everyone in the team sees that and it's hard to ignore those deadlines. This trick can be easily used on your current task board without implementing Scrum whatsoever.
In terms of dealing with stories with external dependencies you can also easily adjust Kanban board in a way which covers this scenario and points every such situation so your PM, or whoever deals with external dependencies, sees it instantly. Read more about such approach here: <http://blog.brodzinski.com/2010/10/kanban-moving-cards-back.html>
This kind of change would mean that you change the way you plan as you would rather plan on-the-fly and not at the beginning of an iteration (as there would be no iterations), but it would also mean that you can better adjust what you do ever-changing situation. | Often, successful marketing depends on consistent, repetitive tasks done over time.
Use a set of recurring tasks or monthly projects that consistent of a templated work-breakdown-structure (WBS). |
2,353 | We are a small team that just created a website. We used Scrum and it worked very well for us. But now we have to shift our focus to marketing that website.
We would like to keep Scrum as our development method, but it does not seem to handle the requirements of marketing very well.
Problems are for example:
* stories that have external dependencies, like waiting for a callback. Those tasks are very often not "done" at the end of a sprint.
* many stories have a strict deadline and are lost in the one dimensional backlog that is sorted by importance
* new opportunities (e.g. an interview is scheduled) come in on a daily basis. Having them in the system just as timeboxed "handle interviews"-story seems very crude.
Does anyone know best practices to integrate marketing into a Scrum process?
Or is there a different lightweight process that our marketing team could use? | 2011/05/19 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/2353",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/1293/"
] | You can keep most of Scrum engineering practices but resign from time boxing and put [Kanban](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_%28development%29) over it. Kanban can be pretty easily organized in a way that allows you to put high-priority new tasks (interviews in your example) on the top of the backlog at any time.
You are also encouraged to visualize different information important for the team or the project. This can work very well with having your deadline attached to specific tasks. This way everyone in the team sees that and it's hard to ignore those deadlines. This trick can be easily used on your current task board without implementing Scrum whatsoever.
In terms of dealing with stories with external dependencies you can also easily adjust Kanban board in a way which covers this scenario and points every such situation so your PM, or whoever deals with external dependencies, sees it instantly. Read more about such approach here: <http://blog.brodzinski.com/2010/10/kanban-moving-cards-back.html>
This kind of change would mean that you change the way you plan as you would rather plan on-the-fly and not at the beginning of an iteration (as there would be no iterations), but it would also mean that you can better adjust what you do ever-changing situation. | I like Pawel B's comment about layering Kanban over your Scrum. I do think Scrum can accommodate what you are looking for if you really want to keep to Scrum...
Some thoughts:
* **Stories have external dependencies** - Do you have the User Story correct? (Might you do well splitting it into 2?) Can you complete something that provides value to your customer (market) without the feedback? Maybe the User story captures the tasks to produce the first version and if the feedback comes in, you can take off the other User Story in the Backlog "Update with Market Feedback"
* **Stories have external dependencies** - Scrum might be pointing out that what is missing is a different customer/information management technique. If getting feedback is of critical importance, "waiting for a callback" doesn't seem up to the task to accomplish this. What about holding a "launch party" or some other marketing event that drums up interest and ensures you can get the feedback you need?
* **Strict deadline** - This isn't uncommon. It requires some diligence when reviewing the backlog, especially for things where a long dependency chain exists to a given date (e.g. Present at Conference requires submitting a proposal, writing the presentation, getting it in by the deadline, travelling there, etc.) I've used different colored stickies to show the story has a time dependency on it, and also tagged with a field/flag to make them stand out
* **New opportunities** - Does this need to be part of the backlog? Does it get prioritized with other features, or just it "just happen"? Would you ever -not- do this?
Scrum is very good for building up a product, but horrible about managing the "chronic" activities (1-on-1 meetings, department meetings, network with potential customers, etc. all need to happen, but don't "build up" to the final product...) Typically (for me at least :-), things like the burn-up chart are useful to give groups like Marketing the info they need to structure their activities. Some times, if there is a dependency between Marketing and the Dev team, then Marketing might have a story, or sign up for a task. Usually tho, these groups (along with Legal, Finance, HR, Shipping...) don't need to get integrated with Scrum.
My suggestion is use Scrum where it is helpful, and use something else when it isn't. |
2,353 | We are a small team that just created a website. We used Scrum and it worked very well for us. But now we have to shift our focus to marketing that website.
We would like to keep Scrum as our development method, but it does not seem to handle the requirements of marketing very well.
Problems are for example:
* stories that have external dependencies, like waiting for a callback. Those tasks are very often not "done" at the end of a sprint.
* many stories have a strict deadline and are lost in the one dimensional backlog that is sorted by importance
* new opportunities (e.g. an interview is scheduled) come in on a daily basis. Having them in the system just as timeboxed "handle interviews"-story seems very crude.
Does anyone know best practices to integrate marketing into a Scrum process?
Or is there a different lightweight process that our marketing team could use? | 2011/05/19 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/2353",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/1293/"
] | You can keep most of Scrum engineering practices but resign from time boxing and put [Kanban](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_%28development%29) over it. Kanban can be pretty easily organized in a way that allows you to put high-priority new tasks (interviews in your example) on the top of the backlog at any time.
You are also encouraged to visualize different information important for the team or the project. This can work very well with having your deadline attached to specific tasks. This way everyone in the team sees that and it's hard to ignore those deadlines. This trick can be easily used on your current task board without implementing Scrum whatsoever.
In terms of dealing with stories with external dependencies you can also easily adjust Kanban board in a way which covers this scenario and points every such situation so your PM, or whoever deals with external dependencies, sees it instantly. Read more about such approach here: <http://blog.brodzinski.com/2010/10/kanban-moving-cards-back.html>
This kind of change would mean that you change the way you plan as you would rather plan on-the-fly and not at the beginning of an iteration (as there would be no iterations), but it would also mean that you can better adjust what you do ever-changing situation. | I would keep the marketing activities outside of Scrum teams, because they are changing quite frequently, it is hard to predict what will happen, and unfortunately Scrum cannot handle frequent changes.
Delegate - if it is possible - the marketing tasks to the product owner or proxy product owner, and when a marketing activity results in actual work, handle it as a user story.
Actually, marketing can be part of customer relationship management, which is a product owner duty. |
2,353 | We are a small team that just created a website. We used Scrum and it worked very well for us. But now we have to shift our focus to marketing that website.
We would like to keep Scrum as our development method, but it does not seem to handle the requirements of marketing very well.
Problems are for example:
* stories that have external dependencies, like waiting for a callback. Those tasks are very often not "done" at the end of a sprint.
* many stories have a strict deadline and are lost in the one dimensional backlog that is sorted by importance
* new opportunities (e.g. an interview is scheduled) come in on a daily basis. Having them in the system just as timeboxed "handle interviews"-story seems very crude.
Does anyone know best practices to integrate marketing into a Scrum process?
Or is there a different lightweight process that our marketing team could use? | 2011/05/19 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/2353",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/1293/"
] | I like Pawel B's comment about layering Kanban over your Scrum. I do think Scrum can accommodate what you are looking for if you really want to keep to Scrum...
Some thoughts:
* **Stories have external dependencies** - Do you have the User Story correct? (Might you do well splitting it into 2?) Can you complete something that provides value to your customer (market) without the feedback? Maybe the User story captures the tasks to produce the first version and if the feedback comes in, you can take off the other User Story in the Backlog "Update with Market Feedback"
* **Stories have external dependencies** - Scrum might be pointing out that what is missing is a different customer/information management technique. If getting feedback is of critical importance, "waiting for a callback" doesn't seem up to the task to accomplish this. What about holding a "launch party" or some other marketing event that drums up interest and ensures you can get the feedback you need?
* **Strict deadline** - This isn't uncommon. It requires some diligence when reviewing the backlog, especially for things where a long dependency chain exists to a given date (e.g. Present at Conference requires submitting a proposal, writing the presentation, getting it in by the deadline, travelling there, etc.) I've used different colored stickies to show the story has a time dependency on it, and also tagged with a field/flag to make them stand out
* **New opportunities** - Does this need to be part of the backlog? Does it get prioritized with other features, or just it "just happen"? Would you ever -not- do this?
Scrum is very good for building up a product, but horrible about managing the "chronic" activities (1-on-1 meetings, department meetings, network with potential customers, etc. all need to happen, but don't "build up" to the final product...) Typically (for me at least :-), things like the burn-up chart are useful to give groups like Marketing the info they need to structure their activities. Some times, if there is a dependency between Marketing and the Dev team, then Marketing might have a story, or sign up for a task. Usually tho, these groups (along with Legal, Finance, HR, Shipping...) don't need to get integrated with Scrum.
My suggestion is use Scrum where it is helpful, and use something else when it isn't. | Often, successful marketing depends on consistent, repetitive tasks done over time.
Use a set of recurring tasks or monthly projects that consistent of a templated work-breakdown-structure (WBS). |
2,353 | We are a small team that just created a website. We used Scrum and it worked very well for us. But now we have to shift our focus to marketing that website.
We would like to keep Scrum as our development method, but it does not seem to handle the requirements of marketing very well.
Problems are for example:
* stories that have external dependencies, like waiting for a callback. Those tasks are very often not "done" at the end of a sprint.
* many stories have a strict deadline and are lost in the one dimensional backlog that is sorted by importance
* new opportunities (e.g. an interview is scheduled) come in on a daily basis. Having them in the system just as timeboxed "handle interviews"-story seems very crude.
Does anyone know best practices to integrate marketing into a Scrum process?
Or is there a different lightweight process that our marketing team could use? | 2011/05/19 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/2353",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/1293/"
] | I would keep the marketing activities outside of Scrum teams, because they are changing quite frequently, it is hard to predict what will happen, and unfortunately Scrum cannot handle frequent changes.
Delegate - if it is possible - the marketing tasks to the product owner or proxy product owner, and when a marketing activity results in actual work, handle it as a user story.
Actually, marketing can be part of customer relationship management, which is a product owner duty. | Often, successful marketing depends on consistent, repetitive tasks done over time.
Use a set of recurring tasks or monthly projects that consistent of a templated work-breakdown-structure (WBS). |
92,969 | I live in an old house; it has old electrical infrastructure. Last night it was really hot, and we were running an external dishwasher on the same circuit as the TV and a fan and a ceiling fan. Only the TV is connected with an extension cord because there just isn't a three prong outlet in that room, but sadly it's still on the same circuit. The TV is an older flat screen from maybe 2003 or so, the dish washer is brand new.
When it was hot last night the breaker kept switching off, and I had to unplug everything from that circuit and reset the breaker.
Is there any way to calculate how much a breaker is likely to be able to handle, so I don't have to keep running up and down the stairs to fix this?
I do have things running in other parts of the house as well, but they aren't on the same circuit. They only blew once or twice; the one in question blew like 4 or 5 times last night. | 2016/06/21 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/92969",
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] | If the breaker is working properly, you're simply overloading the circuit.
If the breaker is tripping well below the rated load, it's in need of replacement. If it happens to be not merely older, but also one of the "dubious models" (such as [Federal Pacific](https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/62320/should-all-federal-pacific-panels-be-replaced)) the whole breaker panel should be replaced before something bad happens (they have a tendency to fail in a "cause fire" manner.)
Right - your title (only) mentions "rental" so you will be at the whim of your landlord as far as practical fixes - so you'll need to figure out what EVERYTHING on your circuits is, and spread your loads around and/or not run them simultaneously to prevent problems. A dishwasher may have heating elements causing a large load - there may be modes where the heating elements are not used - you'd be wise to figure out if that is so, and use those modes if they are available. | Sum up the wattage of all the appliances plugged into the circuit and divide by the voltage. That will be the total amp they will draw in the worst case not accounting for motor starting loads which can peak above that.
If the breaker is rated for more than that then it's probably gone bad and needs a replacement.
If the draw is more than the breaker is able to handle then it will trip. To fix that you will either need to be careful about what is active at a time. Or you can run a new circuit to spread the load. |
92,969 | I live in an old house; it has old electrical infrastructure. Last night it was really hot, and we were running an external dishwasher on the same circuit as the TV and a fan and a ceiling fan. Only the TV is connected with an extension cord because there just isn't a three prong outlet in that room, but sadly it's still on the same circuit. The TV is an older flat screen from maybe 2003 or so, the dish washer is brand new.
When it was hot last night the breaker kept switching off, and I had to unplug everything from that circuit and reset the breaker.
Is there any way to calculate how much a breaker is likely to be able to handle, so I don't have to keep running up and down the stairs to fix this?
I do have things running in other parts of the house as well, but they aren't on the same circuit. They only blew once or twice; the one in question blew like 4 or 5 times last night. | 2016/06/21 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/92969",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/1431/"
] | Get yourself a [Kill-a-Watt](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00009MDBU) power meter and measure each of your loads on each circuit. They also make upscale units with backlights and storage so you can unplug it and look at the stored data in a bit more comfort.
Take Watts or VA (whichever is larger) and divide by 120 - this gives Amps. Or take "amps" right off the Kill-a-Watt. Tally up all the amps for each load on each circuit.
Then compare it to the number on the circuit breaker that keeps tripping. The number will be 15 or 20 depending on the size of the wire.
I'd like to break you out of the mentality that your "infrastructure is old, and that's what happens, and resetting the breaker all the time is normal, safe and a burden of living in an older home". That is all false.
The above test will tell: If it's tripping well below rating, it's a bad breaker. Otherwise it's tripping **because you are overloading it**. Stop doing that.
Breakers protect wires. They are designed to warm up at about the same rate as the wires in your walls, and trip when they get too hot. Trouble is the breaker may cool off much faster than your wall wiring, so by repeatedly resetting it, you're letting the wall wiring "keep getting warmer", defeating the breaker's protection.
My hunch is this newer dishwasher has an integral heater, so it's meant for a dedicated 20A circuit, and using 14-15A all itself. That, however, does not explain why the other circuit trips.
One coping strategy may be to tell the dishwasher not to use the heater.
Like I say, the Kill-a-Watt tells all. Once you have the numbers, if the answer isn't obvious, bring your data back here and we'll help. | Sum up the wattage of all the appliances plugged into the circuit and divide by the voltage. That will be the total amp they will draw in the worst case not accounting for motor starting loads which can peak above that.
If the breaker is rated for more than that then it's probably gone bad and needs a replacement.
If the draw is more than the breaker is able to handle then it will trip. To fix that you will either need to be careful about what is active at a time. Or you can run a new circuit to spread the load. |
92,969 | I live in an old house; it has old electrical infrastructure. Last night it was really hot, and we were running an external dishwasher on the same circuit as the TV and a fan and a ceiling fan. Only the TV is connected with an extension cord because there just isn't a three prong outlet in that room, but sadly it's still on the same circuit. The TV is an older flat screen from maybe 2003 or so, the dish washer is brand new.
When it was hot last night the breaker kept switching off, and I had to unplug everything from that circuit and reset the breaker.
Is there any way to calculate how much a breaker is likely to be able to handle, so I don't have to keep running up and down the stairs to fix this?
I do have things running in other parts of the house as well, but they aren't on the same circuit. They only blew once or twice; the one in question blew like 4 or 5 times last night. | 2016/06/21 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/92969",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/1431/"
] | Get yourself a [Kill-a-Watt](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00009MDBU) power meter and measure each of your loads on each circuit. They also make upscale units with backlights and storage so you can unplug it and look at the stored data in a bit more comfort.
Take Watts or VA (whichever is larger) and divide by 120 - this gives Amps. Or take "amps" right off the Kill-a-Watt. Tally up all the amps for each load on each circuit.
Then compare it to the number on the circuit breaker that keeps tripping. The number will be 15 or 20 depending on the size of the wire.
I'd like to break you out of the mentality that your "infrastructure is old, and that's what happens, and resetting the breaker all the time is normal, safe and a burden of living in an older home". That is all false.
The above test will tell: If it's tripping well below rating, it's a bad breaker. Otherwise it's tripping **because you are overloading it**. Stop doing that.
Breakers protect wires. They are designed to warm up at about the same rate as the wires in your walls, and trip when they get too hot. Trouble is the breaker may cool off much faster than your wall wiring, so by repeatedly resetting it, you're letting the wall wiring "keep getting warmer", defeating the breaker's protection.
My hunch is this newer dishwasher has an integral heater, so it's meant for a dedicated 20A circuit, and using 14-15A all itself. That, however, does not explain why the other circuit trips.
One coping strategy may be to tell the dishwasher not to use the heater.
Like I say, the Kill-a-Watt tells all. Once you have the numbers, if the answer isn't obvious, bring your data back here and we'll help. | If the breaker is working properly, you're simply overloading the circuit.
If the breaker is tripping well below the rated load, it's in need of replacement. If it happens to be not merely older, but also one of the "dubious models" (such as [Federal Pacific](https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/62320/should-all-federal-pacific-panels-be-replaced)) the whole breaker panel should be replaced before something bad happens (they have a tendency to fail in a "cause fire" manner.)
Right - your title (only) mentions "rental" so you will be at the whim of your landlord as far as practical fixes - so you'll need to figure out what EVERYTHING on your circuits is, and spread your loads around and/or not run them simultaneously to prevent problems. A dishwasher may have heating elements causing a large load - there may be modes where the heating elements are not used - you'd be wise to figure out if that is so, and use those modes if they are available. |
527,430 | Here's the screenshot.
It just has 'Add' button, where I have to manually set up wifi (ssid etc). I want to click on Wi-Fi symbol at top right corner and see the list of available networks. How do I do that? | 2014/09/23 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/527430",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/156271/"
] | Go to *System Settings*, then click on *Software and Updates*, go to *Additional Drivers*. Then select the Broadcom driver and apply changes. | The above video didn't help in my case - software updates didn't provide any additional drivers.
I looked into log files under /var/log and discovered that some firmware files are missing for wireless connection. After downloading these files I could see a list of available wireless networks. |
280,977 | I am writing a research paper with three scenarios. The first is called "the inflexible", the second is "the flexible", and the third is between them. I have difficulty to find a term for it. I thought about words "standard", "normal", and "ordinary", but they also imply that the other two cases are not standard or normal, which is not the case. The words "median", "intermediate" or "mean" also do not sound very well. Can anyone help me with this? | 2015/10/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/280977",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/127334/"
] | *Anger can be a **pernicious** emotion.*
*Anger can be a **deleterious** emotion.*
>
> pernicious: having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way. [OED](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/pernicious)
>
>
> deleterious: if something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things
> worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to
> mention your social life.
> [vocabulary.com](http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/deleterious)
>
>
> | **precarious** or **precipitous** might suit.
>
> **precarious** *adj.* not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse.
>
>
> **precipitous** *adj.* dangerously high or steep.
>
>
> |
280,977 | I am writing a research paper with three scenarios. The first is called "the inflexible", the second is "the flexible", and the third is between them. I have difficulty to find a term for it. I thought about words "standard", "normal", and "ordinary", but they also imply that the other two cases are not standard or normal, which is not the case. The words "median", "intermediate" or "mean" also do not sound very well. Can anyone help me with this? | 2015/10/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/280977",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/127334/"
] | * perilous
>
> per·il·ous
> \ˈper-ə-ləs, ˈpe-rə-\
> adjective
> : full of danger
> :full of or involving peril
>
>
>
<http://i.word.com/idictionary/perilous>
From:
>
> per·il
> \ˈper-əl, ˈpe-rəl\
> noun
> : the possibility that you will be hurt or killed or that something unpleasant or bad will happen
> : something that is likely to cause injury, pain, harm, or loss
>
>
>
<http://i.word.com/idictionary/peril> | **precarious** or **precipitous** might suit.
>
> **precarious** *adj.* not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse.
>
>
> **precipitous** *adj.* dangerously high or steep.
>
>
> |
280,977 | I am writing a research paper with three scenarios. The first is called "the inflexible", the second is "the flexible", and the third is between them. I have difficulty to find a term for it. I thought about words "standard", "normal", and "ordinary", but they also imply that the other two cases are not standard or normal, which is not the case. The words "median", "intermediate" or "mean" also do not sound very well. Can anyone help me with this? | 2015/10/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/280977",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/127334/"
] | *Anger can be a **pernicious** emotion.*
*Anger can be a **deleterious** emotion.*
>
> pernicious: having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way. [OED](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/pernicious)
>
>
> deleterious: if something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things
> worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to
> mention your social life.
> [vocabulary.com](http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/deleterious)
>
>
> | Based on the sentence you're replacing: **Consequential**
Anger is a /an oftentimes/ **consequential** feeling
**Unpredictable** could also work.
Anger is an **unpredictable** feeling
**Reckless** possibly
Anger is a **reckless** feeling
**Treacherous**
Anger is a **treacherous** feeling
**Unstable**
Anger is an **unstable** feeling
**Jeopardous**
Anger is a jeopardous feeling
>
> jeopardous
> adjective
> 1. perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
>
>
> |
280,977 | I am writing a research paper with three scenarios. The first is called "the inflexible", the second is "the flexible", and the third is between them. I have difficulty to find a term for it. I thought about words "standard", "normal", and "ordinary", but they also imply that the other two cases are not standard or normal, which is not the case. The words "median", "intermediate" or "mean" also do not sound very well. Can anyone help me with this? | 2015/10/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/280977",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/127334/"
] | * perilous
>
> per·il·ous
> \ˈper-ə-ləs, ˈpe-rə-\
> adjective
> : full of danger
> :full of or involving peril
>
>
>
<http://i.word.com/idictionary/perilous>
From:
>
> per·il
> \ˈper-əl, ˈpe-rəl\
> noun
> : the possibility that you will be hurt or killed or that something unpleasant or bad will happen
> : something that is likely to cause injury, pain, harm, or loss
>
>
>
<http://i.word.com/idictionary/peril> | Based on the sentence you're replacing: **Consequential**
Anger is a /an oftentimes/ **consequential** feeling
**Unpredictable** could also work.
Anger is an **unpredictable** feeling
**Reckless** possibly
Anger is a **reckless** feeling
**Treacherous**
Anger is a **treacherous** feeling
**Unstable**
Anger is an **unstable** feeling
**Jeopardous**
Anger is a jeopardous feeling
>
> jeopardous
> adjective
> 1. perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
>
>
> |
280,977 | I am writing a research paper with three scenarios. The first is called "the inflexible", the second is "the flexible", and the third is between them. I have difficulty to find a term for it. I thought about words "standard", "normal", and "ordinary", but they also imply that the other two cases are not standard or normal, which is not the case. The words "median", "intermediate" or "mean" also do not sound very well. Can anyone help me with this? | 2015/10/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/280977",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/127334/"
] | * perilous
>
> per·il·ous
> \ˈper-ə-ləs, ˈpe-rə-\
> adjective
> : full of danger
> :full of or involving peril
>
>
>
<http://i.word.com/idictionary/perilous>
From:
>
> per·il
> \ˈper-əl, ˈpe-rəl\
> noun
> : the possibility that you will be hurt or killed or that something unpleasant or bad will happen
> : something that is likely to cause injury, pain, harm, or loss
>
>
>
<http://i.word.com/idictionary/peril> | *Anger can be a **pernicious** emotion.*
*Anger can be a **deleterious** emotion.*
>
> pernicious: having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way. [OED](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/pernicious)
>
>
> deleterious: if something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things
> worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to
> mention your social life.
> [vocabulary.com](http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/deleterious)
>
>
> |
20,381 | When i go to Central Administration - Application Management on my local sharepoint installating, i can only view the current web applications. I cannot add a new or delete an existing web application. I'm logged in as a farm admin.
Did i forget something?
EDIT: I just saw that when i go to central administration, i see an alert that my securtity token service is not running. I guess this has something to do with my problem. | 2011/09/28 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/20381",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/4893/"
] | Separate web applications would get you totally separated sites on the same server.
I don't believe there would be a method to share content easily between the web applications. I don't know enough about content migration/deployment to know if that would be viable. An klunky alternative would be to have another separate "shared" web application where any and all shared content resides and using RSS web parts or page viewer web parts, the content is exposed in the other web applications. | Yes it is possible. I think you can find valuable info here:
* [Plan for host-named site collections](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx)
Sharing content can also be done but it is not something you receive OOTB. I guess that search can be used for this type of scenario. |
20,381 | When i go to Central Administration - Application Management on my local sharepoint installating, i can only view the current web applications. I cannot add a new or delete an existing web application. I'm logged in as a farm admin.
Did i forget something?
EDIT: I just saw that when i go to central administration, i see an alert that my securtity token service is not running. I guess this has something to do with my problem. | 2011/09/28 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/20381",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/4893/"
] | Separate web applications would get you totally separated sites on the same server.
I don't believe there would be a method to share content easily between the web applications. I don't know enough about content migration/deployment to know if that would be viable. An klunky alternative would be to have another separate "shared" web application where any and all shared content resides and using RSS web parts or page viewer web parts, the content is exposed in the other web applications. | Yes, you can create different web applications.
I dont know if you can share information between application but you can use the content deployment feature from sharepoint to create overnight jobs that copy the information from one web application to the other, its a widely used practice for companies that want to check the content before going live. |
20,381 | When i go to Central Administration - Application Management on my local sharepoint installating, i can only view the current web applications. I cannot add a new or delete an existing web application. I'm logged in as a farm admin.
Did i forget something?
EDIT: I just saw that when i go to central administration, i see an alert that my securtity token service is not running. I guess this has something to do with my problem. | 2011/09/28 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/20381",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/4893/"
] | Separate web applications would get you totally separated sites on the same server.
I don't believe there would be a method to share content easily between the web applications. I don't know enough about content migration/deployment to know if that would be viable. An klunky alternative would be to have another separate "shared" web application where any and all shared content resides and using RSS web parts or page viewer web parts, the content is exposed in the other web applications. | Yes you could go down creating a separate web application for each site, however this is not the advised route as SharePoint does not scale well through additional web applications. The recommended approach is to use host header site collections within one or more web applications, an approach referred to as Multi-Tenancy.
Get more information over at this excellent site:
<http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010mt1.aspx> |
20,381 | When i go to Central Administration - Application Management on my local sharepoint installating, i can only view the current web applications. I cannot add a new or delete an existing web application. I'm logged in as a farm admin.
Did i forget something?
EDIT: I just saw that when i go to central administration, i see an alert that my securtity token service is not running. I guess this has something to do with my problem. | 2011/09/28 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/20381",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/4893/"
] | Yes it is possible. I think you can find valuable info here:
* [Plan for host-named site collections](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx)
Sharing content can also be done but it is not something you receive OOTB. I guess that search can be used for this type of scenario. | Yes you could go down creating a separate web application for each site, however this is not the advised route as SharePoint does not scale well through additional web applications. The recommended approach is to use host header site collections within one or more web applications, an approach referred to as Multi-Tenancy.
Get more information over at this excellent site:
<http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010mt1.aspx> |
20,381 | When i go to Central Administration - Application Management on my local sharepoint installating, i can only view the current web applications. I cannot add a new or delete an existing web application. I'm logged in as a farm admin.
Did i forget something?
EDIT: I just saw that when i go to central administration, i see an alert that my securtity token service is not running. I guess this has something to do with my problem. | 2011/09/28 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/20381",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/4893/"
] | Yes, you can create different web applications.
I dont know if you can share information between application but you can use the content deployment feature from sharepoint to create overnight jobs that copy the information from one web application to the other, its a widely used practice for companies that want to check the content before going live. | Yes you could go down creating a separate web application for each site, however this is not the advised route as SharePoint does not scale well through additional web applications. The recommended approach is to use host header site collections within one or more web applications, an approach referred to as Multi-Tenancy.
Get more information over at this excellent site:
<http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010mt1.aspx> |
212,301 | We’re about to paint our skirting board with black gloss paint but some of the filler is chipping off in places.
Should we remove the areas of filling that are chipping off and refill those only or should we try to remove all of the filling and completely redo from scratch? What is the best product to fill with?
And do we need to sand down the original gloss paint before painting over with new black gloss?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/By0wd.jpg) | 2020/12/28 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/212301",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/127653/"
] | Are you trying to achieve a perfect seam or just looking to hide the gap?
You can fill it with paintable caulk/silicone and proceed with painting.
Yes, gloss paint needs to be scuffed up so that new paint can adhere properly unless you are applying an oil-based paint.
If you want to turn this painting project into a painful multi-day renovation then remove the skirting, sand or scrape down the protruding paint from both the wall and skirting, patch the wall with mud, sand, prime, re-attach the skirting, apply paintable caulk or silicone, and finally paint the skirting and wall. | It would be best to "rake" out the loose and jagged paint in the gap so that it can then be filled. After cleaning out the gap you should use a latex caulk to fill the gap. You may be able to find a color to match the paint you intend to use.
Inject the caulk along the gap,press it in with your finger and wipe gently with a dampened sponge until you're satisfied with how it looks.
I would suggest making sure the molding (trim) piece in the picture isn't loose and if it is to re-secure it with finish nails and such.
No need to de-gloss before painting, but a quick cleaning with TSP, ammonia, Windex will guarantee a successful paint job. |
212,301 | We’re about to paint our skirting board with black gloss paint but some of the filler is chipping off in places.
Should we remove the areas of filling that are chipping off and refill those only or should we try to remove all of the filling and completely redo from scratch? What is the best product to fill with?
And do we need to sand down the original gloss paint before painting over with new black gloss?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/By0wd.jpg) | 2020/12/28 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/212301",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/127653/"
] | I would sand the board slightly to remove the gloss paint sheen. Then I would put masking tape or the newer type edging tape, green or blue, on both the wall and baseboard, just past where you want to fill. Clean out the loose debris and use a paintable silicone caulking to fill the slot. After you add the caulking run your finger along that caulking to give you a smooth finish. When the caulking has been smoothed, remove the tape to leave a nice straight edge. After the caulking has dried you can paint the baseboard as you like. | It would be best to "rake" out the loose and jagged paint in the gap so that it can then be filled. After cleaning out the gap you should use a latex caulk to fill the gap. You may be able to find a color to match the paint you intend to use.
Inject the caulk along the gap,press it in with your finger and wipe gently with a dampened sponge until you're satisfied with how it looks.
I would suggest making sure the molding (trim) piece in the picture isn't loose and if it is to re-secure it with finish nails and such.
No need to de-gloss before painting, but a quick cleaning with TSP, ammonia, Windex will guarantee a successful paint job. |
348,879 | What does influence of routing in static/dynamic power consumption in FPGA design?
I want to know that, different routing results different power consumption? | 2018/01/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/348879",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/172281/"
] | There will definitely be effects. Longer wires have more capacitance that will need to be charged up on every transition, increasing power consumption. Generally the place and route tools will attempt to make the wires as short as possible in an effort to minimize delay. There could be variations in the static power consumption of routing components as well, though this would be extremely architecture-dependent. | Yes, with each trace on the PCB there will be parasitic resistance *and inductance*.
The problem is FPGA's have a lot of gates that switch at the same time (even amps of current can be drawn from some FPGA's), this results in the load increasing and the demand for current increasing on very short timescales. This causes a voltage drop at the power pins on the FPGA. If the voltage drop is to great, the gates will not be powered and output 'noise' instead of the correct voltage for a 1 or a 0 which will result in an error in a Boolean calculation.
PCB traces are simply conductors, every conductor has resistance (which causes a voltage drop) and inductance (which prevents current from moving from one place to another immediately). This contributes the voltage at the FPGA to drop.
What can you do about it? There are two ways to combat this problem:
1) Make sure you have sufficient power filter capacitors.
Power filter capacitors provide a short term storage next to the FPGA to combat line inductance.
2) Make sure the voltage drop through PCB traces is small enough for the current moving through it. The first thing you will need to do is find a PCB trace calculator that can estimate the resistance of the trace. Then estimate the current needed by the FPGA, most provide a tool or a spreadsheet (like [Xilinx](https://www.xilinx.com/products/technology/power/xpe.html)) that can estimate the current.
If your FPGA needs at most 1A, and it the pcb trace is 0.100Ω then this would result in a 0.1V drop (V=I\*R). This may not be acceptable for a 1.2V or 1.5V design, check the FPGA datasheet for limits on power. If you increased the trace size by 5x then you would only have 0.020Ω and a 0.02V drop. |
348,879 | What does influence of routing in static/dynamic power consumption in FPGA design?
I want to know that, different routing results different power consumption? | 2018/01/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/348879",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/172281/"
] | There will definitely be effects. Longer wires have more capacitance that will need to be charged up on every transition, increasing power consumption. Generally the place and route tools will attempt to make the wires as short as possible in an effort to minimize delay. There could be variations in the static power consumption of routing components as well, though this would be extremely architecture-dependent. | An FPGA, at least the Xilinx ones I've used, has a variety of routing resources.
Clock distribution is optimised for high speed clocking, and covers the entire chip. This is used preferentially for clocks by the PAR.
Data has a number of different lengths of line. Some go LUT to LUT for very local connections, fast carry chains for instance. There are so-called 'long lines' that cross the die, which can be broken into small sections to limit dynamic power consumption, or routed right across. There are also several types of intermediate length line. All of these will have different dynamic power consumption.
The PAR will select from the available resources to meet timing constraints. With a sparsely populated die, it might be possible to anticipate what will get used for what. With a dense design, where the PAR struggles, it will be difficult to guess what it's going to use for what.
This means that only the post-layout reports will give you accurate estimates.
There is only so much you can do to control power dissipation from interconnect, once you have done the obvious things of arranging adders in columns, putting logic next to its IO so you don't cross the chip, using the dedicated clock buffers and so on, the obvious stuff. Basically if the PAR is to meet timing constraints, then it has to use what it uses. |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | [Blog O’ Matty](http://prefetch.net/blog/)
More than Solaris but I've found some real gems on his blog (like Oracle Sun cluster information). | The Sun Freeware site: <http://www.sunfreeware.com/> is indispensable and free. |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | Check out the [LKSF book here](http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/).
The best way to learn is to dive in to it. Install OpenSolaris on a Vm and work away. | Although Solaris is dying somewhat in the hacker space, SunOS/Solaris used to be king of the hill in the unix hacker community. There is still a core of Solaris people on usenet and quite a body of online literature. Solaris is also a fairly mature, stable platform so much of the archived historical material is still relevant in a way that 10-year old docs on Linux might not be. |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | [Ben Rockwood's blog](http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/) - online & free
[Sun BigAdmin](http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.jsp) - online & free, but may link to non-free Sun stuff | The Sun Freeware site: <http://www.sunfreeware.com/> is indispensable and free. |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | [Blog O’ Matty](http://prefetch.net/blog/)
More than Solaris but I've found some real gems on his blog (like Oracle Sun cluster information). | Although Solaris is dying somewhat in the hacker space, SunOS/Solaris used to be king of the hill in the unix hacker community. There is still a core of Solaris people on usenet and quite a body of online literature. Solaris is also a fairly mature, stable platform so much of the archived historical material is still relevant in a way that 10-year old docs on Linux might not be. |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | Check out the [LKSF book here](http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/).
The best way to learn is to dive in to it. Install OpenSolaris on a Vm and work away. | * [Getting started with OpenSolaris 2009.06](http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/getstart/) (free) provides an introduction to the OpenSolarisTM operating system, as well as instructions for installing and configuring the OpenSolaris release;
* [OpenSolaris Bible](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0470385480) (Amazon), [sample chapters](https://blogs.oracle.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_bible_sample_chapters). |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | Check out the [LKSF book here](http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/).
The best way to learn is to dive in to it. Install OpenSolaris on a Vm and work away. | The Sun Freeware site: <http://www.sunfreeware.com/> is indispensable and free. |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | [Ben Rockwood's blog](http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/) - online & free
[Sun BigAdmin](http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.jsp) - online & free, but may link to non-free Sun stuff | * [Getting started with OpenSolaris 2009.06](http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/getstart/) (free) provides an introduction to the OpenSolarisTM operating system, as well as instructions for installing and configuring the OpenSolaris release;
* [OpenSolaris Bible](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0470385480) (Amazon), [sample chapters](https://blogs.oracle.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_bible_sample_chapters). |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | [Ben Rockwood's blog](http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/) - online & free
[Sun BigAdmin](http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.jsp) - online & free, but may link to non-free Sun stuff | The opensolaris forums are a logical place to start if you have specific issues:
<http://opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa?categoryID=1>
I often find useful stuff on [blogs.oracle.com](https://blogs.oracle.com), but it's not exclusively opensolaris of course.
The community documentation feels a bit dated in many places, but is still extremely useful.
<http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/> |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | [Ben Rockwood's blog](http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/) - online & free
[Sun BigAdmin](http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.jsp) - online & free, but may link to non-free Sun stuff | Although Solaris is dying somewhat in the hacker space, SunOS/Solaris used to be king of the hill in the unix hacker community. There is still a core of Solaris people on usenet and quite a body of online literature. Solaris is also a fairly mature, stable platform so much of the archived historical material is still relevant in a way that 10-year old docs on Linux might not be. |
32,190 | What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment. | 2009/06/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/32190",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/4947/"
] | [Blog O’ Matty](http://prefetch.net/blog/)
More than Solaris but I've found some real gems on his blog (like Oracle Sun cluster information). | The opensolaris forums are a logical place to start if you have specific issues:
<http://opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa?categoryID=1>
I often find useful stuff on [blogs.oracle.com](https://blogs.oracle.com), but it's not exclusively opensolaris of course.
The community documentation feels a bit dated in many places, but is still extremely useful.
<http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/> |
67,715 | "Alright, class, I'm seeing so many new faces today. Let's go around and introduce a fun fact about yourself."
A: *"Hey everyone, I'm A. People tell me I'm pretty, but I wish I can buy something with that."*
B: "Hi, I'm B. A fun fact? Let's see...D is my cousin!"
C: "Hi, I'm C. I go by my last name though, S."
D: "*Bonjour. I'm D. B is lying though. He said I'm his cousin just because we have the same last name. We are not even related!*" Everyone laughs so hard that the teacher have to calm the class down before they continued.
E: "*Hi, I'm E. A fun fact about me...uh...My parents own a video store, or at least that's what I think.*"
F: *"Hi! I'm F. People told me I'm messy but I like it. It's not going to be long though because I'm trying to tidy up!"*
G: *"Hey, I'm G. Before anyone ask, I'm 6'5". No I've never played basketball. Love to meet you all since I'm kinda chill with everyone."*
H: "*Hi, I'm H. A fun fact about me? Let's see...I've never seen the ocean*."
I: "*You too, H? Oh, sorry to interrupt. I'm I. I Junior actually because I'm named after my dad.*"
J: "Hi, I'm J. I really like my name because it reminds me of where I'm from."
---
Just as the teacher about to begin the class, a new student ran in.
K: "Sorry, I'm late. The road to school is so long and windy"
Teacher: "That's alright, K. Here, J and G, you two have a sit in between, let K sit there for now.
Class begins. However, two students were missing from that class. Can you tell me which students are missing and where would they sit if they were present in class? | 2018/06/30 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/67715",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/49683/"
] | I believe the students are:
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> Countries in South America, with the order being the countries going clockwise, starting from the top left.
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A
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> Looks like it should be either Venezuela or Colombia, but I'm not sure which.
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B
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> Guyana, the "non-French" version of D
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C
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> Suriname, since it sounds like "surname".
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D
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> French Guiana
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E
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> Uruguay, because of its capital city, Montevideo.
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F
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> Argentina, because "messy" could correspond to Messi, and Messi is most likely retiring soon.
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G
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> Chile, relating the height to the length of the country, and since "chill" sounds like Chile.
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> Paraguay, see answer for I as well
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> Bolivia, since the country is named after Simon Bolivar. That means the other landlocked country is H.
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> Ecuador, since its name indicates its position on the equator.
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> Peru, since Peru is famous for having the long Inca Trail.
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That means the missing students would be:
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The children are all
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> Provinces or Territories of Canada
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> Ontario is from an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful lake."
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> New Brunswick, where about one-third of the population speak French, therefore: Wannabe cousin of Quebec?
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> Nova **S**cotia
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> Quebec, the almost cousin of B, both big speakers of French???
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> (see note at bottom)
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F:
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> Yukon, home of the [Messy Church?](https://www.messychurch.org.uk/church/messy-church-yukon-style?zoom=12&lat=60.71918&lon=-135.05363&layers=TTB) (desperate stretch here)
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> Nunavut, the Large, chilly territory to the north.
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> Alberta was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince **Albert.**
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> Northwest Territory, between Nunavut and British Columbia and home to Windy Bay? :)
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> (Prince Edward Island)
> (Newfoundland and Labrador)
> (Manitoba)
> Perhaps Manitoba is somehow related to a video store and is child "E," and the others are seated geographically on the east side of the classroom.
> Anyone have any help to give?
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> |
3,768 | So I was having a discussion about starters with someone, after reading NB's Yeast Pitching Rates [document](http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/YeastPitchingRates.pdf). In which, I read that, with a stir plate, and considering a two stage propogation, I could get 453B cells with two .5 litre stages.
However, It was brought to my attention that in [Jamil's yeast book](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0937381969), he argues that sub-litre starters are pointless.
How can I reconcile this? Which resource is right? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/3768",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/users/1152/"
] | I would certainly follow JZ's advice over NB's. While I know and respect the people at NB (hey, they put out kits of my recipes!), I know for a fact that JZ has worked with Chris White to do detailed studies while NB is just repeating commonly held "wisdom". You're also comparing apple to oranges since NB recommends 2 steps and JZ is talking about a single step. A 2 step starter is not only more hassle, you double the chance of accidentally picking up a contamination. In addition, if you don't feed the yeast enough wort initially, they have nothing left to help them build glycogen reserves at the end of starter fermentation which are used to help the yeast get off to a healthy start once you pitch it into your beer. | Your goal is to achieve an approximate doubling of the healthy, viable yeast cell count. So the important thing is the ratio of yeast cell count to wort volume. Too little wort and you have just fed the existing yeast, but they've eaten all of the sugar and nutrients before they've all had a chance to reproduce. Too much wort, and you've got beer.
If you plot the numbers that you see on NB's pdf, you'll see that what you get is a curve, which appears to mimic the numbers from Jamil's yeast book. They're a little different, but they're close enough to make me think it's just differences in experimental methods. (edit: turns out that the experiment from the Yeast book was done with no additional oxygen and no agitation, so it may be that both are correct)
If you have 2 containers that will hold .5L, you could make a liter of wort and split the vial somewhat evenly between the 2 smaller containers. That's what I do when I need to make larger starters. For really large starters, make a small beer (under 1.050), and then pitch the yeast cake from that into your big beer. |
110,069 | I am having the same issue as [here](https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/35310/can-i-create-some-sort-of-attachment-column-in-a-list), but I have no "list" option in the ribbon, and therefore no "list settings" option. I am working on a list, but I am baffled by why there is no "attachment" column available. Attachments are enabled. Please help! | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/110069",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/30181/"
] | There must be a Lists option near item option in the Ribbon.
Try following approach:
1. Sometimes ribbon options are not showing as soon as you open the list. So, open the List and select any item created in the list and ribbon will be shown.
2. If list is created by someone else, Check the permissions you are having on the list.
For attachments:
1. Modify the list view and select attachments column to show which list items are having attachments. In list view only paper pin will be shown against item.
2. To see or download these attachments you need to open the respective item(View Item). | If you have Attachments enabled, then go to Modify View and select Attachments to see them. Attachments are usually enabled by default.
Attachments is one of the columns that is automatically added to a list based on settings (like version) so you cannot add or remove it in the list settings. |
1,283,459 | I want to implement a custom assembly signature mechanism just like Strong Name,
then develop a program to write the signature info in the assembly Metadata,In the assembly of internal read and verification of the signature is correct.
Is possible to do this? | 2009/08/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1283459",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/102588/"
] | This is certainly possible. You should add a custom attribute for the assembly. To do so, make an entry in the CustomAttribute table, which is defined in section 22.10 of [ECMA 335](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm). | The .NET assemblies are regular Windows .exe and .dll files. So instead of writing .NET metadata, you can add resources to the file - using WIN32 functions like UpdateResource. |
18,601 | I've created an intro template on After Effects that has some text and the animation of a masked image. If I import this aep template to Premiere Pro, I can easily replace the text, however I can't find a way to replace the image too.
Is it possible? | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/18601",
"https://avp.stackexchange.com",
"https://avp.stackexchange.com/users/14568/"
] | You can convert audio to keyframes. Right-click the footage with the audio, and choose **Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Convert Audio to Keyframes**, or with the audio layer selected go to the **Animation** menu in the menu bar.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JnpaC.png)
This will create a new layer with keyframes for the intensity of the audio. You can copy those keyframes on to any property that you want to animate and adjust them in the graph editor, or you can use an expression on the property and select the keyframes with the expressions pickwhip. This means that the audio levels can control *any* animatable property including parameters for your favourite noise effect.
A useful trick is that you can apply EQ to the audio before you convert it to keyframes and have different sets of keyframes for the bassline and the melody sounds. | Trapcode Particular is the tool of choice for this. You can generate any type of noise/particles, based on an audio track, and tie the parameters to not just the track, but specific frequencies (so the noise is warped on low bass, or changes color on high frequencies).
There are also a lot of templates you can buy on videohive that will jumpstart the process. |
314,739 | I have set up Terminal Services in Windows 2003.
Which is part of the domain. That server is not DC. It has only one role: Terminal Server
When I'm trying to log in to it via RDP as an Domain Administrator or any other user
in the Domain Admins group. It's working fine and allowing me to work.
However when I'm trying to RDP in with members of "Domain Users" group
I am getting:
>
> Remote Desktop Connection Denied because the user account is not
> authorized for remote login
>
>
>
I have set local policies and allowed Domain Users (Allow logon through Remote Desktop Services)
and the Deny login through Remote Desktop Services is not configured.
I also tried to add certain users to the Builtin Remote Desktop Users group
no luck.
Please help! | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/314739",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61470/"
] | Create a group policy that uses the restricted groups feature to place "Domain Users" in the "Remote Desktop Users" group. Apply that policy to your server, overriding the local policy. Log in as domain admin and make sure the policy refreshes. When you examine the remote desktop users group, verify that "domain users" has been placed in this group. Now, log off and test as one of your domain users. | It's possible to set a computer so that a specific level of privileges are required to log on to it at all, regardless of whether it's in person or from Remote Desktop. I can't find a link right now, but I believe there's a Group Policy that applies to domain controllers which enforces this limitation. You should be able to change that policy to either add a new group (and put this person in it), add this person directly, or remove the restriction entirely and allow anybody to log in. |
78,809 | I've been trying new recipes lately, and I often see instructions along the lines of:
* Put ingredients in sheet pan
* Drizzle oil over ingredients
* Add seasonings to ingredients
* Toss to coat
I understand the purpose of this is to evenly coat the stuff in the pan with oil and seasonings, but I don't understand how to physically do it. If I try lifting the pan to literally "toss" the contents, they all go flying out. I've tried stirring instead, but the pan is too shallow for that to be effective. I've started putting everything in a bowl or bag first and mixing it there, but that's clearly not what was intended.
I tried doing a Google search, but it mostly told me that "toss" means "mix" without giving a good technique on how to do this in a sheet pan. What am I missing? How do I quickly and easily "toss to coat" food in a sheet pan? | 2017/03/01 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/78809",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/51763/"
] | You use your hands. Or, if you're not a fan of getting your fingers oily, use a pair of tongs.
Drizzle oil over the ingredients and then pick them up with your hands and move them around to rub over each other and get evenly coated.
If you're happier with the results when using a bag or a bowl, there's nothing wrong with that. The only downside is that you're getting another dish dirty and you're losing a small amount of the ingredients that would otherwise be coating your sheet pan. If you keep using a bowl or bag, I recommend possibly rubbing a thin layer of oil on the pan as you're not "tossing" the ingredients directly in the pan. | I often use a pair of spatulas (spatulae?) and lightly toss the ingredients until coated. This is similar to tossing a salad. |
78,809 | I've been trying new recipes lately, and I often see instructions along the lines of:
* Put ingredients in sheet pan
* Drizzle oil over ingredients
* Add seasonings to ingredients
* Toss to coat
I understand the purpose of this is to evenly coat the stuff in the pan with oil and seasonings, but I don't understand how to physically do it. If I try lifting the pan to literally "toss" the contents, they all go flying out. I've tried stirring instead, but the pan is too shallow for that to be effective. I've started putting everything in a bowl or bag first and mixing it there, but that's clearly not what was intended.
I tried doing a Google search, but it mostly told me that "toss" means "mix" without giving a good technique on how to do this in a sheet pan. What am I missing? How do I quickly and easily "toss to coat" food in a sheet pan? | 2017/03/01 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/78809",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/51763/"
] | You use your hands. Or, if you're not a fan of getting your fingers oily, use a pair of tongs.
Drizzle oil over the ingredients and then pick them up with your hands and move them around to rub over each other and get evenly coated.
If you're happier with the results when using a bag or a bowl, there's nothing wrong with that. The only downside is that you're getting another dish dirty and you're losing a small amount of the ingredients that would otherwise be coating your sheet pan. If you keep using a bowl or bag, I recommend possibly rubbing a thin layer of oil on the pan as you're not "tossing" the ingredients directly in the pan. | I just put all the ingredients in a ziplock or plastic bag, add seasoning, shake it up to mix, then drizzle oil into the bag, and shake it up again to mix all together. Then pour everything onto a sheet pan, and spread out the ingredients. If there is extra oil/seasoning left in the bag, you can pour it over the ingredients in the pan. I think it can cut down the amount of oil and seasoning, but I usually just sprinkle on more seasoning. I have **never** had any problems with cutting back on the oil. As long as everything is well coated, it cooks well, and I don't get extra oil pooling on the sheet pan.
You don't have anything extra to wash; just throw out the plastic bag. |
342,025 | I've been trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my new laptop (currently a Windows 7 OS) with a LiveCD, using 64-bit (Since the computer is only a few days old, and if it's newer than 2010, the 64-bit version is the one I should be using, correct?) and it boots to the installation just fine, but during installation it skips the step that gives me the option to dual boot with my current OS (something I would like to be able to do) and takes me to the screen with partitioning. On this screen, the partitioning menu is empty and all of the buttons are greyed out. Of course, if I press "install now" it gives me the error message,
>
> No root file system defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
>
>
>
So, I would like to know how to install Ubuntu to dual-boot, and I'd like to know how to solve this partitioning issue. Even though my computer doesn't run on Windows 8, it is still new, so would I be able to/should I install using wubi?
As I said, I'm new to Linux and Ubuntu, so I apologize for my inexperience. | 2013/09/06 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/342025",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/190642/"
] | >
> On this screen, the partitioning menu is empty and all of the buttons are greyed out. Of course, if I press "install now" it gives me the error message, (...)
>
>
>
This is because first you have to select on the **partitioning menu** field where exactly you want to have partitions on your disk. So just click on some place on it (for example click words "free space") and then your greyed buttons will be able to be pressed.
What architecture of Linux system you need depends on your processor architecture, no matter when you bought it. Remember you are able to install and run 32-bit systems on a 64-bit CPU, but not vice versa. | I would say you may have something wrong with disc?
I would download a fresh copy of 12.04 and burn a new ISO image disc (you'll probably have to download 3rd party software, even though Win 7 should be able to burn ISO image)
I'm real new Ubuntu/Linux user and was pretty worried I would lose information or reformat drive accidentally but everything went incredibly easy and automatic
You could try booting direct from disc to make sure it works without installing (you do have that option available?) |
3,173 | The [iupac](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iupac "show questions tagged 'iupac'") tag only has one legitimate usage but I consistently see it misused for questions about IUPAC nomenclature (such as [this](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/revisions/48010/2) recent example). Is it really a necessary tag? I seem to spend far too much time removing it from questions where it is unwarranted.
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>
> *Editorial note*: There are two answers, one for deleting the tag and one for keeping the tag. Please upvote only one. Downvotes will not be counted. As of now any existing votes have been unlocked by an edit.
>
> *2016-05-07*: Keep has got 14 upvotes; Delete has got 4 upvotes. **Voting closed.** (Please open a new meta discussion if necessary.)
>
>
> | 2016/03/16 | [
"https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3173",
"https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10185/"
] | First of all let me state, that I really dislike the word "[burninate](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Burninate)". Especially for this situation, where you seem to have a just cause.
Secondly, I am ***very, very strongly*** against deleting the tag. I was once under the impression, [that the tag is essentially the same as the nomenclature tag](https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/q/404/4945).
The usage explicitly states that the tag shall not be applied for nomenclature:
>
> This tag should be applied to questions about the organisation IUPAC. For questions about nomenclature the appropriate tag should be applied.
>
>
>
There will always be the misuse of tags, that is simply something we cannot avoid. I think there are generally only very, very few questions on this site, that do not get edited. The example question you linked certainly had a lot of potential for editing. The removal of a wrong tag is then just a minor inconvenience.
If a users do not want to read the guidance, than we cannot force them in any way. But at least this way there is a guidance. In this way we might avoid one or two mistags.
While you might delete that tag, it may not be gone forever. The problem in this scenario are users that are still quite new, but have gathered enough reputation (300) to create tags. Many of them will not read this discussion or the one linked, and have a different understanding of the generic "IUPAC", they might be inclined to create this tag again.
If the tag is removed, any of tag-wiki is gone, leaving the tag in a state where it has to be cleaned up. You don't gain anything by removing the tag from the system. (You may want to have an occasional look at the [new tags](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new) to understand what tags are sometimes created. In many occasions there are some cringe worthy ones.)
In short, I want to keep the tag, but it is a community decision.
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Upvote this post if you want to *keep* the tag.
=============================================== | Upvote this post, if you want to *delete* the [iupac](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iupac "show questions tagged 'iupac'") tag.
======================================================================================================================================================
Do not downvote this post, if you want to let [iupac](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iupac "show questions tagged 'iupac'") remain alive and think deleting it is a bad idea. Upvote the other post instead. |
18,115,157 | This is really odd to me. I just downloaded the [Google Play Games](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.play.games) app (distributed by Google, Inc.) and was shown that on my device that it required no special permissions (on device):
This is peculiar because using the application there are definitely quite a few things it does that should normally require permissions. Network access, accounts access, etc. Also, all other apps by Google, Inc. that I've checked still require permissions where expected...
Another oddity is that looking at the app on the Play Store via my computer it shows that it does require a permission, although it is only access to accounts and not all the other permissions one would expect:
My question, is how is it possible for the application not to require the necessary permissions and how can a discrepancy between viewing the store on device and through a web browser be explained? | 2013/08/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18115157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1629749/"
] | >
> how is it possible for the application not to require the necessary permissions
>
>
>
It may not be doing those operations itself. It may be having a third-party perform those actions for it. For example, it might use a custom `signature`-level permission to have the Play Services Framework app do those things on its behalf.
>
> how can a discrepancy between viewing the store on device and through a web browser be explained?
>
>
>
Conceivably, there could be multiple APKs, with differing permissions. At the time of the Web dialog, you have not chosen a device, and so they present the worst-case permissions. On the device, the specific APK is known, and so they present the device-specific permissions.
That's just a guess, though, and I have no idea if that's what they're doing, or even if it's possible for the Play Store's multiple-APK support to handle different APKs with different sets of permissions. | It leverages on google play services. |
198,755 | I cut an oak tree in half (*image below, but with the rough bark on the outside!*) and want to make a seat.
The legs are the problem.
I've made a few attempts (*like short 2x4's, etc*), but I can't make a stable chair.
I can't really make a solid connection to the rounded bark side.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xrf1p.jpg) | 2020/07/28 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/198755",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/69432/"
] | Get some thick stock, maybe a few heavy branches from the tree, and drill a 1.5" hole saw into the end of each leg about two inches deep. then with a regular saw, cut around the outside two inches from the end until the outer part falls out and you're left with a 1.5" round stud out the end of the leg. Then drill a 1.5" hole in the seat and insert the leg into the hole. You'll have to file the peg a bit to get it into the hole.
I'm assuming you don't have access to a wood turning lathe. | Traditionally, you want tapered holes and tapered legs inserted in the holes. Those holes should be bored at an outward angle, as well, not vertically. If things shrink, the leg just seats a bit further in the hole (if the hole is deep enough to allow that, of course.)
This may require tools you do not own, but they can be found.
For reasons of geometry, 3 is the magic number of legs to not wobble, and traditional for this sort of stool as a result.
*Best to remove the bark, by the way - it may fall off later, and tends to harbor wood eating beetles.* |
198,755 | I cut an oak tree in half (*image below, but with the rough bark on the outside!*) and want to make a seat.
The legs are the problem.
I've made a few attempts (*like short 2x4's, etc*), but I can't make a stable chair.
I can't really make a solid connection to the rounded bark side.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xrf1p.jpg) | 2020/07/28 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/198755",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/69432/"
] | Get some thick stock, maybe a few heavy branches from the tree, and drill a 1.5" hole saw into the end of each leg about two inches deep. then with a regular saw, cut around the outside two inches from the end until the outer part falls out and you're left with a 1.5" round stud out the end of the leg. Then drill a 1.5" hole in the seat and insert the leg into the hole. You'll have to file the peg a bit to get it into the hole.
I'm assuming you don't have access to a wood turning lathe. | There are tools made just for what you are trying to do. Maybe more than you want to spend, but wanted to show you anyway. Below is a screen shot of parts of it as well as a link. I have not used these personally, but I have heard they work well.
<https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200459372_200459372?cm_mmc=Google-pla&utm_source=Google_PLA&utm_medium=Power%20Tools%20%3E%20Drills%20%2B%20Accessories%20%3E%20Tenon%20Cutters%20%2B%20Kits&utm_campaign=Lumberjack%20Tools&utm_content=16804&gclid=CjwKCAjwmf_4BRABEiwAGhDfSWvXYEPazetB9Yl9tCK3GuJb8yTg9l3L5JsylUHSrUTY7lMAVqcSeRoCbM8QAvD_BwE>
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QiaHL.png) |
198,755 | I cut an oak tree in half (*image below, but with the rough bark on the outside!*) and want to make a seat.
The legs are the problem.
I've made a few attempts (*like short 2x4's, etc*), but I can't make a stable chair.
I can't really make a solid connection to the rounded bark side.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xrf1p.jpg) | 2020/07/28 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/198755",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/69432/"
] | Log furniture is usually assembled using large hole saws and or Forstner bits.
I have an adjustable bit that I can expand the cutter.
Drill the holes then shape the legs to fit I found a strip sander quite handy for getting my legs and rail pieces to the correct size.
I find the depth of the hole needs to be 1.5-2 x the diameter for chairs if the legs are not set deep enough they tear out.
The other thing that I found out after making some furniture MAKE SURE IT IS DRY! I made some chairs out of trees we cut I trimmed everything assembled and a few months later it became very wobbly the legs dried and were smaller than the holes (gorilla glue saved me having to redo all the legs). If you look at log furniture you will see what I mean on cutting the ends down, I make the ends as tight as possible with out splitting the rail or seat. If the wood is well dried and the leg goes in 1.5 x the diameter only a small finish nail can be used just in case they start to losen up. | Traditionally, you want tapered holes and tapered legs inserted in the holes. Those holes should be bored at an outward angle, as well, not vertically. If things shrink, the leg just seats a bit further in the hole (if the hole is deep enough to allow that, of course.)
This may require tools you do not own, but they can be found.
For reasons of geometry, 3 is the magic number of legs to not wobble, and traditional for this sort of stool as a result.
*Best to remove the bark, by the way - it may fall off later, and tends to harbor wood eating beetles.* |
198,755 | I cut an oak tree in half (*image below, but with the rough bark on the outside!*) and want to make a seat.
The legs are the problem.
I've made a few attempts (*like short 2x4's, etc*), but I can't make a stable chair.
I can't really make a solid connection to the rounded bark side.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xrf1p.jpg) | 2020/07/28 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/198755",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/69432/"
] | Log furniture is usually assembled using large hole saws and or Forstner bits.
I have an adjustable bit that I can expand the cutter.
Drill the holes then shape the legs to fit I found a strip sander quite handy for getting my legs and rail pieces to the correct size.
I find the depth of the hole needs to be 1.5-2 x the diameter for chairs if the legs are not set deep enough they tear out.
The other thing that I found out after making some furniture MAKE SURE IT IS DRY! I made some chairs out of trees we cut I trimmed everything assembled and a few months later it became very wobbly the legs dried and were smaller than the holes (gorilla glue saved me having to redo all the legs). If you look at log furniture you will see what I mean on cutting the ends down, I make the ends as tight as possible with out splitting the rail or seat. If the wood is well dried and the leg goes in 1.5 x the diameter only a small finish nail can be used just in case they start to losen up. | There are tools made just for what you are trying to do. Maybe more than you want to spend, but wanted to show you anyway. Below is a screen shot of parts of it as well as a link. I have not used these personally, but I have heard they work well.
<https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200459372_200459372?cm_mmc=Google-pla&utm_source=Google_PLA&utm_medium=Power%20Tools%20%3E%20Drills%20%2B%20Accessories%20%3E%20Tenon%20Cutters%20%2B%20Kits&utm_campaign=Lumberjack%20Tools&utm_content=16804&gclid=CjwKCAjwmf_4BRABEiwAGhDfSWvXYEPazetB9Yl9tCK3GuJb8yTg9l3L5JsylUHSrUTY7lMAVqcSeRoCbM8QAvD_BwE>
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QiaHL.png) |
33,752 | Recently I had a 3rd party recruiter call me unsolicited about a junior developer role at FooCorp. At the time I wasn't interested so I said no; however, I went to FooCorp's website and they have a much more senior role which fits me well. I mentioned this to the recruiter who made some rather half-hearted noises about talking to FooCorp's HR. That was a week ago and I haven't had a clear confirmation they will put me forward at all; the recruiter isn't replying to emails and the telephone number he called me on returns unavailable.
As the closing date for applications is the end of this week, and I dearly want to get the post (and believe I would be a very good fit), would it be inappropriate to contact FooCorp HR direct - even if I made clear that initial contact was via the recruiter? | 2014/09/15 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/33752",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/27057/"
] | FooCorp may not be open to accepting your application just to avoid any conflict with the agreement they have with the recruiter. My guess is, since the job was posted on FooCorp's website, they may not be interested in working with a third party recruiter for the higher position. It may be that foocorp posted the position publicly to appease equal-opportunity hiring practices, but they already have someone in mind.
Give it a shot. They may ask if you've ever been contacted by a recruiter, so you should be honest about the other position. If the recruiter isn't going to help you, they shouldn't make any claims to your getting a position they never brought to your attention, but that doesn't mean the agreement with Foocorp doesn't have legal implication or blurred the line between right and wrong.
Contact the recruiter and let them know if you don't hear from them by a certain date/time, you're going to apply on your own. | I have done exactly what you plan to do and it worked out with no problem.
A recruiter described a position to me and said he was going to submit my application materials. Weeks went by and I heard no feedback of any kind from the recruiter. After pinging him with many emails, his colleague finally replied and said, "Mr. X is away on vacation and cannot reply to your emails, but he's asked me to let you know that FooCorp has decided to pass on your application."
About 3 days later I saw a job posting on LinkedIn for the exact position that the recruiter had connected me to. I believed something fishy was going on with the recruiter, so I decided to apply via LinkedIn.
I applied and within two days the company responded to me and said they were very excited about my resume and wanted me to speak with their Chief Science Officer as soon as possible.
At that point, I mentioned to them that they may have already received a resume via the recruiter Mr. X.
The company thanked me a lot for telling them about this -- they said they would look into it and if they indeed had to honor any agreement with the recruiter then they would go ahead and do so. They seemed glad that I alerted them to this possibility.
I got no feedback about why the process went this way. That is, the recruiter (still, even after I began interviewing with the company) never got back in touch with me at all. And the company never confirmed nor denied whether they had received my resume at all from the recruiter.
In summary, it seems that if you have reason to feel you were not legitimately considered as an applicant when the recruiter was assisting you then you should definitely re-apply but try to communicate clearly that a recruiter may have submitted your information before. |
82,532 | I am a beginning programer and am working on creating a program that will allow people to keep track of inventory in their house. The program accepts barcodes scanned over a TCP/IP connection to add to the information.
**Currently, I have essentially all of the functions on the main form and am wondering if there is a better way to lay this out.**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ApsRp.png)
I'll give a brief explanation of what the buttons do starting from top left.
>
> **File** - Opens menu with option to Exit
>
> **Scan Barcode** - For testing purposes, open TCP/IP connection to scan barcode (Opens in new window)
>
> **Help** - Display menu with option to view IP address to ease the connection of TCP client(Opens in new window)
>
> **Search** - Searches items in the inventory (The big window)
>
> **Refresh** - Refreshes the list based on a database
>
> **Generate Barcode** - Converts user entered string into Barcode image to print onto labels.(Opens in new window)
>
> **Remove Selected** - Remove selected item from the inventory [database].
>
> **Add item** - Add item to inventory database (Opens in new window)
>
>
>
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HRWhN.png) | 2015/08/05 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/82532",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/69567/"
] | This is actually quite a verbose copy and it violates a couple of principles:
* Keep text short and concise
* Front-load actions
There is generally no need to tell users to 'click to' if it's clear from the interface that something is clickable (button or link). Just imagine if any button or link on this page would start with 'click here to...'.
A copy like this:
>
> Verify your email address
>
>
>
Whether as a link or a button will do (in this specific case, since it is in an email it should be a link because you'll be taken away to a web page; within an app a button would be better so long clicking it won't navigate to a different page). | @Izhaki has added an excellent, concise answer. Just to add my two cents. I feel we are transitioning from a PC based model to a touch based model. We are far from reaching there if we ever will be.
So the metaphors will also change gradually when number of touch based devices significantly increase in comparison. I am only talking about the intended audience of this mailer in question, and its probable use of medium to view this mail.
Since we are transitioning from a traditional keyboard mouse interface to touch, click here is something we will still inherently understand. As of right now, I see no need to rush into a paradigm shift. |
82,532 | I am a beginning programer and am working on creating a program that will allow people to keep track of inventory in their house. The program accepts barcodes scanned over a TCP/IP connection to add to the information.
**Currently, I have essentially all of the functions on the main form and am wondering if there is a better way to lay this out.**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ApsRp.png)
I'll give a brief explanation of what the buttons do starting from top left.
>
> **File** - Opens menu with option to Exit
>
> **Scan Barcode** - For testing purposes, open TCP/IP connection to scan barcode (Opens in new window)
>
> **Help** - Display menu with option to view IP address to ease the connection of TCP client(Opens in new window)
>
> **Search** - Searches items in the inventory (The big window)
>
> **Refresh** - Refreshes the list based on a database
>
> **Generate Barcode** - Converts user entered string into Barcode image to print onto labels.(Opens in new window)
>
> **Remove Selected** - Remove selected item from the inventory [database].
>
> **Add item** - Add item to inventory database (Opens in new window)
>
>
>
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HRWhN.png) | 2015/08/05 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/82532",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/69567/"
] | This is actually quite a verbose copy and it violates a couple of principles:
* Keep text short and concise
* Front-load actions
There is generally no need to tell users to 'click to' if it's clear from the interface that something is clickable (button or link). Just imagine if any button or link on this page would start with 'click here to...'.
A copy like this:
>
> Verify your email address
>
>
>
Whether as a link or a button will do (in this specific case, since it is in an email it should be a link because you'll be taken away to a web page; within an app a button would be better so long clicking it won't navigate to a different page). | Saying "click here" may be redundant if the intended audience knows how to interact with links, although if the intended audience doesn't know how to interact with the internet (new users, older users, etc.).
While this particular link is clear ("Click here to verify your account"), if the link had only been "Click here" then it [could fall foul of WCAG compliance](http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/navigation-mechanisms-refs.html).
There is also the point about whether a user on a device that can't "click" may become confused by the term. While not strictly covered by WCAG there are people with some conditions, such as autism, who have a [literal understanding of language](http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/myths-facts-and-statistics/myths-and-facts.aspx) and "have difficulty with non-literal sayings or phrases" (same source). Note that for some conditions, a person might not have had a diagnosis by the time they visit a website.
If you want to be sure not to cause confusion there's a delicate balancing act; knowing your audience will go a long way towards informing the choice, but we can't know everything about our users. I'd steer clear of "click here" and go with "visit this page" or something similar, as it doesn't presuppose the way you get to the page.
I would post more links but unfortunately I don't have the reputation for it, yet. |
3,471,769 | One of the other developers at my company wrote a .NET 2.0 web site. He stores everything...solution, project, source...everything inside of "inetpub\AppName" (the IIS share). I have never seen this done before. In fact I'm kinda surprised the website loads up in a browser. Are there any disadvantages to doing this over say...storing your solution in the visual studio 2010 projects folder and then publishing the website to inetpub (security, speed, etc)? Also, Why does this work? | 2010/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3471769",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/87796/"
] | There's really no reason it shouldn't work, but it's generally considered a bad idea. Is he developing directly on the shared site? That's scary. Even if he isn't, that's putting a lot of files on a shared site that shouldn't be there. The server may be configured not to return them, but one shouldn't get comfortable relying on that.
Even on his local machine, it's bad practice. If for no other reason than it doesn't properly mimic the published site and makes for a bad place to test things. | I'd say it's bad practice. Your entire code is at the mercy of the web server. If the server is hacked the code is a freebie reward. |
3,471,769 | One of the other developers at my company wrote a .NET 2.0 web site. He stores everything...solution, project, source...everything inside of "inetpub\AppName" (the IIS share). I have never seen this done before. In fact I'm kinda surprised the website loads up in a browser. Are there any disadvantages to doing this over say...storing your solution in the visual studio 2010 projects folder and then publishing the website to inetpub (security, speed, etc)? Also, Why does this work? | 2010/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3471769",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/87796/"
] | It works because the site would be compiled on the fly. This is bad from performance point of view (because the late compilation) and it's bad from security point of view (you're exposing your code more than necessary).
From [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178466.aspx)
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>
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> > Because ASP.NET compiles your Web site on first user request, you can simply copy your application's source code to the production Web server. However, ASP.NET also provides precompilation options that allow you to compile your Web site before it has been deployed, or to compile it after it has been deployed but before a user requests it. Precompilation has several advantages
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> | There's really no reason it shouldn't work, but it's generally considered a bad idea. Is he developing directly on the shared site? That's scary. Even if he isn't, that's putting a lot of files on a shared site that shouldn't be there. The server may be configured not to return them, but one shouldn't get comfortable relying on that.
Even on his local machine, it's bad practice. If for no other reason than it doesn't properly mimic the published site and makes for a bad place to test things. |
3,471,769 | One of the other developers at my company wrote a .NET 2.0 web site. He stores everything...solution, project, source...everything inside of "inetpub\AppName" (the IIS share). I have never seen this done before. In fact I'm kinda surprised the website loads up in a browser. Are there any disadvantages to doing this over say...storing your solution in the visual studio 2010 projects folder and then publishing the website to inetpub (security, speed, etc)? Also, Why does this work? | 2010/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3471769",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/87796/"
] | It works because the site would be compiled on the fly. This is bad from performance point of view (because the late compilation) and it's bad from security point of view (you're exposing your code more than necessary).
From [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178466.aspx)
>
>
> >
> > Because ASP.NET compiles your Web site on first user request, you can simply copy your application's source code to the production Web server. However, ASP.NET also provides precompilation options that allow you to compile your Web site before it has been deployed, or to compile it after it has been deployed but before a user requests it. Precompilation has several advantages
> >
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> | I'd say it's bad practice. Your entire code is at the mercy of the web server. If the server is hacked the code is a freebie reward. |
3,471,769 | One of the other developers at my company wrote a .NET 2.0 web site. He stores everything...solution, project, source...everything inside of "inetpub\AppName" (the IIS share). I have never seen this done before. In fact I'm kinda surprised the website loads up in a browser. Are there any disadvantages to doing this over say...storing your solution in the visual studio 2010 projects folder and then publishing the website to inetpub (security, speed, etc)? Also, Why does this work? | 2010/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3471769",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/87796/"
] | There's nothing special about the Inetpub folder—it's just the default web server root by convention. Nothing about it will prevent IIS from displaying ASPX pages if it's also part of a solution (which is only referenced in the project file's XML). You can also point IIS to the project directory in the Visual Studio Projects folder. | I'd say it's bad practice. Your entire code is at the mercy of the web server. If the server is hacked the code is a freebie reward. |
3,471,769 | One of the other developers at my company wrote a .NET 2.0 web site. He stores everything...solution, project, source...everything inside of "inetpub\AppName" (the IIS share). I have never seen this done before. In fact I'm kinda surprised the website loads up in a browser. Are there any disadvantages to doing this over say...storing your solution in the visual studio 2010 projects folder and then publishing the website to inetpub (security, speed, etc)? Also, Why does this work? | 2010/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3471769",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/87796/"
] | Storing userdata on C: is usually bad practice (specially for a programmer).
Most of us have a data partition that contains just userdata which is backed-up frequently or use a source repository on another server.
If you're on a secure LAN and just developing by yourself there is really no problem putting the solution in InetPub. However if you use the same IIS to publish to the world i wouldn't recommend it. You never know who might get to your precious gems. | I'd say it's bad practice. Your entire code is at the mercy of the web server. If the server is hacked the code is a freebie reward. |
3,471,769 | One of the other developers at my company wrote a .NET 2.0 web site. He stores everything...solution, project, source...everything inside of "inetpub\AppName" (the IIS share). I have never seen this done before. In fact I'm kinda surprised the website loads up in a browser. Are there any disadvantages to doing this over say...storing your solution in the visual studio 2010 projects folder and then publishing the website to inetpub (security, speed, etc)? Also, Why does this work? | 2010/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3471769",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/87796/"
] | It works because the site would be compiled on the fly. This is bad from performance point of view (because the late compilation) and it's bad from security point of view (you're exposing your code more than necessary).
From [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178466.aspx)
>
>
> >
> > Because ASP.NET compiles your Web site on first user request, you can simply copy your application's source code to the production Web server. However, ASP.NET also provides precompilation options that allow you to compile your Web site before it has been deployed, or to compile it after it has been deployed but before a user requests it. Precompilation has several advantages
> >
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>
> | There's nothing special about the Inetpub folder—it's just the default web server root by convention. Nothing about it will prevent IIS from displaying ASPX pages if it's also part of a solution (which is only referenced in the project file's XML). You can also point IIS to the project directory in the Visual Studio Projects folder. |
3,471,769 | One of the other developers at my company wrote a .NET 2.0 web site. He stores everything...solution, project, source...everything inside of "inetpub\AppName" (the IIS share). I have never seen this done before. In fact I'm kinda surprised the website loads up in a browser. Are there any disadvantages to doing this over say...storing your solution in the visual studio 2010 projects folder and then publishing the website to inetpub (security, speed, etc)? Also, Why does this work? | 2010/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3471769",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/87796/"
] | It works because the site would be compiled on the fly. This is bad from performance point of view (because the late compilation) and it's bad from security point of view (you're exposing your code more than necessary).
From [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178466.aspx)
>
>
> >
> > Because ASP.NET compiles your Web site on first user request, you can simply copy your application's source code to the production Web server. However, ASP.NET also provides precompilation options that allow you to compile your Web site before it has been deployed, or to compile it after it has been deployed but before a user requests it. Precompilation has several advantages
> >
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> | Storing userdata on C: is usually bad practice (specially for a programmer).
Most of us have a data partition that contains just userdata which is backed-up frequently or use a source repository on another server.
If you're on a secure LAN and just developing by yourself there is really no problem putting the solution in InetPub. However if you use the same IIS to publish to the world i wouldn't recommend it. You never know who might get to your precious gems. |
831,545 | I'm working on an application written in VB6 and I'm having trouble connecting to a SQL Server 2008 database that has been set up on a server in our office.
Here are the symptoms:
* When I try to connect using a connection string via ADO in VB6, VB6 hangs and then finally gives me the error: "Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)': [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied."
* if I make a blank .udl file and double-click on it, in the Connection tab of the Data Link Properties dialog, in the dropdown where it says "Select or enter a server name", if I click on the dropdown to see the list or click the "Refresh" button, it hangs.
* When I try to connect via SQL Server 2005 Management Studio (SQL Server 2005 is installed on the client machine on which I am working on the VB6 program), when I try to connect via:
+ **TCP/IP**: I get the message "This version of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio can only be used to connect to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 servers. (ConnectionDlg)"
+ **Shared Memory**: I get the message "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 41 - Cannot open a Shared Memory connection to a remote SQL server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 87)"
+ **Named Pipes**: "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1326)"
Here are some of the common proposed solutions I have seen online which I have implemented (and of course have not as of yet solved the problem):
* Remote connections have been enabled in SQL Server 2008
* telnetting to port 1433 gives me a blank screen (i.e., it connects, it doesn't give me an error)
* netstat -a on the server shows that TCP port 1433 is open
* Mixed Authentication is already set up on SQL Server 2008 so it can accept either Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication
I'm really at the end of my rope and have no idea where to go with this, since I don't know where (or even if) there are detailed logs that I can browse that will tell me when a connection attempt starts and what happens each step of the way. I'm hoping there's a simple fix for this that I'm not knowledgeable enough to know of.
*Update*: Here are answers to the follow-up questions asked so far:
* OS: Vista 64-bit, on both client and server
* SQL Browser Server is running on the server, according to SQL Server Configuration Manager
* Connection String - the line in question in the VB program is thus:
fooSQL.Open "SERVER=SERVERNAME;DRIVER=SQL Server;DATABASE=DATABASENAME", username, password
(where fooSQL is an ADODB.Connection)
* still happens when Firewall is turned off on either client or server (or both)
*re: MDAC*
as per [This wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Data_Access_Components#Which_Version_do_I_have.3F) I checked HKEY\_LOCAL\_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DataAccess\FullInstallVer and the value is "6.0.6001.18000". I also ran Component Checker and on startup when I click "Perform analysis of your machine and automatically determine the release version", I get the following message after I click "OK":
"The following product releases were matched:
UNKNOWN"
*Update: SQL Services*
re: gator's comment, here are the SQL Services running on the server in Computer Management > Services
* SQL Active Directory Helper Service
* SQL Full-Text Filter Daemon Launcher (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Browser
* SQL Server Integration Services 10.0
* SQL Server Reporting Services (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server VSS Writer | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/831545",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Please make sure of the following:
* Windows Firewall is not blocking port 1433 (or the TCP port you set up for SQL Server)
* The SQL Browser Service is running on the server (see: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181087.aspx>)
Hope this helps. | try installing the sql 2008 management studio and connecting with that from the vb6 machine over TCPIP. I would also try installing the latest (2008) ODBC drivers as well. |
831,545 | I'm working on an application written in VB6 and I'm having trouble connecting to a SQL Server 2008 database that has been set up on a server in our office.
Here are the symptoms:
* When I try to connect using a connection string via ADO in VB6, VB6 hangs and then finally gives me the error: "Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)': [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied."
* if I make a blank .udl file and double-click on it, in the Connection tab of the Data Link Properties dialog, in the dropdown where it says "Select or enter a server name", if I click on the dropdown to see the list or click the "Refresh" button, it hangs.
* When I try to connect via SQL Server 2005 Management Studio (SQL Server 2005 is installed on the client machine on which I am working on the VB6 program), when I try to connect via:
+ **TCP/IP**: I get the message "This version of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio can only be used to connect to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 servers. (ConnectionDlg)"
+ **Shared Memory**: I get the message "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 41 - Cannot open a Shared Memory connection to a remote SQL server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 87)"
+ **Named Pipes**: "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1326)"
Here are some of the common proposed solutions I have seen online which I have implemented (and of course have not as of yet solved the problem):
* Remote connections have been enabled in SQL Server 2008
* telnetting to port 1433 gives me a blank screen (i.e., it connects, it doesn't give me an error)
* netstat -a on the server shows that TCP port 1433 is open
* Mixed Authentication is already set up on SQL Server 2008 so it can accept either Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication
I'm really at the end of my rope and have no idea where to go with this, since I don't know where (or even if) there are detailed logs that I can browse that will tell me when a connection attempt starts and what happens each step of the way. I'm hoping there's a simple fix for this that I'm not knowledgeable enough to know of.
*Update*: Here are answers to the follow-up questions asked so far:
* OS: Vista 64-bit, on both client and server
* SQL Browser Server is running on the server, according to SQL Server Configuration Manager
* Connection String - the line in question in the VB program is thus:
fooSQL.Open "SERVER=SERVERNAME;DRIVER=SQL Server;DATABASE=DATABASENAME", username, password
(where fooSQL is an ADODB.Connection)
* still happens when Firewall is turned off on either client or server (or both)
*re: MDAC*
as per [This wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Data_Access_Components#Which_Version_do_I_have.3F) I checked HKEY\_LOCAL\_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DataAccess\FullInstallVer and the value is "6.0.6001.18000". I also ran Component Checker and on startup when I click "Perform analysis of your machine and automatically determine the release version", I get the following message after I click "OK":
"The following product releases were matched:
UNKNOWN"
*Update: SQL Services*
re: gator's comment, here are the SQL Services running on the server in Computer Management > Services
* SQL Active Directory Helper Service
* SQL Full-Text Filter Daemon Launcher (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Browser
* SQL Server Integration Services 10.0
* SQL Server Reporting Services (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server VSS Writer | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/831545",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Please make sure of the following:
* Windows Firewall is not blocking port 1433 (or the TCP port you set up for SQL Server)
* The SQL Browser Service is running on the server (see: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181087.aspx>)
Hope this helps. | Was SQL Server 2008 installed as a default instance or a named instance? If it is a named instance, then you will need to tweek your connection string a bit to talk to it.
When you RDP to the box, can you authenticate using the client tools to the local SQL Server instance? |
831,545 | I'm working on an application written in VB6 and I'm having trouble connecting to a SQL Server 2008 database that has been set up on a server in our office.
Here are the symptoms:
* When I try to connect using a connection string via ADO in VB6, VB6 hangs and then finally gives me the error: "Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)': [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied."
* if I make a blank .udl file and double-click on it, in the Connection tab of the Data Link Properties dialog, in the dropdown where it says "Select or enter a server name", if I click on the dropdown to see the list or click the "Refresh" button, it hangs.
* When I try to connect via SQL Server 2005 Management Studio (SQL Server 2005 is installed on the client machine on which I am working on the VB6 program), when I try to connect via:
+ **TCP/IP**: I get the message "This version of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio can only be used to connect to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 servers. (ConnectionDlg)"
+ **Shared Memory**: I get the message "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 41 - Cannot open a Shared Memory connection to a remote SQL server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 87)"
+ **Named Pipes**: "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1326)"
Here are some of the common proposed solutions I have seen online which I have implemented (and of course have not as of yet solved the problem):
* Remote connections have been enabled in SQL Server 2008
* telnetting to port 1433 gives me a blank screen (i.e., it connects, it doesn't give me an error)
* netstat -a on the server shows that TCP port 1433 is open
* Mixed Authentication is already set up on SQL Server 2008 so it can accept either Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication
I'm really at the end of my rope and have no idea where to go with this, since I don't know where (or even if) there are detailed logs that I can browse that will tell me when a connection attempt starts and what happens each step of the way. I'm hoping there's a simple fix for this that I'm not knowledgeable enough to know of.
*Update*: Here are answers to the follow-up questions asked so far:
* OS: Vista 64-bit, on both client and server
* SQL Browser Server is running on the server, according to SQL Server Configuration Manager
* Connection String - the line in question in the VB program is thus:
fooSQL.Open "SERVER=SERVERNAME;DRIVER=SQL Server;DATABASE=DATABASENAME", username, password
(where fooSQL is an ADODB.Connection)
* still happens when Firewall is turned off on either client or server (or both)
*re: MDAC*
as per [This wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Data_Access_Components#Which_Version_do_I_have.3F) I checked HKEY\_LOCAL\_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DataAccess\FullInstallVer and the value is "6.0.6001.18000". I also ran Component Checker and on startup when I click "Perform analysis of your machine and automatically determine the release version", I get the following message after I click "OK":
"The following product releases were matched:
UNKNOWN"
*Update: SQL Services*
re: gator's comment, here are the SQL Services running on the server in Computer Management > Services
* SQL Active Directory Helper Service
* SQL Full-Text Filter Daemon Launcher (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Browser
* SQL Server Integration Services 10.0
* SQL Server Reporting Services (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server VSS Writer | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/831545",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Please make sure of the following:
* Windows Firewall is not blocking port 1433 (or the TCP port you set up for SQL Server)
* The SQL Browser Service is running on the server (see: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181087.aspx>)
Hope this helps. | Jordan (or others reading this in the future), at least one solution to a problem like this is to be sure to specify both the servername AND the instance name (even though various tools, like the Migration Assistance, or connection strings, like that shown above) just prompt for servername alone.
So for instance, in your case, it would seem it should have been serverfoo-pc\mssqlserver. Or one running Express would use servername\sqlexpress, or if one had changed the instance name to something else, use that. And if the client tool is on the same box as SQL Server, you could use .\ instead of servername\, as in .\sqlexpress.
I think this was what Gator was getting at, but in your back and forth this clarification was not made. Hope it helps. |
831,545 | I'm working on an application written in VB6 and I'm having trouble connecting to a SQL Server 2008 database that has been set up on a server in our office.
Here are the symptoms:
* When I try to connect using a connection string via ADO in VB6, VB6 hangs and then finally gives me the error: "Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)': [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied."
* if I make a blank .udl file and double-click on it, in the Connection tab of the Data Link Properties dialog, in the dropdown where it says "Select or enter a server name", if I click on the dropdown to see the list or click the "Refresh" button, it hangs.
* When I try to connect via SQL Server 2005 Management Studio (SQL Server 2005 is installed on the client machine on which I am working on the VB6 program), when I try to connect via:
+ **TCP/IP**: I get the message "This version of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio can only be used to connect to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 servers. (ConnectionDlg)"
+ **Shared Memory**: I get the message "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 41 - Cannot open a Shared Memory connection to a remote SQL server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 87)"
+ **Named Pipes**: "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1326)"
Here are some of the common proposed solutions I have seen online which I have implemented (and of course have not as of yet solved the problem):
* Remote connections have been enabled in SQL Server 2008
* telnetting to port 1433 gives me a blank screen (i.e., it connects, it doesn't give me an error)
* netstat -a on the server shows that TCP port 1433 is open
* Mixed Authentication is already set up on SQL Server 2008 so it can accept either Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication
I'm really at the end of my rope and have no idea where to go with this, since I don't know where (or even if) there are detailed logs that I can browse that will tell me when a connection attempt starts and what happens each step of the way. I'm hoping there's a simple fix for this that I'm not knowledgeable enough to know of.
*Update*: Here are answers to the follow-up questions asked so far:
* OS: Vista 64-bit, on both client and server
* SQL Browser Server is running on the server, according to SQL Server Configuration Manager
* Connection String - the line in question in the VB program is thus:
fooSQL.Open "SERVER=SERVERNAME;DRIVER=SQL Server;DATABASE=DATABASENAME", username, password
(where fooSQL is an ADODB.Connection)
* still happens when Firewall is turned off on either client or server (or both)
*re: MDAC*
as per [This wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Data_Access_Components#Which_Version_do_I_have.3F) I checked HKEY\_LOCAL\_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DataAccess\FullInstallVer and the value is "6.0.6001.18000". I also ran Component Checker and on startup when I click "Perform analysis of your machine and automatically determine the release version", I get the following message after I click "OK":
"The following product releases were matched:
UNKNOWN"
*Update: SQL Services*
re: gator's comment, here are the SQL Services running on the server in Computer Management > Services
* SQL Active Directory Helper Service
* SQL Full-Text Filter Daemon Launcher (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server Browser
* SQL Server Integration Services 10.0
* SQL Server Reporting Services (MSSQLSERVER)
* SQL Server VSS Writer | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/831545",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Please make sure of the following:
* Windows Firewall is not blocking port 1433 (or the TCP port you set up for SQL Server)
* The SQL Browser Service is running on the server (see: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181087.aspx>)
Hope this helps. | One of the very important issues is related to installing Active Directory after MSSQLSERVER!
First of all I should write that you will receive a message from MS SQL if you want to install it **after** Active Directory! So you need to install MS SQL before AD.
**After checking usual issues such as:**
1- Allow remote connection to this server in "SQL Manager" by right click on the Server name and click on "Properties" and then selecting "Connection' from left menu.
2- Enable TCP/IP in "SQL Server Network Configuration" of "SQL Server Configuration Manager".
3- Enable Named Pipes in "SQL Server Network Configuration" of "SQL Server Configuration Manager".
4- Be sure "SQL Server Browser" is started in "SQL Server Services" of "SQL Server Configuration Manager".
5- Open Port 1433 (default) for MSSQLSERVER in "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security on Local Computer"
Finally please be sure Active Directory is Active.
My problem was, I removed Active Directory but I forgot users are still in Domain space, so I must reinstall again "Active Directory Domain Service".
Best Regard |
50,708,993 | I have a use-case where, whenever a transaction is completed or failed, I have to wait in background(not going to freeze the UI) for 5 minutes and call a piece of code without user intervention. So AFAIK I need to implement Background Service for this.
I want to know which would be better for my scenario.
1. Workermanager ( JetPack )
2. Jobscheduler ( for API 14 - 21, Firebase JobDispatcher)
3. IntentService
And in Oreo and above, if I run background service will it show in the notification that the App is running in the background? | 2018/06/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/50708993",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5339829/"
] | Now the recommended way to do background processing would be Jetpack WorkManager API. I will cite official documentation for the reasons:
>
> WorkManager chooses the appropriate way to run your task based on such factors as the device API level and the app state. If WorkManager executes one of your tasks while the app is running, WorkManager can run your task in a new thread in your app's process. If your app is not running, WorkManager chooses an appropriate way to schedule a background task--depending on the device API level and included dependencies, WorkManager might use JobScheduler, Firebase JobDispatcher, or AlarmManager. You don't need to write device logic to figure out what capabilities the device has and choose an appropriate API; instead, you can just hand your task off to WorkManager and let it choose the best option.
>
>
> In addition, WorkManager provides several advanced features. For example, you can set up a chain of tasks; when one task finishes, WorkManager queues up the next task in the chain. You can also check a task's state and its return values by observing its LiveData; this can be useful if you want to show UI indicating your task's status.
>
>
>
So instead of worrying every time which background processing to choose (as every task has it's recommended and appropriate way), you can simply use WorkManager and it will do it's job.
This is considering the following gotcha:
>
> WorkManager is intended for tasks that require a guarantee that the system will run them even if the app exits, like uploading app data to a server. It is not intended for in-process background work that can safely be terminated if the app process goes away; for situations like that, we recommend using ThreadPools.
>
>
>
P.S. As WorkManager API is using JobScheduler, Firebase JobDistpacher or AlarmManager under the hood, you must consider minimum API levels for used functionality. JobScheduler requires minimum API 21, Firebase JobDispatcher requires minimum API 14 and Google Play Services.
For the full documentation check: <https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager>
For your second question: as far as I know you will always see that notification, as it is notifying user that your app is consuming battery. The notification may be disabled by the user from settings in Android Oreo 8.1. | Going forward, the official android documentation suggests that you use a JobScheduler in place of a background service.
>
> In many cases, apps that previously registered for an implicit broadcast can get similar functionality by using a JobScheduler job. For example, a social photo app might need to perform cleanup on its data from time to time, and prefer to do this when the device is connected to a charger. Previously, the app registered a receiver for ACTION\_POWER\_CONNECTED in its manifest; when the app received that broadcast, it would check whether cleanup was necessary. To migrate to Android 8.0 or higher, the app removes that receiver from its manifest. Instead, the app schedules a cleanup job that runs when the device is idle and charging.
> <https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/background#services>
>
>
> |
50,708,993 | I have a use-case where, whenever a transaction is completed or failed, I have to wait in background(not going to freeze the UI) for 5 minutes and call a piece of code without user intervention. So AFAIK I need to implement Background Service for this.
I want to know which would be better for my scenario.
1. Workermanager ( JetPack )
2. Jobscheduler ( for API 14 - 21, Firebase JobDispatcher)
3. IntentService
And in Oreo and above, if I run background service will it show in the notification that the App is running in the background? | 2018/06/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/50708993",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5339829/"
] | Now the recommended way to do background processing would be Jetpack WorkManager API. I will cite official documentation for the reasons:
>
> WorkManager chooses the appropriate way to run your task based on such factors as the device API level and the app state. If WorkManager executes one of your tasks while the app is running, WorkManager can run your task in a new thread in your app's process. If your app is not running, WorkManager chooses an appropriate way to schedule a background task--depending on the device API level and included dependencies, WorkManager might use JobScheduler, Firebase JobDispatcher, or AlarmManager. You don't need to write device logic to figure out what capabilities the device has and choose an appropriate API; instead, you can just hand your task off to WorkManager and let it choose the best option.
>
>
> In addition, WorkManager provides several advanced features. For example, you can set up a chain of tasks; when one task finishes, WorkManager queues up the next task in the chain. You can also check a task's state and its return values by observing its LiveData; this can be useful if you want to show UI indicating your task's status.
>
>
>
So instead of worrying every time which background processing to choose (as every task has it's recommended and appropriate way), you can simply use WorkManager and it will do it's job.
This is considering the following gotcha:
>
> WorkManager is intended for tasks that require a guarantee that the system will run them even if the app exits, like uploading app data to a server. It is not intended for in-process background work that can safely be terminated if the app process goes away; for situations like that, we recommend using ThreadPools.
>
>
>
P.S. As WorkManager API is using JobScheduler, Firebase JobDistpacher or AlarmManager under the hood, you must consider minimum API levels for used functionality. JobScheduler requires minimum API 21, Firebase JobDispatcher requires minimum API 14 and Google Play Services.
For the full documentation check: <https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager>
For your second question: as far as I know you will always see that notification, as it is notifying user that your app is consuming battery. The notification may be disabled by the user from settings in Android Oreo 8.1. | [WorkManager](https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager) is probably (eventually) the solution you are looking for. It acts as an abstraction, deciding whether to use JobScheduler (if it's available) Firebase JobDispatcher (if it's available) or falling back to a default implementation otherwise. This way, you get the best of all worlds. It's still in alpha, however, so you may want to at least consider other options.
If you choose not to use WorkManager, a combination of JobScheduler and JobDispatcher is probably appropriate (see [here](https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/scheduling)).
However, if you target devices without Google Play Services below API 22, you will need to use another solution. In that case [AlarmManager](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager) may be what you are looking for, since you need a delayed task with guaranteed execution. Using an IntentService for this is possible, but not as easy. It involves introducing a delay mechanism of some kind, of which there are several choices.
Note that since you are using a batching mechanism if you use one of the Job APIs or WorkManager, you will not see a notification in Oreo. AlarmManager/IntentService based solutions may show a notification, but likely not for very long, since the tasks are fairly short. This is especially true for AlarmManager. |
82,006 | Every year or so, I sell my investments and then immediately buy them again. I do this because I'm in a low enough tax bracket that I don't have to pay capital gains on my long term investments, so I'm trying to capture as many gains as I can before I rise into a higher tax bracket. I talked to someone a while ago about this and he had a name for it, but I can't remember what it is. Does anyone know what this strategy is called?
In case it is relevant, my investments are all index funds. | 2017/07/20 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/82006",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/51198/"
] | It sounds like you're describing [tax gain harvesting](https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Tax_gain_harvesting), where you intentionally realize capital gains in a low-tax-rate period in order to increase your cost basis and reduce future capital gains at higher rates. | D Stanley gave a correct answer. Let me offer an observation. In a year where any of your investments are down, I'd suggest taking the loss (being mindful of wash sale rules), and use it to offset up to $3000 of ordinary (15%) income or to offset the tax of a Roth IRA conversion. Then in future years, continue to use the tax gain harvest strategy.
And note, that even in a year where the S&P or general market is up, one sector might be down. This depends on what type of indexes you are tracking. |
82,006 | Every year or so, I sell my investments and then immediately buy them again. I do this because I'm in a low enough tax bracket that I don't have to pay capital gains on my long term investments, so I'm trying to capture as many gains as I can before I rise into a higher tax bracket. I talked to someone a while ago about this and he had a name for it, but I can't remember what it is. Does anyone know what this strategy is called?
In case it is relevant, my investments are all index funds. | 2017/07/20 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/82006",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/51198/"
] | It sounds like you're describing [tax gain harvesting](https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Tax_gain_harvesting), where you intentionally realize capital gains in a low-tax-rate period in order to increase your cost basis and reduce future capital gains at higher rates. | One term for what you have done is **"reset your cost basis"**. |
82,006 | Every year or so, I sell my investments and then immediately buy them again. I do this because I'm in a low enough tax bracket that I don't have to pay capital gains on my long term investments, so I'm trying to capture as many gains as I can before I rise into a higher tax bracket. I talked to someone a while ago about this and he had a name for it, but I can't remember what it is. Does anyone know what this strategy is called?
In case it is relevant, my investments are all index funds. | 2017/07/20 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/82006",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/51198/"
] | D Stanley gave a correct answer. Let me offer an observation. In a year where any of your investments are down, I'd suggest taking the loss (being mindful of wash sale rules), and use it to offset up to $3000 of ordinary (15%) income or to offset the tax of a Roth IRA conversion. Then in future years, continue to use the tax gain harvest strategy.
And note, that even in a year where the S&P or general market is up, one sector might be down. This depends on what type of indexes you are tracking. | One term for what you have done is **"reset your cost basis"**. |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JzhSq.jpg)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oOFKQ.jpg) | 2021/11/18 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/46168",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/19338/"
] | Well, all you can do, really, is remind the person in question that it is against Buddhist precepts to take a life, and that this is as true of acts of omission as it is of acts of violence. At the very least, it will open an interesting philosophical debate. Monastics are likely not overly concerned with the state of the physical body, but people who attend then are still caught in that ignorance. Monastics ought to respect that.
Carrying extra masks is a fine, compassionate idea. Some will take them, some won't. Those who don't have a desire they are not willing to address, and may not even understand, so show them compassion.
If someone refuses to wear a mask, they refuse. Remember that the goal of buddhists isn't to put an end to disease; the goal is to put an end to ignorance and its karmic manifestations. Don't allow their refusal to become grounds for increasing ignorance; don't allow it to disturb your own equanimity. They are fighting against something illusory, and you don't want to get drawn into that world. | One isn't either forced nor asked to seek refuge in the Gems, yet monks would offend if teaching to those who have no respect and if one's wearing a cover that would be a outer sign of no respect and actually not seeking refuge, still to little and RED (sign of greed, anger, strong attachments to views and world: marxist/materialist) and yes, actually not proper to wear things similar like householder.
One is free to seek refuge elsewhere and even avoid the Gems.
Yet, of course, aging, sickness, death can not be overcome by else then the Noble Path. Gross the pandemic of wrong view, ingratitude, demand.... |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JzhSq.jpg)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oOFKQ.jpg) | 2021/11/18 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/46168",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/19338/"
] | In general it might be polite to phrase it as an "I" message -- like, "I heard [explanation about wearing masks]" -- instead of as a "you" message, like, "You ought to wear a mask because X".
A lot of suttas begin this way: "Thus I heard."
As well as avoiding accusation ("You're wrong!"), that focus helps to keep the topic fact-based -- e.g. you really did hear such-and-such, and you're relaying what you heard. Narrating a message as you yourself originally received it might be better than narrating your understanding or interpretation of the topic. And you're not commenting on whether what you heard is true, only that you heard it, and where you heard it from and so on, so the other person has the same "input" as you and can (or may not) come to the same conclusion as you did.
Another tip for being respectful of the other's opinion might be to phrase what you say as a question. "Given that I heard these things about masks, how should I act? How should we (you and I) act?" -- and maybe, "Is there something I can do to help?" Or, "Is there any monastic policy, can you tell me, to avoid catching and spreading Covid in these times?"
You might also review [Right speech](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-vaca/index.html) -- "spoken affectionately", "spoken at the right time", and so on.
Generally I don't think it's my job to persuade other people to act as I do. And one of the most highly-upvoted [rules of this site](https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq?tab=Votes) says,
>
> In general, unless you actually are the questioner's teacher, don't assume a teacher's mantle.
>
>
> | Well, all you can do, really, is remind the person in question that it is against Buddhist precepts to take a life, and that this is as true of acts of omission as it is of acts of violence. At the very least, it will open an interesting philosophical debate. Monastics are likely not overly concerned with the state of the physical body, but people who attend then are still caught in that ignorance. Monastics ought to respect that.
Carrying extra masks is a fine, compassionate idea. Some will take them, some won't. Those who don't have a desire they are not willing to address, and may not even understand, so show them compassion.
If someone refuses to wear a mask, they refuse. Remember that the goal of buddhists isn't to put an end to disease; the goal is to put an end to ignorance and its karmic manifestations. Don't allow their refusal to become grounds for increasing ignorance; don't allow it to disturb your own equanimity. They are fighting against something illusory, and you don't want to get drawn into that world. |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
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] | Nobody forces one to be next someone or something one doesn't like. So what's the real problem? It's to assume that the monk wouldn't run after good little RED, and his reasons are his.
It seems that good householder forgets that demanding is always caused by wrong view, lacks of metta and path as whole. Right? | One isn't either forced nor asked to seek refuge in the Gems, yet monks would offend if teaching to those who have no respect and if one's wearing a cover that would be a outer sign of no respect and actually not seeking refuge, still to little and RED (sign of greed, anger, strong attachments to views and world: marxist/materialist) and yes, actually not proper to wear things similar like householder.
One is free to seek refuge elsewhere and even avoid the Gems.
Yet, of course, aging, sickness, death can not be overcome by else then the Noble Path. Gross the pandemic of wrong view, ingratitude, demand.... |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
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] | In general it might be polite to phrase it as an "I" message -- like, "I heard [explanation about wearing masks]" -- instead of as a "you" message, like, "You ought to wear a mask because X".
A lot of suttas begin this way: "Thus I heard."
As well as avoiding accusation ("You're wrong!"), that focus helps to keep the topic fact-based -- e.g. you really did hear such-and-such, and you're relaying what you heard. Narrating a message as you yourself originally received it might be better than narrating your understanding or interpretation of the topic. And you're not commenting on whether what you heard is true, only that you heard it, and where you heard it from and so on, so the other person has the same "input" as you and can (or may not) come to the same conclusion as you did.
Another tip for being respectful of the other's opinion might be to phrase what you say as a question. "Given that I heard these things about masks, how should I act? How should we (you and I) act?" -- and maybe, "Is there something I can do to help?" Or, "Is there any monastic policy, can you tell me, to avoid catching and spreading Covid in these times?"
You might also review [Right speech](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-vaca/index.html) -- "spoken affectionately", "spoken at the right time", and so on.
Generally I don't think it's my job to persuade other people to act as I do. And one of the most highly-upvoted [rules of this site](https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq?tab=Votes) says,
>
> In general, unless you actually are the questioner's teacher, don't assume a teacher's mantle.
>
>
> | Nobody forces one to be next someone or something one doesn't like. So what's the real problem? It's to assume that the monk wouldn't run after good little RED, and his reasons are his.
It seems that good householder forgets that demanding is always caused by wrong view, lacks of metta and path as whole. Right? |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
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] | The monastic rules of the Vinaya has rules pertaining to food, lodging, medicine, conduct etc. There are rules pertaining to medical care. The Buddha ate, slept, wore robes, took medicine when he was ill etc.
The Middle Way of the Buddha avoids both extreme indulgence and extreme asceticism. It includes moderation in food, healthcare and living. To neglect healthcare is to go against the Middle Way of moderation.
From [Kucchivikara-vatthu](http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/vin/mv/mv.08.26.01-08.than.html) of the Vinaya, the Buddha taught:
>
> "A sick person endowed with five qualities is hard to tend to: he does
> what is not amenable to his cure; he does not know the proper amount
> in things amenable to his cure; he does not take his medicine; he does
> not tell his symptoms, as they actually are present, to the nurse
> desiring his welfare, saying that they are worse when they are worse,
> improving when they are improving, or remaining the same when they are
> remaining the same; and he is not the type who can endure bodily
> feelings that are painful, fierce, sharp, wracking, repellent,
> disagreeable, life-threatening. A sick person endowed with these five
> qualities is hard to tend to.
>
>
> "A sick person endowed with five qualities is easy to tend to: he does
> what is amenable to his cure; he knows the proper amount in things
> amenable to his cure; he takes his medicine; he tells his symptoms, as
> they actually are present, to the nurse desiring his welfare, saying
> that they are worse when they are worse, improving when they are
> improving, or remaining the same when they are remaining the same; and
> he is the type who can endure bodily feelings that are painful,
> fierce, sharp, wracking, repellent, disagreeable, life-threatening. A
> sick person endowed with these five qualities is easy to tend to.
>
>
>
Based on this Vinaya quote, I would say that the Buddha himself would have wanted his followers to practice moderation, and accept the advice of healthcare professionals and the government when dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Also, spreading misinformation about Covid-19, masks and vaccines is against the fourth precept of not speaking falsehood.
Wearing a surgical mask is more for the wearer to avoid spreading pathogens to others, than for the wearer's own protection from contracting an infectious disease. As such, wearing a mask with the explicit intention of reducing others' suffering, is also an expression of compassion (*karuna*).
The quote from [DN 26](https://suttacentral.net/dn26/en/sujato) below, also shows that the Buddha did not promote anarchy. He stated that the wheel-turning monarch should provide just protection and security to his subjects and also care for their welfare.
>
> ‘But sire, what are the noble duties of a wheel-turning monarch?’
>
>
> ‘Well then, my dear, relying only on principle—honoring, respecting,
> and venerating principle, having principle as your flag, banner, and
> authority — provide just protection and security for your court,
> troops, aristocrats, vassals, brahmins and householders, people of
> town and country, ascetics and brahmins, beasts and birds. Do not let
> injustice prevail in the realm. Pay money to the penniless in the
> realm.
>
>
>
I would even say that a responsible Buddhist should support his or her government and follow its advice, if the government is discernibly doing the right thing, and if its advice is in accordance with the five precepts, Right Action, Right Speech and Right Livelihood. For e.g. conscription into military service is against Right Livelihood.
You can use these arguments to politely persuade monks and lay Buddhists. | One isn't either forced nor asked to seek refuge in the Gems, yet monks would offend if teaching to those who have no respect and if one's wearing a cover that would be a outer sign of no respect and actually not seeking refuge, still to little and RED (sign of greed, anger, strong attachments to views and world: marxist/materialist) and yes, actually not proper to wear things similar like householder.
One is free to seek refuge elsewhere and even avoid the Gems.
Yet, of course, aging, sickness, death can not be overcome by else then the Noble Path. Gross the pandemic of wrong view, ingratitude, demand.... |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
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] | In general it might be polite to phrase it as an "I" message -- like, "I heard [explanation about wearing masks]" -- instead of as a "you" message, like, "You ought to wear a mask because X".
A lot of suttas begin this way: "Thus I heard."
As well as avoiding accusation ("You're wrong!"), that focus helps to keep the topic fact-based -- e.g. you really did hear such-and-such, and you're relaying what you heard. Narrating a message as you yourself originally received it might be better than narrating your understanding or interpretation of the topic. And you're not commenting on whether what you heard is true, only that you heard it, and where you heard it from and so on, so the other person has the same "input" as you and can (or may not) come to the same conclusion as you did.
Another tip for being respectful of the other's opinion might be to phrase what you say as a question. "Given that I heard these things about masks, how should I act? How should we (you and I) act?" -- and maybe, "Is there something I can do to help?" Or, "Is there any monastic policy, can you tell me, to avoid catching and spreading Covid in these times?"
You might also review [Right speech](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-vaca/index.html) -- "spoken affectionately", "spoken at the right time", and so on.
Generally I don't think it's my job to persuade other people to act as I do. And one of the most highly-upvoted [rules of this site](https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq?tab=Votes) says,
>
> In general, unless you actually are the questioner's teacher, don't assume a teacher's mantle.
>
>
> | The monastic rules of the Vinaya has rules pertaining to food, lodging, medicine, conduct etc. There are rules pertaining to medical care. The Buddha ate, slept, wore robes, took medicine when he was ill etc.
The Middle Way of the Buddha avoids both extreme indulgence and extreme asceticism. It includes moderation in food, healthcare and living. To neglect healthcare is to go against the Middle Way of moderation.
From [Kucchivikara-vatthu](http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/vin/mv/mv.08.26.01-08.than.html) of the Vinaya, the Buddha taught:
>
> "A sick person endowed with five qualities is hard to tend to: he does
> what is not amenable to his cure; he does not know the proper amount
> in things amenable to his cure; he does not take his medicine; he does
> not tell his symptoms, as they actually are present, to the nurse
> desiring his welfare, saying that they are worse when they are worse,
> improving when they are improving, or remaining the same when they are
> remaining the same; and he is not the type who can endure bodily
> feelings that are painful, fierce, sharp, wracking, repellent,
> disagreeable, life-threatening. A sick person endowed with these five
> qualities is hard to tend to.
>
>
> "A sick person endowed with five qualities is easy to tend to: he does
> what is amenable to his cure; he knows the proper amount in things
> amenable to his cure; he takes his medicine; he tells his symptoms, as
> they actually are present, to the nurse desiring his welfare, saying
> that they are worse when they are worse, improving when they are
> improving, or remaining the same when they are remaining the same; and
> he is the type who can endure bodily feelings that are painful,
> fierce, sharp, wracking, repellent, disagreeable, life-threatening. A
> sick person endowed with these five qualities is easy to tend to.
>
>
>
Based on this Vinaya quote, I would say that the Buddha himself would have wanted his followers to practice moderation, and accept the advice of healthcare professionals and the government when dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Also, spreading misinformation about Covid-19, masks and vaccines is against the fourth precept of not speaking falsehood.
Wearing a surgical mask is more for the wearer to avoid spreading pathogens to others, than for the wearer's own protection from contracting an infectious disease. As such, wearing a mask with the explicit intention of reducing others' suffering, is also an expression of compassion (*karuna*).
The quote from [DN 26](https://suttacentral.net/dn26/en/sujato) below, also shows that the Buddha did not promote anarchy. He stated that the wheel-turning monarch should provide just protection and security to his subjects and also care for their welfare.
>
> ‘But sire, what are the noble duties of a wheel-turning monarch?’
>
>
> ‘Well then, my dear, relying only on principle—honoring, respecting,
> and venerating principle, having principle as your flag, banner, and
> authority — provide just protection and security for your court,
> troops, aristocrats, vassals, brahmins and householders, people of
> town and country, ascetics and brahmins, beasts and birds. Do not let
> injustice prevail in the realm. Pay money to the penniless in the
> realm.
>
>
>
I would even say that a responsible Buddhist should support his or her government and follow its advice, if the government is discernibly doing the right thing, and if its advice is in accordance with the five precepts, Right Action, Right Speech and Right Livelihood. For e.g. conscription into military service is against Right Livelihood.
You can use these arguments to politely persuade monks and lay Buddhists. |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
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] | >
> Once upon a time, monks, a bamboo acrobat,
> setting himself upon his bamboo pole,
> addressed his assistant Medakathalika:
> "Come you, my dear Medakathalika,
> and climbing up the bamboo pole,
> stand upon my shoulders."
> "Okay, master" the assistant Medakathalika
> replied to the bamboo acrobat;
> and climbing up the bamboo pole
> she stood on the master's shoulders.
>
>
> So then the bamboo acrobat said this to his assistant Medakathalika:
> "You look after me, my dear Medakathalika, and I'll look after you.
> Thus with us looking after one another, guarding one another,
> we'll show off our craft, receive some payment,
> and safely climb down the bamboo pole."
>
>
> This being said, the assistant Medakathalika said this to the bamboo acrobat:
> "That will not do at all, master!
> **You look after yourself, master, and I will look after myself.
> Thus with each of us looking after ourselves, guarding ourselves,
> we'll show off our craft, receive some payment,
> and safely climb down from the bamboo pole.
> That's the right way to do it!**"
>
>
>
This is the teaching of the Buddha. You wear your mask, and let the others take care of theirs. No need to fix them. | One isn't either forced nor asked to seek refuge in the Gems, yet monks would offend if teaching to those who have no respect and if one's wearing a cover that would be a outer sign of no respect and actually not seeking refuge, still to little and RED (sign of greed, anger, strong attachments to views and world: marxist/materialist) and yes, actually not proper to wear things similar like householder.
One is free to seek refuge elsewhere and even avoid the Gems.
Yet, of course, aging, sickness, death can not be overcome by else then the Noble Path. Gross the pandemic of wrong view, ingratitude, demand.... |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JzhSq.jpg)
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] | In general it might be polite to phrase it as an "I" message -- like, "I heard [explanation about wearing masks]" -- instead of as a "you" message, like, "You ought to wear a mask because X".
A lot of suttas begin this way: "Thus I heard."
As well as avoiding accusation ("You're wrong!"), that focus helps to keep the topic fact-based -- e.g. you really did hear such-and-such, and you're relaying what you heard. Narrating a message as you yourself originally received it might be better than narrating your understanding or interpretation of the topic. And you're not commenting on whether what you heard is true, only that you heard it, and where you heard it from and so on, so the other person has the same "input" as you and can (or may not) come to the same conclusion as you did.
Another tip for being respectful of the other's opinion might be to phrase what you say as a question. "Given that I heard these things about masks, how should I act? How should we (you and I) act?" -- and maybe, "Is there something I can do to help?" Or, "Is there any monastic policy, can you tell me, to avoid catching and spreading Covid in these times?"
You might also review [Right speech](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-vaca/index.html) -- "spoken affectionately", "spoken at the right time", and so on.
Generally I don't think it's my job to persuade other people to act as I do. And one of the most highly-upvoted [rules of this site](https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq?tab=Votes) says,
>
> In general, unless you actually are the questioner's teacher, don't assume a teacher's mantle.
>
>
> | >
> Once upon a time, monks, a bamboo acrobat,
> setting himself upon his bamboo pole,
> addressed his assistant Medakathalika:
> "Come you, my dear Medakathalika,
> and climbing up the bamboo pole,
> stand upon my shoulders."
> "Okay, master" the assistant Medakathalika
> replied to the bamboo acrobat;
> and climbing up the bamboo pole
> she stood on the master's shoulders.
>
>
> So then the bamboo acrobat said this to his assistant Medakathalika:
> "You look after me, my dear Medakathalika, and I'll look after you.
> Thus with us looking after one another, guarding one another,
> we'll show off our craft, receive some payment,
> and safely climb down the bamboo pole."
>
>
> This being said, the assistant Medakathalika said this to the bamboo acrobat:
> "That will not do at all, master!
> **You look after yourself, master, and I will look after myself.
> Thus with each of us looking after ourselves, guarding ourselves,
> we'll show off our craft, receive some payment,
> and safely climb down from the bamboo pole.
> That's the right way to do it!**"
>
>
>
This is the teaching of the Buddha. You wear your mask, and let the others take care of theirs. No need to fix them. |
46,168 | To wear a mask in the covid pandemic is not a precept in Buddhism. I noticed many lay person and even many high level monks not wearing mask when talking to a stranger.
Q1) How do i politely persuade them to wear a mask ? Bhante said since i already double masked with a face shield then Bhante not require to wear mask. Some Bhante will say can we move from outdoor to indoor so nobody noticed we're not wearing mask and no police catching. [Indoor infectivity rate](https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201207/transmission-of-respiratory-illnesses-outdoors-definitely-happens-but-less-than-indoors?fbclid=IwAR1TlVUd6nAOnOrGAbJ5mddePC6diLwXnucvvHk4bic38U5OBRE4F3Wn0xs) is about 20 times higher. I am trying to have conversation with Bhante at outdoor to reduce the infectivity rate.
Q2) I am thinking always keep extra high quality mask to offer to someone or Bhante when i need to talk to them. How if they refuse to wear it then what should i do?
Q3) In Buddhism, precepts are so difficult to practice but can follow, vice versa i don't understand why simple SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) or simple wisdom and compassion cannot do like a wearing mask. Isn't Buddhism fundamental is a path of wisdom and compassion with good deed for well being even not written in any Sutta ? Isn't not wearing a mask may against the precept #1 in Buddhism yet cause and effect may multiples to a billion people in very short period of time? Cause of infection found very frequent and high at Temple/Church/Mosque.
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] | In general it might be polite to phrase it as an "I" message -- like, "I heard [explanation about wearing masks]" -- instead of as a "you" message, like, "You ought to wear a mask because X".
A lot of suttas begin this way: "Thus I heard."
As well as avoiding accusation ("You're wrong!"), that focus helps to keep the topic fact-based -- e.g. you really did hear such-and-such, and you're relaying what you heard. Narrating a message as you yourself originally received it might be better than narrating your understanding or interpretation of the topic. And you're not commenting on whether what you heard is true, only that you heard it, and where you heard it from and so on, so the other person has the same "input" as you and can (or may not) come to the same conclusion as you did.
Another tip for being respectful of the other's opinion might be to phrase what you say as a question. "Given that I heard these things about masks, how should I act? How should we (you and I) act?" -- and maybe, "Is there something I can do to help?" Or, "Is there any monastic policy, can you tell me, to avoid catching and spreading Covid in these times?"
You might also review [Right speech](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-vaca/index.html) -- "spoken affectionately", "spoken at the right time", and so on.
Generally I don't think it's my job to persuade other people to act as I do. And one of the most highly-upvoted [rules of this site](https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq?tab=Votes) says,
>
> In general, unless you actually are the questioner's teacher, don't assume a teacher's mantle.
>
>
> | One isn't either forced nor asked to seek refuge in the Gems, yet monks would offend if teaching to those who have no respect and if one's wearing a cover that would be a outer sign of no respect and actually not seeking refuge, still to little and RED (sign of greed, anger, strong attachments to views and world: marxist/materialist) and yes, actually not proper to wear things similar like householder.
One is free to seek refuge elsewhere and even avoid the Gems.
Yet, of course, aging, sickness, death can not be overcome by else then the Noble Path. Gross the pandemic of wrong view, ingratitude, demand.... |
10,876 | I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
> Make Google your friend for 20 seconds before you ask questions.
>
>
>
Or if that would be considered branding and it would be better phrased:
>
> Make an anonymous-generic-search engine your friend for 20 seconds
> before you ask questions.
>
>
> | 2015/10/24 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/10876",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/511251/"
] | >
> I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and
> wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
>
>
Nope. That is *not a answer*. Nothing of what you are saying would ever be a reasonable answer since an answer is not a commentary judgement call on another user’s capabilities. An answer is an answer. You could possibly use a tone like that if you can actually provide a real answer to the issue by saying, “Here is what you can do. I just Googled it from this site.” But as an answer in and of itself, nope.
That said—as someone who has been doing tech work for years—I feel your pain, and that kind of tone *might* be used as a comment since “Have you tried Google?” is the modern equivalent of “Read the flying `*cough*` manual.” But just not without giving the person asking the question the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is not branding/promotion of using “Google,” but rather the immediate aggressive tone. I will admit I have asked if someone did some basic Google searching while dealing with quite bad questions, but only in frustration, only in the comments and only when the question was so bad I avoided standing up to watch it get down voted and closed.
So my approach would be to assume good faith. Some people truly come here in a panic when they have a problem and leave out details, but a simple comment stating, “Well, did you even do a basic Google search? Because I just did and found this, that and the other…” The deal is that sometimes people do come back and say, “Oh, I forgot to mention that…” Other times people will just say, “I saw those, I don’t know what those mean… Please help me! This is urgent!”
The reality is you honestly cannot assume someone is just being dense to be dense. It’s better to assume right away that someone needs real help and their lack of details that could be coming from panic are rooted in a rush to find a solution more than anything else.
If they then just act dense and—honestly—like an idiot looking for free tech support as if this place is an on-demand help desk, then just politely walk away and say, “Look if you can’t help yourself, we can’t help you…” | *Googling properly is an art* and even if one chooses to pick the way of the two fowls moving, or small cushioned sound, one must still learn to work in harmony with his tools. Or have a wide and varied vocabulary of curse words. *Using a search engine well is an acquired skill*.
I learnt it in a secret monastery in the Himalayas that was seeking enlightenment in the works of a hundred million evolved apes typing on keyboards in a university module on research, which was amazingly good. (Dunno if the university still does it. Amusingly the most useful course of my time there as an undergrad.)
There's a reason the site “let me Google that for you” is (was?) blacklisted as a link here. And don't forget, Google searches often *feed back here*.
If an answer's simple
1. And is so obviously trivial that the owner obviously did not put his brain in gear? *is it?* Has it been asked before? (close as dupe) hasn't it (is it worth [posting an amusing answer](https://superuser.com/questions/269320/why-bittorrent-uploads-simultaneously/269324#269324)? or
2. Is there some unexpected depth (comment! Dig down the rabbit hole of mundanity to find the [lagomorph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagomorpha) of interestingness!)
If it's trivially searchable or self evident *but* there's no answer, it may be a good opportunity get a bit of reputation by posting a good, well explained answer which would then get picked up by Google and these noobs can get off your lawn users might find the answer *here*. |
10,876 | I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
> Make Google your friend for 20 seconds before you ask questions.
>
>
>
Or if that would be considered branding and it would be better phrased:
>
> Make an anonymous-generic-search engine your friend for 20 seconds
> before you ask questions.
>
>
> | 2015/10/24 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/10876",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/511251/"
] | >
> I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and
> wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
>
>
Nope. That is *not a answer*. Nothing of what you are saying would ever be a reasonable answer since an answer is not a commentary judgement call on another user’s capabilities. An answer is an answer. You could possibly use a tone like that if you can actually provide a real answer to the issue by saying, “Here is what you can do. I just Googled it from this site.” But as an answer in and of itself, nope.
That said—as someone who has been doing tech work for years—I feel your pain, and that kind of tone *might* be used as a comment since “Have you tried Google?” is the modern equivalent of “Read the flying `*cough*` manual.” But just not without giving the person asking the question the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is not branding/promotion of using “Google,” but rather the immediate aggressive tone. I will admit I have asked if someone did some basic Google searching while dealing with quite bad questions, but only in frustration, only in the comments and only when the question was so bad I avoided standing up to watch it get down voted and closed.
So my approach would be to assume good faith. Some people truly come here in a panic when they have a problem and leave out details, but a simple comment stating, “Well, did you even do a basic Google search? Because I just did and found this, that and the other…” The deal is that sometimes people do come back and say, “Oh, I forgot to mention that…” Other times people will just say, “I saw those, I don’t know what those mean… Please help me! This is urgent!”
The reality is you honestly cannot assume someone is just being dense to be dense. It’s better to assume right away that someone needs real help and their lack of details that could be coming from panic are rooted in a rush to find a solution more than anything else.
If they then just act dense and—honestly—like an idiot looking for free tech support as if this place is an on-demand help desk, then just politely walk away and say, “Look if you can’t help yourself, we can’t help you…” | If you feel that the question is basic and was certainly answered hundred times already, take your time to search for answers **on the Stack Exchange site the question is asked**, and if you find one, flag the new question as a duplicate. It will not earn you any reputation you might have gained by answering it, but it will keep the site clean in the long run.
Short of existing answer **on the site the question is asked**, you should consider either writing one, or leaving that task to others. |
10,876 | I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
> Make Google your friend for 20 seconds before you ask questions.
>
>
>
Or if that would be considered branding and it would be better phrased:
>
> Make an anonymous-generic-search engine your friend for 20 seconds
> before you ask questions.
>
>
> | 2015/10/24 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/10876",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/511251/"
] | >
> I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and
> wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
>
>
Nope. That is *not a answer*. Nothing of what you are saying would ever be a reasonable answer since an answer is not a commentary judgement call on another user’s capabilities. An answer is an answer. You could possibly use a tone like that if you can actually provide a real answer to the issue by saying, “Here is what you can do. I just Googled it from this site.” But as an answer in and of itself, nope.
That said—as someone who has been doing tech work for years—I feel your pain, and that kind of tone *might* be used as a comment since “Have you tried Google?” is the modern equivalent of “Read the flying `*cough*` manual.” But just not without giving the person asking the question the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is not branding/promotion of using “Google,” but rather the immediate aggressive tone. I will admit I have asked if someone did some basic Google searching while dealing with quite bad questions, but only in frustration, only in the comments and only when the question was so bad I avoided standing up to watch it get down voted and closed.
So my approach would be to assume good faith. Some people truly come here in a panic when they have a problem and leave out details, but a simple comment stating, “Well, did you even do a basic Google search? Because I just did and found this, that and the other…” The deal is that sometimes people do come back and say, “Oh, I forgot to mention that…” Other times people will just say, “I saw those, I don’t know what those mean… Please help me! This is urgent!”
The reality is you honestly cannot assume someone is just being dense to be dense. It’s better to assume right away that someone needs real help and their lack of details that could be coming from panic are rooted in a rush to find a solution more than anything else.
If they then just act dense and—honestly—like an idiot looking for free tech support as if this place is an on-demand help desk, then just politely walk away and say, “Look if you can’t help yourself, we can’t help you…” | The nature of these sorts of posts is not much different than pointing users to LMGTFY. [It's rude and unacceptable for Stack Exchange.](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links)
Remember that answer posts must represent a meaningful attempt to answer the question. A response along the lines of "make <search engine> your friend" does not by itself address the question. Furthermore, such responses indicate laziness on the part of the answer author and a negative attitude towards the OP, contrary to our [code of conduct](https://superuser.com/help/be-nice). These posts simply do not belong on our site. |
10,876 | I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
> Make Google your friend for 20 seconds before you ask questions.
>
>
>
Or if that would be considered branding and it would be better phrased:
>
> Make an anonymous-generic-search engine your friend for 20 seconds
> before you ask questions.
>
>
> | 2015/10/24 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/10876",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/511251/"
] | >
> I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and
> wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
>
>
Nope. That is *not a answer*. Nothing of what you are saying would ever be a reasonable answer since an answer is not a commentary judgement call on another user’s capabilities. An answer is an answer. You could possibly use a tone like that if you can actually provide a real answer to the issue by saying, “Here is what you can do. I just Googled it from this site.” But as an answer in and of itself, nope.
That said—as someone who has been doing tech work for years—I feel your pain, and that kind of tone *might* be used as a comment since “Have you tried Google?” is the modern equivalent of “Read the flying `*cough*` manual.” But just not without giving the person asking the question the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is not branding/promotion of using “Google,” but rather the immediate aggressive tone. I will admit I have asked if someone did some basic Google searching while dealing with quite bad questions, but only in frustration, only in the comments and only when the question was so bad I avoided standing up to watch it get down voted and closed.
So my approach would be to assume good faith. Some people truly come here in a panic when they have a problem and leave out details, but a simple comment stating, “Well, did you even do a basic Google search? Because I just did and found this, that and the other…” The deal is that sometimes people do come back and say, “Oh, I forgot to mention that…” Other times people will just say, “I saw those, I don’t know what those mean… Please help me! This is urgent!”
The reality is you honestly cannot assume someone is just being dense to be dense. It’s better to assume right away that someone needs real help and their lack of details that could be coming from panic are rooted in a rush to find a solution more than anything else.
If they then just act dense and—honestly—like an idiot looking for free tech support as if this place is an on-demand help desk, then just politely walk away and say, “Look if you can’t help yourself, we can’t help you…” | Online etiquette shouldn't be much different to face-to-face etiquette. Please see the excellent answers and comments to this related question on the Workplace.SE site:
[How to politely ask a coworker to “Google it”](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9623/how-to-politely-ask-a-coworker-to-google-it)
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From Monica Cellio's excellent answer:
>
> When this happens to me I usually ask "what search terms did you try?". This way if they did try to search I might be able to help them search more effectively, and if they didn't they sometimes say "ummm..." and go away.
>
>
> ...even if I strongly suspect they didn't try I will act as if they did. That way if they did I don't look bad.
>
>
>
You simply don't know if they've researched it or not. Pretending that you do is extremely arrogant and needlessly frustrating if the asker *has* spent the last hour googling it, wading through pages and pages of poor quality cr\*p that doesn't help.
Even if you have searched on this and found good quality stuff, maybe you used better search terms. It's easy to choose the right search terms when you already know the answer. Helping people search better is a great way to help people help themselves.
From starsplusplus's comment:
>
> What I love about this answer is that it assumes good intent but does it in a way that will make them feel bad if there was no good intent ... an underlying assumption that they wouldn't possibly have come to ask you if they hadn't already Googled... right? ;)
>
>
>
This is a site with high standards. Let's keep it that way:
* "What search terms did you use?" sends a message that we *expect* users to have already done research. If you haven't, you've fallen short of our standards, and you need to raise your game to fit in.
* "Go and google it" or any variant sends a message that we expect users to have not bothered to do research, that failing to do research is common here, and that this is a site that is constantly at war with its lazy, terrible users.
If you were a good, conscientious user, which site sounds better? |
10,876 | I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
> Make Google your friend for 20 seconds before you ask questions.
>
>
>
Or if that would be considered branding and it would be better phrased:
>
> Make an anonymous-generic-search engine your friend for 20 seconds
> before you ask questions.
>
>
> | 2015/10/24 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/10876",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/511251/"
] | *Googling properly is an art* and even if one chooses to pick the way of the two fowls moving, or small cushioned sound, one must still learn to work in harmony with his tools. Or have a wide and varied vocabulary of curse words. *Using a search engine well is an acquired skill*.
I learnt it in a secret monastery in the Himalayas that was seeking enlightenment in the works of a hundred million evolved apes typing on keyboards in a university module on research, which was amazingly good. (Dunno if the university still does it. Amusingly the most useful course of my time there as an undergrad.)
There's a reason the site “let me Google that for you” is (was?) blacklisted as a link here. And don't forget, Google searches often *feed back here*.
If an answer's simple
1. And is so obviously trivial that the owner obviously did not put his brain in gear? *is it?* Has it been asked before? (close as dupe) hasn't it (is it worth [posting an amusing answer](https://superuser.com/questions/269320/why-bittorrent-uploads-simultaneously/269324#269324)? or
2. Is there some unexpected depth (comment! Dig down the rabbit hole of mundanity to find the [lagomorph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagomorpha) of interestingness!)
If it's trivially searchable or self evident *but* there's no answer, it may be a good opportunity get a bit of reputation by posting a good, well explained answer which would then get picked up by Google and these noobs can get off your lawn users might find the answer *here*. | The nature of these sorts of posts is not much different than pointing users to LMGTFY. [It's rude and unacceptable for Stack Exchange.](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links)
Remember that answer posts must represent a meaningful attempt to answer the question. A response along the lines of "make <search engine> your friend" does not by itself address the question. Furthermore, such responses indicate laziness on the part of the answer author and a negative attitude towards the OP, contrary to our [code of conduct](https://superuser.com/help/be-nice). These posts simply do not belong on our site. |
10,876 | I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
> Make Google your friend for 20 seconds before you ask questions.
>
>
>
Or if that would be considered branding and it would be better phrased:
>
> Make an anonymous-generic-search engine your friend for 20 seconds
> before you ask questions.
>
>
> | 2015/10/24 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/10876",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/511251/"
] | *Googling properly is an art* and even if one chooses to pick the way of the two fowls moving, or small cushioned sound, one must still learn to work in harmony with his tools. Or have a wide and varied vocabulary of curse words. *Using a search engine well is an acquired skill*.
I learnt it in a secret monastery in the Himalayas that was seeking enlightenment in the works of a hundred million evolved apes typing on keyboards in a university module on research, which was amazingly good. (Dunno if the university still does it. Amusingly the most useful course of my time there as an undergrad.)
There's a reason the site “let me Google that for you” is (was?) blacklisted as a link here. And don't forget, Google searches often *feed back here*.
If an answer's simple
1. And is so obviously trivial that the owner obviously did not put his brain in gear? *is it?* Has it been asked before? (close as dupe) hasn't it (is it worth [posting an amusing answer](https://superuser.com/questions/269320/why-bittorrent-uploads-simultaneously/269324#269324)? or
2. Is there some unexpected depth (comment! Dig down the rabbit hole of mundanity to find the [lagomorph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagomorpha) of interestingness!)
If it's trivially searchable or self evident *but* there's no answer, it may be a good opportunity get a bit of reputation by posting a good, well explained answer which would then get picked up by Google and these noobs can get off your lawn users might find the answer *here*. | Online etiquette shouldn't be much different to face-to-face etiquette. Please see the excellent answers and comments to this related question on the Workplace.SE site:
[How to politely ask a coworker to “Google it”](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9623/how-to-politely-ask-a-coworker-to-google-it)
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From Monica Cellio's excellent answer:
>
> When this happens to me I usually ask "what search terms did you try?". This way if they did try to search I might be able to help them search more effectively, and if they didn't they sometimes say "ummm..." and go away.
>
>
> ...even if I strongly suspect they didn't try I will act as if they did. That way if they did I don't look bad.
>
>
>
You simply don't know if they've researched it or not. Pretending that you do is extremely arrogant and needlessly frustrating if the asker *has* spent the last hour googling it, wading through pages and pages of poor quality cr\*p that doesn't help.
Even if you have searched on this and found good quality stuff, maybe you used better search terms. It's easy to choose the right search terms when you already know the answer. Helping people search better is a great way to help people help themselves.
From starsplusplus's comment:
>
> What I love about this answer is that it assumes good intent but does it in a way that will make them feel bad if there was no good intent ... an underlying assumption that they wouldn't possibly have come to ask you if they hadn't already Googled... right? ;)
>
>
>
This is a site with high standards. Let's keep it that way:
* "What search terms did you use?" sends a message that we *expect* users to have already done research. If you haven't, you've fallen short of our standards, and you need to raise your game to fit in.
* "Go and google it" or any variant sends a message that we expect users to have not bothered to do research, that failing to do research is common here, and that this is a site that is constantly at war with its lazy, terrible users.
If you were a good, conscientious user, which site sounds better? |
10,876 | I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
> Make Google your friend for 20 seconds before you ask questions.
>
>
>
Or if that would be considered branding and it would be better phrased:
>
> Make an anonymous-generic-search engine your friend for 20 seconds
> before you ask questions.
>
>
> | 2015/10/24 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/10876",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/511251/"
] | If you feel that the question is basic and was certainly answered hundred times already, take your time to search for answers **on the Stack Exchange site the question is asked**, and if you find one, flag the new question as a duplicate. It will not earn you any reputation you might have gained by answering it, but it will keep the site clean in the long run.
Short of existing answer **on the site the question is asked**, you should consider either writing one, or leaving that task to others. | The nature of these sorts of posts is not much different than pointing users to LMGTFY. [It's rude and unacceptable for Stack Exchange.](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links)
Remember that answer posts must represent a meaningful attempt to answer the question. A response along the lines of "make <search engine> your friend" does not by itself address the question. Furthermore, such responses indicate laziness on the part of the answer author and a negative attitude towards the OP, contrary to our [code of conduct](https://superuser.com/help/be-nice). These posts simply do not belong on our site. |
10,876 | I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
>
> Make Google your friend for 20 seconds before you ask questions.
>
>
>
Or if that would be considered branding and it would be better phrased:
>
> Make an anonymous-generic-search engine your friend for 20 seconds
> before you ask questions.
>
>
> | 2015/10/24 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/10876",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/511251/"
] | If you feel that the question is basic and was certainly answered hundred times already, take your time to search for answers **on the Stack Exchange site the question is asked**, and if you find one, flag the new question as a duplicate. It will not earn you any reputation you might have gained by answering it, but it will keep the site clean in the long run.
Short of existing answer **on the site the question is asked**, you should consider either writing one, or leaving that task to others. | Online etiquette shouldn't be much different to face-to-face etiquette. Please see the excellent answers and comments to this related question on the Workplace.SE site:
[How to politely ask a coworker to “Google it”](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9623/how-to-politely-ask-a-coworker-to-google-it)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From Monica Cellio's excellent answer:
>
> When this happens to me I usually ask "what search terms did you try?". This way if they did try to search I might be able to help them search more effectively, and if they didn't they sometimes say "ummm..." and go away.
>
>
> ...even if I strongly suspect they didn't try I will act as if they did. That way if they did I don't look bad.
>
>
>
You simply don't know if they've researched it or not. Pretending that you do is extremely arrogant and needlessly frustrating if the asker *has* spent the last hour googling it, wading through pages and pages of poor quality cr\*p that doesn't help.
Even if you have searched on this and found good quality stuff, maybe you used better search terms. It's easy to choose the right search terms when you already know the answer. Helping people search better is a great way to help people help themselves.
From starsplusplus's comment:
>
> What I love about this answer is that it assumes good intent but does it in a way that will make them feel bad if there was no good intent ... an underlying assumption that they wouldn't possibly have come to ask you if they hadn't already Googled... right? ;)
>
>
>
This is a site with high standards. Let's keep it that way:
* "What search terms did you use?" sends a message that we *expect* users to have already done research. If you haven't, you've fallen short of our standards, and you need to raise your game to fit in.
* "Go and google it" or any variant sends a message that we expect users to have not bothered to do research, that failing to do research is common here, and that this is a site that is constantly at war with its lazy, terrible users.
If you were a good, conscientious user, which site sounds better? |
6,006,689 | I have taken a look at GTK+3 and I like it. But unfortunately compiling from source has never worked for me. Is there any okace with decent binaries or even better, a windows installer? | 2011/05/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6006689",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/753341/"
] | **2020-03-19 update:**
GTK+ dropped the + and their website has been rewritten. So the install instructions for GTK on Windows are now at <https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/>
**2017-04-07 update:**
To make it clear, since 2017-06-23, the GTK+ project doesn't provide binary bundles for Windows. These are now provided by the MSYS2 project, with the blessing of the GTK+ team.
MSYS2 provides the most up-to-date versions of GTK+ for Windows, as well as a complete toolchain, and other useful GTK-related development tools like:
* **Glade**, the GUI designer
* **Devhelp**, the offline documentation browser
The official GTK+ website contains [GTK+ installation instructions for Windows](https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php).
**2013-10-27 update:**
There's now an officially supported version of GTK 3 for Windows (GTK 3.6.4 as of today). You'll find it on the [official GTK+ website](http://www.gtk.org), in the *Downloads* section.
Thanks to the GTK team, and to tarnyko for his work in this regard.
**2013-02-01 update:**
There's a French dude (tarnyko) providing an [(unofficial) GTK 3 installer for Windows](http://www.tarnyko.net/en/?q=node/20), based on the OpenSUSE binaries, and another guy providing [another (unofficial, again) build](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2012-December/msg00046.html). Might help. The [gtk-list](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list) mailing list is the best place to check how this evolves through time.
**2011-05-15 original content:**
There is currently no installer for GTK3 on Windows. However, the OpenSUSE Build System provides the [Windows binaries for GTK3](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/). On a [GTK3 on Windows](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2011-March/msg00057.html) thread of the GTK devel mailing list, Maarten Bosmans provided the [download-mingw-rpm.py](http://www.bosmans.ch/pulseaudio/download-mingw-rpm.py) python script, which automates the download of a package and its dependencies, and then uses 7-zip to unzip the content of the packages. See the post he explains [how to use download-mingw-rpm.py](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-mingw/2011-03/msg00020.html). | It seems that proper Windows port is coming soon. According to this gnome developer blogpost:
<http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/11/25/gtk-work-on-windows/>
and it's comment section, Windows binaries should be available in near time. |
6,006,689 | I have taken a look at GTK+3 and I like it. But unfortunately compiling from source has never worked for me. Is there any okace with decent binaries or even better, a windows installer? | 2011/05/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6006689",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/753341/"
] | **2020-03-19 update:**
GTK+ dropped the + and their website has been rewritten. So the install instructions for GTK on Windows are now at <https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/>
**2017-04-07 update:**
To make it clear, since 2017-06-23, the GTK+ project doesn't provide binary bundles for Windows. These are now provided by the MSYS2 project, with the blessing of the GTK+ team.
MSYS2 provides the most up-to-date versions of GTK+ for Windows, as well as a complete toolchain, and other useful GTK-related development tools like:
* **Glade**, the GUI designer
* **Devhelp**, the offline documentation browser
The official GTK+ website contains [GTK+ installation instructions for Windows](https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php).
**2013-10-27 update:**
There's now an officially supported version of GTK 3 for Windows (GTK 3.6.4 as of today). You'll find it on the [official GTK+ website](http://www.gtk.org), in the *Downloads* section.
Thanks to the GTK team, and to tarnyko for his work in this regard.
**2013-02-01 update:**
There's a French dude (tarnyko) providing an [(unofficial) GTK 3 installer for Windows](http://www.tarnyko.net/en/?q=node/20), based on the OpenSUSE binaries, and another guy providing [another (unofficial, again) build](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2012-December/msg00046.html). Might help. The [gtk-list](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list) mailing list is the best place to check how this evolves through time.
**2011-05-15 original content:**
There is currently no installer for GTK3 on Windows. However, the OpenSUSE Build System provides the [Windows binaries for GTK3](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/). On a [GTK3 on Windows](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2011-March/msg00057.html) thread of the GTK devel mailing list, Maarten Bosmans provided the [download-mingw-rpm.py](http://www.bosmans.ch/pulseaudio/download-mingw-rpm.py) python script, which automates the download of a package and its dependencies, and then uses 7-zip to unzip the content of the packages. See the post he explains [how to use download-mingw-rpm.py](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-mingw/2011-03/msg00020.html). | There's a GTK+ 3.4.2 Windows binary installer available here :
<http://www.tarnyko.net/?q=node/1>
With a development version containing libraries, headers, MinGW & Vala compilers at the bottom. |
6,006,689 | I have taken a look at GTK+3 and I like it. But unfortunately compiling from source has never worked for me. Is there any okace with decent binaries or even better, a windows installer? | 2011/05/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6006689",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/753341/"
] | **2020-03-19 update:**
GTK+ dropped the + and their website has been rewritten. So the install instructions for GTK on Windows are now at <https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/>
**2017-04-07 update:**
To make it clear, since 2017-06-23, the GTK+ project doesn't provide binary bundles for Windows. These are now provided by the MSYS2 project, with the blessing of the GTK+ team.
MSYS2 provides the most up-to-date versions of GTK+ for Windows, as well as a complete toolchain, and other useful GTK-related development tools like:
* **Glade**, the GUI designer
* **Devhelp**, the offline documentation browser
The official GTK+ website contains [GTK+ installation instructions for Windows](https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php).
**2013-10-27 update:**
There's now an officially supported version of GTK 3 for Windows (GTK 3.6.4 as of today). You'll find it on the [official GTK+ website](http://www.gtk.org), in the *Downloads* section.
Thanks to the GTK team, and to tarnyko for his work in this regard.
**2013-02-01 update:**
There's a French dude (tarnyko) providing an [(unofficial) GTK 3 installer for Windows](http://www.tarnyko.net/en/?q=node/20), based on the OpenSUSE binaries, and another guy providing [another (unofficial, again) build](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2012-December/msg00046.html). Might help. The [gtk-list](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list) mailing list is the best place to check how this evolves through time.
**2011-05-15 original content:**
There is currently no installer for GTK3 on Windows. However, the OpenSUSE Build System provides the [Windows binaries for GTK3](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/). On a [GTK3 on Windows](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2011-March/msg00057.html) thread of the GTK devel mailing list, Maarten Bosmans provided the [download-mingw-rpm.py](http://www.bosmans.ch/pulseaudio/download-mingw-rpm.py) python script, which automates the download of a package and its dependencies, and then uses 7-zip to unzip the content of the packages. See the post he explains [how to use download-mingw-rpm.py](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-mingw/2011-03/msg00020.html). | This one is even fatter and wholesome, but targeted for pygi. GTK is version 3.6.4 <http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/pygobject-pygi-aio.html>. BTW i'm former windows build mypaint maintainer which migrate to pygobject 3. Also for MinGW i'm providing the most badass MinGW distro <http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/tuma-mingw.html> |
6,006,689 | I have taken a look at GTK+3 and I like it. But unfortunately compiling from source has never worked for me. Is there any okace with decent binaries or even better, a windows installer? | 2011/05/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6006689",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/753341/"
] | **2020-03-19 update:**
GTK+ dropped the + and their website has been rewritten. So the install instructions for GTK on Windows are now at <https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/>
**2017-04-07 update:**
To make it clear, since 2017-06-23, the GTK+ project doesn't provide binary bundles for Windows. These are now provided by the MSYS2 project, with the blessing of the GTK+ team.
MSYS2 provides the most up-to-date versions of GTK+ for Windows, as well as a complete toolchain, and other useful GTK-related development tools like:
* **Glade**, the GUI designer
* **Devhelp**, the offline documentation browser
The official GTK+ website contains [GTK+ installation instructions for Windows](https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php).
**2013-10-27 update:**
There's now an officially supported version of GTK 3 for Windows (GTK 3.6.4 as of today). You'll find it on the [official GTK+ website](http://www.gtk.org), in the *Downloads* section.
Thanks to the GTK team, and to tarnyko for his work in this regard.
**2013-02-01 update:**
There's a French dude (tarnyko) providing an [(unofficial) GTK 3 installer for Windows](http://www.tarnyko.net/en/?q=node/20), based on the OpenSUSE binaries, and another guy providing [another (unofficial, again) build](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2012-December/msg00046.html). Might help. The [gtk-list](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list) mailing list is the best place to check how this evolves through time.
**2011-05-15 original content:**
There is currently no installer for GTK3 on Windows. However, the OpenSUSE Build System provides the [Windows binaries for GTK3](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/). On a [GTK3 on Windows](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2011-March/msg00057.html) thread of the GTK devel mailing list, Maarten Bosmans provided the [download-mingw-rpm.py](http://www.bosmans.ch/pulseaudio/download-mingw-rpm.py) python script, which automates the download of a package and its dependencies, and then uses 7-zip to unzip the content of the packages. See the post he explains [how to use download-mingw-rpm.py](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-mingw/2011-03/msg00020.html). | I'm sharing the latest GTK+ and gtkmm binaries for Windows 32-bit through DropBox.
[Take a look.](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8d1qbh5dsp044on/UgkALzhlqH)
3.22.0 for GTK+ and 3.22.0 for gtkmm as of today. |
6,006,689 | I have taken a look at GTK+3 and I like it. But unfortunately compiling from source has never worked for me. Is there any okace with decent binaries or even better, a windows installer? | 2011/05/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6006689",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/753341/"
] | It seems that proper Windows port is coming soon. According to this gnome developer blogpost:
<http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/11/25/gtk-work-on-windows/>
and it's comment section, Windows binaries should be available in near time. | This one is even fatter and wholesome, but targeted for pygi. GTK is version 3.6.4 <http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/pygobject-pygi-aio.html>. BTW i'm former windows build mypaint maintainer which migrate to pygobject 3. Also for MinGW i'm providing the most badass MinGW distro <http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/tuma-mingw.html> |
6,006,689 | I have taken a look at GTK+3 and I like it. But unfortunately compiling from source has never worked for me. Is there any okace with decent binaries or even better, a windows installer? | 2011/05/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6006689",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/753341/"
] | There's a GTK+ 3.4.2 Windows binary installer available here :
<http://www.tarnyko.net/?q=node/1>
With a development version containing libraries, headers, MinGW & Vala compilers at the bottom. | This one is even fatter and wholesome, but targeted for pygi. GTK is version 3.6.4 <http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/pygobject-pygi-aio.html>. BTW i'm former windows build mypaint maintainer which migrate to pygobject 3. Also for MinGW i'm providing the most badass MinGW distro <http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/tuma-mingw.html> |
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