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72,874 | I have an automated clicker that's bounded at a click every 10 milliseconds. Is there a limit to how often clicks get processed by the OS? Or if not the OS, is there a hardware dependency? | 2009/11/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/72874",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/6545/"
] | It depends on two factors - the polling rate of your mouse and the clicking speed. Polling rate is the frequency at which the mouse pings the computer about its position. In general its around 120 Hz that means every second it can register 125 pings. So, technically the computer can register 125 clicks per second (insa... | I'd say that 10ms is quite fast enough already. We've all experienced a computer that's thrashing, paging, or just plain slow. If there is a hardware-imposed limit, or an OS-imposed limit, you'll probably never reach it.
The speed at which clicks get processed will vary depending on what else the computer is doing at ... |
72,874 | I have an automated clicker that's bounded at a click every 10 milliseconds. Is there a limit to how often clicks get processed by the OS? Or if not the OS, is there a hardware dependency? | 2009/11/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/72874",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/6545/"
] | The standard polling frequency for USB devices (including mice) is 125hz. However, it is possible to increase this frequency all the way up to 1000hz, so it may be possible to process clicks at that rate (Which would be every 1 ms). | I recollect seeing "polling frequency" in PS/2 mouse driver settings tab a few years ago, and it was 100 per second (i.e. every 10ms). That was related to mouse movement tracking, and not clicks.
The highest theoretical limit would be the frequency of the carrier signal - USB or PS/2, or indeed a polling interval "at ... |
72,874 | I have an automated clicker that's bounded at a click every 10 milliseconds. Is there a limit to how often clicks get processed by the OS? Or if not the OS, is there a hardware dependency? | 2009/11/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/72874",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/6545/"
] | It depends on two factors - the polling rate of your mouse and the clicking speed. Polling rate is the frequency at which the mouse pings the computer about its position. In general its around 120 Hz that means every second it can register 125 pings. So, technically the computer can register 125 clicks per second (insa... | I recollect seeing "polling frequency" in PS/2 mouse driver settings tab a few years ago, and it was 100 per second (i.e. every 10ms). That was related to mouse movement tracking, and not clicks.
The highest theoretical limit would be the frequency of the carrier signal - USB or PS/2, or indeed a polling interval "at ... |
72,874 | I have an automated clicker that's bounded at a click every 10 milliseconds. Is there a limit to how often clicks get processed by the OS? Or if not the OS, is there a hardware dependency? | 2009/11/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/72874",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/6545/"
] | The standard polling frequency for USB devices (including mice) is 125hz. However, it is possible to increase this frequency all the way up to 1000hz, so it may be possible to process clicks at that rate (Which would be every 1 ms). | It depends on two factors - the polling rate of your mouse and the clicking speed. Polling rate is the frequency at which the mouse pings the computer about its position. In general its around 120 Hz that means every second it can register 125 pings. So, technically the computer can register 125 clicks per second (insa... |
11,614,756 | We are iterating the components in a folder in Tridion 2011 and creating our custom XML to be used on CDS on the basis of the publishing status of component. I am giving below example to make you understand the problem.
1. Supppose we have 10 components in a folder which are all published and we publish our XML then t... | 2012/07/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11614756",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1379002/"
] | So you want to:
1. determine the XML of the Component that was last published
2. determine the changes between that XML and the current XML of the Component
3. only publish the changes
Tridion doesn't keep track of the version that was published (on the Content Manager at least). So the closest you can do is find out... | Then your solution is to
1. Write an event handler on the Publish Transaction Save event
2. Which saves the publish info (version data) to Application Data of the published Component
I'm mentioning the Publish Transaction Save event because from there you can ensure that the publish info is only saved when the transa... |
11,614,756 | We are iterating the components in a folder in Tridion 2011 and creating our custom XML to be used on CDS on the basis of the publishing status of component. I am giving below example to make you understand the problem.
1. Supppose we have 10 components in a folder which are all published and we publish our XML then t... | 2012/07/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11614756",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1379002/"
] | Please forgive me if I jump to conclusions, but I strongly feel this question has arisen from a lack of understanding of Tridion. Publishing in Tridion does more than just raise a flag to indicate the item is 'published', in other words ready to be shown to the outside world. I know this is how some (many) content mana... | Then your solution is to
1. Write an event handler on the Publish Transaction Save event
2. Which saves the publish info (version data) to Application Data of the published Component
I'm mentioning the Publish Transaction Save event because from there you can ensure that the publish info is only saved when the transa... |
328,337 | One of the traits in Surviving Mars is Vegan. The description just says "don't worry, they'll tell you."
All of the food in the game seems to be plant-based so what, if anything, does Veganism do? | 2018/03/16 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/328337",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/53291/"
] | According to the wiki:
>
> Has decreased Comfort when living near a Ranch and won't work in such
> buildings.
>
> Has increased Comfort when away from Ranches.
>
> Farm in the Dome +2 Comfort every Sol.
>
> Ranch in the Dome -2 Comfort every Sol.
>
>
>
Source: <https://survivingmars.paradoxwikis.com/... | Gameplay wise: No, they don't.
However: There is an achievment -> **Dream of a Green Mars** -> Have 200 vegans in your colony. |
328,337 | One of the traits in Surviving Mars is Vegan. The description just says "don't worry, they'll tell you."
All of the food in the game seems to be plant-based so what, if anything, does Veganism do? | 2018/03/16 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/328337",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/53291/"
] | According to the wiki:
>
> Has decreased Comfort when living near a Ranch and won't work in such
> buildings.
>
> Has increased Comfort when away from Ranches.
>
> Farm in the Dome +2 Comfort every Sol.
>
> Ranch in the Dome -2 Comfort every Sol.
>
>
>
Source: <https://survivingmars.paradoxwikis.com/... | The Project Laika DLC brought ranches and animals into the mix. Vegans now take a comfort penalty if there is a ranch in their dome. |
35,214 | I would like to know if it is possible to remote monitor the incoming and outcoming network traffic of a specific IP from my network. I need to log the time, ip numbers and port that contact the computer as well the answers.
I cannot change any configuration/install of the machine. (so cannot install wireshark or a l... | 2013/05/02 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35214",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/23711/"
] | You have three options:
* install wireshark or similar on the target
* monitor traffic through the network device
* add your own network device that is in a position to detect the target traffic
From your own comments, options 1 and 2 are ruled out already. It may be, though, that you are precluded from the final opt... | This is easy to do provided you have administrative access to your network devices, and they support [port mirroring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_mirroring) . What you do is mirror the port of the end point you want to monitor, and then use a sniffing tool like wireshark, tcpdump, or snoop to record the traffic. |
35,214 | I would like to know if it is possible to remote monitor the incoming and outcoming network traffic of a specific IP from my network. I need to log the time, ip numbers and port that contact the computer as well the answers.
I cannot change any configuration/install of the machine. (so cannot install wireshark or a l... | 2013/05/02 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35214",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/23711/"
] | I'm assuming that what you're doing is related to ethical pen. testing. If you have no legitimate control over your target, you have 3 options
1. [Haxoring](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haxored) your target: Attempt to gain access to the target machine by exploiting some vulnerabilities in the machin... | This is easy to do provided you have administrative access to your network devices, and they support [port mirroring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_mirroring) . What you do is mirror the port of the end point you want to monitor, and then use a sniffing tool like wireshark, tcpdump, or snoop to record the traffic. |
35,214 | I would like to know if it is possible to remote monitor the incoming and outcoming network traffic of a specific IP from my network. I need to log the time, ip numbers and port that contact the computer as well the answers.
I cannot change any configuration/install of the machine. (so cannot install wireshark or a l... | 2013/05/02 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35214",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/23711/"
] | This is easy to do provided you have administrative access to your network devices, and they support [port mirroring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_mirroring) . What you do is mirror the port of the end point you want to monitor, and then use a sniffing tool like wireshark, tcpdump, or snoop to record the traffic. | You just need to set up some monitoring software eg Anturis (<http://www.anturis.com>) and use it. It will not only monitor the traffic, but some troubles or malware. |
35,214 | I would like to know if it is possible to remote monitor the incoming and outcoming network traffic of a specific IP from my network. I need to log the time, ip numbers and port that contact the computer as well the answers.
I cannot change any configuration/install of the machine. (so cannot install wireshark or a l... | 2013/05/02 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35214",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/23711/"
] | I'm assuming that what you're doing is related to ethical pen. testing. If you have no legitimate control over your target, you have 3 options
1. [Haxoring](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haxored) your target: Attempt to gain access to the target machine by exploiting some vulnerabilities in the machin... | You have three options:
* install wireshark or similar on the target
* monitor traffic through the network device
* add your own network device that is in a position to detect the target traffic
From your own comments, options 1 and 2 are ruled out already. It may be, though, that you are precluded from the final opt... |
35,214 | I would like to know if it is possible to remote monitor the incoming and outcoming network traffic of a specific IP from my network. I need to log the time, ip numbers and port that contact the computer as well the answers.
I cannot change any configuration/install of the machine. (so cannot install wireshark or a l... | 2013/05/02 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35214",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/23711/"
] | You have three options:
* install wireshark or similar on the target
* monitor traffic through the network device
* add your own network device that is in a position to detect the target traffic
From your own comments, options 1 and 2 are ruled out already. It may be, though, that you are precluded from the final opt... | You just need to set up some monitoring software eg Anturis (<http://www.anturis.com>) and use it. It will not only monitor the traffic, but some troubles or malware. |
35,214 | I would like to know if it is possible to remote monitor the incoming and outcoming network traffic of a specific IP from my network. I need to log the time, ip numbers and port that contact the computer as well the answers.
I cannot change any configuration/install of the machine. (so cannot install wireshark or a l... | 2013/05/02 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35214",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/23711/"
] | I'm assuming that what you're doing is related to ethical pen. testing. If you have no legitimate control over your target, you have 3 options
1. [Haxoring](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haxored) your target: Attempt to gain access to the target machine by exploiting some vulnerabilities in the machin... | You just need to set up some monitoring software eg Anturis (<http://www.anturis.com>) and use it. It will not only monitor the traffic, but some troubles or malware. |
10,101 | I'm designing a windowed application. When the application starts up the user needs to be presented with a Login interface. The initial (and minimum) window size is 800x600. A header of height 42 pixels must be displayed.
The way I'm presenting the Login interface currently is by displaying a Panel at the center of th... | 2011/08/16 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/10101",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/7137/"
] | With regards to websites which match your requirements, I'm a big fan of [Toggl](https://www.toggl.com/)'s *centered* sign in and sign up forms (which by the way, are *equally* simple - both with email + password only).
I don't see any reason why users should be discontent with it.
In the snapshot below, obviously y... | You could try having a bar pop down from underneath the header. Like this:
Then when the login has been completed, have the bar disappear. |
10,101 | I'm designing a windowed application. When the application starts up the user needs to be presented with a Login interface. The initial (and minimum) window size is 800x600. A header of height 42 pixels must be displayed.
The way I'm presenting the Login interface currently is by displaying a Panel at the center of th... | 2011/08/16 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/10101",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/7137/"
] | With regards to websites which match your requirements, I'm a big fan of [Toggl](https://www.toggl.com/)'s *centered* sign in and sign up forms (which by the way, are *equally* simple - both with email + password only).
I don't see any reason why users should be discontent with it.
In the snapshot below, obviously y... | Do you have to present some info about the app to the user or can the screen be completely empty (besides the header)? The toggl-example isnt't that userfriendly for newbies who don't know much about the app. |
292,458 | Many a times I used the word "unaccept". But everytime our system shows redline (spellcheck). I believe it is the opposite of "accept", correct?
If its a mistake, what should I use? | 2015/12/08 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292458",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/150578/"
] | Unaccept is not a word? I find that unacceptable! :P
>
> 1. (rare) To rescind one's acceptance of - [Wiktionary.org](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unaccept)
>
>
>
See?
>
> The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary - [Merriam-Webster.com](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suggestions/unaccept)
>
... | With a verb and suffix un, doesn't it need to have already happened and the same forces of physics apply to both in reverse due to it being UNDONE!????
Do and undo, an action that can be reversed.
tie and untie
If you accept... You can't unaccept unless the person gives you that option. A new verb is required as a new... |
243,165 | As the title says, is there an SE site for social, non-workplace communication and etiquette? Essentially something like the topics often found on workplace.se (and sometimes academia.se), but outside of the workplace / academics. Questions about (possibly) cultural-specific behavior (but somewhat outside the bounds of... | 2014/11/06 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243165",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/230261/"
] | **Update:** since 18 August 2017, [Interpersonal Skills](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/92736/interpersonal-skills/visit) has been opened to public.
---
~~As of current, I couldn't find any graduated & public-beta sites about *social, non-workplace communication and etiquette*.~~
However, when I searched ... | Great news, the site got created, and generates great content:
<https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com>
*[Proposal page of the site, including some statistics](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/92736/interpersonal-skills)*
It is a shame that a lot of great questions get lost every time a proposal is deleted... |
83,078 | I just realized that my Stack Overflow frontpage is filled with Android & other *Favorite Tags*. I tried to look it up from Chrome's incognito mode and it's quite different than when I'm logged in.
Are frontpage questions really different for logged in and non logged in users? | 2011/03/14 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83078",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/134397/"
] | Yes, it does -- see here for details:
<https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/stack-overflow-homepage-changes/>
On top of that, we auto-infer favorite tags based on browsing preferences if we reach statistically significant thresholds for a user. | I don't think so. The interesting tab changes a lot well because it is interesting :) |
117,757 | This question is similar to this one: [What unique features has Ubuntu brought to the Linux community?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/46642/what-unique-enhancements-and-features-has-ubuntu-brought-to-the-linux-community) but in this case it is directed towards what has Ubuntu contributed to the official Linux Kernel.... | 2012/03/31 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/117757",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/7035/"
] | I'm not sure this is really the best way to measure Ubuntu's contributions to the free software world, but it's easy enough to look:
* [List of commits in mainline from @canonical.com addresses.](http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=@canonical.com)
* [List of commits mainline... | The following adds the perspective of Canonical's motives. Not a direct answer to the original question but IMO a vital piece of information.
Let us hear what the main man, Mark Shuttleworth, has to say about this
<http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2168086/canonical-linux-kernel>
"Recently Canonical founder Mark... |
380 | I want to build a robot arm that'll be approximately 1.25 meter long and will be able to lift up to 2 kilograms. It'll have 6 dof and it is an expensive project. And most importantly, i am the only programmer in this brand new robotics facility of ours. :)
The robot that i want to build will be led by Inverse Kinemati... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/380",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | This project sounds quite plausible. The question is, where do the servo loops happen? Does it go through the Android Tablet, or just the control chip? What chip is this?
If the servo loops go through the tablet, then be warned that the tablet needs to be able to process that servo loop in good time each cycle. No bei... | It looks like you are implementing Inverse kinematics(IK) control of robot manipulator for first time. I would suggest you to start of inverse kinematics control program in regular computer. Once you have implemented stable IK control program, you can implement the same same for Android tablet.
Please don't complicat... |
380 | I want to build a robot arm that'll be approximately 1.25 meter long and will be able to lift up to 2 kilograms. It'll have 6 dof and it is an expensive project. And most importantly, i am the only programmer in this brand new robotics facility of ours. :)
The robot that i want to build will be led by Inverse Kinemati... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/380",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | This is a much bigger project than you think, and processing power is the least of your concerns. You may want to skip straight to step #9. Otherwise, here are some questions you need to ask yourself, based on my experience of building something very similar as a hobby project (I used a desktop PC for processing):
1: ... | It looks like you are implementing Inverse kinematics(IK) control of robot manipulator for first time. I would suggest you to start of inverse kinematics control program in regular computer. Once you have implemented stable IK control program, you can implement the same same for Android tablet.
Please don't complicat... |
380 | I want to build a robot arm that'll be approximately 1.25 meter long and will be able to lift up to 2 kilograms. It'll have 6 dof and it is an expensive project. And most importantly, i am the only programmer in this brand new robotics facility of ours. :)
The robot that i want to build will be led by Inverse Kinemati... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/380",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | This project sounds quite plausible. The question is, where do the servo loops happen? Does it go through the Android Tablet, or just the control chip? What chip is this?
If the servo loops go through the tablet, then be warned that the tablet needs to be able to process that servo loop in good time each cycle. No bei... | How many degrees of freedom do you plan to implement?
I use Arduino Mega for my arm with 4 axis and plan to use simple ARM processor instead it. |
380 | I want to build a robot arm that'll be approximately 1.25 meter long and will be able to lift up to 2 kilograms. It'll have 6 dof and it is an expensive project. And most importantly, i am the only programmer in this brand new robotics facility of ours. :)
The robot that i want to build will be led by Inverse Kinemati... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/380",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | This is a much bigger project than you think, and processing power is the least of your concerns. You may want to skip straight to step #9. Otherwise, here are some questions you need to ask yourself, based on my experience of building something very similar as a hobby project (I used a desktop PC for processing):
1: ... | How many degrees of freedom do you plan to implement?
I use Arduino Mega for my arm with 4 axis and plan to use simple ARM processor instead it. |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | I use the open source [PasswordSafe](http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) application for storing my personal passwords. I keep the database file on a DropBox volume, so it is accessible from anywhere. (hat tip: [Joel](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html))
There is no reason that the password databas... | For single use passwords I set it and forget it. If I have to do something with it I reset it again knowing that it has a single purpose. This also keeps me from using the account for a second purpose. The account name will match the purpose and may be a long long winded name. |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | For single use passwords I set it and forget it. If I have to do something with it I reset it again knowing that it has a single purpose. This also keeps me from using the account for a second purpose. The account name will match the purpose and may be a long long winded name. | I use [KeePass](http://keepass.info/) and the Linux alternative [KeePassX](http://www.keepassx.org/) on a network share. Always open in read only unless I specifically need to make an edit. |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | When i am setting up services that are rarely going to need to be logged into i try to use the most obscure password (start of an md5 hash for instance) and then just store it in an encrypted/password protected spreadsheet.
It keeps you from worrying about that if someone somehow got the password for your domain name ... | You could use a tool like [passwordmaker](http://passwordmaker.org/) to create hashed passwords for you.
 |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | I use the open source [PasswordSafe](http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) application for storing my personal passwords. I keep the database file on a DropBox volume, so it is accessible from anywhere. (hat tip: [Joel](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html))
There is no reason that the password databas... | I save passwords in [passwordsafe](http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) (or one of its [variants](http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/relatedprojects.shtml)) and keep the passwordsafe database in a folder shared by [dropbox](http://www.getdropbox.com/). (Dropbox syncs files online and across multiple computers).
I us... |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | When i am setting up services that are rarely going to need to be logged into i try to use the most obscure password (start of an md5 hash for instance) and then just store it in an encrypted/password protected spreadsheet.
It keeps you from worrying about that if someone somehow got the password for your domain name ... | I use [KeePass](http://keepass.info/) and the Linux alternative [KeePassX](http://www.keepassx.org/) on a network share. Always open in read only unless I specifically need to make an edit. |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | I work at a show with several techs. We use Keepass/Keepassx and the files are stored in a subversion repository, that is only accessible via SSH with key-based authentication.
Using the VCS allows us to keep a copy of the password vaults offline and up-to-date. If you keep your password file on the server, what happe... | You could use a tool like [passwordmaker](http://passwordmaker.org/) to create hashed passwords for you.
 |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | I use the open source [PasswordSafe](http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) application for storing my personal passwords. I keep the database file on a DropBox volume, so it is accessible from anywhere. (hat tip: [Joel](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html))
There is no reason that the password databas... | You could use a tool like [passwordmaker](http://passwordmaker.org/) to create hashed passwords for you.
 |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | I use [KeePass](http://keepass.info/) and the Linux alternative [KeePassX](http://www.keepassx.org/) on a network share. Always open in read only unless I specifically need to make an edit. | You could use a tool like [passwordmaker](http://passwordmaker.org/) to create hashed passwords for you.
 |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | I work at a show with several techs. We use Keepass/Keepassx and the files are stored in a subversion repository, that is only accessible via SSH with key-based authentication.
Using the VCS allows us to keep a copy of the password vaults offline and up-to-date. If you keep your password file on the server, what happe... | I use [KeePass](http://keepass.info/) and the Linux alternative [KeePassX](http://www.keepassx.org/) on a network share. Always open in read only unless I specifically need to make an edit. |
3,696 | How do you handle the storage of passwords that, by nature of their usage, you can't expect administrators to memorize? Such as:
* Administrator/root password when everyone logs on using their own account with administrator rights
* Service account passwords that are only set during configuration, e.g. SqlServerAgent,... | 2009/05/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/3696",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/409/"
] | I work at a show with several techs. We use Keepass/Keepassx and the files are stored in a subversion repository, that is only accessible via SSH with key-based authentication.
Using the VCS allows us to keep a copy of the password vaults offline and up-to-date. If you keep your password file on the server, what happe... | I use the open source [PasswordSafe](http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) application for storing my personal passwords. I keep the database file on a DropBox volume, so it is accessible from anywhere. (hat tip: [Joel](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html))
There is no reason that the password databas... |
109,591 | Lets say it was possible to create as massive traversable wormholes as we want. Say we
started from earth and wanted to cross to alpha centauri. How would I create the wormhole
so that it leads directly to alpha centauri? So we start from earth and want the wormhole to
start from their and end at alpha centauri, how ... | 2014/04/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109591",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/45064/"
] | Attach magnets, bring wires close, enjoy while it lasts. The changing magnetic field would induce currents in the wires, hence you could extract out energy from the rotating system. | A little hard to do, but say..
1. You build a sun room on the surface of the sun.
2. You tether the axle of a bicycle wheel sitting on the surface of the earth to your sun room on the surface of the sun.
3. As the earth turns, the bicycle wheel turns. It stays in place as it is tethered to the sun.
Now - you can extr... |
109,591 | Lets say it was possible to create as massive traversable wormholes as we want. Say we
started from earth and wanted to cross to alpha centauri. How would I create the wormhole
so that it leads directly to alpha centauri? So we start from earth and want the wormhole to
start from their and end at alpha centauri, how ... | 2014/04/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109591",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/45064/"
] | **Caution:** I have not worked this out rigorously, and I'm not entirely convinced that it works (or even that the problem is solvable). Comments appreciated.
The answers here all have the disadvantage that they fundamentally require large amounts of mass not in the same non-inertial frame to work properly. But what i... | A little hard to do, but say..
1. You build a sun room on the surface of the sun.
2. You tether the axle of a bicycle wheel sitting on the surface of the earth to your sun room on the surface of the sun.
3. As the earth turns, the bicycle wheel turns. It stays in place as it is tethered to the sun.
Now - you can extr... |
84,438 | I'm trying to find an app (or 2, one for each device) to transfer files between my Android and a desktop running Ubuntu (basically to backup pics, videos or notes from the phone).
I'd prefer something that's in the Ubuntu repository and Google Play without ads and for free. And I would like a cli app, so, to automatiz... | 2022/11/04 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/84438",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/8883/"
] | As you're using Linux on your PC (good choice btw!), you have `rsync` in its repository and maybe even already installed. A pendant on Android could e.g. be **[Syncopoli](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.amoradi.syncopoli/)**:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jws8W.png) [, which has a feature to open an FTP server which you can then access from your desktop. |
63,568 | I recently tried to make orange chicken and the recipe required the zest of one orange. Well I added too much zest and the orange peel flavor is overpowering. How can I reduce that flavor? | 2015/11/18 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/63568",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/40872/"
] | rackandboneman has excellent suggestions. If I may add one more, I would suggest adding some fairly strong tastes to reduce the prominence of the orange. Some soy, garlic and honey would go a long way toward turning the orange into a passable teriyaki. | jist found this.. as I am working on sams issues. I am using leftover orange marmalade in place of orange juice (nobody liked the marmalade so I needed to use it somehow). It has a very strong tangy zest taste. I have included ginger root and garlic, salt, coconut aminos or soy sauce, rice vinegar, brown sugar and dilu... |
88,677 | I am trying to install 11.10 and it keeps getting stuck on the "configuring target system" step. I originally downloaded the program to a USB drive and copied it to the desktop for installation. | 2011/12/18 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/88677",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/38377/"
] | Just to point out: It is possible to install Ubuntu without burning to CD/DVD or via USB drive if you're using a Virtual Machine (eg. VMWare Player/Virtual Box/etc).
I had the same issue where installation froze at "configuring target system". In my case, waiting 12 hours did nothing to resolve the issue. My resolutio... | Either enable your internet connection or uncheck the "Enable Networking" checkbox in the network menu (top right) during installation. |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | Sorry, but unless the offer letter is signed then you do not have secured employment, period.
You are right to be worried because neither company has your best interest in mind.
If company B rescinded after you put in a two-week notice then do you personally have enough capital to sue them for damages which arose fro... | **(Update Below: Start Date is everything, do you have one yet? I'd worry more about that than a contract)**
To my knowledge, a contract is binding even without a signature if no other contract was offered afterwards, neither party objected, and both parties moved forward as though the contract had been agreed to.
If... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | I don't see a problem here.
It could be as simple as they want to see you actually put your wet signature on the paper. This is why presidents sometimes sign documents in signing ceremonies, and not in the garage of their vacation home. It gives the process an air of gravitas.
I personally like the process they've es... | After reading the answers already I'm not sure there's a complete picture here.
First, an offer letter is legally binding. If they give you an offer letter and do not present you with a contract to sign or otherwise do not hire you, then you would easily win a claim against them for damages. And if they're a big compa... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | Sorry, but unless the offer letter is signed then you do not have secured employment, period.
You are right to be worried because neither company has your best interest in mind.
If company B rescinded after you put in a two-week notice then do you personally have enough capital to sue them for damages which arose fro... | It's hard to answer for sure without knowing the industry, as customary practice varies significantly by industry in the U.S., especially if you would be part of a unionized workforce.
However, *on average*, U.S. employment situations don't have a signed employment contract at all, either before or after beginning wor... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | It's hard to answer for sure without knowing the industry, as customary practice varies significantly by industry in the U.S., especially if you would be part of a unionized workforce.
However, *on average*, U.S. employment situations don't have a signed employment contract at all, either before or after beginning wor... | Not signing a contract before tendering your resignation can actually be advantageous if you're open to counter offers by your current employer. If you are leaving to make more money, your employer may offer more money on the spot to keep you. They may also be amenable to other changes like allowing work from home, or ... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | Short answer: YES you should be worried and try to secure the contract ASP.
Long answer: It is gonna be fine most likely. Most likely there won't be any issue. Just sign on the first day.
Not likely but has happened many times too: The company eventually decides not to hire you, even if verbally agreed. Not often but... | It's hard to answer for sure without knowing the industry, as customary practice varies significantly by industry in the U.S., especially if you would be part of a unionized workforce.
However, *on average*, U.S. employment situations don't have a signed employment contract at all, either before or after beginning wor... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | Sorry, but unless the offer letter is signed then you do not have secured employment, period.
You are right to be worried because neither company has your best interest in mind.
If company B rescinded after you put in a two-week notice then do you personally have enough capital to sue them for damages which arose fro... | Not signing a contract before tendering your resignation can actually be advantageous if you're open to counter offers by your current employer. If you are leaving to make more money, your employer may offer more money on the spot to keep you. They may also be amenable to other changes like allowing work from home, or ... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | ***Update:** Based on all the feedback I've been getting, I've toned down my original answer. See my addendum near the bottom.*
This is what I would say (of course, please use your own words):
>
> I'm sorry. If I was unemployed, I would definitely wait for my first
> day to sign this contract.
>
>
> However, since... | It's hard to answer for sure without knowing the industry, as customary practice varies significantly by industry in the U.S., especially if you would be part of a unionized workforce.
However, *on average*, U.S. employment situations don't have a signed employment contract at all, either before or after beginning wor... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | Sorry, but unless the offer letter is signed then you do not have secured employment, period.
You are right to be worried because neither company has your best interest in mind.
If company B rescinded after you put in a two-week notice then do you personally have enough capital to sue them for damages which arose fro... | After reading the answers already I'm not sure there's a complete picture here.
First, an offer letter is legally binding. If they give you an offer letter and do not present you with a contract to sign or otherwise do not hire you, then you would easily win a claim against them for damages. And if they're a big compa... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | Short answer: YES you should be worried and try to secure the contract ASP.
Long answer: It is gonna be fine most likely. Most likely there won't be any issue. Just sign on the first day.
Not likely but has happened many times too: The company eventually decides not to hire you, even if verbally agreed. Not often but... | I don't see a problem here.
It could be as simple as they want to see you actually put your wet signature on the paper. This is why presidents sometimes sign documents in signing ceremonies, and not in the garage of their vacation home. It gives the process an air of gravitas.
I personally like the process they've es... |
169,431 | I am currently working at company A. I got a job offer from company B after 10+ hours of interviews, references, a thorough background check, many conversations with HR etc. I am planning to give my boss at company A my two-weeks notice, take a couple weeks off and then start at company B.
Company B has sent me an off... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169431",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/124179/"
] | I don’t think this is a big deal.
If you are a permanent full time employee in the US, in my experience it’s pretty usual to get a written job offer, accept it in email, but not actually sign anything until you get a W-9 on day 1. There is basically no legal difference between a signature and the clearly extended and ... | Not signing a contract before tendering your resignation can actually be advantageous if you're open to counter offers by your current employer. If you are leaving to make more money, your employer may offer more money on the spot to keep you. They may also be amenable to other changes like allowing work from home, or ... |
15,725 | On July 25th 2016, the US Army Corps of Engineers [found](http://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Planning/Project-Reports/Article/633496/dakota-access-pipeline-environmental-assessment/) that the Dakota Access Pipeline running under lake Oahe / the Missoury River will have "No Significant Impact" following ... | 2017/02/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/15725",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/7643/"
] | The environmental impact report is 1200 pages long and I don't have a plan on reading it, so please take this answer with a grain of salt. That being said, I do want to show that, at least to a layman, when you run the numbers there does not immediately appear to be a huge risk.
First lets look at how bad Sunco is com... | I went ahead and opened up the environmental impact statement to see what they had to say. The things I noticed are summarized below. I'll repeat David Grinberg's disclaimer though: I am no kind of expert in environmental engineering or policy.
All page numbers are pages of the PDF, not the printed page numbers.
Alte... |
8,660,069 | Is it possible to create a user in ActiveAdmin that is readonly (they can open all entries, etc but can't make changes to them). | 2011/12/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8660069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1041669/"
] | You should be able to use Ryan Bates Cancan gem for this, see this - [for implementation instructions](https://gist.github.com/1264060)
Robbie | [There's an open issue on this](https://github.com/gregbell/active_admin/issues/355). At this point, you'll have to mess with the source code though. |
18,187 | I've been informed by my employer of a new policy where I am not to put my name on maps. I've always put my name on my maps in the past and have never run across this policy. Is it uncommon in the industry to add the map author's name to maps? | 2011/12/22 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/18187",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2926/"
] | It is not uncommon, as the map can be considered company property (both intellectual and artistic property) as opposed to an individual's work. Some cartographers circumvent this by hiding their name/initials/signature in a feature on the map. This is accomplished by using a slightly different color, and/or stylizing t... | I just took over as the sole GIS analyst where I work. The GIS guy before me put his name on all the maps he made, but I decided to leave my name off all the maps I design from now on.
I think putting your name on a map (if you work for an organization) is a little bit tacky, and cheapens the map for your employer. I... |
18,187 | I've been informed by my employer of a new policy where I am not to put my name on maps. I've always put my name on my maps in the past and have never run across this policy. Is it uncommon in the industry to add the map author's name to maps? | 2011/12/22 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/18187",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2926/"
] | It is not uncommon, as the map can be considered company property (both intellectual and artistic property) as opposed to an individual's work. Some cartographers circumvent this by hiding their name/initials/signature in a feature on the map. This is accomplished by using a slightly different color, and/or stylizing t... | OK, it's a fictional example, but what about [Slartibartfast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slartibartfast) who had a penchant for signing his name in glaciers?!
Seems there are some [hidden signatures](http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/01/80_milewide_signature_in_ocean_floo.html) in Google Earth too. |
488,210 | I am trying to install Linux Mint 13 (Maya/Cinnamon) on an Old Dell Latitude D600. I can boot the live CD, but when I try to install, I can't see the windows that are coming up on screen. I can see the outline of the windows that are popping up asking the install questions, but I can't see anything inside the window. I... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/488210",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/165535/"
] | I just installed LM(maya - mate) on the very same laptop. You will likely be disappointed by the performance. Mate is not a 3D-acceleration mandatory DE (unlike cinnamon, which is gnome-shell based) and performance is still horrible. In addition 3rd party video support is vaporous, as in hard to get a hold of. If you R... | I have LM Maya Mate on my D600 with 2gigs ram and it is twice as fast as XP. The thing I like is i can install on 1 machine then pop the hdd into another and it works fine. I do this to speed up the install process. Try the KDE distro. It works well. |
488,210 | I am trying to install Linux Mint 13 (Maya/Cinnamon) on an Old Dell Latitude D600. I can boot the live CD, but when I try to install, I can't see the windows that are coming up on screen. I can see the outline of the windows that are popping up asking the install questions, but I can't see anything inside the window. I... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/488210",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/165535/"
] | I just installed LM(maya - mate) on the very same laptop. You will likely be disappointed by the performance. Mate is not a 3D-acceleration mandatory DE (unlike cinnamon, which is gnome-shell based) and performance is still horrible. In addition 3rd party video support is vaporous, as in hard to get a hold of. If you R... | I had an almost identical experience (display empty windows) as the one described by @Reagan while trying to install linux mint 13 (Maya cinnamon) on a old laptop (Compaq Presario).
I wanted to do this for the same reason too - this laptop was running Windows XP, but it cannot support Windows 7. Although @Lindicted s... |
555,098 | In my location, there are many small restaurants that each serve only a single type of food, e.g., noodles, noodle soup,... mainly noodles but only 1 single type.
It's not a café, not a cafeteria, not a restaurant (many types of foods), not a stall because it's in a house,...
Should it be called a "noodle shop"? | 2020/12/18 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/555098",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/361776/"
] | I don't think this precisely hits your definition, but a [hole-in-the-wall restaurant](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hole-in-the-wall) refers to the *size* and inconspicuousness of a restaurant.
That's not the same as having a limited menu, but hole-in-the-wall restaurants are often exactly those that hav... | You could describe the place as a ***boutique restaurant***.
Merriam-Webster's second [definition](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boutique) of boutique is:
>
> a small company that offers highly specialized services or products
>
>
>
> >
> > boutique wineries
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> >
> > an indep... |
172,895 | Flying out of Porto Saturday at 11am to YUL via Munich on Lufthansa
The email I received says the antigen test:
Negative antigen test taken **within 1 day before departure**.
Can I take a test at around 9am Friday morning? Does that count as « within 1 day » ?
Thanks | 2022/03/31 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/172895",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/8279/"
] | According to [the Canadian government's covid-19 testing for travelers page](https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/flying-canada-checklist/covid-19-testing-travellers-coming-into-canada), for a professionally administered or observed negative antigen test,
>
> * the one day window does not depend on t... | >
> Is the pre-flight COVID test really strict on time?
>
>
>
To add a more general answer in addition to mlc's answer focusing on Canada, assuming that the covid test is required for your case, that depends on the destination country's policies, the airline's policy and the transit countries' policies. In some si... |
172,895 | Flying out of Porto Saturday at 11am to YUL via Munich on Lufthansa
The email I received says the antigen test:
Negative antigen test taken **within 1 day before departure**.
Can I take a test at around 9am Friday morning? Does that count as « within 1 day » ?
Thanks | 2022/03/31 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/172895",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/8279/"
] | According to [the Canadian government's covid-19 testing for travelers page](https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/flying-canada-checklist/covid-19-testing-travellers-coming-into-canada), for a professionally administered or observed negative antigen test,
>
> * the one day window does not depend on t... | I received an email from Lufthansa with this :
"Passengers on flights to Germany must present a negative Covid-19 test upon entry into Germany. **The test must have been carried out at the earliest 48 hours (antigen) prior to arrival in Germany**, "
So it answered my concerns.
Still not sure if I stay air-side at th... |
37,331 | Based on a [**tweet from Jon**](http://twitter.com/jonskeet/status/8317560066)
Does the automated jerk detector also double as an automated nice-guy detector? I was under the impression it just blew out serial-downvotes.
What all is caught by the system? | 2010/01/28 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37331",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | It should detect serial upvotes as well, to help prevent sock puppet accounts upvoting each other.
Have a look at [Vote Fraud and You](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/), apparently serial upvoting is actually a bigger problem than serial downvoting. | Yes, it covers most all unusually patterned voting cases. |
37,331 | Based on a [**tweet from Jon**](http://twitter.com/jonskeet/status/8317560066)
Does the automated jerk detector also double as an automated nice-guy detector? I was under the impression it just blew out serial-downvotes.
What all is caught by the system? | 2010/01/28 | [
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] | Yes, it does look for up vote patterns as well. How do I know? It happen to me on Super User once. Over a pattern of a few days, tons of my questions and answers got voted up back to back. Within a few days, all the rep gained from the week disappeared. | Yes, it covers most all unusually patterned voting cases. |
37,331 | Based on a [**tweet from Jon**](http://twitter.com/jonskeet/status/8317560066)
Does the automated jerk detector also double as an automated nice-guy detector? I was under the impression it just blew out serial-downvotes.
What all is caught by the system? | 2010/01/28 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37331",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | It should detect serial upvotes as well, to help prevent sock puppet accounts upvoting each other.
Have a look at [Vote Fraud and You](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/), apparently serial upvoting is actually a bigger problem than serial downvoting. | Yes, it does look for up vote patterns as well. How do I know? It happen to me on Super User once. Over a pattern of a few days, tons of my questions and answers got voted up back to back. Within a few days, all the rep gained from the week disappeared. |
2,574,458 | I am curiosity about if thought experiments have importance in mathematics.
I know about famous thought experiments in physics and also some example in mathematics. Professors who followed that mental image obtained a great theory or theorem, or advance in their research, and seem as direct consequence of such mental ... | 2017/12/20 | [
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] | I guess the answer (as everything in math) depends upon definitions of what "thought" and "experiment" is. When you're dealing, for example, with infinity... is that an instance of "thought experiment"? In case it is, the answer is obvious: math is built up from such thought experiments taking their place literally at ... | If I understand you correctly, you want to know how thought experiments, i.e. being aware of one's conscious experience, can guide research in mathematics. Interpreted this way, I would refer you to Mach's work, but also Husserl's phenomenology. Before dedicating himself fully to philosophy, Husserl obtained a Ph.D. in... |
2,574,458 | I am curiosity about if thought experiments have importance in mathematics.
I know about famous thought experiments in physics and also some example in mathematics. Professors who followed that mental image obtained a great theory or theorem, or advance in their research, and seem as direct consequence of such mental ... | 2017/12/20 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2574458",
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] | I'm of the opinion that all of mathematics is a thought experiment. Unlike the empirical sciences which rely on observations mathematics is a creative discipline which only requires your imagination. Axioms are the beginning point of the experiment and theorems the result. For example, proof by contradiction makes this... | I guess the answer (as everything in math) depends upon definitions of what "thought" and "experiment" is. When you're dealing, for example, with infinity... is that an instance of "thought experiment"? In case it is, the answer is obvious: math is built up from such thought experiments taking their place literally at ... |
2,574,458 | I am curiosity about if thought experiments have importance in mathematics.
I know about famous thought experiments in physics and also some example in mathematics. Professors who followed that mental image obtained a great theory or theorem, or advance in their research, and seem as direct consequence of such mental ... | 2017/12/20 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2574458",
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] | I'm of the opinion that all of mathematics is a thought experiment. Unlike the empirical sciences which rely on observations mathematics is a creative discipline which only requires your imagination. Axioms are the beginning point of the experiment and theorems the result. For example, proof by contradiction makes this... | If I understand you correctly, you want to know how thought experiments, i.e. being aware of one's conscious experience, can guide research in mathematics. Interpreted this way, I would refer you to Mach's work, but also Husserl's phenomenology. Before dedicating himself fully to philosophy, Husserl obtained a Ph.D. in... |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | This reminds me of Jacque Fresco's *The Venus Project,* a futuristic city design. You can look it up: <https://www.thevenusproject.com>
Some examples:
It may not be exactly what you had in mi... | You might want to check out [Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement), it might not be the best selling point for circular city planning though, no garden cities evolved into cities you'd recognize the name of. However, the main problem with Howard's idea, might ... |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | Not too many problems when a building stands by itself
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There are many examples (especially in indigenous cultures) with round/circular architecture. Saw this at the Met a while back: <https://mymodernmet.com/round-home-architecture/> The walls of a structure do re... | Round buildings are not a problem, and have certain advantages, and have in fact been built even with much less than medieval technology.
How to arrange such buildings makes a difference in how well the space around them can be used. Your examples of how to arrange them seem to me to have a lot of open space between c... |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | If you build it the way you have it in your drawings you would have a lot of wide open spaces between the clumps of buildings; plazas. Which is ok if that's what you want. Traffic would be a nightmare.
But if you built it more like this...
[](https:... | Your city could be planned out like a honey comb, rather than a grid pattern. |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | Not too many problems when a building stands by itself
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There are many examples (especially in indigenous cultures) with round/circular architecture. Saw this at the Met a while back: <https://mymodernmet.com/round-home-architecture/> The walls of a structure do re... | Circular dwellings might make more efficient use of materials, if those materials are flexible, such as animal skins, thatch, etc.
But once you start using timber and brick, it takes much less skill and labor to cut or lay the materials in a straight line, store the materials for later, or provide thoroughfares. |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/104661",
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] | If you build it the way you have it in your drawings you would have a lot of wide open spaces between the clumps of buildings; plazas. Which is ok if that's what you want. Traffic would be a nightmare.
But if you built it more like this...
[](https:... | This reminds me of Jacque Fresco's *The Venus Project,* a futuristic city design. You can look it up: <https://www.thevenusproject.com>
Some examples:
It may not be exactly what you had in mi... |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | There is nothing that inherently makes this impossible but it is very unlikely.
**1) Organization and planning.** There were no building codes in the middle ages. You would have to have an organization that manages city planning. City planning was not unheard of in the middle ages but it was never this robust. You hav... | Your city could be planned out like a honey comb, rather than a grid pattern. |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | ### Yes - Denmark did it (kind of)
In Brøndbyvester (near Copenhagen), Denmark - there is a section of suburbs that looks very similar to your building plan.
[Google Maps](https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/2605+Br%C3%B8ndbyvester,+Denmark/@55.6375391,12.396025,1459m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x465256d9392ef63b:0x4b2... | You might want to see the [Koch Snowflake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a65or.gif)
The main reason I recommend it is because two such snowflakes of different sizes can [tesselate](https://... |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | If you build it the way you have it in your drawings you would have a lot of wide open spaces between the clumps of buildings; plazas. Which is ok if that's what you want. Traffic would be a nightmare.
But if you built it more like this...
[](https:... | There is nothing that inherently makes this impossible but it is very unlikely.
**1) Organization and planning.** There were no building codes in the middle ages. You would have to have an organization that manages city planning. City planning was not unheard of in the middle ages but it was never this robust. You hav... |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | There are many benefits with having perfectly round buildings:
1. You minimize the cost of construction materials per interior area
2. You minimize the amount of wall space that are exposed to the elements for climate reasons (it's easier to heat a round room because there's less wall length for heat to escape. simila... | Not too many problems when a building stands by itself
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There are many examples (especially in indigenous cultures) with round/circular architecture. Saw this at the Met a while back: <https://mymodernmet.com/round-home-architecture/> The walls of a structure do re... |
104,661 | I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4ytn.png)
[!... | 2018/02/12 | [
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] | The biggest drawbacks to cities like that is that they dont make very effecient use of space like squares do. In medieval times cities were built in a circular manner because they usually were all trying to huddle as close to a castles fortified walls as they could. Living close to a fortress refuge during a time of ex... | You might want to check out [Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement), it might not be the best selling point for circular city planning though, no garden cities evolved into cities you'd recognize the name of. However, the main problem with Howard's idea, might ... |
99,838 | Do you avoid parallel octaves/5ths when writing parallel supporting Melodies? For example when harmonizing a vocal melody I have a plugin that by default adds a 3rd and 5th underneath. Should I change it to a 6th and 3rd? I read you shouldn’t have a parallel 6 3 chords more then 3 times in a row. So should I automate i... | 2020/05/20 | [
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] | First off, as Tim notes in comments, this has nothing to do with Picardy thirds (false or otherwise). I suppose if Beethoven had actually returned to the major form of the theme in a final *refrain* of the Rondo, maybe you could think of it as a false move into major, but he doesn't.
**This is an episode**, which freq... | I don't believe the diminished 7th matters - playing the dominant 7th twice in the Beethoven is still convincing. But then I would find it still convincing if the minor theme came in immediately after the C cadence at 3:11. Perhaps it is because I have heard the piece often. Perhaps it is convincing because Beethoven h... |
4,470 | There's [a question](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/45448/do-one-quarter-of-swedes-named-ali-have-a-criminal-record?noredirect=1#comment210508_45448) featured on HNQ at the moment.
The question asks if a headline from a website named Sputnik News is true.
As soon as the premise is examined it quickly fa... | 2019/11/23 | [
"https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4470",
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"https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/46144/"
] | I don't see the problem here. Keep in mind that Skeptics has a lot of google juice, so the question, with the rebutting answers will now most likely pop alongside the Sputnik disinformation. Which is surely better than just the latter being up in google.
In comparison to google searches, HNQ probably hits a much small... | Given infinite developer hours, could this be fixed or at least improved by adding a line underneath saying “Spoiler alert: No, it gets the numbers and what the numbers represent wrong, and it’s a Russian propaganda outlet amplifying a racist Swedish fringe site, click here to find out more”? |
24,759 | I often struggle with mixing a song when I have all my recordings ready to use and I get closer to the "whole song". My approach is often to take a single track and add effects such as EQs, compressors, distortions etc... Then I listen to all tracks together, make some adjustments, try to make every track present enoug... | 2014/11/04 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/24759",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/6270/"
] | Making everything audible in the mix is not always possible. Elements that share frequencies will [mask](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking) each other.
The most crucial part of the mix is not actually in the mixing phase itself, but in the composition, instrumentation, and arrangement phase. Experienced co... | Assuming you are in stereo (JCP answers assuming you're not) because there is nothing to say you aren't, definition of some instruments will be enhanced by where in the mix you place them. Similar tonal instruments, and ones which at a particular time in the recording, are playing notes close to each other, need pannin... |
24,759 | I often struggle with mixing a song when I have all my recordings ready to use and I get closer to the "whole song". My approach is often to take a single track and add effects such as EQs, compressors, distortions etc... Then I listen to all tracks together, make some adjustments, try to make every track present enoug... | 2014/11/04 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/24759",
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] | Making everything audible in the mix is not always possible. Elements that share frequencies will [mask](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking) each other.
The most crucial part of the mix is not actually in the mixing phase itself, but in the composition, instrumentation, and arrangement phase. Experienced co... | The missing piece in your mixing arsenal and gear is called **sidechain ducking** or **sidechain EQing**.
If you learn and know how to use these audio processors, you can take any mix with as many instruments in it and make them all heard properly.
If you still want to use the old traditional way of adjusting volume ... |
24,759 | I often struggle with mixing a song when I have all my recordings ready to use and I get closer to the "whole song". My approach is often to take a single track and add effects such as EQs, compressors, distortions etc... Then I listen to all tracks together, make some adjustments, try to make every track present enoug... | 2014/11/04 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/24759",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/6270/"
] | Making everything audible in the mix is not always possible. Elements that share frequencies will [mask](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking) each other.
The most crucial part of the mix is not actually in the mixing phase itself, but in the composition, instrumentation, and arrangement phase. Experienced co... | The best technique I've come across for making each instrument clear and audible in the overall mix is to do your mixing in mono. First, pan your instruments to where you want them in stereo because the pan law can affect the volume of the instruments. Then once you have your instruments panned to where you want them, ... |
24,759 | I often struggle with mixing a song when I have all my recordings ready to use and I get closer to the "whole song". My approach is often to take a single track and add effects such as EQs, compressors, distortions etc... Then I listen to all tracks together, make some adjustments, try to make every track present enoug... | 2014/11/04 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/24759",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/6270/"
] | The missing piece in your mixing arsenal and gear is called **sidechain ducking** or **sidechain EQing**.
If you learn and know how to use these audio processors, you can take any mix with as many instruments in it and make them all heard properly.
If you still want to use the old traditional way of adjusting volume ... | Assuming you are in stereo (JCP answers assuming you're not) because there is nothing to say you aren't, definition of some instruments will be enhanced by where in the mix you place them. Similar tonal instruments, and ones which at a particular time in the recording, are playing notes close to each other, need pannin... |
24,759 | I often struggle with mixing a song when I have all my recordings ready to use and I get closer to the "whole song". My approach is often to take a single track and add effects such as EQs, compressors, distortions etc... Then I listen to all tracks together, make some adjustments, try to make every track present enoug... | 2014/11/04 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/24759",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/6270/"
] | The best technique I've come across for making each instrument clear and audible in the overall mix is to do your mixing in mono. First, pan your instruments to where you want them in stereo because the pan law can affect the volume of the instruments. Then once you have your instruments panned to where you want them, ... | Assuming you are in stereo (JCP answers assuming you're not) because there is nothing to say you aren't, definition of some instruments will be enhanced by where in the mix you place them. Similar tonal instruments, and ones which at a particular time in the recording, are playing notes close to each other, need pannin... |
6,902,515 | I want to avoid user registration in my app, and to identity my user by purchased app.
If someone purchase app on his iPhone, and with the same Apple ID download this app on other device, I want to use the same settings and content on this devices.
**Is posible to use identifiers like AppleID (without entering in inp... | 2011/08/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6902515",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/483753/"
] | No. Apple does not give an app access to the user's Apple ID without the user's involvement. And for good reason. | I don't think you should outsmart the user. You can't assert that the user will want the same settings on another device. For instance I manage all my family iphones and download apps for them, all of them have their own accounts in apps and like different preferences. That's why it's the best to allow users to create ... |
170,715 | Don't you just hate when Euron injures your pet dragons and perforates your fleet with a ballista?
Don't worry, all you need is a shipful of Wildfire and a very long fuse (or Mehdi Sadaghdar with electric equipment) onboard. Lay back, play some music and watch the [ensuing light show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f... | 2020/03/07 | [
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] | We can deduce a few properties of the mixture from its observed behaviour:
1. **It's a hydrophobic, glutinous gel** over a wide range of temperatures. There are lots of chemicals which match this description.
2. **It's self-oxidising**. The mixture doesn't require external oxygen from the air to release energy; this i... | It seems a more potent version of gasoline. It might have a higher viscosity, and hence a slower evaporation rate, but otherwise behaves very similar.
When gasoline is enclosed and ignites, it will explode quite spectacularly. This is because only the vapours ignite, and burst the container throwing the rest of the ga... |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | I also suggest symfony.
Zend will be too much for small project.
if you are building blog, then use Drupal. | Have you tried QCodo, which does a lot automatically. |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I would personally use <http://agiletoolkit.org/> It is done in php but allows you to use one of the best frameworks i have seen to build it. They have great support and have answered all my questions.
Check out this page on just the surface of what this framework can do. <http://ui.agiletoolkit.org/> | If you insist on using a framework for this definitely go with [CodeIgniter](http://codeigniter.com/). Its lightweight [M-V-C](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller) approach really makes project like these a breeze. I build a lot of database driven administrative applications with PHP and have found CI to... |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I would personally use <http://agiletoolkit.org/> It is done in php but allows you to use one of the best frameworks i have seen to build it. They have great support and have answered all my questions.
Check out this page on just the surface of what this framework can do. <http://ui.agiletoolkit.org/> | The quickest way? Write it by hand. If there's potential for re-use, copy and paste at first, then refactor into libraries. This approach works best if you pretty much know what you're doing. Otherwise, a framework might be the answer. |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | On PHP, [Symfony](http://www.symfony-project.org/), which has admin generators, is probably what you're looking for. | Have you tried QCodo, which does a lot automatically. |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | On PHP, [Symfony](http://www.symfony-project.org/), which has admin generators, is probably what you're looking for. | The quickest way? Write it by hand. If there's potential for re-use, copy and paste at first, then refactor into libraries. This approach works best if you pretty much know what you're doing. Otherwise, a framework might be the answer. |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | On PHP, [Symfony](http://www.symfony-project.org/), which has admin generators, is probably what you're looking for. | Maybe [CodeIgniter](http://codeigniter.com/). Haven't tried it but I had this colleague (PM) at work (a Java shop) always ranting about how he could do everything faster and better if we would be using CodeIgniter. |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | On PHP, [Symfony](http://www.symfony-project.org/), which has admin generators, is probably what you're looking for. | I would personally use <http://agiletoolkit.org/> It is done in php but allows you to use one of the best frameworks i have seen to build it. They have great support and have answered all my questions.
Check out this page on just the surface of what this framework can do. <http://ui.agiletoolkit.org/> |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I would personally use <http://agiletoolkit.org/> It is done in php but allows you to use one of the best frameworks i have seen to build it. They have great support and have answered all my questions.
Check out this page on just the surface of what this framework can do. <http://ui.agiletoolkit.org/> | Have you tried QCodo, which does a lot automatically. |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I also suggest symfony.
Zend will be too much for small project.
if you are building blog, then use Drupal. | The quickest way? Write it by hand. If there's potential for re-use, copy and paste at first, then refactor into libraries. This approach works best if you pretty much know what you're doing. Otherwise, a framework might be the answer. |
628,062 | What's the quickest way to build admin interfaces in PHP?
It can be a framework, a library/libraries coupled with a particular approach, or whatever.
Background: I'm a Django developer spoiled by auto admin who has to deliver a web-app in PHP. The app is very admin-area/form heavy and has different access levels. | 2009/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/628062",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | On PHP, [Symfony](http://www.symfony-project.org/), which has admin generators, is probably what you're looking for. | If you insist on using a framework for this definitely go with [CodeIgniter](http://codeigniter.com/). Its lightweight [M-V-C](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller) approach really makes project like these a breeze. I build a lot of database driven administrative applications with PHP and have found CI to... |
1,274,065 | There were similar question like [How to secure a laptop against thieves](https://superuser.com/questions/213650/how-to-secure-a-laptop-against-thieves).
But my question is different
I have family images, documents, some personal videos, etc (aound 500 GB).
I have backups. So even if my laptop were stolen I can get... | 2017/12/04 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1274065",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/748213/"
] | Encrypt you hard disk.
On Windows you can do it using Bit Locker and on Linux there is also a native tool to encrypt the hard disk. | In addition to encrypting the hard disk (which should be the primary answer), you can also minimize exposure by relying more on resources stored elsewhere. Use cloud storage, or connect to a VPN for files stored at your workplace, rather than saving them directly on the device. A remote desktop services environment is ... |
41,225 | Wikipedia's [Sputnik 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1) and [this answer](https://space.stackexchange.com/a/18631/12102) to *Why did Sputnik 1 have four antennas?* say that Sputnik transmitted at both 20 and 40 MHz.
Why two different frequencies? Why so far apart?
It's worth noting that the ionosphere's tra... | 2020/02/04 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/41225",
"https://space.stackexchange.com",
"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/12102/"
] | Russian version of [Sputnik-1 Wikipedia article](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA-1) has the section labeled "Sounds of Sputnik" and cites the respective [technical report](http://russianspacesystems.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Otchet-o-razrabotke-bortovoy-radiostancii-pervogo-... | The following is (now apparently disproven) speculation based on some very basic radio theory rather than any particular knowledge of Sputnik 1. It should be disregarded if someone with knowledge of the actual circuits in use has better information. I did some web searching but did not find any descriptions of Sputnik ... |
58,645 | I have a story where world finds out that North Koreans have built a fusion power plant that produces 4 gigawatts of electricity (\*) and they don't reveal it's existence, for unknown reasons they don't want to boast about superiority of Juche. It's unimportant to me how they built it, what I need to know how the world... | 2016/10/15 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58645",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/28600/"
] | **By the effects on the grid**
All electricity production in NK is 224 TWh your plant will add 35 TWh more, it's impossible that nobody in the grid won't notice, if the grid could cope at all without significant improvement. You can't hide such a large producer. When one plant goes down or closes for annual refurbishm... | This is a very interesting topic even if the source of power wasn't a type of fusion but a breakthrough in coal power. North Korea has for years suffered from electrical power insufficiency. An economist or group like the IEA (International Energy Agency) would probably first suspect something is going on by seeing a s... |
58,645 | I have a story where world finds out that North Koreans have built a fusion power plant that produces 4 gigawatts of electricity (\*) and they don't reveal it's existence, for unknown reasons they don't want to boast about superiority of Juche. It's unimportant to me how they built it, what I need to know how the world... | 2016/10/15 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58645",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/28600/"
] | We figure it out by the waste helium.
Hydrogen - tritium fusion releases 4He, a neutron, and energy. 4He is ordinary, stable helium—the most common isotope, and it normally outnumbers the 2nd most common (3He) by about a million to one. There are two things that would aid detection:
1. Helium is lighter (less dense) ... | This is a very interesting topic even if the source of power wasn't a type of fusion but a breakthrough in coal power. North Korea has for years suffered from electrical power insufficiency. An economist or group like the IEA (International Energy Agency) would probably first suspect something is going on by seeing a s... |
58,645 | I have a story where world finds out that North Koreans have built a fusion power plant that produces 4 gigawatts of electricity (\*) and they don't reveal it's existence, for unknown reasons they don't want to boast about superiority of Juche. It's unimportant to me how they built it, what I need to know how the world... | 2016/10/15 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58645",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/28600/"
] | Americans have spy satellites which examine infrared radiation. The upper limit for converting energy into work is the [Carnot cycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle). The heat limit for refrigeration components from melting is at least thousand Fahrenheit, probably. So at the very least, 5% of all heat will... | This is a very interesting topic even if the source of power wasn't a type of fusion but a breakthrough in coal power. North Korea has for years suffered from electrical power insufficiency. An economist or group like the IEA (International Energy Agency) would probably first suspect something is going on by seeing a s... |
74,831 | This has been asked and answered before, but the answers are for the old interface (predating Google Drive), so I'm asking again.
I have about a hundred docs in my Google Docs view, most of which are junk -- they were apparently shared by some other user, and I really don't want them. The only way I can see to remove ... | 2015/03/10 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/74831",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/89163/"
] | Unfortunately you cannot multi-select files from Docs (or Sheets or Slides) and delete them all at the same time. This kind of file management can only be done from Drive, but it sounds like you're having issues with that.
1. Here are some steps to [find missing files in Drive](https://support.google.com/drive/answer/... | You can highlight multiple docs at once using "command" + left click on Mac. I believe that correspond to "control" on PC.
This will highlight multiple docs at once, and then you can click the trashcan which will delete all the selected files. |
74,831 | This has been asked and answered before, but the answers are for the old interface (predating Google Drive), so I'm asking again.
I have about a hundred docs in my Google Docs view, most of which are junk -- they were apparently shared by some other user, and I really don't want them. The only way I can see to remove ... | 2015/03/10 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/74831",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/89163/"
] | Short anwser
============
Google Docs (<http://docs.google.com>) doesn't have a way to delete several files at once. Instead of using it for that use Google Drive web UI, Google Drive for PC/Mac or another tool that use the Google Drive API or Google Apps Script.
Explanation
===========
Operations in the new Google ... | You can highlight multiple docs at once using "command" + left click on Mac. I believe that correspond to "control" on PC.
This will highlight multiple docs at once, and then you can click the trashcan which will delete all the selected files. |
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