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178,546 | So far any search for Pogoplug security risk does not bring up anything alarming. Just wondering if anyone else has run across any mention of security issues with this device. | 2010/08/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/178546",
"https://superuser.com",
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] | Let's go down the stack and look at every aspect of its security.
* **Remote Computer**: very easily compromised on an untrustworthy computer via a keylogger, so if you either a) only access your Pogoplug from your (trustworthy) computers, b) change your password often (i.e., at least once every 6 weeks), or c) use th... | The pogoplug essentially makes a connection to the manufacturer's server and provides content through it, at least in part. In my book that is a security concern, but for most people it is no more a threat than posting your pictures on facebook and only letting your friends see them is.
You're trusting the manufactur... |
65,475 | Find Familiar lets you cast touch spells through your familiar. Warding Bond is a Touch spell, that creates a connection between "you and the target". I can't find anything against it, but would it be possible to have my Wizard make his familiar cast Warding Bond on the Wizard himself, so that the Wizard gets the +1 to... | 2015/07/30 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/65475",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/17884/"
] | So to start with, it's worth pointing out that you can cast *Warding Bond* on yourself. Touch range spells are described as:
>
> Some spells can target only a creature (including you) that you touch.
>
>
>
Further, under the Targeting Yourself section, it says:
>
> If a spell targets a creature of your choice, ... | Short Answer
============
* **If** you can cast Warding Bond on yourself, via touch, then **Yes**, your familiar can do it.
* **If** you can't cast Warding Bond on yourself, via touch, then **No**, your familiar cannot do it.
The embedded question required to answer the question posed is:
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13,864 | I always hear a lot about The Rule of Thirds. I'd like to know more about other 'tried-and-true' composition techniques (not special effects) that can make a photo more interesting.
In particular, I'd especially like to know:
* The name of the technique
* Any particular types of settings the technique is particulary ... | 2011/07/09 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/13864",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/5867/"
] | While this isn't a duplicate, this can essentially be answered by linking to a few questions we've collected regarding other composition techniques (thanks largely to @JayLancePhotography!):
* [Bakker's Saddle](https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/11450/what-is-bakkers-saddle)
* [Rule of Odds](https://photo.stack... | Apart from rules of thumb like the rule of thirds, there are mand general compositional principles which are generally the same in all art forms, things such as balance, space, pattern, texture, lines and shapes, light and shadow.
Very common compositional techniques in photography that I can think of
* leading lines... |
13,864 | I always hear a lot about The Rule of Thirds. I'd like to know more about other 'tried-and-true' composition techniques (not special effects) that can make a photo more interesting.
In particular, I'd especially like to know:
* The name of the technique
* Any particular types of settings the technique is particulary ... | 2011/07/09 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/13864",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/5867/"
] | While this isn't a duplicate, this can essentially be answered by linking to a few questions we've collected regarding other composition techniques (thanks largely to @JayLancePhotography!):
* [Bakker's Saddle](https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/11450/what-is-bakkers-saddle)
* [Rule of Odds](https://photo.stack... | For interesting ways to break a rule, learn why the rule works and break it when you want to achieve opposite effect. For example, break the [rule of odds](https://photo.stackexchange.com/q/11475/4390) when you want to stress symmetry and dullness of a scene. |
13,864 | I always hear a lot about The Rule of Thirds. I'd like to know more about other 'tried-and-true' composition techniques (not special effects) that can make a photo more interesting.
In particular, I'd especially like to know:
* The name of the technique
* Any particular types of settings the technique is particulary ... | 2011/07/09 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/13864",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/5867/"
] | Apart from rules of thumb like the rule of thirds, there are mand general compositional principles which are generally the same in all art forms, things such as balance, space, pattern, texture, lines and shapes, light and shadow.
Very common compositional techniques in photography that I can think of
* leading lines... | For interesting ways to break a rule, learn why the rule works and break it when you want to achieve opposite effect. For example, break the [rule of odds](https://photo.stackexchange.com/q/11475/4390) when you want to stress symmetry and dullness of a scene. |
46,659 | [This question](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/why-am-i-getting-welcome-to-stack-overflow-visit-your-user-page-to-set-your-nam) was just migrated from SO, and it brought the restricted `[faq]` tag with it. Now no one but a moderator can remove this tag.
Restricted tags\* should be stripped from the que... | 2010/04/14 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/46659",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/132636/"
] | Great suggestion - no need to overwhelm the mods :)
This will be deployed either tonight or in tomorrow's push. | How about letting Community user drop all the moderator-only tags and add `support` tag as new revision, once a question is migrated to meta. |
73,175 | There are two different stories of how King Arthur received his sword, Excalibur. The first is that he pulled it out of an anvil or stone slab (and by doing so confirmed that he was the rightful king of the land). The second is that he received it from the Lady of the Lake (and that he had to return it to her before he... | 2014/11/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73175",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The Excalibur problem is that, over time, people have combined two different Arthurian swords into a single blade. This is a serious pet-peeve of mine.
* **Sword # 1:** "Clarent", the sword in the stone. It was used in Ceremonies (e.g. the dubbing of knights). This sword designates Arthur as being rightful heir of Uth... | The short version is that both of those swords are Excalibur. *Le Morte D'Artur* is, to be blunt, incredibly self-contradictory in places. Malory took a number of existing stories and collected them without always concerning himself with conflicts between them.
[From Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur)
... |
73,175 | There are two different stories of how King Arthur received his sword, Excalibur. The first is that he pulled it out of an anvil or stone slab (and by doing so confirmed that he was the rightful king of the land). The second is that he received it from the Lady of the Lake (and that he had to return it to her before he... | 2014/11/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73175",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The short version is that both of those swords are Excalibur. *Le Morte D'Artur* is, to be blunt, incredibly self-contradictory in places. Malory took a number of existing stories and collected them without always concerning himself with conflicts between them.
[From Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur)
... | Caliburn was the sword in the stone, but was broken by Clarent during the battle between Arthur and his illegitimate son Mordred. Excalibur was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake in order to defeat Mordred, and it became Arthur's second sword while Caliburn was said to not only declare the one true king of England... |
73,175 | There are two different stories of how King Arthur received his sword, Excalibur. The first is that he pulled it out of an anvil or stone slab (and by doing so confirmed that he was the rightful king of the land). The second is that he received it from the Lady of the Lake (and that he had to return it to her before he... | 2014/11/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73175",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The Excalibur problem is that, over time, people have combined two different Arthurian swords into a single blade. This is a serious pet-peeve of mine.
* **Sword # 1:** "Clarent", the sword in the stone. It was used in Ceremonies (e.g. the dubbing of knights). This sword designates Arthur as being rightful heir of Uth... | Caliburn was the sword in the stone, but was broken by Clarent during the battle between Arthur and his illegitimate son Mordred. Excalibur was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake in order to defeat Mordred, and it became Arthur's second sword while Caliburn was said to not only declare the one true king of England... |
10,067 | For bikes like [these](http://www.herocycles.com/images/octane-recra.jpg), why aren't the rear shocks (the shocks are directly above the pedal) vertical like those of a motorcycle? I don't see how the bike can take shocks when the shock absorber is at such a low angle.
A friend said the mud-guard is so high because t... | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/10067",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/4393/"
] | From my understanding, one of the major features for bicycle suspension is vertical travel. This is to increase pedal efficiency and rear wheel feel. This is why you see engineers jump through hoops when designing rear suspension for bicycles. For example, take a look at the [Pivot Mach 429](http://www.29eronline.com/w... | What's above the rear wheel for vertical shocks to mount to?
It's pretty clear from the provided picture that the fulcrum for the rear wheel is near the bottom bracket. An upward force against the rear wheel will cause it to lift, reducing the distance between it and the mount point of the shock, allowing the shock to... |
10,067 | For bikes like [these](http://www.herocycles.com/images/octane-recra.jpg), why aren't the rear shocks (the shocks are directly above the pedal) vertical like those of a motorcycle? I don't see how the bike can take shocks when the shock absorber is at such a low angle.
A friend said the mud-guard is so high because t... | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/10067",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | What's above the rear wheel for vertical shocks to mount to?
It's pretty clear from the provided picture that the fulcrum for the rear wheel is near the bottom bracket. An upward force against the rear wheel will cause it to lift, reducing the distance between it and the mount point of the shock, allowing the shock to... | The rear wheel is attached to stays that connect to a pivot point. As long as when the rear wheel moves upwards, the wheel and stays all rotate around the pivot to compress (or stretch, depending on shock type) the shock, then the rear suspension should work fine.
Take a look at this bike, the shock is vertical. But, ... |
10,067 | For bikes like [these](http://www.herocycles.com/images/octane-recra.jpg), why aren't the rear shocks (the shocks are directly above the pedal) vertical like those of a motorcycle? I don't see how the bike can take shocks when the shock absorber is at such a low angle.
A friend said the mud-guard is so high because t... | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/10067",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | From my understanding, one of the major features for bicycle suspension is vertical travel. This is to increase pedal efficiency and rear wheel feel. This is why you see engineers jump through hoops when designing rear suspension for bicycles. For example, take a look at the [Pivot Mach 429](http://www.29eronline.com/w... | The fender or "mud guard" is so high because if it was much lower the tire would be banging into it whenever the shock compressed. |
10,067 | For bikes like [these](http://www.herocycles.com/images/octane-recra.jpg), why aren't the rear shocks (the shocks are directly above the pedal) vertical like those of a motorcycle? I don't see how the bike can take shocks when the shock absorber is at such a low angle.
A friend said the mud-guard is so high because t... | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/10067",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/4393/"
] | From my understanding, one of the major features for bicycle suspension is vertical travel. This is to increase pedal efficiency and rear wheel feel. This is why you see engineers jump through hoops when designing rear suspension for bicycles. For example, take a look at the [Pivot Mach 429](http://www.29eronline.com/w... | The rear wheel is attached to stays that connect to a pivot point. As long as when the rear wheel moves upwards, the wheel and stays all rotate around the pivot to compress (or stretch, depending on shock type) the shock, then the rear suspension should work fine.
Take a look at this bike, the shock is vertical. But, ... |
10,067 | For bikes like [these](http://www.herocycles.com/images/octane-recra.jpg), why aren't the rear shocks (the shocks are directly above the pedal) vertical like those of a motorcycle? I don't see how the bike can take shocks when the shock absorber is at such a low angle.
A friend said the mud-guard is so high because t... | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/10067",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | The fender or "mud guard" is so high because if it was much lower the tire would be banging into it whenever the shock compressed. | The rear wheel is attached to stays that connect to a pivot point. As long as when the rear wheel moves upwards, the wheel and stays all rotate around the pivot to compress (or stretch, depending on shock type) the shock, then the rear suspension should work fine.
Take a look at this bike, the shock is vertical. But, ... |
8,450,027 | I have a C app (VStudio 2010, win7 64bit) running on a machine with dual xeon chips, meaning 12 physical and 24 logical cores, and 192 gig of ram.
EDIT: THE OS is win7 (ie, Windows 7, 64 bit).
The app has 24 threads (each thread has its own logical core) doing calculations and filling up a different part of a massive... | 2011/12/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8450027",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/994179/"
] | It is hard to judge the best thing for your situation.
The first optimization to make is to preallocate the file. That way your file system does not need to keep extending its size. That should optimize some disk operations. However, avoid writing actual zeros to disk. Just set the length.
Then you have choices betwe... | mmap(), or [boost mmap](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/mapped_file.html) is almost always the best approach. The OS is smarter than you, let it worry about what to cache!
You didn't say what OS, but on Linux the [madvise](http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Memory_002dmapped-I_002fO... |
359,448 | I need to place a Wifi surveillance camera near the entrance of my house where no power outlet is in that area.
I pulled a wire wrapping wire (awg 30) to the target location without thinking about wire resistance. And as you all expected, it didn't able to power the webcam.
The power the camera uses is 5V @ 1A.
I m... | 2018/03/03 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/359448",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/179935/"
] | If you really need to know, you should look into simulation.
You should also edit your question to include the signaling speed or edge rate of the signals.
But I think there is a good chance you will get away with it. Diff pairs primarily couple to the adjacent plane. They don't couple edge-wise to each other very mu... | If that region of discontinuityis << wavelength, then you are OK.
If your edges are 1nanosecond Trise, Tfall, and that region of bad Z\_diff is 50 picoseconds ( < 5% of the edge time) you will be OK.
And even the edge gets upset, the DATA EYE is what is important. 100pS upset in a 5nanosecond-long data-eye will be fi... |
5,479,106 | OK, so I thought I was solving a problem and I created an even bigger one. I was trying to get rid of a lingering reference to `MySql` and deleted a bunch of files from the Temporary ASP.NET files directory. Now, when I try to run the ASP.NET configuration tool I get this, reprinted in its full glory:
>
> System.Inva... | 2011/03/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5479106",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/83678/"
] | To answer my own question...
I wound up changing the Apache file /etc/apache/sites-available/default from AllowOverRide = None to AllowOverRide = All. | have you also tried
RewriteBase /
or RewriteBase /simple/
or along those lines?
in my dealings on servers i've used, i've never had to put the domain into the rewrite base. Just the folders |
150,327 | A lot of universities are expecting not to be able to run in-person exams for at least part of the 2020/21 academic year. I believe, for example, that no UK universities is currently planning to hold in-person exams this coming January. I can see how other forms of assessment might be possible for some subjects. But I ... | 2020/06/10 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/150327",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/37765/"
] | Here are some examples of how it is done at the University of Copenhagen for the two courses that I have exams in next week.
One course has a written exam: We are given a problem sheet that we write up a solution to and submit to an online portal after a time limit of four hours. We are allowed to use the internet and... | It's not possible to give a universal answer, of course, as that depends on many factors: how many people are available to grade, how many students need to pass the course (solutions that work for 20 students may not work for 200), what technological solutions are available… In our department somewhere in France, the s... |
164,128 | Would you be kind enough to explain the nuance between "pitiful" and "pitiable"? My Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary shows two similar meanings for the aforementioned words.
1. deserving pity or causing you to feel pity.
2. not deserving respect
I am confused as to why there are two different adjectives with almo... | 2014/04/16 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/164128",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/70234/"
] | I'd say that pitiful might be either of those two definitions (you use context to know which is being used), but pitiable is only the first.
A coach might tell his team "Your guys on defense were pitiful today". He's telling them that they did a bad job. But you would never use pitiable there. | I would distinguish them as
**Pitiable** is something evocative of pity or sympathy, but not necessarily in a bad condition
**Pitiful** is something deserving of pity, and disadvantaged in some way
Consider a cute kitten giving an imploring look in a picture - she is **pitiable** and you mentally go 'aww, what a cu... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/8807/"
] | Stop Making Excuses
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> "I have six [to] eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise."
>
>
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Either you have a serious medical issue or I call bullshit. I bet the reason you're not getting results i... | >
> A 22 year old man who is out lifted by small teenagers who barely
> workout ... I am a shame of a man and person overall.
>
>
>
With that attitude, what you are experiencing is not that strange. When thoughts of that kind manifest in your mind, notice that they don't serve you, and are not even logical (why w... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/8807/"
] | If exercise really would not work then your muscles should have wasted away by now and you would not be able to get out of bed. Astronauts who stay on board the ISS for more than a few weeks have to work very hard to compensate for not having to carry their body weights all day long.
So, your muscles are able to repai... | I have had a problem with the confidence and energy(visible as enthusiasm) which allow me to exercise and feel good until recently and I believe it was diet and sleep related. Because it sounds as though confidence and enthusiasm are likely a large part of your problem, I suggest getting at least 30 grams of protein (e... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/8807/"
] | Genetically engineering your muscles? Not in the next decade or two.
Steroids without exercise? No. Steroids increase the protein available to cells, which effectively allows you to work your muscles harder so they grow more.
>
> A 22 year old man who is out lifted by small teenagers who barely workout ... I am a sha... | If exercise really would not work then your muscles should have wasted away by now and you would not be able to get out of bed. Astronauts who stay on board the ISS for more than a few weeks have to work very hard to compensate for not having to carry their body weights all day long.
So, your muscles are able to repai... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/8807/"
] | Disregarding the fact that I agree with Dave Liepmann (either you are not training properly or you have a medical condition inhibiting your performance), I will give you a constructive answer. There is one thing you can do to increase strength without training. It is something that elite athletes use, and is one of the... | It can be a medical condition like growth hormone deficiency or testosteron deficiency, which you probably won't be able to get confirmed by a normal doctor.
Also the mental problems you have with it, feeling unworthy etc, can also stem from there, so balancing your body hormones would be a good first start. (assuming... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/8807/"
] | Genetically engineering your muscles? Not in the next decade or two.
Steroids without exercise? No. Steroids increase the protein available to cells, which effectively allows you to work your muscles harder so they grow more.
>
> A 22 year old man who is out lifted by small teenagers who barely workout ... I am a sha... | I have had a problem with the confidence and energy(visible as enthusiasm) which allow me to exercise and feel good until recently and I believe it was diet and sleep related. Because it sounds as though confidence and enthusiasm are likely a large part of your problem, I suggest getting at least 30 grams of protein (e... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/8807/"
] | Stop Making Excuses
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>
> "I have six [to] eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise."
>
>
>
Either you have a serious medical issue or I call bullshit. I bet the reason you're not getting results i... | Disregarding the fact that I agree with Dave Liepmann (either you are not training properly or you have a medical condition inhibiting your performance), I will give you a constructive answer. There is one thing you can do to increase strength without training. It is something that elite athletes use, and is one of the... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/8807/"
] | Disregarding the fact that I agree with Dave Liepmann (either you are not training properly or you have a medical condition inhibiting your performance), I will give you a constructive answer. There is one thing you can do to increase strength without training. It is something that elite athletes use, and is one of the... | If exercise really would not work then your muscles should have wasted away by now and you would not be able to get out of bed. Astronauts who stay on board the ISS for more than a few weeks have to work very hard to compensate for not having to carry their body weights all day long.
So, your muscles are able to repai... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/8807/"
] | Stop Making Excuses
-------------------
>
> "I have six [to] eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise."
>
>
>
Either you have a serious medical issue or I call bullshit. I bet the reason you're not getting results i... | If exercise really would not work then your muscles should have wasted away by now and you would not be able to get out of bed. Astronauts who stay on board the ISS for more than a few weeks have to work very hard to compensate for not having to carry their body weights all day long.
So, your muscles are able to repai... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/16723",
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] | Disregarding the fact that I agree with Dave Liepmann (either you are not training properly or you have a medical condition inhibiting your performance), I will give you a constructive answer. There is one thing you can do to increase strength without training. It is something that elite athletes use, and is one of the... | I have had a problem with the confidence and energy(visible as enthusiasm) which allow me to exercise and feel good until recently and I believe it was diet and sleep related. Because it sounds as though confidence and enthusiasm are likely a large part of your problem, I suggest getting at least 30 grams of protein (e... |
16,723 | So I have six eight years of trial-and-error evidence to show that I am incapable of building strength to any measurable degree from any form of exercise. I do not show results and I have become tired of working out for no reason. I have put it all to an end and I am seeking alternative ways to build strength. One pers... | 2014/06/05 | [
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] | Disregarding the fact that I agree with Dave Liepmann (either you are not training properly or you have a medical condition inhibiting your performance), I will give you a constructive answer. There is one thing you can do to increase strength without training. It is something that elite athletes use, and is one of the... | >
> A 22 year old man who is out lifted by small teenagers who barely
> workout ... I am a shame of a man and person overall.
>
>
>
With that attitude, what you are experiencing is not that strange. When thoughts of that kind manifest in your mind, notice that they don't serve you, and are not even logical (why w... |
17,028 | I have a Canon 550D which I've been using for around a year now. I really love it and have learned a great deal with this and the 18 - 135mm kit lens. But now with experience I feel the need to get some better glass. I won't be buying a new body any time soon because I figure investing in some good glass is more import... | 2011/11/08 | [
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] | The lineup of Canon crop (EF-S) lenses is not nearly as broad as the full-frame (EF) lenses.
* In the focal length of interest, some EF options give better image quality than the respective EF-S options.
* Additionally, some EF lenses offer features that are not available for EF-S lenses, such as weather sealing and s... | Short form:
In general it is wise then, and only then, when you seriously consider moving to a full frame body later.
If you don't then it is just a case-by-case decistion, as yours obviously is. You are thinking of a number of specific lens for now.
Then, when the choice is just beween an EF lens and an EF-S cons... |
17,028 | I have a Canon 550D which I've been using for around a year now. I really love it and have learned a great deal with this and the 18 - 135mm kit lens. But now with experience I feel the need to get some better glass. I won't be buying a new body any time soon because I figure investing in some good glass is more import... | 2011/11/08 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/17028",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1924/"
] | The lineup of Canon crop (EF-S) lenses is not nearly as broad as the full-frame (EF) lenses.
* In the focal length of interest, some EF options give better image quality than the respective EF-S options.
* Additionally, some EF lenses offer features that are not available for EF-S lenses, such as weather sealing and s... | As usual: it depends
* In terms of image quality, it's definitely wise as only the best part of the lens will be used (the center) by your camera. Lenses are usually sharper near the center and you will notice less vignetting.
* the downside is, EF lenses are usually more expensive than equivalent EF-S lenses.
* on th... |
17,028 | I have a Canon 550D which I've been using for around a year now. I really love it and have learned a great deal with this and the 18 - 135mm kit lens. But now with experience I feel the need to get some better glass. I won't be buying a new body any time soon because I figure investing in some good glass is more import... | 2011/11/08 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/17028",
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] | I bought a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L lens for my Canon 450D crop sensor body before I had purchased the full-frame Canon 5DMKII. By going this route, I had time to learn my lens on a crop body well before I could afford the full frame of the 5D. I even borrowed and used 70-200mm f/2.8 L lenses on the 450D body, which gave ... | Short form:
In general it is wise then, and only then, when you seriously consider moving to a full frame body later.
If you don't then it is just a case-by-case decistion, as yours obviously is. You are thinking of a number of specific lens for now.
Then, when the choice is just beween an EF lens and an EF-S cons... |
17,028 | I have a Canon 550D which I've been using for around a year now. I really love it and have learned a great deal with this and the 18 - 135mm kit lens. But now with experience I feel the need to get some better glass. I won't be buying a new body any time soon because I figure investing in some good glass is more import... | 2011/11/08 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/17028",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1924/"
] | If you have the money, go with the full frame option. The basic reasoning that I would have for that is simple: lenses will stay with you longer than the camera body. That's the nutshell answer.
Longer answer is that today you have a 550D and you're learning. Stay with that camera while you're doing that, until you fe... | Short form:
In general it is wise then, and only then, when you seriously consider moving to a full frame body later.
If you don't then it is just a case-by-case decistion, as yours obviously is. You are thinking of a number of specific lens for now.
Then, when the choice is just beween an EF lens and an EF-S cons... |
17,028 | I have a Canon 550D which I've been using for around a year now. I really love it and have learned a great deal with this and the 18 - 135mm kit lens. But now with experience I feel the need to get some better glass. I won't be buying a new body any time soon because I figure investing in some good glass is more import... | 2011/11/08 | [
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] | I am going to keep it simple.
1. Many people do it. In fact, I have seen most people using APS-C camera with a mix of EF-S and EF lenses, and less people use **only** EF-S lenses.
2. Expensive lenses offers **excellent** image quality with the trade-off of being expensive, inflexible (usually a narrow zoom range, may ... | There are a few factors to consider here. Firstly the EF L range lenses are considerably better build quality than typical EF-S lenses and the optical quality tends to be much higher too. On a crop sensor the 70-200 f4 L is outstanding. You do however have to remember when choosing EF lenses to apply the crop factor to... |
17,028 | I have a Canon 550D which I've been using for around a year now. I really love it and have learned a great deal with this and the 18 - 135mm kit lens. But now with experience I feel the need to get some better glass. I won't be buying a new body any time soon because I figure investing in some good glass is more import... | 2011/11/08 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/17028",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1924/"
] | The lineup of Canon crop (EF-S) lenses is not nearly as broad as the full-frame (EF) lenses.
* In the focal length of interest, some EF options give better image quality than the respective EF-S options.
* Additionally, some EF lenses offer features that are not available for EF-S lenses, such as weather sealing and s... | I am going to keep it simple.
1. Many people do it. In fact, I have seen most people using APS-C camera with a mix of EF-S and EF lenses, and less people use **only** EF-S lenses.
2. Expensive lenses offers **excellent** image quality with the trade-off of being expensive, inflexible (usually a narrow zoom range, may ... |
17,028 | I have a Canon 550D which I've been using for around a year now. I really love it and have learned a great deal with this and the 18 - 135mm kit lens. But now with experience I feel the need to get some better glass. I won't be buying a new body any time soon because I figure investing in some good glass is more import... | 2011/11/08 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/17028",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1924/"
] | There are a few factors to consider here. Firstly the EF L range lenses are considerably better build quality than typical EF-S lenses and the optical quality tends to be much higher too. On a crop sensor the 70-200 f4 L is outstanding. You do however have to remember when choosing EF lenses to apply the crop factor to... | Short form:
In general it is wise then, and only then, when you seriously consider moving to a full frame body later.
If you don't then it is just a case-by-case decistion, as yours obviously is. You are thinking of a number of specific lens for now.
Then, when the choice is just beween an EF lens and an EF-S cons... |
81,413 | I was wondering if tension on both ends of a rope is still the same, even if there is objects with different weights on both sides of the rope. | 2013/10/20 | [
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] | I'm assuming there is a pulley involved which allows the tension from both objects to be in the same direction (i.e towards the source of gravity).
Taking this to be the case, yes, the tension in the rope is constant. However, the entire system will... | They can be different at certain circumstances. For example, in a pulley problem if we assume that the pulley and the rope is massless then the tension is same.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g3g5g.jpg)
But if we consider them to have considerable mass then we can ... |
13,357,583 | Which Platforms are supported for the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK? Can I run the SDK on an IBM Domino/XWork server? | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13357583",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1167759/"
] | The following platforms are supported:
* WebSphere Application Server 7
* WebSphere Portal 8
* Domino Server 8.5
* Tomcat 7
So yes, you can use the SDK on an IBM Domino/XWork Server. | The SDK should work with minimal amount of work on any J2EE server.
The WebSphere Application Server, Portal 8, Domino 8.5, Tomcat 7 are the tested versions. |
2,921,389 | I am creating a doc file and writing a text containing ^m in it and facing issue. Does this ^m is a special character for doc file ? If I replace ^m with some other characters (like ^m with >m or any other) then It works fine. I faced this issue with other characters too like ^a and few other. What could be the solutio... | 2010/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2921389",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/276279/"
] | ^M -- as in: Control-M -- is often used to type a 'carriage return' character (ASCII-code 13 in decimal, 0D in hex). | It could be that it is evaluated as an logical expression. Try to escape it either prepending ' before it, or \ . |
336,838 | I was just wondering, what's the difference between these file formats? Shouldn't there be just one or two that generally tend to perform superior to most others? | 2011/09/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/336838",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/97637/"
] | If its linux based, .tar.gz or .tar.bz - otherwise known as your humble tarball. In windows, .zip - natively supported since windows XP. You also often encounter .rar (especially with files from slightly dubious sources) and .7z (windows/open source software most often).
If you want to be ABSOLUTELY sure your file wil... | I prefer compressing my data using \*.rar with WinRAR as it is completely customizable. I use it because I can choose how much I want to compress it and I can set passwords to protect my archive. If I'm doing something involving disk images, I'll compress to \*.iso or \*.daa using PowerISO.
Whenever I'm not on one of... |
21,376,200 | I am using open cv and C++. I have 2 face images which contain marker points on them. I have already found the coordinates of the marker points. Now I need to align those 2 face images based on those coordinates. The 2 images may not be necessarily of the same height, that is why I can't figure out how to start alignin... | 2014/01/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21376200",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3217694/"
] | In your case, you cannot apply the homography based alignment procedure. Why not? Because it does not fit in this use case. It was designed to align flat surfaces. Faces (3D objects) with markers at different places and depths are clearly no planar surface.
Instead, you can:
1. try to match the markers between images... | Define "align".
Or rather, notice that there does not exist a unique warp of the face-side image that matches the overlapping parts of the frontal one - meaning that there are infinite such warps.
So you need to better specify what your goal is, and what extra information you have, in addition to the images and a fe... |
65,987 | A few days back, I went for a riverside shoot with my Nikon D5300. Unfortunately, moderate rain soon started. I noticed a few photographers, probably with professional grade cameras, were daring enough to shoot the landscape in such weather. The scenic beauty around at that moment was mesmerizing, but I missed capturin... | 2015/08/02 | [
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] | The D5300 is an entry-level DSLR and is not weatherproof at all. As most cameras, it will handle a few drops of water or snow but you should not let it get wet.
Weatherproof DSLRs and mirrorless exist and they will be able to stand up to strong rain without issues as long as a weatherproof lens is also attached. All c... | Not sure if it is or not but I took my D5300 up Snowdon while it was raining and hailing, camera got drenched but it is still in good condition |
65,987 | A few days back, I went for a riverside shoot with my Nikon D5300. Unfortunately, moderate rain soon started. I noticed a few photographers, probably with professional grade cameras, were daring enough to shoot the landscape in such weather. The scenic beauty around at that moment was mesmerizing, but I missed capturin... | 2015/08/02 | [
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] | The D5300 is an entry-level DSLR and is not weatherproof at all. As most cameras, it will handle a few drops of water or snow but you should not let it get wet.
Weatherproof DSLRs and mirrorless exist and they will be able to stand up to strong rain without issues as long as a weatherproof lens is also attached. All c... | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n87kB.jpg)
Above, you see frost on my camera. It is okay to use your camera in moderate rain and just dry off the camera well before the next use. |
65,987 | A few days back, I went for a riverside shoot with my Nikon D5300. Unfortunately, moderate rain soon started. I noticed a few photographers, probably with professional grade cameras, were daring enough to shoot the landscape in such weather. The scenic beauty around at that moment was mesmerizing, but I missed capturin... | 2015/08/02 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/65987",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/39813/"
] | The D5300 is an entry-level DSLR and is not weatherproof at all. As most cameras, it will handle a few drops of water or snow but you should not let it get wet.
Weatherproof DSLRs and mirrorless exist and they will be able to stand up to strong rain without issues as long as a weatherproof lens is also attached. All c... | The most authentic information available for the D5300 is the official manual. Here is the link:
<http://download.nikonimglib.com/archive2/BTcII00t9KUv024jW9c13oRqeg68/D5300VRRM_(En)02.pdf>
Specifically, in the "Caring for the Camera" section, there are several important indicators as to how weatherproof your camera ... |
65,987 | A few days back, I went for a riverside shoot with my Nikon D5300. Unfortunately, moderate rain soon started. I noticed a few photographers, probably with professional grade cameras, were daring enough to shoot the landscape in such weather. The scenic beauty around at that moment was mesmerizing, but I missed capturin... | 2015/08/02 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/65987",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/39813/"
] | Not sure if it is or not but I took my D5300 up Snowdon while it was raining and hailing, camera got drenched but it is still in good condition | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n87kB.jpg)
Above, you see frost on my camera. It is okay to use your camera in moderate rain and just dry off the camera well before the next use. |
65,987 | A few days back, I went for a riverside shoot with my Nikon D5300. Unfortunately, moderate rain soon started. I noticed a few photographers, probably with professional grade cameras, were daring enough to shoot the landscape in such weather. The scenic beauty around at that moment was mesmerizing, but I missed capturin... | 2015/08/02 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/65987",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/39813/"
] | The most authentic information available for the D5300 is the official manual. Here is the link:
<http://download.nikonimglib.com/archive2/BTcII00t9KUv024jW9c13oRqeg68/D5300VRRM_(En)02.pdf>
Specifically, in the "Caring for the Camera" section, there are several important indicators as to how weatherproof your camera ... | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n87kB.jpg)
Above, you see frost on my camera. It is okay to use your camera in moderate rain and just dry off the camera well before the next use. |
396,799 | I am trying to set up a part of our network as a linux cluster. Since its a little educational for me, I choose using MAAS with JuJu. However there are some questions that boggle my mind and I was hoping that someone could clarify that for me.
The linux cluster I'm about to set up consists of 10 machines. Half of it D... | 2013/12/28 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/396799",
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] | Maybe if you let install of [Juju GUI](https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/howto-gui-management.html) to provide adequately more what type of network balancing you need then you could find your answer faster.
[**Using Juju with GUI**](https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/howto-gui-management.html)
This advanced guides very close t... | Meanwhile I have a better understanding of how networking is arranged in maas and its pretty cool. So to answer my own question:
I recommend against separating IPMI and PXE traffic. Its more efficient to just share the RAC traffic on eth0. All server can boot PXE default on eth0 too.
Besides, you don't need an extra... |
1,651 | I flagged many, but not all, of the comments on [this question](https://law.stackexchange.com/q/86530/46948) and [associated answer](https://law.stackexchange.com/a/86532/46948) as not needed/conversational. The flags were declined.
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My flag on this comment also got rejected:
>
> I once ran a pair of blue jeans through the cycles through which a
> washing machine puts them and then found that I had left three
> twenty-dollar bills in one of the pockets. That is my only experience
> of money lau... | Handling of comments is increasingly arbitrary on LawSE, but users can help by being more reasonable and exercising some self-restraint when it comes to flagging. As [feetwet said very politely](https://law.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1651/comments-that-are-conversational#comment3911_1651): Please err on the side ... |
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93,224 | >
> Use spaces liberally throughout your code. “When in doubt, space it out.”
>
>
>
In the above sentence, what does "space it out" mean?
Source: <https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/coding-standards/javascript/#spacing> | 2016/06/09 | [
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>
> space it out
>
>
>
means to add spaces (or whitespaces) to make the code easier for humans to read.
Consider the difference between
>
> def myMethod(a,b,c)if(a==b)t=0;elseif(b==c)t=a;else t=c;end;return t;end
>
>
>
and
>
> def myMethod(a,b,c)
>
> if(a==b)
>
> t=0; ... | The construction
>
> (verb) + **it out**
>
>
>
can be used to emphasize a verb in the sense to do that verb more, to do it until its maximum capacity, or to do it completely.
So your example means
>
> use more spaces
>
>
>
In other words, it means exactly what the first part says
>
> Use spaces liberall... |
275,274 | There is a challenge involving a lemon floating in a jug of water which seems impossible to beat. I've noticed it in several pubs of Edinburgh.
The challenge is as follows:
* There is a jug half filled with water.
* Floating in the water, there's a lemon. The lemon doesn't touch either the bottom nor the edges of the... | 2016/08/19 | [
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] | We assume the lemon is rigid, which is reasonably accurate for these small forces.
Stability in buoyancy requires a small rotation to create a net restoring torque. This is conceptualized as the [metacenter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacentric_height), which is the "average" point the water pushes upward on. For... | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IKbME.jpg)
The real answer is a trick. Sorry
Take a **heavier** coin and squeeze it in sideways underneath, so it's now a lemon with the centre of gravity at the bottom, like the keel on a sailboat.
As long as the top co... |
275,274 | There is a challenge involving a lemon floating in a jug of water which seems impossible to beat. I've noticed it in several pubs of Edinburgh.
The challenge is as follows:
* There is a jug half filled with water.
* Floating in the water, there's a lemon. The lemon doesn't touch either the bottom nor the edges of the... | 2016/08/19 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/275274",
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] | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IKbME.jpg)
The real answer is a trick. Sorry
Take a **heavier** coin and squeeze it in sideways underneath, so it's now a lemon with the centre of gravity at the bottom, like the keel on a sailboat.
As long as the top co... | I don't happen to have a lemon at the moment. But here's what I would try. I would try to place the coin so that it's position is as close as possible to the water plane. So then near either tip of the lemon rather than the center. My guess is the lemon is somewhat more stable in pitch than in roll, so it may not pitch... |
275,274 | There is a challenge involving a lemon floating in a jug of water which seems impossible to beat. I've noticed it in several pubs of Edinburgh.
The challenge is as follows:
* There is a jug half filled with water.
* Floating in the water, there's a lemon. The lemon doesn't touch either the bottom nor the edges of the... | 2016/08/19 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/275274",
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] | We assume the lemon is rigid, which is reasonably accurate for these small forces.
Stability in buoyancy requires a small rotation to create a net restoring torque. This is conceptualized as the [metacenter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacentric_height), which is the "average" point the water pushes upward on. For... | I don't happen to have a lemon at the moment. But here's what I would try. I would try to place the coin so that it's position is as close as possible to the water plane. So then near either tip of the lemon rather than the center. My guess is the lemon is somewhat more stable in pitch than in roll, so it may not pitch... |
292,887 | Recently I downloaded ubuntu 13.04 (iso). Now after extracting the iso file and running wubi - it says downloading required files though I had already downloaded the iso file (794 MB). So what to do now? | 2013/05/09 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/292887",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/101535/"
] | wubi in 13.04 is not in a releasable state. You have to install Ubuntu 12.10 through wubi and then upgrade to 13.04. follow this [steps](http://schoudhury.com/blog/articles/install-ubuntu-13-04-with-ubuntu-wubi-installer/) | Use the ISO that you have downloaded. You can make a boot-able pendrive by using this utility at <http://www.pendrivelinux.com/>. Then you can install ubuntu using this pendrive.
PS. : in your boot options just check that USB is higher priority to the hard-drive.
Also, Wubi currently is not the best way of installin... |
292,887 | Recently I downloaded ubuntu 13.04 (iso). Now after extracting the iso file and running wubi - it says downloading required files though I had already downloaded the iso file (794 MB). So what to do now? | 2013/05/09 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/292887",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/101535/"
] | wubi in 13.04 is not in a releasable state. You have to install Ubuntu 12.10 through wubi and then upgrade to 13.04. follow this [steps](http://schoudhury.com/blog/articles/install-ubuntu-13-04-with-ubuntu-wubi-installer/) | If you're on Windows, or even on Wine you could also try Unetbootin or LinuxLiveUsb.
I tried both of those for the first time yesterday, both were remarkably easy to use and did the job perfectly. |
292,887 | Recently I downloaded ubuntu 13.04 (iso). Now after extracting the iso file and running wubi - it says downloading required files though I had already downloaded the iso file (794 MB). So what to do now? | 2013/05/09 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/292887",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/101535/"
] | wubi in 13.04 is not in a releasable state. You have to install Ubuntu 12.10 through wubi and then upgrade to 13.04. follow this [steps](http://schoudhury.com/blog/articles/install-ubuntu-13-04-with-ubuntu-wubi-installer/) | DO NOT extract ISO files. Instead mount it using ISO mounting program, and run Wubi. I suggest use Wubi only when you using Ubuntu [12.10](/questions/tagged/12.10 "show questions tagged '12.10'")
---
If you mean installing it on its own partition, instead use [live-usb](/questions/tagged/live-usb "show questions tagg... |
292,887 | Recently I downloaded ubuntu 13.04 (iso). Now after extracting the iso file and running wubi - it says downloading required files though I had already downloaded the iso file (794 MB). So what to do now? | 2013/05/09 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/292887",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/101535/"
] | Use the ISO that you have downloaded. You can make a boot-able pendrive by using this utility at <http://www.pendrivelinux.com/>. Then you can install ubuntu using this pendrive.
PS. : in your boot options just check that USB is higher priority to the hard-drive.
Also, Wubi currently is not the best way of installin... | If you're on Windows, or even on Wine you could also try Unetbootin or LinuxLiveUsb.
I tried both of those for the first time yesterday, both were remarkably easy to use and did the job perfectly. |
292,887 | Recently I downloaded ubuntu 13.04 (iso). Now after extracting the iso file and running wubi - it says downloading required files though I had already downloaded the iso file (794 MB). So what to do now? | 2013/05/09 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/292887",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/101535/"
] | Use the ISO that you have downloaded. You can make a boot-able pendrive by using this utility at <http://www.pendrivelinux.com/>. Then you can install ubuntu using this pendrive.
PS. : in your boot options just check that USB is higher priority to the hard-drive.
Also, Wubi currently is not the best way of installin... | DO NOT extract ISO files. Instead mount it using ISO mounting program, and run Wubi. I suggest use Wubi only when you using Ubuntu [12.10](/questions/tagged/12.10 "show questions tagged '12.10'")
---
If you mean installing it on its own partition, instead use [live-usb](/questions/tagged/live-usb "show questions tagg... |
12,220,650 | I have a very odd problem related to the Portland Group FORTRAN 90 compiler. I am trying to run a code that *relies* on array overflow to work properly. *I did not write this code!* The originators had to compile it with the flag "-tp=piii" to force the compiler to refrain from optimizations that defeated the array ove... | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12220650",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1380285/"
] | I'm no longer familiar with the PGI compiler and don't have its documentation to hand so can't guide you directly to the compiler option you want, but it will be indexed under something like *array bounds* or *bounds checking*.
Until Fortran 90 it was common practice to write code which ignored, or was ignorant of, a... | Just in case anyone ever runs into the same problem with the "piii" flag, recent PGI compilers do support this flag .... if you have the 32-bit libraries installed. And, as it turns out, I do not. |
4,043 | Has anyone created a twitter like app in Sharepoint 2007? Would really like to know about your ideas and suggestions. | 2010/07/15 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/4043",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | There are a few options for you.
Michael Gannotti has this point on how to do it simply with a content editor web part and some javascript:
<http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1202>
Aidan Garnish has a solution here:
<http://aidangarnish.net/blog/post/2009/02/Twitter-SharePoint-web-p... | Check out this [Team Status](http://community.zevenseas.com/Blogs/Daniel/archive/2009/05/09/release-version-of-our-%e2%80%9cassembly-free%e2%80%9d-team-status-template.aspx) solution from Zevenseas. |
4,043 | Has anyone created a twitter like app in Sharepoint 2007? Would really like to know about your ideas and suggestions. | 2010/07/15 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/4043",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | There are a few options for you.
Michael Gannotti has this point on how to do it simply with a content editor web part and some javascript:
<http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1202>
Aidan Garnish has a solution here:
<http://aidangarnish.net/blog/post/2009/02/Twitter-SharePoint-web-p... | Have a look at [Yammer for SharePoint](http://blog.yammer.com/blog/2010/06/yammer-introduces-microsoft-sharepoint-2007-integration.html). |
4,043 | Has anyone created a twitter like app in Sharepoint 2007? Would really like to know about your ideas and suggestions. | 2010/07/15 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/4043",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | There are a few options for you.
Michael Gannotti has this point on how to do it simply with a content editor web part and some javascript:
<http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1202>
Aidan Garnish has a solution here:
<http://aidangarnish.net/blog/post/2009/02/Twitter-SharePoint-web-p... | Check this
<http://tweetpart.codeplex.com/> |
30,373 | 
Plant :Alstonia
Appearance:Blisters (gall) on both sides,cutting galls leaves white fluid.
After some time holes apppears in the blisters.so it seems some insect laid eggs.
What kind of disease is this? It seems to be some kind of blisters on the leav... | 2017/01/03 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/30373",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16473/"
] | Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br. is a very beautiful ornamental tree, which is commonly known as pagoda tree because of its pagoda like growing habit. It is commonly infected by the Homopteran, Pauropsylla tuberculata Crawf which leads to unsightly gall formation on the leaves as pictured.
The gall is the leaf response ... | I agree, leaf galls. Looks like a Rhododendron regardless, @Atul, need you to take a razor blade and slice through a 'gall' to see if the insect is still there. Take a picture. I would right now cut that infected branch off. This is usually not a death sentence! But before 'trying' any treatment we need to know what th... |
203,266 | I need another excuse of "I was very busy" as people became tired of hearing it. So, I thought of expressing the idea of having a very restricted/limited time for all the tasks that I have been assigned to do and therefore I couldn't completely finish this specific one. The thing is I can't get my hands on a suitable p... | 2019/03/31 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/203266",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/80554/"
] | There are some other good suggestions here. I might also use:
>
> I got caught up with other work.
>
>
> I got caught up in other work.
>
>
>
Either of these means that you were very busy or “tangled up” with other work- like you couldn’t escape the trap of the work, so to speak.
EDIT: Sorry, I should have als... | **Get around to**
*phrasal verb of get*
**deal with (a task) in due course.**
**to do something that you have intended to do for a long time**
>
> I didn't **get around to** putting all the photos in frames.
>
>
> I couldn't **get around to** finishing it on time.
>
>
> I intended to tidy the flat at the weeken... |
203,266 | I need another excuse of "I was very busy" as people became tired of hearing it. So, I thought of expressing the idea of having a very restricted/limited time for all the tasks that I have been assigned to do and therefore I couldn't completely finish this specific one. The thing is I can't get my hands on a suitable p... | 2019/03/31 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/203266",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/80554/"
] | There are some other good suggestions here. I might also use:
>
> I got caught up with other work.
>
>
> I got caught up in other work.
>
>
>
Either of these means that you were very busy or “tangled up” with other work- like you couldn’t escape the trap of the work, so to speak.
EDIT: Sorry, I should have als... | Suggestions:
I wasn't able to do it because I ran out of time.
There wasn't enough time to do everything I needed to do.
I didn't have sufficient time to do everything. |
233,574 | I'm moving a couple of servers to a colo and was wondering what you would recommend for a hardware firewall to sit in front of them? Is it fine to just get the cheapest Cisco/Fortigate/Juniper/whatever firewall? I don't need anything fancy, pretty much just port forwarding. | 2011/02/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/233574",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/546/"
] | Here's an example for some criteria you'll want to consider when selecting a firewall in the scenario you described:
1. Feature set - Make sure it'll perform your immediate and potential future purposes.
2. Performance - Co-location generally provides good network connectivity and throughput. Make sure the device you ... | You are probably looking at "wasting" at least 1U of rack space for this firewall.
I would not buy a consumer-grade cheapie firewall.
The Juniper Netscreen SSG5 would probably meet your needs, but it is a paperback size format and doesn't come with rack arms (that I recall). The first "rackable" SSG is the SSG140, bu... |
233,574 | I'm moving a couple of servers to a colo and was wondering what you would recommend for a hardware firewall to sit in front of them? Is it fine to just get the cheapest Cisco/Fortigate/Juniper/whatever firewall? I don't need anything fancy, pretty much just port forwarding. | 2011/02/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/233574",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/546/"
] | Here's an example for some criteria you'll want to consider when selecting a firewall in the scenario you described:
1. Feature set - Make sure it'll perform your immediate and potential future purposes.
2. Performance - Co-location generally provides good network connectivity and throughput. Make sure the device you ... | Alternatively - get a Mikrotik RB1100 and see how far it lasts (50mbit for smallish packets was on the table by someone running game servers).
It is CHEAP and has a TON of features in RouterOS. Uses very little power, too.
Then later you can upgrade to something more powerfull if needed. Again, the RB1100 is CHEAP to... |
233,574 | I'm moving a couple of servers to a colo and was wondering what you would recommend for a hardware firewall to sit in front of them? Is it fine to just get the cheapest Cisco/Fortigate/Juniper/whatever firewall? I don't need anything fancy, pretty much just port forwarding. | 2011/02/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/233574",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/546/"
] | I would not get the cheapest firewall. You need to look at your requirements such as throughput, active connections, security, vpn requirements and more. If it needs to be cheap I would recommend setting up a separate linux box as the firewall using iptables. If there is budget for a firewall but you need something sma... | You are probably looking at "wasting" at least 1U of rack space for this firewall.
I would not buy a consumer-grade cheapie firewall.
The Juniper Netscreen SSG5 would probably meet your needs, but it is a paperback size format and doesn't come with rack arms (that I recall). The first "rackable" SSG is the SSG140, bu... |
233,574 | I'm moving a couple of servers to a colo and was wondering what you would recommend for a hardware firewall to sit in front of them? Is it fine to just get the cheapest Cisco/Fortigate/Juniper/whatever firewall? I don't need anything fancy, pretty much just port forwarding. | 2011/02/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/233574",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/546/"
] | I would not get the cheapest firewall. You need to look at your requirements such as throughput, active connections, security, vpn requirements and more. If it needs to be cheap I would recommend setting up a separate linux box as the firewall using iptables. If there is budget for a firewall but you need something sma... | Alternatively - get a Mikrotik RB1100 and see how far it lasts (50mbit for smallish packets was on the table by someone running game servers).
It is CHEAP and has a TON of features in RouterOS. Uses very little power, too.
Then later you can upgrade to something more powerfull if needed. Again, the RB1100 is CHEAP to... |
233,574 | I'm moving a couple of servers to a colo and was wondering what you would recommend for a hardware firewall to sit in front of them? Is it fine to just get the cheapest Cisco/Fortigate/Juniper/whatever firewall? I don't need anything fancy, pretty much just port forwarding. | 2011/02/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/233574",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/546/"
] | You are probably looking at "wasting" at least 1U of rack space for this firewall.
I would not buy a consumer-grade cheapie firewall.
The Juniper Netscreen SSG5 would probably meet your needs, but it is a paperback size format and doesn't come with rack arms (that I recall). The first "rackable" SSG is the SSG140, bu... | Alternatively - get a Mikrotik RB1100 and see how far it lasts (50mbit for smallish packets was on the table by someone running game servers).
It is CHEAP and has a TON of features in RouterOS. Uses very little power, too.
Then later you can upgrade to something more powerfull if needed. Again, the RB1100 is CHEAP to... |
2,582,951 | Also I want to know how to add meta data while indexing so that i can boost some parameters | 2010/04/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2582951",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/150887/"
] | Lucene indexes text not files - you'll need some other process for extracting the text out of the file and running Lucene over that. | see <https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/pdfindexer>
for a java solution that uses PDFBox and Apache Lucene to split the PDF files page by page to text,
index these text-pages and create a resulting html index file that links to the pages in the pdf sources by using a corresponding open parameter. |
2,582,951 | Also I want to know how to add meta data while indexing so that i can boost some parameters | 2010/04/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2582951",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/150887/"
] | There are several frameworks for extracting text suitable for Lucene indexing from rich text files (pdf, ppt etc.)
* One of them is [Apache Tika](http://lucene.apache.org/tika/), a sub-project of Lucene.
* [Apache POI](http://poi.apache.org/) is a more general document handling project inside Apache.
* There are also ... | see <https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/pdfindexer>
for a java solution that uses PDFBox and Apache Lucene to split the PDF files page by page to text,
index these text-pages and create a resulting html index file that links to the pages in the pdf sources by using a corresponding open parameter. |
2,582,951 | Also I want to know how to add meta data while indexing so that i can boost some parameters | 2010/04/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2582951",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/150887/"
] | You can use Apache [Tika](http://lucene.apache.org/tika/index.html). Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.
Supported Document Formats
* HyperText Markup Language
* XML and derived formats
* Microsoft Office document ... | see <https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/pdfindexer>
for a java solution that uses PDFBox and Apache Lucene to split the PDF files page by page to text,
index these text-pages and create a resulting html index file that links to the pages in the pdf sources by using a corresponding open parameter. |
2,314,637 | All, I am creating a web application and I need to give users the ability to add/edit/delete records in a grid type control. I can't use 3rd party controls so I am restricted to just whats in the box for asp.net (datagrid or gridview) or creating my own. Any thoughts on the best direction to go in. I'd like to keep the... | 2010/02/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2314637",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/164257/"
] | Gridviews have different item templates that you can use for editing and inserting data. That'd be an easy way to go about it.
As long as you set your datakeyid property to the primary key in the database, you should be able to make template fields based off of whether or not you're editing or inserting data. The com... | the out of the box grid is not too bad.
Here are a few links on master detail records in asp.net this should get you started on the CRUD opperations.
<http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/asp.net-2.0/displaying-master-detail-data-on-the-same-page.html> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa581796.aspx>
<http://www.... |
2,314,637 | All, I am creating a web application and I need to give users the ability to add/edit/delete records in a grid type control. I can't use 3rd party controls so I am restricted to just whats in the box for asp.net (datagrid or gridview) or creating my own. Any thoughts on the best direction to go in. I'd like to keep the... | 2010/02/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2314637",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/164257/"
] | You should definitely use edit and insert templates. All you have to do is give the button/link the command name such as insert/delete/update and you can allow the Grid to do most of all the work.
[Check out this link](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/InsertingWithGridView.aspx)
I think you'll learn to love the g... | the out of the box grid is not too bad.
Here are a few links on master detail records in asp.net this should get you started on the CRUD opperations.
<http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/asp.net-2.0/displaying-master-detail-data-on-the-same-page.html> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa581796.aspx>
<http://www.... |
2,314,637 | All, I am creating a web application and I need to give users the ability to add/edit/delete records in a grid type control. I can't use 3rd party controls so I am restricted to just whats in the box for asp.net (datagrid or gridview) or creating my own. Any thoughts on the best direction to go in. I'd like to keep the... | 2010/02/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2314637",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/164257/"
] | Gridviews have different item templates that you can use for editing and inserting data. That'd be an easy way to go about it.
As long as you set your datakeyid property to the primary key in the database, you should be able to make template fields based off of whether or not you're editing or inserting data. The com... | this is the best site for what you are after
**www.Asp.Net**
* [**Data Access Tutorials controls**](http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/)
* [**Master/Detail Using a Selectable
Master GridView with a Details
DetailView**](http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/tutorial-10-cs.aspx)
* [**Using TemplateFields in the GridV... |
2,314,637 | All, I am creating a web application and I need to give users the ability to add/edit/delete records in a grid type control. I can't use 3rd party controls so I am restricted to just whats in the box for asp.net (datagrid or gridview) or creating my own. Any thoughts on the best direction to go in. I'd like to keep the... | 2010/02/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2314637",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/164257/"
] | You should definitely use edit and insert templates. All you have to do is give the button/link the command name such as insert/delete/update and you can allow the Grid to do most of all the work.
[Check out this link](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/InsertingWithGridView.aspx)
I think you'll learn to love the g... | this is the best site for what you are after
**www.Asp.Net**
* [**Data Access Tutorials controls**](http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/)
* [**Master/Detail Using a Selectable
Master GridView with a Details
DetailView**](http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/tutorial-10-cs.aspx)
* [**Using TemplateFields in the GridV... |
5,914,507 | Hey all. I need to work on all of the skills that come along with working with web services in Android. Most of the apps I've worked on have used static/local data. Obviously, to create something powerful, I need to learn how to work with web services.
To that end, does anyone have any recommendations for an easy API... | 2011/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5914507",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/479180/"
] | You have many API that you can use to leverage your skills. Facebook is one of them but you can also have a look at websites such as Read It Later, Instapaper, Delicious or MeeGo that use simple web API with JSON/XML to transmit data. | My suggestion would be to go with Facebook;
<http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile/#android>
While many others might disagree, some maybe saying it isn't a web service at all, personally I liked the idea of having many different kinds of data. And chose to do some experiments on top of Facebook Graph API ... |
5,914,507 | Hey all. I need to work on all of the skills that come along with working with web services in Android. Most of the apps I've worked on have used static/local data. Obviously, to create something powerful, I need to learn how to work with web services.
To that end, does anyone have any recommendations for an easy API... | 2011/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5914507",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/479180/"
] | My suggestion would be to go with Facebook;
<http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile/#android>
While many others might disagree, some maybe saying it isn't a web service at all, personally I liked the idea of having many different kinds of data. And chose to do some experiments on top of Facebook Graph API ... | First web API I used was Flickr. They have great documentation, most (all?) of the data can be returned in JSON format, and it's pretty expansive. I thought it was pretty simple to use, myself. |
5,914,507 | Hey all. I need to work on all of the skills that come along with working with web services in Android. Most of the apps I've worked on have used static/local data. Obviously, to create something powerful, I need to learn how to work with web services.
To that end, does anyone have any recommendations for an easy API... | 2011/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5914507",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/479180/"
] | You have many API that you can use to leverage your skills. Facebook is one of them but you can also have a look at websites such as Read It Later, Instapaper, Delicious or MeeGo that use simple web API with JSON/XML to transmit data. | First web API I used was Flickr. They have great documentation, most (all?) of the data can be returned in JSON format, and it's pretty expansive. I thought it was pretty simple to use, myself. |
36,060 | I have read about sakkayaditti
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/sakkayaditti>
Sakkayaditti means something in Buddhism, Pali.
please help me to clarify | 2019/11/22 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/36060",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/17327/"
] | This is a key concept in the Early Buddhist Texts:
>
> [MN 64](https://suttacentral.net/mn64/en/sujato#mn64:3.4): Anusetvevassa sakkāyadiṭṭhānusayo.
>
>
> [MN 64](https://suttacentral.net/mn64/en/sujato#mn64:3.4): Yet the underlying tendency to ***identity view*** still lies within them.
>
>
>
Identity View is ... | This is misunderstood by many people today. They say sakkaya ditti means: self view. According to dhamma, when a peraon become 1st entrant (sotāpanna) he uproots the sakkaya ditti. So if sakkaya ditti means self view, then that person no need to go beyond that point, since there's noone (no self view) to attain nibbana... |
36,060 | I have read about sakkayaditti
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/sakkayaditti>
Sakkayaditti means something in Buddhism, Pali.
please help me to clarify | 2019/11/22 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/36060",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/17327/"
] | This is a key concept in the Early Buddhist Texts:
>
> [MN 64](https://suttacentral.net/mn64/en/sujato#mn64:3.4): Anusetvevassa sakkāyadiṭṭhānusayo.
>
>
> [MN 64](https://suttacentral.net/mn64/en/sujato#mn64:3.4): Yet the underlying tendency to ***identity view*** still lies within them.
>
>
>
Identity View is ... | >
> Ime kho, āvuso visākha, pañcupādānakkhandhā **sakkāyo** vutto
> bhagavatā
>
>
> These five clinging-aggregates are the **self-identification**
> described by the Blessed One.
>
>
> The craving that makes for further becoming — accompanied by passion &
> delight, relishing now here & now there — i.e., craving f... |
36,060 | I have read about sakkayaditti
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/sakkayaditti>
Sakkayaditti means something in Buddhism, Pali.
please help me to clarify | 2019/11/22 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/36060",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/17327/"
] | >
> Ime kho, āvuso visākha, pañcupādānakkhandhā **sakkāyo** vutto
> bhagavatā
>
>
> These five clinging-aggregates are the **self-identification**
> described by the Blessed One.
>
>
> The craving that makes for further becoming — accompanied by passion &
> delight, relishing now here & now there — i.e., craving f... | This is misunderstood by many people today. They say sakkaya ditti means: self view. According to dhamma, when a peraon become 1st entrant (sotāpanna) he uproots the sakkaya ditti. So if sakkaya ditti means self view, then that person no need to go beyond that point, since there's noone (no self view) to attain nibbana... |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | I found a good benchmark comparison web page that basically compares 5 renowned databases:
* LevelDB
* Kyoto TreeDB
* SQLite3
* MDB
* BerkeleyDB
You should check it out before making your choice: <http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/>.
P.S - I know you've already tested them, but you should also consider that your confi... | 300 M \* 8 bytes = 2.4GB. That will probably fit into memory (if the OS does not restrict the address space to 31 bits)
Since you'll also need to handle overflow, (either by a rehashing scheme or by chaining) memory gets even tighter, for linear probing you probably need > 400M slots, chaining will increase the sizeof ... |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | 500,000 entries per second without holding the working set in memory? Wow.
In the general case this is not possible using HDDs and even difficult SSDs.
Have you any locality properties that might help to make the task a bit easier? What kind of queries do you have? | Berkely DB could do it for you.
I acheived 50000 inserts per second about 8 years ago and a final database of 70 billion records. |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | David Segleau, here. Product Manager for Berkeley DB.
The most common problem with BDB performance is that people don't configure the cache size, leaving it at the default, which is pretty small. The second most common problem is that people write application behavior emulators that do random look-ups (even though th... | Try [ZooLib](http://www.zoolib.org/).
It provides a database with a C++ API, that was originally written for a high-performance multimedia database for educational institutions called Knowledge Forum. It could handle 3,000 simultaneous Mac and Windows clients (also written in ZooLib - it's a cross-platform applicatio... |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | David Segleau, here. Product Manager for Berkeley DB.
The most common problem with BDB performance is that people don't configure the cache size, leaving it at the default, which is pretty small. The second most common problem is that people write application behavior emulators that do random look-ups (even though th... | We use [Redis](http://redis.io/). Written in C, its only slightly more complicated than memcached by design. Never tried to use that many rows but for us latency is very important and it handles those latencies well and lets us store the data in the disk
Here is a [bench mark blog entry](http://antirez.com/post/redis-... |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | 300 M \* 8 bytes = 2.4GB. That will probably fit into memory (if the OS does not restrict the address space to 31 bits)
Since you'll also need to handle overflow, (either by a rehashing scheme or by chaining) memory gets even tighter, for linear probing you probably need > 400M slots, chaining will increase the sizeof ... | We use [Redis](http://redis.io/). Written in C, its only slightly more complicated than memcached by design. Never tried to use that many rows but for us latency is very important and it handles those latencies well and lets us store the data in the disk
Here is a [bench mark blog entry](http://antirez.com/post/redis-... |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | Try [ZooLib](http://www.zoolib.org/).
It provides a database with a C++ API, that was originally written for a high-performance multimedia database for educational institutions called Knowledge Forum. It could handle 3,000 simultaneous Mac and Windows clients (also written in ZooLib - it's a cross-platform applicatio... | We use [Redis](http://redis.io/). Written in C, its only slightly more complicated than memcached by design. Never tried to use that many rows but for us latency is very important and it handles those latencies well and lets us store the data in the disk
Here is a [bench mark blog entry](http://antirez.com/post/redis-... |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | David Segleau, here. Product Manager for Berkeley DB.
The most common problem with BDB performance is that people don't configure the cache size, leaving it at the default, which is pretty small. The second most common problem is that people write application behavior emulators that do random look-ups (even though th... | 300 M \* 8 bytes = 2.4GB. That will probably fit into memory (if the OS does not restrict the address space to 31 bits)
Since you'll also need to handle overflow, (either by a rehashing scheme or by chaining) memory gets even tighter, for linear probing you probably need > 400M slots, chaining will increase the sizeof ... |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | David Segleau, here. Product Manager for Berkeley DB.
The most common problem with BDB performance is that people don't configure the cache size, leaving it at the default, which is pretty small. The second most common problem is that people write application behavior emulators that do random look-ups (even though th... | 500,000 entries per second without holding the working set in memory? Wow.
In the general case this is not possible using HDDs and even difficult SSDs.
Have you any locality properties that might help to make the task a bit easier? What kind of queries do you have? |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | David Segleau, here. Product Manager for Berkeley DB.
The most common problem with BDB performance is that people don't configure the cache size, leaving it at the default, which is pretty small. The second most common problem is that people write application behavior emulators that do random look-ups (even though th... | Berkely DB could do it for you.
I acheived 50000 inserts per second about 8 years ago and a final database of 70 billion records. |
7,229,552 | I am trying to create a key/value database with 300,000,000 key/value pairs of 8 bytes each (both for the key and the value). The requirement is to have a very fast key/value mechanism which can query about 500,000 entries per second.
I tried BDB, Tokyo DB, Kyoto DB, and levelDB and they all perform very bad when it c... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7229552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/741628/"
] | I found a good benchmark comparison web page that basically compares 5 renowned databases:
* LevelDB
* Kyoto TreeDB
* SQLite3
* MDB
* BerkeleyDB
You should check it out before making your choice: <http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/>.
P.S - I know you've already tested them, but you should also consider that your confi... | Try [ZooLib](http://www.zoolib.org/).
It provides a database with a C++ API, that was originally written for a high-performance multimedia database for educational institutions called Knowledge Forum. It could handle 3,000 simultaneous Mac and Windows clients (also written in ZooLib - it's a cross-platform applicatio... |
238,856 | Recently, I read a book called "Swallowed Star". In the story, a virus changes human DNA enough for humans to have unbelievable superpowers and skills. Some even obtain the ability to have their own gravitational pull and not breathe in space.
I want to know if it is actually possible for genes to be able to cause suc... | 2022/12/03 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/238856",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/99833/"
] | Viruses and pathogens can affect everything that is based on genetic expression or biochemistry: there are known examples of pathogens changing the behavior of their hosts, for example, not forgetting that any pathogen tries to turn its host into a replicator of themselves.
What a virus cannot do is changing the laws ... | In real life many people have genes for diseases they will never have. The unlucky ones are the people who get cancer, for example, after suffering a severe infection. The Epstein-Barr virus "turns on" the genes responsible for a certain kind of blood cancer. This is called epi-genetics. It's still a developing field.
... |
238,856 | Recently, I read a book called "Swallowed Star". In the story, a virus changes human DNA enough for humans to have unbelievable superpowers and skills. Some even obtain the ability to have their own gravitational pull and not breathe in space.
I want to know if it is actually possible for genes to be able to cause suc... | 2022/12/03 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/238856",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/99833/"
] | Viruses and pathogens can affect everything that is based on genetic expression or biochemistry: there are known examples of pathogens changing the behavior of their hosts, for example, not forgetting that any pathogen tries to turn its host into a replicator of themselves.
What a virus cannot do is changing the laws ... | I would argue that a sufficiently complex (that is, likely not natural) retro-virus could make some changes like super-strong, super-fast, likely significantly improved senses of sight and hearing. Even there it might only express (either fully or even partially) in children rather than already-grown individuals. And t... |
238,856 | Recently, I read a book called "Swallowed Star". In the story, a virus changes human DNA enough for humans to have unbelievable superpowers and skills. Some even obtain the ability to have their own gravitational pull and not breathe in space.
I want to know if it is actually possible for genes to be able to cause suc... | 2022/12/03 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/238856",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/99833/"
] | I would argue that a sufficiently complex (that is, likely not natural) retro-virus could make some changes like super-strong, super-fast, likely significantly improved senses of sight and hearing. Even there it might only express (either fully or even partially) in children rather than already-grown individuals. And t... | In real life many people have genes for diseases they will never have. The unlucky ones are the people who get cancer, for example, after suffering a severe infection. The Epstein-Barr virus "turns on" the genes responsible for a certain kind of blood cancer. This is called epi-genetics. It's still a developing field.
... |
238,856 | Recently, I read a book called "Swallowed Star". In the story, a virus changes human DNA enough for humans to have unbelievable superpowers and skills. Some even obtain the ability to have their own gravitational pull and not breathe in space.
I want to know if it is actually possible for genes to be able to cause suc... | 2022/12/03 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/238856",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/99833/"
] | There is no conceivable way for a change in a human's genes to enable them to alter the laws of physics (i.e. give them their own gravitational pull).
Not needing to breathe for extended periods could be made possible with some form of extremely efficient [anaerobic respiration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic... | In real life many people have genes for diseases they will never have. The unlucky ones are the people who get cancer, for example, after suffering a severe infection. The Epstein-Barr virus "turns on" the genes responsible for a certain kind of blood cancer. This is called epi-genetics. It's still a developing field.
... |
238,856 | Recently, I read a book called "Swallowed Star". In the story, a virus changes human DNA enough for humans to have unbelievable superpowers and skills. Some even obtain the ability to have their own gravitational pull and not breathe in space.
I want to know if it is actually possible for genes to be able to cause suc... | 2022/12/03 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/238856",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/99833/"
] | There is no conceivable way for a change in a human's genes to enable them to alter the laws of physics (i.e. give them their own gravitational pull).
Not needing to breathe for extended periods could be made possible with some form of extremely efficient [anaerobic respiration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic... | I would argue that a sufficiently complex (that is, likely not natural) retro-virus could make some changes like super-strong, super-fast, likely significantly improved senses of sight and hearing. Even there it might only express (either fully or even partially) in children rather than already-grown individuals. And t... |
263,517 | I'm trying to set a different existing material on 5 Instances made with Instance on Points. Trying both 3.0.1 and 3.1 to no avail.
Is there any value or attribute that signifies which instance you are on?
I want to build a setup for texture painting with 5 copies of a character and therefore I am linking a rigify ri... | 2022/05/13 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/263517",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/27347/"
] | After a bit of faffing around, I've so far established that the *Set Material Index* node will work only if the incoming geometry, with materials assigned to slots, is on the same branch. The materials do not have to be assigned to faces of the incoming geometry... it just has to have its slots filled.
In this example... | Managed to figure it out with inspiration from this answer:[How to access geonode generated "instance ID" from Cycles material?](https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/248920/how-to-access-geonode-generated-instance-id-from-cycles-material?rq=1)
My node setup looks like below and assigns materials all in geometry... |
23,654 | My neighbor who lives across the hall from me in my apartment building is clearly trying to extend an olive branch of friendship. We met at a community gathering for residents a little over a month ago and got along splendidly, but due to opposing work schedules we have not seen each other since. I gather he has some s... | 2019/12/04 | [
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/23654",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users/284/"
] | Honesty is the best policy here. He's only going to feel like you're "blowing him off" if your refusals are without reason. If you think more offers are forthcoming, your next response should be something like:
>
> Yes!
>
>
>
Or, if you can't, then:
>
> I'm sorry I keep turning down your invites, I really want ... | **My answers to you questions**
I am one of those people readily sending invitations to new acquaintances until I am tired of getting only "No, no" 's. I made a rule out of it: You're out at three no's in a row. You know too well why:
>
> I make him think that I'm blowing him off.
>
>
>
I have a second rule thou... |
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