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901,206 | I'm training a Junior developer.
I would like to assign him with the task of designing and building an object oriented application.
Are there any non-trivial sample exercises on the web which include good description of a problem and a suggested architecture diagram? | 2009/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/901206",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/69636/"
] | In our organization, we have a selection of easy to solve non-critical tickets, which we tend to keep around as something to give to the new staff members as their first tasks. These tickets usually involve things around the main code base, occasionally containing new "nice-to-have" feature requests.
Since they are not urgent/critical, it will not be a big deal if the junior developer makes mistakes. However, they get a sense of what it is like working on the *real* code, which helps to keep them focused and content. | I decided to give him a scheduling system partially based on this:
<http://martinfowler.com/apsupp/recurring.pdf> |
901,206 | I'm training a Junior developer.
I would like to assign him with the task of designing and building an object oriented application.
Are there any non-trivial sample exercises on the web which include good description of a problem and a suggested architecture diagram? | 2009/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/901206",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/69636/"
] | In our organization, we have a selection of easy to solve non-critical tickets, which we tend to keep around as something to give to the new staff members as their first tasks. These tickets usually involve things around the main code base, occasionally containing new "nice-to-have" feature requests.
Since they are not urgent/critical, it will not be a big deal if the junior developer makes mistakes. However, they get a sense of what it is like working on the *real* code, which helps to keep them focused and content. | A typical exercise is to build a Course Gradebook complete with defining the database schema for teachers, students, courses, and so forth. I don't think this is trivial and it has pretty well understood requirements. |
901,206 | I'm training a Junior developer.
I would like to assign him with the task of designing and building an object oriented application.
Are there any non-trivial sample exercises on the web which include good description of a problem and a suggested architecture diagram? | 2009/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/901206",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/69636/"
] | In our organization, we have a selection of easy to solve non-critical tickets, which we tend to keep around as something to give to the new staff members as their first tasks. These tickets usually involve things around the main code base, occasionally containing new "nice-to-have" feature requests.
Since they are not urgent/critical, it will not be a big deal if the junior developer makes mistakes. However, they get a sense of what it is like working on the *real* code, which helps to keep them focused and content. | Give him one big task that is really required for your organization (that you or somebody else would've been doing otherwise), give him detailed instructions (more than you usually give to an experienced developer: milestones, data sources, etc), and guide him on his advancement.
New developers usually prefer doing real things. In addition, this way he will learn more things that will be useful for his next tasks. |
901,206 | I'm training a Junior developer.
I would like to assign him with the task of designing and building an object oriented application.
Are there any non-trivial sample exercises on the web which include good description of a problem and a suggested architecture diagram? | 2009/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/901206",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/69636/"
] | Give him one big task that is really required for your organization (that you or somebody else would've been doing otherwise), give him detailed instructions (more than you usually give to an experienced developer: milestones, data sources, etc), and guide him on his advancement.
New developers usually prefer doing real things. In addition, this way he will learn more things that will be useful for his next tasks. | A typical exercise is to build a Course Gradebook complete with defining the database schema for teachers, students, courses, and so forth. I don't think this is trivial and it has pretty well understood requirements. |
901,206 | I'm training a Junior developer.
I would like to assign him with the task of designing and building an object oriented application.
Are there any non-trivial sample exercises on the web which include good description of a problem and a suggested architecture diagram? | 2009/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/901206",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/69636/"
] | I would recommend you doing like this:
* Start with giving him simple tasks.
* Review solutions, comment and say what's could be done in other/better way and why, discuss with him.
* Let him experiment, and help him with answering questions or giving him some references.
In this way you will see difference in few weeks/months :) | I decided to give him a scheduling system partially based on this:
<http://martinfowler.com/apsupp/recurring.pdf> |
901,206 | I'm training a Junior developer.
I would like to assign him with the task of designing and building an object oriented application.
Are there any non-trivial sample exercises on the web which include good description of a problem and a suggested architecture diagram? | 2009/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/901206",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/69636/"
] | He's been a student for years. He doesn't need or want another assignment, he wants real work, so give it to him. Sink or swim.
>
> Do, or do not. There is no try.
>
>
> ~~ Yoda.
>
>
> | Give him one big task that is really required for your organization (that you or somebody else would've been doing otherwise), give him detailed instructions (more than you usually give to an experienced developer: milestones, data sources, etc), and guide him on his advancement.
New developers usually prefer doing real things. In addition, this way he will learn more things that will be useful for his next tasks. |
901,206 | I'm training a Junior developer.
I would like to assign him with the task of designing and building an object oriented application.
Are there any non-trivial sample exercises on the web which include good description of a problem and a suggested architecture diagram? | 2009/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/901206",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/69636/"
] | He's been a student for years. He doesn't need or want another assignment, he wants real work, so give it to him. Sink or swim.
>
> Do, or do not. There is no try.
>
>
> ~~ Yoda.
>
>
> | In our organization, we have a selection of easy to solve non-critical tickets, which we tend to keep around as something to give to the new staff members as their first tasks. These tickets usually involve things around the main code base, occasionally containing new "nice-to-have" feature requests.
Since they are not urgent/critical, it will not be a big deal if the junior developer makes mistakes. However, they get a sense of what it is like working on the *real* code, which helps to keep them focused and content. |
51,100 | Although at present there is no 'Single Market' for Crime and Punishment, is there mutual recognition of Criminal Laws across all EU members, such that any offense commited in one Country is also an offense in every EU Country? For example, a person commits a (non-corporate) crime in one country, and subsequently goes on holiday in another Country. Can he be prosecuted for the original crime (and possibly jailed) in the Country he is in while on holiday, without requiring extradition back to the original Country? Similary, lets assume that somebody that somebody publicly insults the EU (e.g. on Social Media) while in his home Country. Can he be punished anywhere in the EU for it, including his home Country? | 2020/04/29 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/51100",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/31223/"
] | The simple answer is no. This one of the areas least impacted by EU harmonization, the differences between judicial traditions are too large and there is little appetite for anybody to converge on this. As an example of an issue where the EU is nowhere near consensus is abortion: it is still illegal or almost completely illegal in some countries, completely decriminalized in other countries.
The first forays of the EU into this area of the law, under the guise of the “area of freedom, security and justice” are the European Arrest Warrant (technically not an extradition and in general much easier/faster) and the notion that some crimes should be punished everywhere in the EU (but the EU doesn't define the punishment, just that there should be one). | As you have noted, Justice systems in the European Union are withing the area of responsibility of the individual countries.
There are many reasons for this.
Constitutionaly, Justice Systems are a **monopoly** of the state.
Since the late 18th century, most (but not all) Justice systems in Europe have envolved from **common law** to **civil law** systems. Each of which have envolved differently.
There is no guarantee that **every** law (crime) defined in one country, will exist in another country.
A prosecuter appointed by one state, would be responsible for a
geographicly specific area (up to the maximal area of country). International law, in general, does not allow prosecution in other areas of jurisdiction (violation of sovereignty).
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>
> is there mutual recognition of Criminal Laws across all EU members, such that any offense commited in one Country is also an offense in every EU Country?
>
> Similary, lets assume that somebody that somebody publicly insults the EU (e.g. on Social Media) while in his home Country. Can he be punished anywhere in the EU for it, including his home Country?
>
>
>
If a person in Italy commited a [Lèse-majesté](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9) and went to Germany, a German prosecuter could not make any charges because the corresponding law was abolished in Germany in 2018.
If a person in Germany commited a [Lèse-majesté](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9) and went to Italy, a Italian prosecuter could not prosecute because
* it is not a crime where it was committed (Germany)
* it was committed outside their area of responsibility
If a person in Poland commited a [Lèse-majesté](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9) and went to Italy, a Italian prosecuter could prosecute if requested by Poland, since it is a recongnize crime in both countries and the responsible prosecuter requested it.
**Note**:
The are many exceptions to these general rules, based on national laws
* France will prosecute when a French citizen is involved, independent to whether it is considered a crime where it was committed or (for whatever reason) not prosecuted.
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**Sources**:
* [Lèse-majesté - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9) |
28,242 | Is it possible to program the nRF24LE1 with an AVRISP mkII? It has an Intel 8051, and I've noticed that AVR also supports this instruction set, so perhaps they already have a compiler in AVR Studio? Otherwise how would I go about integrating sdcc in? Otherwise how could I program the nRF24LE1? | 2012/03/17 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28242",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/2985/"
] | If two devices share the same instruction set, that is no guarantee of compatibility. They may be completely different in terms of program memory space, peripheral memory map, programming interface, etc. The ISA implementation might even be quirky, but that's another story. For now, you have two concerns: 1) compiling code and 2) programming the device.
First, you can't use AVR Studio to compile because it only support AVRs, as you can see from the [list](http://www.atmel.com/tools/ATMELAVRSTUDIO.aspx?Products=010%20Atmel%20AVR%208-%20and%2032-bit%20Microcontrollers&tab=devices). (I don't know if earlier versions have 8051 support.) From googling, it appears that you could use sdcc/makefiles, sdcc/Eclipse, or one of the many for-pay 8051 development environments.
Second, AVRISP does not support the Nordic part. AVRs and the Nordic part both look like SPI Flash for programming purposes, actually, but the Flash command set is completely different. In *theory* you could use the AVRISP hardware, but you would have to write your own software or modify avrdude appropriately; not a walk in the park. From some googling, users of this chip have written their own programmers, using various microcontroller platforms. So you appear to have the option of implementing your own programmer, or purchasing Nordic's. | AVR Studio only supports the AVR, you need an 8051 assembler or compiler if you want to develop code for the nRF24LE1. Keil can supply suitable tools: <http://www.keil.com/dd/chip/4727.htm> |
21,506,955 | What is ssh client used in Nitrous.io. I am interested to know about ssh clients and I have seen ssh client used in Nitrous web site | 2014/02/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21506955",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3237421/"
] | I didn't tested, but if found this ssh2 repository from them: <https://github.com/nitrous-io/ssh2>
As it says "An SSH2 client module written in pure JavaScript for node.js." Maybe that's what you are looking for? | I'm not familiar with Nitrous.io ssh client. I assume they are using some sort of web based ssh client. But you can always read the MAN pages for ssh, [ssh(1)](http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1) and <http://www.openssh.org/manual.html>, to learn the basics of ssh. |
523,836 | This is my first question asked on SF, so be gentle kids.
As my desktops (approximately 110 or so) have begun to age and with my users resisting Windows 8, I've begun to notice an odd trend. We are primarily an HP shop. So the desktops I am having the issues with are DX2200 and DX2300 series business desktops. (Yes yes, I know they are old, but they are still serviceable for what my users use the machines for.) The users of some of the machines are complaining that the machines are very loud and/or "racing". And they seem to be very slow opening up applications like Outlook and IE. At first I went on the obvious hunt for viruses, but in not finding any and not being able to find a task that was consuming resources, I was stumped. Task man showed very little CPU usage, but the fans were running full out. Typically a sign that the CPU is under heavy load as these have variable speed fans controller by the motherboard.
In trying to solve the problem, I pulled the heatsink and fan assembly off the motherboard. I discovered that the heat sink compound on many of these machines seems to have dried out. I would describe the compound as flaky rather than smooth and gooey. The fix for the issue is embarrassingly simple; Simply clean and reapply some paste as recommended by the manufacturer. I've had this happen in five desktops in the last few weeks. Odd coincidence or simply a matter of finally noticing this? Who knows. This resolves the issue with the CPU in all 5 machines.
While I had never considered this to be an issue, suddenly now I am beginning to wonder if this is unique to my facility. We are a commercial printing facility and have chemicals and solvents in the building. Or if this is simply a matter of maintenance on aging equipment. I am inclined to believe this is an "old machine" issue.
I typically pull the cover off any machine I am working on just to physically inspect fans and heat sinks, but I now have added pulling the CPU heat sink and reapplying compound to any system work done on the bench.
Is anyone else having the same or similar issues with HP desktops/servers? | 2013/07/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/523836",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/90174/"
] | I have experienced this exact same issue with similar Pentium 4 computers from HP. Within about 9 months we reapplied thermal compound to nearly all 80 or so of these PC's. They were all about 4 years old at the time.
After the 5th pc or so, our purchasing department leaned on the hp sales guy and he bought us a case of thermal compound that came in little stickers. The funny part is he ordered 10 times too many so we had these stickers hanging around forever. I ended up doing all of my home PC's, too.
We ended up making a weekend day of servicing every pc of this model. Never had a problem again except for the occasional seized fan.
This was a typical office building. No chemical funny business going on nearby. | It could be that HP cheapskated when they applied thermal paste to those specific models - who knows after all these years. Like I said in the comment, those processors were notoriously ineffective and hot, which didn't get any better until the Core 2 series.
All your other questions are going to attract too many different opinions for a Q/A site, so I'd strip them out instead of having this question closed, and rather visit us at the [Serverfault Chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/127/the-comms-room) to discuss it. |
523,836 | This is my first question asked on SF, so be gentle kids.
As my desktops (approximately 110 or so) have begun to age and with my users resisting Windows 8, I've begun to notice an odd trend. We are primarily an HP shop. So the desktops I am having the issues with are DX2200 and DX2300 series business desktops. (Yes yes, I know they are old, but they are still serviceable for what my users use the machines for.) The users of some of the machines are complaining that the machines are very loud and/or "racing". And they seem to be very slow opening up applications like Outlook and IE. At first I went on the obvious hunt for viruses, but in not finding any and not being able to find a task that was consuming resources, I was stumped. Task man showed very little CPU usage, but the fans were running full out. Typically a sign that the CPU is under heavy load as these have variable speed fans controller by the motherboard.
In trying to solve the problem, I pulled the heatsink and fan assembly off the motherboard. I discovered that the heat sink compound on many of these machines seems to have dried out. I would describe the compound as flaky rather than smooth and gooey. The fix for the issue is embarrassingly simple; Simply clean and reapply some paste as recommended by the manufacturer. I've had this happen in five desktops in the last few weeks. Odd coincidence or simply a matter of finally noticing this? Who knows. This resolves the issue with the CPU in all 5 machines.
While I had never considered this to be an issue, suddenly now I am beginning to wonder if this is unique to my facility. We are a commercial printing facility and have chemicals and solvents in the building. Or if this is simply a matter of maintenance on aging equipment. I am inclined to believe this is an "old machine" issue.
I typically pull the cover off any machine I am working on just to physically inspect fans and heat sinks, but I now have added pulling the CPU heat sink and reapplying compound to any system work done on the bench.
Is anyone else having the same or similar issues with HP desktops/servers? | 2013/07/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/523836",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/90174/"
] | I have experienced this exact same issue with similar Pentium 4 computers from HP. Within about 9 months we reapplied thermal compound to nearly all 80 or so of these PC's. They were all about 4 years old at the time.
After the 5th pc or so, our purchasing department leaned on the hp sales guy and he bought us a case of thermal compound that came in little stickers. The funny part is he ordered 10 times too many so we had these stickers hanging around forever. I ended up doing all of my home PC's, too.
We ended up making a weekend day of servicing every pc of this model. Never had a problem again except for the occasional seized fan.
This was a typical office building. No chemical funny business going on nearby. | The thermal interface in the OEM cooling systems has not been "gooey" (even when brand new) for a long time now. But it does degrade over time. Those systems should be at least 7 years old now which is way more than the life span they were designed for - so it's hardly a design flaw/manufacturer's fault.
If you want to keep those running - just replace the thermal interface. But there's nothing to complain about |
7,034 | I am working on a site that will have a "send to email" feature for semi-personalized content (think something like a short shopping list). We already will have a print-friendly view of this content available on the site. We are having an internal debate about what the user should receive in their email if they use the "send to email" feature, and have come up with two options:
1. The email includes a PDF of the print-friendly view as an attachment, as well as a link to the web page that will include pass any dynamic info with it.
2. The email itself is specially formatted to be visually similar to the web page and include all the same content that also exists on the page. (No PDF attachment.)
I am having trouble finding any studies about email usability in this regard, but anecdotally it seems that the majority of the time sites that have this functionality are just sending you a link, unless it is for something like a receipt.
We have concerns about how different email clients will render content, as the client wants a highly stylized page as opposed to simple text, and are leaning toward option 1, but I'd love to know if anyone has any data to back this up. Our gut is that using a PDF is nice because it also allows the user to save the info locally, and it is also much more predictable how it will be rendered. | 2011/05/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/7034",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/2208/"
] | Michael - I spent a couple of years working for one of the larger email marketing firms, and from their excellent design (and deliverability) teams I learnt a couple of things about this issue:
--attachments are a turnoff. We are telling users more and more to be wary of attachments as they can be harmful. Even when received from known sources, users are reluctant to open them.
--html emails that are providing feedback to users (in your case, "these are the selections that you made") work well. Users in Outlook don't even need to open the email if using the reading pane.
--html *should not be* your only format. You really should provide a plain text version for two reasons - 1. not all users read email as html, 2. it reduces the email message's spam rating score.
Regardless, my gut-level response is "why are you sending me an attachment when you could put the info in the email body?" PDF seems so 1990s.
Edit: Just saw Matt's answer regarding links. Strongly agree that there should be a link so users can see this info on your site if they want to. | Keep in mind that not all people have the PDF reader, or use a Mac to open it with Preview. So here you might hit a wall.
Anyway, as you mentioned, most of the services out there send a link to that specific product just because it is easier and because this way you get the customer back to your website.
If the user sends it to himself, then it's more like a bookmark, maybe he is at the office and wants to check it when he's at home. If he sends it to a friend, then it's more like a recommendation and that friend should get to the website to find all the information he needs. |
7,034 | I am working on a site that will have a "send to email" feature for semi-personalized content (think something like a short shopping list). We already will have a print-friendly view of this content available on the site. We are having an internal debate about what the user should receive in their email if they use the "send to email" feature, and have come up with two options:
1. The email includes a PDF of the print-friendly view as an attachment, as well as a link to the web page that will include pass any dynamic info with it.
2. The email itself is specially formatted to be visually similar to the web page and include all the same content that also exists on the page. (No PDF attachment.)
I am having trouble finding any studies about email usability in this regard, but anecdotally it seems that the majority of the time sites that have this functionality are just sending you a link, unless it is for something like a receipt.
We have concerns about how different email clients will render content, as the client wants a highly stylized page as opposed to simple text, and are leaning toward option 1, but I'd love to know if anyone has any data to back this up. Our gut is that using a PDF is nice because it also allows the user to save the info locally, and it is also much more predictable how it will be rendered. | 2011/05/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/7034",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/2208/"
] | Keep in mind that not all people have the PDF reader, or use a Mac to open it with Preview. So here you might hit a wall.
Anyway, as you mentioned, most of the services out there send a link to that specific product just because it is easier and because this way you get the customer back to your website.
If the user sends it to himself, then it's more like a bookmark, maybe he is at the office and wants to check it when he's at home. If he sends it to a friend, then it's more like a recommendation and that friend should get to the website to find all the information he needs. | Mental Models in this case are important. If you decide to go for sending the PDF file, make sure that is very clear for the user that when he clicks on "send via e-mail" he understands that a file will be attached. Other wise the user will not expect the file and interpret that it is a virus or an error. |
7,034 | I am working on a site that will have a "send to email" feature for semi-personalized content (think something like a short shopping list). We already will have a print-friendly view of this content available on the site. We are having an internal debate about what the user should receive in their email if they use the "send to email" feature, and have come up with two options:
1. The email includes a PDF of the print-friendly view as an attachment, as well as a link to the web page that will include pass any dynamic info with it.
2. The email itself is specially formatted to be visually similar to the web page and include all the same content that also exists on the page. (No PDF attachment.)
I am having trouble finding any studies about email usability in this regard, but anecdotally it seems that the majority of the time sites that have this functionality are just sending you a link, unless it is for something like a receipt.
We have concerns about how different email clients will render content, as the client wants a highly stylized page as opposed to simple text, and are leaning toward option 1, but I'd love to know if anyone has any data to back this up. Our gut is that using a PDF is nice because it also allows the user to save the info locally, and it is also much more predictable how it will be rendered. | 2011/05/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/7034",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/2208/"
] | Keep in mind that not all people have the PDF reader, or use a Mac to open it with Preview. So here you might hit a wall.
Anyway, as you mentioned, most of the services out there send a link to that specific product just because it is easier and because this way you get the customer back to your website.
If the user sends it to himself, then it's more like a bookmark, maybe he is at the office and wants to check it when he's at home. If he sends it to a friend, then it's more like a recommendation and that friend should get to the website to find all the information he needs. | Just from a bit more of examples point of view. Certainly given that you're driving people from a website to send an email.
Here's some reasons for HTML over PDF.
It's a bit Mailchimp centric but that's all I've really used so far - but there are obviously other tools out there.
1. The duly required Nielsen quote:
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> Summary: Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation.
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> -- <https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/>
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2. When you're sending an HTML mail viewing it inside most modern email clients will have the feel of it being a web page, so it can be more of an extension of your website. You might not have the exact fonts but the experience is more alike e.g. how links react when you click on them.
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> Users don't view a PDF file as being the same environment as a website.
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>
> -- <https://www.nngroup.com/articles/open-new-windows-for-pdfs/>
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3. HTML email delivery systems have improved e.g, [Mandrill](https://mandrill.com/) that you can easily integrate into your webapp, but nothing has changed with PDFs. Mailchimp will do an excellent job of delivering emails that will display correctly across various Email clients. Mailchimp [doesn't handle PDFs](http://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/images-videos-files/what-to-know-about-pdf-campaigns-and-templates?_ga=1.108399686.512212230.1469546699) - as will probably be the case with most other email delivery systems.
4. You can get designs cheaply converted into Mailchimp templates via things like [PSD2HTML](https://www.psd2html.com/psd-to-email-templates.html), [EMAILMONKS](https://emailmonks.com/), [HTMLSLICEMATE](https://www.htmlslicemate.com/services/psd-to-email/), [CSSCHOPPER](http://www.csschopper.com/psd-to-email-template.shtml).
5. PDF attachments on mobile are much worse than being able to see the email directly in your email app. You have to both download and then do a complete context switch to the PDF reader which are often horrible on mobiles |
7,034 | I am working on a site that will have a "send to email" feature for semi-personalized content (think something like a short shopping list). We already will have a print-friendly view of this content available on the site. We are having an internal debate about what the user should receive in their email if they use the "send to email" feature, and have come up with two options:
1. The email includes a PDF of the print-friendly view as an attachment, as well as a link to the web page that will include pass any dynamic info with it.
2. The email itself is specially formatted to be visually similar to the web page and include all the same content that also exists on the page. (No PDF attachment.)
I am having trouble finding any studies about email usability in this regard, but anecdotally it seems that the majority of the time sites that have this functionality are just sending you a link, unless it is for something like a receipt.
We have concerns about how different email clients will render content, as the client wants a highly stylized page as opposed to simple text, and are leaning toward option 1, but I'd love to know if anyone has any data to back this up. Our gut is that using a PDF is nice because it also allows the user to save the info locally, and it is also much more predictable how it will be rendered. | 2011/05/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/7034",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/2208/"
] | Michael - I spent a couple of years working for one of the larger email marketing firms, and from their excellent design (and deliverability) teams I learnt a couple of things about this issue:
--attachments are a turnoff. We are telling users more and more to be wary of attachments as they can be harmful. Even when received from known sources, users are reluctant to open them.
--html emails that are providing feedback to users (in your case, "these are the selections that you made") work well. Users in Outlook don't even need to open the email if using the reading pane.
--html *should not be* your only format. You really should provide a plain text version for two reasons - 1. not all users read email as html, 2. it reduces the email message's spam rating score.
Regardless, my gut-level response is "why are you sending me an attachment when you could put the info in the email body?" PDF seems so 1990s.
Edit: Just saw Matt's answer regarding links. Strongly agree that there should be a link so users can see this info on your site if they want to. | Mental Models in this case are important. If you decide to go for sending the PDF file, make sure that is very clear for the user that when he clicks on "send via e-mail" he understands that a file will be attached. Other wise the user will not expect the file and interpret that it is a virus or an error. |
7,034 | I am working on a site that will have a "send to email" feature for semi-personalized content (think something like a short shopping list). We already will have a print-friendly view of this content available on the site. We are having an internal debate about what the user should receive in their email if they use the "send to email" feature, and have come up with two options:
1. The email includes a PDF of the print-friendly view as an attachment, as well as a link to the web page that will include pass any dynamic info with it.
2. The email itself is specially formatted to be visually similar to the web page and include all the same content that also exists on the page. (No PDF attachment.)
I am having trouble finding any studies about email usability in this regard, but anecdotally it seems that the majority of the time sites that have this functionality are just sending you a link, unless it is for something like a receipt.
We have concerns about how different email clients will render content, as the client wants a highly stylized page as opposed to simple text, and are leaning toward option 1, but I'd love to know if anyone has any data to back this up. Our gut is that using a PDF is nice because it also allows the user to save the info locally, and it is also much more predictable how it will be rendered. | 2011/05/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/7034",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/2208/"
] | Michael - I spent a couple of years working for one of the larger email marketing firms, and from their excellent design (and deliverability) teams I learnt a couple of things about this issue:
--attachments are a turnoff. We are telling users more and more to be wary of attachments as they can be harmful. Even when received from known sources, users are reluctant to open them.
--html emails that are providing feedback to users (in your case, "these are the selections that you made") work well. Users in Outlook don't even need to open the email if using the reading pane.
--html *should not be* your only format. You really should provide a plain text version for two reasons - 1. not all users read email as html, 2. it reduces the email message's spam rating score.
Regardless, my gut-level response is "why are you sending me an attachment when you could put the info in the email body?" PDF seems so 1990s.
Edit: Just saw Matt's answer regarding links. Strongly agree that there should be a link so users can see this info on your site if they want to. | Just from a bit more of examples point of view. Certainly given that you're driving people from a website to send an email.
Here's some reasons for HTML over PDF.
It's a bit Mailchimp centric but that's all I've really used so far - but there are obviously other tools out there.
1. The duly required Nielsen quote:
>
> Summary: Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation.
>
>
> -- <https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/>
>
>
>
2. When you're sending an HTML mail viewing it inside most modern email clients will have the feel of it being a web page, so it can be more of an extension of your website. You might not have the exact fonts but the experience is more alike e.g. how links react when you click on them.
>
> Users don't view a PDF file as being the same environment as a website.
>
>
> -- <https://www.nngroup.com/articles/open-new-windows-for-pdfs/>
>
>
>
3. HTML email delivery systems have improved e.g, [Mandrill](https://mandrill.com/) that you can easily integrate into your webapp, but nothing has changed with PDFs. Mailchimp will do an excellent job of delivering emails that will display correctly across various Email clients. Mailchimp [doesn't handle PDFs](http://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/images-videos-files/what-to-know-about-pdf-campaigns-and-templates?_ga=1.108399686.512212230.1469546699) - as will probably be the case with most other email delivery systems.
4. You can get designs cheaply converted into Mailchimp templates via things like [PSD2HTML](https://www.psd2html.com/psd-to-email-templates.html), [EMAILMONKS](https://emailmonks.com/), [HTMLSLICEMATE](https://www.htmlslicemate.com/services/psd-to-email/), [CSSCHOPPER](http://www.csschopper.com/psd-to-email-template.shtml).
5. PDF attachments on mobile are much worse than being able to see the email directly in your email app. You have to both download and then do a complete context switch to the PDF reader which are often horrible on mobiles |
7,034 | I am working on a site that will have a "send to email" feature for semi-personalized content (think something like a short shopping list). We already will have a print-friendly view of this content available on the site. We are having an internal debate about what the user should receive in their email if they use the "send to email" feature, and have come up with two options:
1. The email includes a PDF of the print-friendly view as an attachment, as well as a link to the web page that will include pass any dynamic info with it.
2. The email itself is specially formatted to be visually similar to the web page and include all the same content that also exists on the page. (No PDF attachment.)
I am having trouble finding any studies about email usability in this regard, but anecdotally it seems that the majority of the time sites that have this functionality are just sending you a link, unless it is for something like a receipt.
We have concerns about how different email clients will render content, as the client wants a highly stylized page as opposed to simple text, and are leaning toward option 1, but I'd love to know if anyone has any data to back this up. Our gut is that using a PDF is nice because it also allows the user to save the info locally, and it is also much more predictable how it will be rendered. | 2011/05/12 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/7034",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/2208/"
] | Mental Models in this case are important. If you decide to go for sending the PDF file, make sure that is very clear for the user that when he clicks on "send via e-mail" he understands that a file will be attached. Other wise the user will not expect the file and interpret that it is a virus or an error. | Just from a bit more of examples point of view. Certainly given that you're driving people from a website to send an email.
Here's some reasons for HTML over PDF.
It's a bit Mailchimp centric but that's all I've really used so far - but there are obviously other tools out there.
1. The duly required Nielsen quote:
>
> Summary: Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation.
>
>
> -- <https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/>
>
>
>
2. When you're sending an HTML mail viewing it inside most modern email clients will have the feel of it being a web page, so it can be more of an extension of your website. You might not have the exact fonts but the experience is more alike e.g. how links react when you click on them.
>
> Users don't view a PDF file as being the same environment as a website.
>
>
> -- <https://www.nngroup.com/articles/open-new-windows-for-pdfs/>
>
>
>
3. HTML email delivery systems have improved e.g, [Mandrill](https://mandrill.com/) that you can easily integrate into your webapp, but nothing has changed with PDFs. Mailchimp will do an excellent job of delivering emails that will display correctly across various Email clients. Mailchimp [doesn't handle PDFs](http://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/images-videos-files/what-to-know-about-pdf-campaigns-and-templates?_ga=1.108399686.512212230.1469546699) - as will probably be the case with most other email delivery systems.
4. You can get designs cheaply converted into Mailchimp templates via things like [PSD2HTML](https://www.psd2html.com/psd-to-email-templates.html), [EMAILMONKS](https://emailmonks.com/), [HTMLSLICEMATE](https://www.htmlslicemate.com/services/psd-to-email/), [CSSCHOPPER](http://www.csschopper.com/psd-to-email-template.shtml).
5. PDF attachments on mobile are much worse than being able to see the email directly in your email app. You have to both download and then do a complete context switch to the PDF reader which are often horrible on mobiles |
37,830,799 | The following problem does not exist in VS2013 (Premium),I can only reproduce it in VS2015 (Enterprise)
I've added a custom NuGet package source.
If that source if not available I cannot install **any** package (for example EntityFramework)
I get a message
>
> Attempting to gather dependency information for package
> 'EntityFramework.6.1.3' with respect to project 'ConsoleApplication9',
> targeting '.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2'
>
>
> Exception'System.AggregateException' thrown when trying to add source
> '<http://XXX/FeedService.svc/>'.
>
>
> Please verify all your online package sources are available.
>
>
>
From the last line of the message I assume that this is not a bug but as I said it works on VS2013
Any idea why this has changed?
Can I do anything about this? | 2016/06/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/37830799",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3336559/"
] | This is by design. Since we support searching across multiple sources for the packages that you need, we need to be able to reach all sources and get the package results before restoring these packages, to be deterministic and consistent in the way we do restore.
However, we understand that some users go into offline/online modes and we are investing in building a feature set that will enable you to temporarily disable some sources while you are working offline. In the meantime you can look into creating a [custom nuget.config](https://docs.nuget.org/consume/nuget-config-settings) that does not contain the offending source and using that to restore when you are in the offline mode. | This is an old question so I'm surprised [the workaround](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/2978#issuecomment-357283418) from the bug report wasn't added here. To save reader a click:
1. From within Visual Studio, open Tools -> Options -> NuGet Package
Manager -> Package Sources
2. Untick all of the package sources that are unavailable, leaving just
the public NuGet entries.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ERL3g.jpg)
3. Install your packages as normal
Once you're back in your office follow steps 1 and 2 again but this time make sure everything is checked. |
8,227,555 | So generally, I want to make an app which has video chat functionality for iPhone. But after many searches, I am still not able to find any successful results. Is there any public or even for that matter, private API available for doing this on iPhone??? If you have an YES answer, please help me.
Basically, what I want is to read the streams of the video on both the devices connected for chatting. Thanks a lot in advance and please help me if you can.
p.s - I have already checked iDoubs but it failed and always shows some unknown problem and for that reason, doesn't allow me to connect to anyone.
**ALSO :** The suggested method I have found is via HTTP Live Streaming. But, in that too, I have multiple doubts.
1.) I need to find how do I upload my video from iPhone to the HTTP server from where I would be broadcasting?
2.) Can you please post something related to setting up the server? How do I feed the video to the FFMPEG Server?
Mainly, I need to find the upload method. I am right now simply sending hex-code in the form of NSDATA to the server and I am stuck there. The main problem is, It is live. How do I handle that?
It would be best, if you could help me make the iDoubs work properly.
Thank you so much for any kind of support! | 2011/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8227555",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/593336/"
] | have a look on this [how to implement video chat in iphone](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6206706/how-to-implement-video-chat-in-iphone) But before starting you must have a IMS server up & running. | HTTP live streaming is primarily an approach for adaptive streaming from server-to-client. For client-to-server rather go for traditional streaming. There exists an open library for streaming, see this [question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6691147/h-264-over-rtp-rtsp-iphone).
Whilst it is possible to facetime to do two-way chat, it is not certain that you will be able to using public iOS APIs. That said, I have implemented one-way live streaming for iPhone and the difficult part was not the core streaming itself, but encoding of the payload. You will be able to do H264 in [hardware](http://www.foxitsolutions.com/iphone_h264_sdk.html) and [AAC](http://atastypixel.com/blog/easy-aac-compressed-audio-conversion-on-ios) / iLBC in software.
How you want to feed this to the FFMPEG depends on your transport, possibly changing from 'file' H264 frames to 'streaming' H264. Check out the H264 frame types if you implement frame dropping; reconfiguring the H264 encoder on-the-fly is not possible to my knowledge, but restarting with fresh parameters typically does not take more than a second or so.
Did you attempt to play back a live resource while capturing? That is a good starting point. If you come across an open API for H264 encoding, please post it here ;-) |
8,227,555 | So generally, I want to make an app which has video chat functionality for iPhone. But after many searches, I am still not able to find any successful results. Is there any public or even for that matter, private API available for doing this on iPhone??? If you have an YES answer, please help me.
Basically, what I want is to read the streams of the video on both the devices connected for chatting. Thanks a lot in advance and please help me if you can.
p.s - I have already checked iDoubs but it failed and always shows some unknown problem and for that reason, doesn't allow me to connect to anyone.
**ALSO :** The suggested method I have found is via HTTP Live Streaming. But, in that too, I have multiple doubts.
1.) I need to find how do I upload my video from iPhone to the HTTP server from where I would be broadcasting?
2.) Can you please post something related to setting up the server? How do I feed the video to the FFMPEG Server?
Mainly, I need to find the upload method. I am right now simply sending hex-code in the form of NSDATA to the server and I am stuck there. The main problem is, It is live. How do I handle that?
It would be best, if you could help me make the iDoubs work properly.
Thank you so much for any kind of support! | 2011/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8227555",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/593336/"
] | here is the live video chat framework what you are looking for. Its easy and simple to implement for face to face video chat. I have already tried this. Its working very fine. Great thing about this framework is multiple platform support.
**Tokbox** :
<https://tokbox.com/platform>
<https://tokbox.com/opentok/tutorials/>
**Sample Code**:
<https://github.com/opentok/opentok-ios-sdk-samples/>
Edit:
Here is the article explaining opentok using parse.
<http://www.iphonegamezone.net/ios-tutorial-create-iphone-video-chat-app-using-parse-and-opentok-tokbox/> | HTTP live streaming is primarily an approach for adaptive streaming from server-to-client. For client-to-server rather go for traditional streaming. There exists an open library for streaming, see this [question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6691147/h-264-over-rtp-rtsp-iphone).
Whilst it is possible to facetime to do two-way chat, it is not certain that you will be able to using public iOS APIs. That said, I have implemented one-way live streaming for iPhone and the difficult part was not the core streaming itself, but encoding of the payload. You will be able to do H264 in [hardware](http://www.foxitsolutions.com/iphone_h264_sdk.html) and [AAC](http://atastypixel.com/blog/easy-aac-compressed-audio-conversion-on-ios) / iLBC in software.
How you want to feed this to the FFMPEG depends on your transport, possibly changing from 'file' H264 frames to 'streaming' H264. Check out the H264 frame types if you implement frame dropping; reconfiguring the H264 encoder on-the-fly is not possible to my knowledge, but restarting with fresh parameters typically does not take more than a second or so.
Did you attempt to play back a live resource while capturing? That is a good starting point. If you come across an open API for H264 encoding, please post it here ;-) |
877,789 | I downloaded Oracle Solaris 11.2 Repository from Oracle.com and i can't figure out how to uncompress it and insert it on VirtualBox.. Please let me know what steps to take.. Thank you.. My e mail is zfinest1@hotmail.com just incase..
<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/local-repository-2245081.html>
Thanks a lot.. | 2015/02/14 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/877789",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/418797/"
] | It would have been simpler to download the repository from inside the Solaris virtual machine.
Anyway, with the files in your host machine file system, you can use the shared folder facility to make the file available to the guest, or use whatever file sharing protocol your host support.
After, run the install-repo.ksh script which unzips and installs the repository. | I kinda confused a little on your answer.. sounds good but executing might be a little difficult for me... Are you saying that i can download those solaris files with virtualbox instead of using the regular safari browser to download it? If so they how would i download the files with virtualbox from oracle.com Thanks! |
455,518 | I am working on a slave device for which I have to write a Master configuration.
In the datasheet of the slave, it is mentioned, "***The SDO data changes on the falling edge of the SCLK signals. The devices sample the SDI data on the rising edge of SCLK***"
Can you please tell me the **values of CPOL and CPHA** for this slave.
Thank you | 2019/08/31 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/455518",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/229824/"
] | This is the first (oldest) answer to this question: Based only on the informations you provided (for a slave device); your statements are equivalent to:
1. The setup of SDO (Serial Data Out) or MISO (Master In, Slave Out) occurs in the falling edge of SCK.
2. The sample of SDI (Serial Data In) or MOSI (Master Out, Slave In) occurs in the rising edge of SCK.
This can be either Mode 0 or Mode 3 of SPI. The exact Mode depends on value of
SCK in idle state .
Could be:
Mode 0: CPOL =0 (SCK=0 in idle), CPHA =0
Mode 3: CPOL=1, (SCK=1 in idle), CPHA=1
Again: Only based on informations you provided. The doubt would be removed knowing the logic state of SCK pin in idle state (no transmissions). | You must look at master datasheet and slave datasheet to find matching settings. While many microcontrollers have bits named CPOL and CPHA to change settings, there is no single standard how to set these bits to get the settings you need. Different microcontrollers could have different interpretation of these bits, so it is impossible to say how they should be set as we don't even know what the master is. |
369,688 | I'm working on a flight control system that uses SBUS (a serial protocol), and the slave transmits inverted, so I had to invert it with a hardware inverter.
This isn't that big of a deal, but I'm curious as to why it can't just be done in software? This seems to be the case a lot of the time, that serial lines need to be inverted. Can't the receiving end just logical not every bit? | 2018/04/20 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/369688",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/94165/"
] | There are a few factors here.
1. Single stage circuits are nearly always inverting. This comes from the fundamental behaviour of the transistors.
2. The polarity of the input doesn't just affect the interpretation of data bits, it also affects the interpretation of start and stop conditions.
3. Serial receivers are generally implemented in hardware.
Point 1 explains why we end up with inversion in the first place. An inverting line driver or line receiver is simpler than a non-inverting one.
Points 2 and 3 explain why if inversion is needed it must be implemented in hardware. On more modern hardware where logic is cheap and Pins are expensive there may be a programmable inverter inside the chip but not everyone seems to have realised this is a good idea yet, so there are many products out there with fixed polarity. | The UART peripherals in smaller MCUs most often don't have any ability to invert the output bits.
You cannot just take the byte data returned by the peripheral and invert it in software because the asynchronous protocol requires a start bit edge of specific polarity.
Read the peripheral description of the relevant micro and compare with the typical serial protocol and you will understand.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d94Zn.png)
In the above diagram, the timing is all from the *falling* edge of the input. In the case of RS-232, the idle state is called mark and is -5 to -15V and the start bit is called space and is +5 to +15V. The diagram above shows the typical output of an MCU, which is typically fed to an inverting driver to get appropriate RS-232 levels. If both ends of the interface use TTL inverted levels, then there is no need for an inverter (but of course you lose the advantages of robust RS-232 drivers which are supposed to be able to withstand shorts and connection to relatively high positive or negative voltages)
Since this is and transistors are virtually free, some micros allow the output polarity to be inverted with built-in hardware and a configuration bit, as supercat suggests, but it is far from ubiquitous. |
4,415 | Does anyone know of a robotics developer environment ideal for testing AI programs for drones (e.g. quadrocopters, planes, helicopters, etc.)? I would like something like Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio that includes a virtual environment (such as an outdoor environment with gravity, wind, etc.) to test out flight dynamics. I would like the options to add sensors to the virtual drone, such as gps, altimeter, gyros, etc. that the AI program can then use to steer the drone. | 2014/08/16 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4415",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/6927/"
] | For testing simple algorithms, you might be able to get by with a 2D simulator. There are a few out there that I am aware of:
* Stage: <http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/index.php?src=stage>
* STDR: <http://stdr-simulator-ros-pkg.github.io/>
Stage is an older, but useful, simulator which has integration with ROS (http: //wiki.ros.org/stage\_ros) which will allow you to write code to interact with and manipulate robots in C++/Python.
STDR is a newer 2D simulator which also has ROS bindings.
If you want a full 3D simulator I can think of three, which again are not AI or quadrotors specific, that might meet your needs:
* Gazebo: <http://gazebosim.org/>
* MORSE: <https://www.openrobots.org/wiki/morse/>
* V-REP: <http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/>
Gazebo is the 3D counter part to Stage and has ROS support, and it has been used with quadrotors (<http://www.ros.org/news/2012/03/announcement-of-hector-quadrotor-stack.html>), though it has no out-of-the-box support for them.
MORSE is based on blender and its game engine, it has ROS and YARP and Raw socket support.
V-REP is a free for education simulator with support for many languages and platforms, including Windows and C#, if that is your kind of thing. | Microsoft AirSim is a photorealistic simulator for drones. You'll find videos, instructions, and downloads on this page:
<https://github.com/Microsoft/AirSim#welcome-to-airsim> |
4,415 | Does anyone know of a robotics developer environment ideal for testing AI programs for drones (e.g. quadrocopters, planes, helicopters, etc.)? I would like something like Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio that includes a virtual environment (such as an outdoor environment with gravity, wind, etc.) to test out flight dynamics. I would like the options to add sensors to the virtual drone, such as gps, altimeter, gyros, etc. that the AI program can then use to steer the drone. | 2014/08/16 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4415",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/6927/"
] | For testing simple algorithms, you might be able to get by with a 2D simulator. There are a few out there that I am aware of:
* Stage: <http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/index.php?src=stage>
* STDR: <http://stdr-simulator-ros-pkg.github.io/>
Stage is an older, but useful, simulator which has integration with ROS (http: //wiki.ros.org/stage\_ros) which will allow you to write code to interact with and manipulate robots in C++/Python.
STDR is a newer 2D simulator which also has ROS bindings.
If you want a full 3D simulator I can think of three, which again are not AI or quadrotors specific, that might meet your needs:
* Gazebo: <http://gazebosim.org/>
* MORSE: <https://www.openrobots.org/wiki/morse/>
* V-REP: <http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/>
Gazebo is the 3D counter part to Stage and has ROS support, and it has been used with quadrotors (<http://www.ros.org/news/2012/03/announcement-of-hector-quadrotor-stack.html>), though it has no out-of-the-box support for them.
MORSE is based on blender and its game engine, it has ROS and YARP and Raw socket support.
V-REP is a free for education simulator with support for many languages and platforms, including Windows and C#, if that is your kind of thing. | With Flightgear, which is open source, you can define and fly custom aircraft and custom algorithms for handling its automatic flight controller.
Flightgear allows flying all around the world, and you could add / integrate sensor models into it.
It also has quite a flexible API, to integrate to existing codes, models, and algorithms. |
51,067 | We are looking to set up a service where multiple boxes, in different data centers, would allow HTTPS access. We are looking to set to buy a wildcard SSL cert to handle any number of vanity sub domains.
We are primarily looking at goDaddy's wildcard SSL cert. Has anyone set up anything similar to this? We have looked at Digicert's offering but we want to look for cheaper options. | 2009/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51067",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/10340/"
] | We use GoDaddy's wild card certs for most of our sites. All our sites are hosted by multiple servers. After you install the cert on the server that creates the CSR export the cert to a PFX file and import it to the other server. The clients won't know the difference.
GoDaddy knows we do this, and they haven't ever questioned us about it. | Maybe a bit too late, but
"GlobalSign SSL Certificates are provided with licensing for an unlimited number of servers included in the standard price." |
51,067 | We are looking to set up a service where multiple boxes, in different data centers, would allow HTTPS access. We are looking to set to buy a wildcard SSL cert to handle any number of vanity sub domains.
We are primarily looking at goDaddy's wildcard SSL cert. Has anyone set up anything similar to this? We have looked at Digicert's offering but we want to look for cheaper options. | 2009/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51067",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/10340/"
] | We use GoDaddy's wild card certs for most of our sites. All our sites are hosted by multiple servers. After you install the cert on the server that creates the CSR export the cert to a PFX file and import it to the other server. The clients won't know the difference.
GoDaddy knows we do this, and they haven't ever questioned us about it. | SSL certificates are issued based upon their domain, rather than which server hosts them. All that matters from a client's perspective is that the domain used to access the certificate matches the domain on the certificate itself.
For your needs, I expect any wildcard certificate should work. I'd be interested to see if anyone can provide evidence to the contrary? |
51,067 | We are looking to set up a service where multiple boxes, in different data centers, would allow HTTPS access. We are looking to set to buy a wildcard SSL cert to handle any number of vanity sub domains.
We are primarily looking at goDaddy's wildcard SSL cert. Has anyone set up anything similar to this? We have looked at Digicert's offering but we want to look for cheaper options. | 2009/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51067",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/10340/"
] | <http://www.digicert.com> has very flexible licensing including unlimited installs within your domain for UC and Wildcards. We use their UC on Exchange and are shifting from Verisign and Thawte to Digicert for other systems as well due to both the pricing and license flexibility. They also provide a 30 day trial, in which they issue a certificate that has a 30 day validity period, for testing with your systems. So far they've been great for us. | SSL certificates are issued based upon their domain, rather than which server hosts them. All that matters from a client's perspective is that the domain used to access the certificate matches the domain on the certificate itself.
For your needs, I expect any wildcard certificate should work. I'd be interested to see if anyone can provide evidence to the contrary? |
51,067 | We are looking to set up a service where multiple boxes, in different data centers, would allow HTTPS access. We are looking to set to buy a wildcard SSL cert to handle any number of vanity sub domains.
We are primarily looking at goDaddy's wildcard SSL cert. Has anyone set up anything similar to this? We have looked at Digicert's offering but we want to look for cheaper options. | 2009/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51067",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/10340/"
] | We use GoDaddy's wild card certs for most of our sites. All our sites are hosted by multiple servers. After you install the cert on the server that creates the CSR export the cert to a PFX file and import it to the other server. The clients won't know the difference.
GoDaddy knows we do this, and they haven't ever questioned us about it. | The cheapest one I have found is the one from [StartSSL](https://www.startssl.com/). They only charge for yearly verification and you can have as many wildcard certificates for different domains as you want. |
51,067 | We are looking to set up a service where multiple boxes, in different data centers, would allow HTTPS access. We are looking to set to buy a wildcard SSL cert to handle any number of vanity sub domains.
We are primarily looking at goDaddy's wildcard SSL cert. Has anyone set up anything similar to this? We have looked at Digicert's offering but we want to look for cheaper options. | 2009/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51067",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/10340/"
] | <http://www.digicert.com> has very flexible licensing including unlimited installs within your domain for UC and Wildcards. We use their UC on Exchange and are shifting from Verisign and Thawte to Digicert for other systems as well due to both the pricing and license flexibility. They also provide a 30 day trial, in which they issue a certificate that has a 30 day validity period, for testing with your systems. So far they've been great for us. | Maybe a bit too late, but
"GlobalSign SSL Certificates are provided with licensing for an unlimited number of servers included in the standard price." |
51,067 | We are looking to set up a service where multiple boxes, in different data centers, would allow HTTPS access. We are looking to set to buy a wildcard SSL cert to handle any number of vanity sub domains.
We are primarily looking at goDaddy's wildcard SSL cert. Has anyone set up anything similar to this? We have looked at Digicert's offering but we want to look for cheaper options. | 2009/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51067",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/10340/"
] | The cheapest one I have found is the one from [StartSSL](https://www.startssl.com/). They only charge for yearly verification and you can have as many wildcard certificates for different domains as you want. | Maybe a bit too late, but
"GlobalSign SSL Certificates are provided with licensing for an unlimited number of servers included in the standard price." |
51,067 | We are looking to set up a service where multiple boxes, in different data centers, would allow HTTPS access. We are looking to set to buy a wildcard SSL cert to handle any number of vanity sub domains.
We are primarily looking at goDaddy's wildcard SSL cert. Has anyone set up anything similar to this? We have looked at Digicert's offering but we want to look for cheaper options. | 2009/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51067",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/10340/"
] | <http://www.digicert.com> has very flexible licensing including unlimited installs within your domain for UC and Wildcards. We use their UC on Exchange and are shifting from Verisign and Thawte to Digicert for other systems as well due to both the pricing and license flexibility. They also provide a 30 day trial, in which they issue a certificate that has a 30 day validity period, for testing with your systems. So far they've been great for us. | The cheapest one I have found is the one from [StartSSL](https://www.startssl.com/). They only charge for yearly verification and you can have as many wildcard certificates for different domains as you want. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | It sounds like you have no way of knowing if you are complete or how far along you are to completion. That is okay.
Keep a list of the features requested, which ones are done, in progress or not started. Track these as week to week chart of the total in each category. This will give you a set of points that you can extrapolate to the end date. That is (looking only at "completed" feature counts)
* Week 1 - 2 complete
* Week 2 - 5 complete (2 from week 1, 3
from week 2)
* Week 3 - 8
* Week 4 - 12
If you have 16 weeks, you can complete about 48 features (don't worry too much about some features being bigger/smaller than others, after 4-5 weeks it will generally average out). You can then report to everyone that you only can handle X number of features. At the end of the project, what is absolutely the most important thing is that you have delivered the features needed and you haven't killed yourself in the last two weeks. By reporting this way, you can pull the key requirements out as soon as possible.
The other thing you will want to report is how much capacity you have. "I only got 2 feature requests, but could have handled 3... can you ask the staff to raise more features sooner?"
not sure I completely answered your question, so feel free to ask follow up questions... | I would use my velocity as the primary statistic to him/her. This will show how many tasks/features I "agreed" to talk for a particular week (or other timespan) and how many I completed. From this, I would mention some of the more important features implements, and why this has changed from past iterations. You can also mention any impediments that you encountered and surpassed and how that effected your velocity.
Other statistics that your boss may want to know about could include number of new bug reports raised, bug reports closed, and new feature requests submitted. You will have to either ask directly or use your best judgement to determine which ones are the most important. In the end, I would give a basic outline of progress and ask if there is anything else that he, or she, would like to know about. All the boss wants to know is that you are making progress and is there anything that you need to work your best. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | I'm assuming that you do a one-on-one at least once a week, and can discuss your priorities with you manager at that point - what's important from his/her point of view (so-and-so needs his feature before other-person, etc.) - and can therefore report how much of the stuff that makes your manager look good is done vs. the amount of stuff you have in total to do.
Your manager is probably not looking for a minute-by-minute breakdown; s/he's just trying to see if the work is getting done, if the important things are getting more attention, and that you're not drowning under the load or idle because you're blocked from proceeding.
Note that in a true agile process, you do indeed have stuff coming in all the time, but you and your manager agree on what's most important/most needed and how much of it will fit in the current work period (whether that's a week, two weeks, a month...), breaking the jobs down into smaller pieces if need be so that the pieces will fit into the period.
A major database overhaul taking several weeks could be broken down something like this: establishing backups, verifying the backups are good, designing the new database layout, writing the conversion software and testing it, setting up the rollback and testing it, trying the conversion on the staging machine, trying the rollback the same place, and then finally doing the conversion. Each one of those can probably be broken down into 1-week (or less) chunks. If some steps might take 2 or 3 weeks, you'd report how far along you were in the next meeting (targeting 50% for a 2-week, 33% for 3-week, etc.).
Ideally, you'd have a chart that has the stuff you need to do vs. the stuff you're going to do now, and you'd check off the "do now" items as you're going along. This lets your manager just walk by and see how many things are marked off vs. things that are on the list to do. | Suggest you commit weekly report:
List the requested features.
Record the changed features.
Report what you have done. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | **Once every week** (I assume that the length of iteration/sprint in your agile process is one week for the sake of example), **do the following**:
* demo the new work to the staff, to make sure their requests have been completed
* report to the boss the number of requests you completed during the week and identify/describe those requests. Make a short summary
* report to the boss the number of new requests added to your backlog/queue during the week and the total number of requests
* tell the boss what (which requests) you plan to work on next week; in other words, the current priorities. Here's the opportunity for her to confirm or change them and for you two to be clear on that
* tell the boss what the plan is for 1-2 weeks after that.
I sense that your boss is not technical enough to care for or understand **agile** terms like *velocity*, *product owner* or *burndown chart*. The above template avoids such jargon, uses simpler words like "backlog" and "queue" in their common sense, and should thus make it easier to communicate with your boss. | I would use my velocity as the primary statistic to him/her. This will show how many tasks/features I "agreed" to talk for a particular week (or other timespan) and how many I completed. From this, I would mention some of the more important features implements, and why this has changed from past iterations. You can also mention any impediments that you encountered and surpassed and how that effected your velocity.
Other statistics that your boss may want to know about could include number of new bug reports raised, bug reports closed, and new feature requests submitted. You will have to either ask directly or use your best judgement to determine which ones are the most important. In the end, I would give a basic outline of progress and ask if there is anything else that he, or she, would like to know about. All the boss wants to know is that you are making progress and is there anything that you need to work your best. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | This is a common problem when you're a programmer who works independently, and you report to somebody who's not technical.
Bosses like that mostly want to be able to figure out a few things:
* How happy are the users?
* Are the things the users want getting done?
* Is what you're doing worth the money you're being paid?
An Agile burn-down or anything else like that would be a terrible idea!As you said, your boss is really busy, so they wouldn't have time to learn about it, and probably isn't interested in it anyway.
So if I were you, I'd email them a report once a week containing:
* An "executive summary" at the start: "Finished 3 features this week, and got 2 new feature requests. At the start of this week, there were 11 unfinished feature requests, and at the end there were 10."
* A feature status list, with a brief sentence each, in three groups:
1. The features you got done during the week
2. The feature requests that came in during the week
3. The other features in the "backlog"
* A brief discussion of anything that was complicated or unusual, preferably using non-technical language.
If I were your boss, and I hadn't been getting any reports, I'd be very happy to get that every week. And if I wanted something different, I'd ask you for it. | I'm assuming that you do a one-on-one at least once a week, and can discuss your priorities with you manager at that point - what's important from his/her point of view (so-and-so needs his feature before other-person, etc.) - and can therefore report how much of the stuff that makes your manager look good is done vs. the amount of stuff you have in total to do.
Your manager is probably not looking for a minute-by-minute breakdown; s/he's just trying to see if the work is getting done, if the important things are getting more attention, and that you're not drowning under the load or idle because you're blocked from proceeding.
Note that in a true agile process, you do indeed have stuff coming in all the time, but you and your manager agree on what's most important/most needed and how much of it will fit in the current work period (whether that's a week, two weeks, a month...), breaking the jobs down into smaller pieces if need be so that the pieces will fit into the period.
A major database overhaul taking several weeks could be broken down something like this: establishing backups, verifying the backups are good, designing the new database layout, writing the conversion software and testing it, setting up the rollback and testing it, trying the conversion on the staging machine, trying the rollback the same place, and then finally doing the conversion. Each one of those can probably be broken down into 1-week (or less) chunks. If some steps might take 2 or 3 weeks, you'd report how far along you were in the next meeting (targeting 50% for a 2-week, 33% for 3-week, etc.).
Ideally, you'd have a chart that has the stuff you need to do vs. the stuff you're going to do now, and you'd check off the "do now" items as you're going along. This lets your manager just walk by and see how many things are marked off vs. things that are on the list to do. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | This is a common problem when you're a programmer who works independently, and you report to somebody who's not technical.
Bosses like that mostly want to be able to figure out a few things:
* How happy are the users?
* Are the things the users want getting done?
* Is what you're doing worth the money you're being paid?
An Agile burn-down or anything else like that would be a terrible idea!As you said, your boss is really busy, so they wouldn't have time to learn about it, and probably isn't interested in it anyway.
So if I were you, I'd email them a report once a week containing:
* An "executive summary" at the start: "Finished 3 features this week, and got 2 new feature requests. At the start of this week, there were 11 unfinished feature requests, and at the end there were 10."
* A feature status list, with a brief sentence each, in three groups:
1. The features you got done during the week
2. The feature requests that came in during the week
3. The other features in the "backlog"
* A brief discussion of anything that was complicated or unusual, preferably using non-technical language.
If I were your boss, and I hadn't been getting any reports, I'd be very happy to get that every week. And if I wanted something different, I'd ask you for it. | Suggest you commit weekly report:
List the requested features.
Record the changed features.
Report what you have done. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | I'm assuming that you do a one-on-one at least once a week, and can discuss your priorities with you manager at that point - what's important from his/her point of view (so-and-so needs his feature before other-person, etc.) - and can therefore report how much of the stuff that makes your manager look good is done vs. the amount of stuff you have in total to do.
Your manager is probably not looking for a minute-by-minute breakdown; s/he's just trying to see if the work is getting done, if the important things are getting more attention, and that you're not drowning under the load or idle because you're blocked from proceeding.
Note that in a true agile process, you do indeed have stuff coming in all the time, but you and your manager agree on what's most important/most needed and how much of it will fit in the current work period (whether that's a week, two weeks, a month...), breaking the jobs down into smaller pieces if need be so that the pieces will fit into the period.
A major database overhaul taking several weeks could be broken down something like this: establishing backups, verifying the backups are good, designing the new database layout, writing the conversion software and testing it, setting up the rollback and testing it, trying the conversion on the staging machine, trying the rollback the same place, and then finally doing the conversion. Each one of those can probably be broken down into 1-week (or less) chunks. If some steps might take 2 or 3 weeks, you'd report how far along you were in the next meeting (targeting 50% for a 2-week, 33% for 3-week, etc.).
Ideally, you'd have a chart that has the stuff you need to do vs. the stuff you're going to do now, and you'd check off the "do now" items as you're going along. This lets your manager just walk by and see how many things are marked off vs. things that are on the list to do. | I would use my velocity as the primary statistic to him/her. This will show how many tasks/features I "agreed" to talk for a particular week (or other timespan) and how many I completed. From this, I would mention some of the more important features implements, and why this has changed from past iterations. You can also mention any impediments that you encountered and surpassed and how that effected your velocity.
Other statistics that your boss may want to know about could include number of new bug reports raised, bug reports closed, and new feature requests submitted. You will have to either ask directly or use your best judgement to determine which ones are the most important. In the end, I would give a basic outline of progress and ask if there is anything else that he, or she, would like to know about. All the boss wants to know is that you are making progress and is there anything that you need to work your best. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | Three words ... burn down chart.
Your employer, whether or not they are agile addicts or just a person in charge of developers will appreciate a [burn down chart](http://analytical-mind.com/2009/07/01/scrum-artifact-burn-down-chart/).
Everyone loves to understand when a project will be completed and leveraging [yesterday's weather](http://www.cutter.com/research/2005/edge051122.html) will provide the most accurate and most realistic way to predict the completion of a project. | Suggest you commit weekly report:
List the requested features.
Record the changed features.
Report what you have done. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | Three words ... burn down chart.
Your employer, whether or not they are agile addicts or just a person in charge of developers will appreciate a [burn down chart](http://analytical-mind.com/2009/07/01/scrum-artifact-burn-down-chart/).
Everyone loves to understand when a project will be completed and leveraging [yesterday's weather](http://www.cutter.com/research/2005/edge051122.html) will provide the most accurate and most realistic way to predict the completion of a project. | I'm assuming that you do a one-on-one at least once a week, and can discuss your priorities with you manager at that point - what's important from his/her point of view (so-and-so needs his feature before other-person, etc.) - and can therefore report how much of the stuff that makes your manager look good is done vs. the amount of stuff you have in total to do.
Your manager is probably not looking for a minute-by-minute breakdown; s/he's just trying to see if the work is getting done, if the important things are getting more attention, and that you're not drowning under the load or idle because you're blocked from proceeding.
Note that in a true agile process, you do indeed have stuff coming in all the time, but you and your manager agree on what's most important/most needed and how much of it will fit in the current work period (whether that's a week, two weeks, a month...), breaking the jobs down into smaller pieces if need be so that the pieces will fit into the period.
A major database overhaul taking several weeks could be broken down something like this: establishing backups, verifying the backups are good, designing the new database layout, writing the conversion software and testing it, setting up the rollback and testing it, trying the conversion on the staging machine, trying the rollback the same place, and then finally doing the conversion. Each one of those can probably be broken down into 1-week (or less) chunks. If some steps might take 2 or 3 weeks, you'd report how far along you were in the next meeting (targeting 50% for a 2-week, 33% for 3-week, etc.).
Ideally, you'd have a chart that has the stuff you need to do vs. the stuff you're going to do now, and you'd check off the "do now" items as you're going along. This lets your manager just walk by and see how many things are marked off vs. things that are on the list to do. |
79,221 | I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department.
Contact person:
1. The staff who actually uses the software and raises feature requests,
2. My boss (non-programmer), and she is not the software's user.
The project's nature:
It is a ready-made software, which has been bought from third-party.
I have to modify or add feature/function to this software in order to cater for department's need.
This is a software is need to use throughout the semester.
Not all features needs to be used at the beginning.
Hence we are using the Agile model:
When the staff needs a certain feature, they raises a request, and I make the changes. By the end of the semester, I suppose all the required features will be raised and implemented.
The problem:
Everytime my boss asked me how the progress, I can't answer, because I don't know how to answer.
I don't have complete list of all the required features.
Even though I have completed features which were raised last week, I still can't tell my boss I have "completed", because new features are coming in too, and I don't know how much.
I can't tell "We have how many % completion" nor "We are going to complete it by xxx".
Sometime out of 3 requests, I manage to complete 2, I would tell my boss "I have completed 2, but there is one feature not complete yet".
After a long period of time, I sounds like "I always have something not finish, after so long".
Being unable to report the progress makes me looks really bad.
It's not about how much I've done, it's about how to let people know.
If I were the manager, and my staff keep failing to report the progress to me for months, I will feel this guy is incapable too.
Do you guys have any idea how to report, or answer question as simple as "what is the status / progress of the software modification"?
**UPDATE**
My boss doesn't involve in development task directly, so she doesn't have a clue on what I am doing, or how the program works. We don't meet regularly as she is busy, and I feel it will be waste of time because she is not the main user, she doesn't know the detail of the program.
I meet regularly with the staff who uses and knows better about the software.
I feel hard to explain the progress to my boss. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/79221",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/26222/"
] | It sounds like you have no way of knowing if you are complete or how far along you are to completion. That is okay.
Keep a list of the features requested, which ones are done, in progress or not started. Track these as week to week chart of the total in each category. This will give you a set of points that you can extrapolate to the end date. That is (looking only at "completed" feature counts)
* Week 1 - 2 complete
* Week 2 - 5 complete (2 from week 1, 3
from week 2)
* Week 3 - 8
* Week 4 - 12
If you have 16 weeks, you can complete about 48 features (don't worry too much about some features being bigger/smaller than others, after 4-5 weeks it will generally average out). You can then report to everyone that you only can handle X number of features. At the end of the project, what is absolutely the most important thing is that you have delivered the features needed and you haven't killed yourself in the last two weeks. By reporting this way, you can pull the key requirements out as soon as possible.
The other thing you will want to report is how much capacity you have. "I only got 2 feature requests, but could have handled 3... can you ask the staff to raise more features sooner?"
not sure I completely answered your question, so feel free to ask follow up questions... | I'm assuming that you do a one-on-one at least once a week, and can discuss your priorities with you manager at that point - what's important from his/her point of view (so-and-so needs his feature before other-person, etc.) - and can therefore report how much of the stuff that makes your manager look good is done vs. the amount of stuff you have in total to do.
Your manager is probably not looking for a minute-by-minute breakdown; s/he's just trying to see if the work is getting done, if the important things are getting more attention, and that you're not drowning under the load or idle because you're blocked from proceeding.
Note that in a true agile process, you do indeed have stuff coming in all the time, but you and your manager agree on what's most important/most needed and how much of it will fit in the current work period (whether that's a week, two weeks, a month...), breaking the jobs down into smaller pieces if need be so that the pieces will fit into the period.
A major database overhaul taking several weeks could be broken down something like this: establishing backups, verifying the backups are good, designing the new database layout, writing the conversion software and testing it, setting up the rollback and testing it, trying the conversion on the staging machine, trying the rollback the same place, and then finally doing the conversion. Each one of those can probably be broken down into 1-week (or less) chunks. If some steps might take 2 or 3 weeks, you'd report how far along you were in the next meeting (targeting 50% for a 2-week, 33% for 3-week, etc.).
Ideally, you'd have a chart that has the stuff you need to do vs. the stuff you're going to do now, and you'd check off the "do now" items as you're going along. This lets your manager just walk by and see how many things are marked off vs. things that are on the list to do. |
50,658,096 | I want to run tests in my applications in PhpStorm. Application is running on Symfony, for tests I am using PHPUnit and Symfony PHPUnit bridge.
Tests are running, but PhpStorm does not display any failure - it says: "All tests passed". In raw output is log of failure, so test failed (see screenshot), but PhpStorm did not show it.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VUEb1.png)
Can anyone help me please? | 2018/06/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/50658096",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9452240/"
] | Please follow the issue, Sebastian has changed line endings so we'll have to update our parser.
<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-42390>
<https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/commit/56de7e9f96869a808fefc5a2fefbca7970ad2aab> | I am using newest version of PHPStorm. I tried to downgrade from PHPUnit 7^ to PHPUnit 6^, after that downgrade it works perfectly. So I found temorary fix for this. |
88,770 | I've been doing so much reading on UX and feeling somewhat overwhelmed as to where to start when you already have an existing product. So in the context of a site that already has a lot of traffic and users, how do you go about improving its UX? Page by page? Feature by feature? Developping personas? | 2016/01/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/88770",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/64487/"
] | Start by figuring out where you are, and where you want to go
-------------------------------------------------------------
Without a clear view of what your UX objectives are, you're likely to end up just wasting time and money on UX.
---
### Step 1: figure out your objectives and prioritize them
* For example, are you looking to use UX as a branding vehicle? Increase conversions and signups? Increase sales? Reduce errors and customer service calls? etc.
* Start by building a list of objectives for your UX, then prioritize it and get buy-in from the organization.
* Look over your objectives and try to make sure they are *measurable* (e.g. conversions are easy to measure, but if branding is an objective, how will you know if you're successful?)
### Step 2: figure out where you are today
* Once you have clear and measurable UX objectives, take stock of where you are today. For example, measure current error rates, customer calls, branding effectiveness, conversions, or whatever.
* This will allow you to measure progress and/or determine whether your UX efforts are successful.
### Step 3: plan and resource your UX program
* Once the objectives are clear, it becomes much easier to figure out what UX techniques and projects you need to apply to get results.
* For example, if branding is important then you know that you will need to involve your brand team, graphic designers, etc.
* If site errors and navigation is important, then you will know that you need to work with information architecture, site flow, and maybe page-by-page storyboards.
* If conversion is important, then you will know that you may need to improve site analytics, use genetic or AB testing approaches, etc.
UX is a cross-functional discipline and you're right to point out that it can be overwhelming to figure out a starting point. It's the same as staring at a gigantic toolbox trying to figure out which tool to use: the solution is *not* to keep staring at the tools, but rather to have a clear idea of what you are trying to accomplish so that it becomes clear what tools you need for the job you are doing. | >
> So in the context of a site that already has a lot of traffic and
> users, how do you go about improving its UX?
>
>
>
There's probably not a single way to start, but a first step could be getting to know what are the current UX related issues for users. They might be more visible (direct user feedback) or less visible (discovered by user tests, analyzing metrics/analytics, etc).
You could also start analyzing the most used/visited/convertion-driven pages and see if they all follow the best UX practices and present some improvement proposal.
Take a look at [UX process from UXmastery.com](http://uxmastery.com/resources/process/)
>
> * Strategy
> * Research
> * Analysis
> * Design
> * Production
>
>
>
Research and Analysis tasks are probably the ones you are doing if you don't have been asigned with an specific task since if the site is already established, the strategy should be too. |
88,770 | I've been doing so much reading on UX and feeling somewhat overwhelmed as to where to start when you already have an existing product. So in the context of a site that already has a lot of traffic and users, how do you go about improving its UX? Page by page? Feature by feature? Developping personas? | 2016/01/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/88770",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/64487/"
] | Yes. I agree with this. Let your objectives/goal define the way for beginning.
If you want to increase more users from a particular demographic, begin with researching WHAT that demographic needs/is attracted to.
If you want more sales, research techniques for increasing sales and keep an eye on your numbers.
Entering the UX redesign process with goals in mind will help guide your decisions and will give you focus and direction!! | >
> So in the context of a site that already has a lot of traffic and
> users, how do you go about improving its UX?
>
>
>
There's probably not a single way to start, but a first step could be getting to know what are the current UX related issues for users. They might be more visible (direct user feedback) or less visible (discovered by user tests, analyzing metrics/analytics, etc).
You could also start analyzing the most used/visited/convertion-driven pages and see if they all follow the best UX practices and present some improvement proposal.
Take a look at [UX process from UXmastery.com](http://uxmastery.com/resources/process/)
>
> * Strategy
> * Research
> * Analysis
> * Design
> * Production
>
>
>
Research and Analysis tasks are probably the ones you are doing if you don't have been asigned with an specific task since if the site is already established, the strategy should be too. |
88,770 | I've been doing so much reading on UX and feeling somewhat overwhelmed as to where to start when you already have an existing product. So in the context of a site that already has a lot of traffic and users, how do you go about improving its UX? Page by page? Feature by feature? Developping personas? | 2016/01/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/88770",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/64487/"
] | Start by figuring out where you are, and where you want to go
-------------------------------------------------------------
Without a clear view of what your UX objectives are, you're likely to end up just wasting time and money on UX.
---
### Step 1: figure out your objectives and prioritize them
* For example, are you looking to use UX as a branding vehicle? Increase conversions and signups? Increase sales? Reduce errors and customer service calls? etc.
* Start by building a list of objectives for your UX, then prioritize it and get buy-in from the organization.
* Look over your objectives and try to make sure they are *measurable* (e.g. conversions are easy to measure, but if branding is an objective, how will you know if you're successful?)
### Step 2: figure out where you are today
* Once you have clear and measurable UX objectives, take stock of where you are today. For example, measure current error rates, customer calls, branding effectiveness, conversions, or whatever.
* This will allow you to measure progress and/or determine whether your UX efforts are successful.
### Step 3: plan and resource your UX program
* Once the objectives are clear, it becomes much easier to figure out what UX techniques and projects you need to apply to get results.
* For example, if branding is important then you know that you will need to involve your brand team, graphic designers, etc.
* If site errors and navigation is important, then you will know that you need to work with information architecture, site flow, and maybe page-by-page storyboards.
* If conversion is important, then you will know that you may need to improve site analytics, use genetic or AB testing approaches, etc.
UX is a cross-functional discipline and you're right to point out that it can be overwhelming to figure out a starting point. It's the same as staring at a gigantic toolbox trying to figure out which tool to use: the solution is *not* to keep staring at the tools, but rather to have a clear idea of what you are trying to accomplish so that it becomes clear what tools you need for the job you are doing. | Yes. I agree with this. Let your objectives/goal define the way for beginning.
If you want to increase more users from a particular demographic, begin with researching WHAT that demographic needs/is attracted to.
If you want more sales, research techniques for increasing sales and keep an eye on your numbers.
Entering the UX redesign process with goals in mind will help guide your decisions and will give you focus and direction!! |
8,512 | My family has been playing this card game for years but no one knows what it is called.
You start by dealing out 5 cards to everyone, then flip the next card, which marks the trump suit. The dealer can pick up that card and discard one from his hand face down. Then you go around the table and say if you are in or out, but the dealer has to be in.
Scoring: you start with 21 points and every trick lowers your points. If you get skunked you get 5 points added to your score. You want to get to exactly zero.
What is the name of this game? | 2012/10/02 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/8512",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/3344/"
] | This sounds like a [trick taking](http://www.pagat.com/class/trick.html) game in the [Rams group](http://www.pagat.com/rams/).
>
> **Rams group:** in these games players have the opportunity to drop out after seeing their hands, but anyone who stays in and fails to make their quota of tricks suffers a penalty.
>
>
>
None of these seem to match the rules you state exactly.
[Raub](http://www.pagat.com/rams/raub.html) starts at 21, with players trying to get to 0 points. But, it is played with 4 cards, when you fail to score a trick you add +4.
[Loo:](http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/histocs/loo.html) doesn't have the starting total, with players winning shares of the pot for the proportion of tricks they take, with players that take none having to pay into the pot.
[Bourre:](http://www.pagat.com/rams/boure.html#introduction) also isn't a perfect fit. It also has a pot like Loo, has players who fail to take tricks paying into the pot. It does have the first revealed card to indicate trump. | My family always called it "Cut Throat". Apparently it's also known as "Cut throat Euchre" or "Club Buck Euchre". |
8,512 | My family has been playing this card game for years but no one knows what it is called.
You start by dealing out 5 cards to everyone, then flip the next card, which marks the trump suit. The dealer can pick up that card and discard one from his hand face down. Then you go around the table and say if you are in or out, but the dealer has to be in.
Scoring: you start with 21 points and every trick lowers your points. If you get skunked you get 5 points added to your score. You want to get to exactly zero.
What is the name of this game? | 2012/10/02 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/8512",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/3344/"
] | This sounds like a [trick taking](http://www.pagat.com/class/trick.html) game in the [Rams group](http://www.pagat.com/rams/).
>
> **Rams group:** in these games players have the opportunity to drop out after seeing their hands, but anyone who stays in and fails to make their quota of tricks suffers a penalty.
>
>
>
None of these seem to match the rules you state exactly.
[Raub](http://www.pagat.com/rams/raub.html) starts at 21, with players trying to get to 0 points. But, it is played with 4 cards, when you fail to score a trick you add +4.
[Loo:](http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/histocs/loo.html) doesn't have the starting total, with players winning shares of the pot for the proportion of tricks they take, with players that take none having to pay into the pot.
[Bourre:](http://www.pagat.com/rams/boure.html#introduction) also isn't a perfect fit. It also has a pot like Loo, has players who fail to take tricks paying into the pot. It does have the first revealed card to indicate trump. | My parents played this game back in the day and they called it donut cause of the circle around the skunk when players go up 5 points |
24,339,115 | I have created an SSDT project for SQL Server 2012 database. since i have database already present in the SQL Server Database engine so i use the import feature to import all the objects into SSDT. everything works fine but i am now facing 2 problems
1) since one of the table is using the HIERARCHYID column (col1) as a datatype and there is one computed column based on the HIERARCHYID column. The definition of computed column is something like case Col1= hierarchy.GETRoot() THE NULL ELSE someexpression END. after importing the table script in SSDT, Error of unresolve reference start coming up.
If i change the defination to something like case hierarchy.GETRoot() = Col1 THE NULL ELSE someexpression END (note now col1 is now at the end) it works fine.
2) if i keep the above solution (i.e keeping col1 after =) then at the time of publishing the project,SSDT has to drop the column at the production server and then recreate it. since there is a index depend on this column the deployment get failed everytime saying the error like ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN fail because other object access it. i have no control how SSDT design / publish the script. and if i have to keep any eye to drop every dependent object before publishing the database project then i think there is no use of it
Please suggest how i can resolve this
Thanks
Atul | 2014/06/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24339115",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1268247/"
] | I was able to reproduce the reference resolution problem you described. I would suggest submitting that issue to Microsoft via Connect here: <https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/CreateFeedback.aspx>
I was not able to reproduce the publish failure. Which version of SSDT does the Visual Studio Help > About dialog show is installed? The most recent version ends with 40403.0. If you're not using the most recent version, I would suggest installing it to see if that fixes the publish failure. You can use Tools > Extensions and Updates to download SSDT updates.
If you do have the most recent version, could you provide an example schema that demonstrates the problem? | Compare your project to a production dacpac and have it generate scripts to make the changes. Then if need be, you can edit the scripts before they get applied to production. This is how my dev teams do it. |
24,339,115 | I have created an SSDT project for SQL Server 2012 database. since i have database already present in the SQL Server Database engine so i use the import feature to import all the objects into SSDT. everything works fine but i am now facing 2 problems
1) since one of the table is using the HIERARCHYID column (col1) as a datatype and there is one computed column based on the HIERARCHYID column. The definition of computed column is something like case Col1= hierarchy.GETRoot() THE NULL ELSE someexpression END. after importing the table script in SSDT, Error of unresolve reference start coming up.
If i change the defination to something like case hierarchy.GETRoot() = Col1 THE NULL ELSE someexpression END (note now col1 is now at the end) it works fine.
2) if i keep the above solution (i.e keeping col1 after =) then at the time of publishing the project,SSDT has to drop the column at the production server and then recreate it. since there is a index depend on this column the deployment get failed everytime saying the error like ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN fail because other object access it. i have no control how SSDT design / publish the script. and if i have to keep any eye to drop every dependent object before publishing the database project then i think there is no use of it
Please suggest how i can resolve this
Thanks
Atul | 2014/06/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24339115",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1268247/"
] | I was able to reproduce the reference resolution problem you described. I would suggest submitting that issue to Microsoft via Connect here: <https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/CreateFeedback.aspx>
I was not able to reproduce the publish failure. Which version of SSDT does the Visual Studio Help > About dialog show is installed? The most recent version ends with 40403.0. If you're not using the most recent version, I would suggest installing it to see if that fixes the publish failure. You can use Tools > Extensions and Updates to download SSDT updates.
If you do have the most recent version, could you provide an example schema that demonstrates the problem? | ~~I was running into the same issue for a number of days now. After finding your post to confirm the issue was in SSDT, I realized that it may be fixed in a later version than the one we are currently using: 12.0.50730.0 (VS 2013, the version this project uses).~~
I also have version 14.0.3917.1 installed from VS 2017. I just attempted with that, no issues. **So the solution is to upgrade your SSDT version**.
Please ignore that solution, it appears my success last night was anomalous. While attempting to repeat it today after restoring a database with the issue, the deployment failed to account for at least one index again.
EDIT:
I have posted about this on User Voice: <https://feedback.azure.com/forums/908035-sql-server/suggestions/33850309-computed-column-indexes-are-ignored-with-dacpac-de>
Also, to maintain that this is at least a workable answer of sorts, the workaround I am implementing involves dropping and recreating the missed indexes myself using pre and post deployment scripts.
Not an ideal solution if the dacpac was meant to update various versions of the database that could have different levels of drift from the model, however it works for us as we have a tight control over all instances and can expect about the same delta generated each release for each db instance. |
345,657 | My son is playing Minecraft on an Xbox One S, and he is currently stuck in the 3rd person view. I tried looking it up, but everything just said to use the left toggle switch. That, however, is doing nothing. How do I change the POV? | 2019/01/27 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/345657",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/226224/"
] | On the Xbox One the correct game control to change the view is *Press down on Left Stick (LS)*.
Now if that is not working I would recommend restarting the console (Silly I know but simple problems sometimes require the most simple solutions). You could also go into the settings of the game and check the controller controls and see if the key was changed from that. Last of all you could always try plugging in a keyboard and change the POV like that.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0GCvH.jpg)
[Image credits go to Windows Central](https://www.windowscentral.com/hands-xbox-one-mouse-and-keyboard-support) | I’m not sure if this will work for you or not, but you could try changing the batteries in the controller and see if that works? |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | Usually a WiFi router has a web interface that shows all (previously) connected WiFi devices... Try going to the IP address of your router through your browser.
Read this part, and the rest of my blog post about WiFi security here: <http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/28/iron-cladding-your-wi-fi-network/>
Happy reading! | first, it helps to understand how WIFI works, read <http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1447501> and/or <http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm>.
any other machine "using your network" has to be associated to your network which means it sends "associated beacons" (as explained [here](http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm#_Toc77524650)).
then all you have to do is to grab a tool which sniffs WIFI-packets and then analyze, which of the received packets are meant to be used "in your network", you can find a list of tools over at <http://www.topbits.com/wi-fi-software-tools.html>.
and then you can compare the MAC address of the sender with the MAC address of the devices you allow and hope, that the sender did not fake its MAC address :) |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | if you can use Linux, there is a tool which is called aireplay-ng it is actually a set u will find, airodump-ng,aireplay-ng and so on...
{For Linux only}
if it is not downloaded and let's say you are using Ubuntu get the tool first using the **apt-get install** command,
then look for wireless routers
**iwlist scan wlan0**
then see which channel you router is on,
then **airmon-ng start wlan0**
and finally **airodump-ng mon0** | A GUI program is [WifiGuard](https://www.softperfect.com/products/wifiguard/), free in Linux and Windows.
It can monitor and rescan the network every 1 to 60 minutes, play sound or send mail on detection, etc.
To use a CLI option for Linux, follow [these instructions](http://itsfoss.com/how-to-find-what-devices-are-connected-to-network-in-ubuntu/). |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | first, it helps to understand how WIFI works, read <http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1447501> and/or <http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm>.
any other machine "using your network" has to be associated to your network which means it sends "associated beacons" (as explained [here](http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm#_Toc77524650)).
then all you have to do is to grab a tool which sniffs WIFI-packets and then analyze, which of the received packets are meant to be used "in your network", you can find a list of tools over at <http://www.topbits.com/wi-fi-software-tools.html>.
and then you can compare the MAC address of the sender with the MAC address of the devices you allow and hope, that the sender did not fake its MAC address :) | A GUI program is [WifiGuard](https://www.softperfect.com/products/wifiguard/), free in Linux and Windows.
It can monitor and rescan the network every 1 to 60 minutes, play sound or send mail on detection, etc.
To use a CLI option for Linux, follow [these instructions](http://itsfoss.com/how-to-find-what-devices-are-connected-to-network-in-ubuntu/). |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | first, it helps to understand how WIFI works, read <http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1447501> and/or <http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm>.
any other machine "using your network" has to be associated to your network which means it sends "associated beacons" (as explained [here](http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm#_Toc77524650)).
then all you have to do is to grab a tool which sniffs WIFI-packets and then analyze, which of the received packets are meant to be used "in your network", you can find a list of tools over at <http://www.topbits.com/wi-fi-software-tools.html>.
and then you can compare the MAC address of the sender with the MAC address of the devices you allow and hope, that the sender did not fake its MAC address :) | If you're worried, changing the password on a regular basis will ensure that if somebody does break in, they won't stay for long.
Obligatory XKCD reference: <http://www.xkcd.com/341/>
 |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | if you can use Linux, there is a tool which is called aireplay-ng it is actually a set u will find, airodump-ng,aireplay-ng and so on...
{For Linux only}
if it is not downloaded and let's say you are using Ubuntu get the tool first using the **apt-get install** command,
then look for wireless routers
**iwlist scan wlan0**
then see which channel you router is on,
then **airmon-ng start wlan0**
and finally **airodump-ng mon0** | as bloodphilia has said, you could find this you thorough the web interface of your point (typically 192.168.2.1 or 192.168.2.2, not always though). Mine at home will show the ip, mac and computer name so if there's a computer (or iphone, laptop, etc) you don't recognise you can set up a MAC Blacklist...or change you wireless key. |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | Usually a WiFi router has a web interface that shows all (previously) connected WiFi devices... Try going to the IP address of your router through your browser.
Read this part, and the rest of my blog post about WiFi security here: <http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/28/iron-cladding-your-wi-fi-network/>
Happy reading! | if you can use Linux, there is a tool which is called aireplay-ng it is actually a set u will find, airodump-ng,aireplay-ng and so on...
{For Linux only}
if it is not downloaded and let's say you are using Ubuntu get the tool first using the **apt-get install** command,
then look for wireless routers
**iwlist scan wlan0**
then see which channel you router is on,
then **airmon-ng start wlan0**
and finally **airodump-ng mon0** |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | first, it helps to understand how WIFI works, read <http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1447501> and/or <http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm>.
any other machine "using your network" has to be associated to your network which means it sends "associated beacons" (as explained [here](http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm#_Toc77524650)).
then all you have to do is to grab a tool which sniffs WIFI-packets and then analyze, which of the received packets are meant to be used "in your network", you can find a list of tools over at <http://www.topbits.com/wi-fi-software-tools.html>.
and then you can compare the MAC address of the sender with the MAC address of the devices you allow and hope, that the sender did not fake its MAC address :) | as bloodphilia has said, you could find this you thorough the web interface of your point (typically 192.168.2.1 or 192.168.2.2, not always though). Mine at home will show the ip, mac and computer name so if there's a computer (or iphone, laptop, etc) you don't recognise you can set up a MAC Blacklist...or change you wireless key. |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | first, it helps to understand how WIFI works, read <http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1447501> and/or <http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm>.
any other machine "using your network" has to be associated to your network which means it sends "associated beacons" (as explained [here](http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm#_Toc77524650)).
then all you have to do is to grab a tool which sniffs WIFI-packets and then analyze, which of the received packets are meant to be used "in your network", you can find a list of tools over at <http://www.topbits.com/wi-fi-software-tools.html>.
and then you can compare the MAC address of the sender with the MAC address of the devices you allow and hope, that the sender did not fake its MAC address :) | You can use Kismet to detect not only yours but any router which is transferring data. I usually use BackTrack for this purpose. But generally to hack modems wifi password.
Another alternative is to use [Netscan](http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/) which only works for windows. But you can detect any ip's using your modem. Also make sure wifi users are not isolated. |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | Usually a WiFi router has a web interface that shows all (previously) connected WiFi devices... Try going to the IP address of your router through your browser.
Read this part, and the rest of my blog post about WiFi security here: <http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/28/iron-cladding-your-wi-fi-network/>
Happy reading! | If you're worried, changing the password on a regular basis will ensure that if somebody does break in, they won't stay for long.
Obligatory XKCD reference: <http://www.xkcd.com/341/>
 |
143,663 | In linux prompt,we can type `!mysql` and so on to match a history command to save time.
Is there a utility for windows(XP to be exact) that enables this feature? | 2010/05/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/143663",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37018/"
] | if you can use Linux, there is a tool which is called aireplay-ng it is actually a set u will find, airodump-ng,aireplay-ng and so on...
{For Linux only}
if it is not downloaded and let's say you are using Ubuntu get the tool first using the **apt-get install** command,
then look for wireless routers
**iwlist scan wlan0**
then see which channel you router is on,
then **airmon-ng start wlan0**
and finally **airodump-ng mon0** | You can use Kismet to detect not only yours but any router which is transferring data. I usually use BackTrack for this purpose. But generally to hack modems wifi password.
Another alternative is to use [Netscan](http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/) which only works for windows. But you can detect any ip's using your modem. Also make sure wifi users are not isolated. |
314,912 | I Have a os windows server 2008 in my Laptop with domain name. Recently when i start os and i put the password but it says reset the password so i put new password so appaer the message is that "Unable to update the Password.the value provided for the new password does not meet the length,complexeity or history requirements of the domain". Now i cannot open the Windows so please inform me solution. | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/314912",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/95699/"
] | You've obviously not met the password complexity policy set at a domain or group level and made this mistake enough times to lock your account. You need to a) speak to your domain administration team to get them to explain the policy to you and fix it this time and b) read our FAQ as this was an inappropriate question for this site. | Create a password that meets the length, complexity, and history requirements of the domain. You can find out what those requirements are by checking under "Account Policies -> Password Policy" using secpol.msc on a domain controller. |
314,912 | I Have a os windows server 2008 in my Laptop with domain name. Recently when i start os and i put the password but it says reset the password so i put new password so appaer the message is that "Unable to update the Password.the value provided for the new password does not meet the length,complexeity or history requirements of the domain". Now i cannot open the Windows so please inform me solution. | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/314912",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/95699/"
] | You've obviously not met the password complexity policy set at a domain or group level and made this mistake enough times to lock your account. You need to a) speak to your domain administration team to get them to explain the policy to you and fix it this time and b) read our FAQ as this was an inappropriate question for this site. | Have your network administrator A) Make sure your Active Directory user account is not locked and B) Reset your password for you (and possible adjust the expiration date). Also, you might want to ask him what the password requirements are. |
922 | With SNMP pollers, is it better to locate them closer to the DB to ensure the poller to DB traffic has a better chance of making it. Or put the poller closer to monitored device, so that traffic is more accurate in terms of latency and making it to the device?
e.g. I have 3 regions, and 3 pollers, and 1 DB. Do I put all four devices in one location, or distribute the pollers?
I have some opinions but wanted to get other side of the story. | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/922",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/919/"
] | This seems like useless micro-optimization in any case, which you shouldn't worry about until actual practical issue arises, which is likely never.
However purely academically you should put snmp poller near device it is polling as it is request/response protocol which is RTT bound.
The poller can aggregate the polled data and use TCP with windows to send large amount of data fast to DB. | FWIW this is a great question and I can't disagree with @ytti in that this has a lot of potential to go down a theory/academia rabbithole.
From a practical perspective, placing the pollers close to the objects being polled is what you want to do. I'm not a distributed systems expert/SDE, but I'd imagine that any NMS that's designed to be distributed should already have functions in it to separate out db insertion timestamps from actual polled SNMP data and its own timestamps. It's still not an easy problem to solve, but as ytti has already said (and I agree with), doing the db inserts shouldn't take priority over data gathered from polling. Those have the luxury of being wrapped up in TCP for better data integrity protection. With actual SNMP polls and traps, you have "best effort" times two to contend with - number one being UDP obviously, and number 2 being process management/"data integrity" (ie counters being accurate etc) on the box that you're polling. Sometimes a box just starts to choke and returning numbers via SNMP takes a backseat to other things. |
922 | With SNMP pollers, is it better to locate them closer to the DB to ensure the poller to DB traffic has a better chance of making it. Or put the poller closer to monitored device, so that traffic is more accurate in terms of latency and making it to the device?
e.g. I have 3 regions, and 3 pollers, and 1 DB. Do I put all four devices in one location, or distribute the pollers?
I have some opinions but wanted to get other side of the story. | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/922",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/919/"
] | This seems like useless micro-optimization in any case, which you shouldn't worry about until actual practical issue arises, which is likely never.
However purely academically you should put snmp poller near device it is polling as it is request/response protocol which is RTT bound.
The poller can aggregate the polled data and use TCP with windows to send large amount of data fast to DB. | The number of pollers used should be based on the number of nodes that is being polled and the frequency of polls. In addition, some vendors do not support the poller being distant from the DB. Solarwinds has this restriction. |
922 | With SNMP pollers, is it better to locate them closer to the DB to ensure the poller to DB traffic has a better chance of making it. Or put the poller closer to monitored device, so that traffic is more accurate in terms of latency and making it to the device?
e.g. I have 3 regions, and 3 pollers, and 1 DB. Do I put all four devices in one location, or distribute the pollers?
I have some opinions but wanted to get other side of the story. | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/922",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/919/"
] | This seems like useless micro-optimization in any case, which you shouldn't worry about until actual practical issue arises, which is likely never.
However purely academically you should put snmp poller near device it is polling as it is request/response protocol which is RTT bound.
The poller can aggregate the polled data and use TCP with windows to send large amount of data fast to DB. | Being closer to the polled devices also means you can have a higher polling frequency due to lower latency. I found that when I was trying to poll a device over our transatlantic circuits at say 5 or 10 second intervals it was taking too long to walk the tables. |
922 | With SNMP pollers, is it better to locate them closer to the DB to ensure the poller to DB traffic has a better chance of making it. Or put the poller closer to monitored device, so that traffic is more accurate in terms of latency and making it to the device?
e.g. I have 3 regions, and 3 pollers, and 1 DB. Do I put all four devices in one location, or distribute the pollers?
I have some opinions but wanted to get other side of the story. | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/922",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/919/"
] | FWIW this is a great question and I can't disagree with @ytti in that this has a lot of potential to go down a theory/academia rabbithole.
From a practical perspective, placing the pollers close to the objects being polled is what you want to do. I'm not a distributed systems expert/SDE, but I'd imagine that any NMS that's designed to be distributed should already have functions in it to separate out db insertion timestamps from actual polled SNMP data and its own timestamps. It's still not an easy problem to solve, but as ytti has already said (and I agree with), doing the db inserts shouldn't take priority over data gathered from polling. Those have the luxury of being wrapped up in TCP for better data integrity protection. With actual SNMP polls and traps, you have "best effort" times two to contend with - number one being UDP obviously, and number 2 being process management/"data integrity" (ie counters being accurate etc) on the box that you're polling. Sometimes a box just starts to choke and returning numbers via SNMP takes a backseat to other things. | The number of pollers used should be based on the number of nodes that is being polled and the frequency of polls. In addition, some vendors do not support the poller being distant from the DB. Solarwinds has this restriction. |
922 | With SNMP pollers, is it better to locate them closer to the DB to ensure the poller to DB traffic has a better chance of making it. Or put the poller closer to monitored device, so that traffic is more accurate in terms of latency and making it to the device?
e.g. I have 3 regions, and 3 pollers, and 1 DB. Do I put all four devices in one location, or distribute the pollers?
I have some opinions but wanted to get other side of the story. | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/922",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/919/"
] | FWIW this is a great question and I can't disagree with @ytti in that this has a lot of potential to go down a theory/academia rabbithole.
From a practical perspective, placing the pollers close to the objects being polled is what you want to do. I'm not a distributed systems expert/SDE, but I'd imagine that any NMS that's designed to be distributed should already have functions in it to separate out db insertion timestamps from actual polled SNMP data and its own timestamps. It's still not an easy problem to solve, but as ytti has already said (and I agree with), doing the db inserts shouldn't take priority over data gathered from polling. Those have the luxury of being wrapped up in TCP for better data integrity protection. With actual SNMP polls and traps, you have "best effort" times two to contend with - number one being UDP obviously, and number 2 being process management/"data integrity" (ie counters being accurate etc) on the box that you're polling. Sometimes a box just starts to choke and returning numbers via SNMP takes a backseat to other things. | Being closer to the polled devices also means you can have a higher polling frequency due to lower latency. I found that when I was trying to poll a device over our transatlantic circuits at say 5 or 10 second intervals it was taking too long to walk the tables. |
32,477 | On a euclidean plane, what is the minimal area shape S, such that for every unit length curve, a translation and a rotation of S can cover the curve.
What are the bounds of the shape's area if this is a open problem?
When I asked this problem few years ago, someone told me it's open. I don't know if this is still open and I can't find any reference on it.
I don't even know what branch of mathematics it falls under. so I can't even tag this question. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32477",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/6886/"
] | The lower bound (initially provided by Khandawit and Sriwasdi) was improved in 2009 by Dimitrios Pagonakis. The bound was improved from 0.227498 to 0.232239.
Tirasan Khandhawit, Dimitrios Pagonakis, Sira Sriswasdi. *Lower Bound for Convex Hull Area and Universal Cover Problems*. Int.J.Comput.Geom.Appl. 23 (2013) 197-212.
[arXiv:1101.5638](http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5638). DOI: [10.1142/S0218195913500076](http://arxiv.org/ct?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10%252E1142%2FS0218195913500076&v=cbb3f697) | There's a chapter in Ian Stewart's 'Game, Set and Math' that covers this problem in a very accessible way (in the guise of a blanket for a worm, IIRC). I'm pretty sure that Joseph's semicircle is the right answer, but it's been ages since I've read that book. |
32,477 | On a euclidean plane, what is the minimal area shape S, such that for every unit length curve, a translation and a rotation of S can cover the curve.
What are the bounds of the shape's area if this is a open problem?
When I asked this problem few years ago, someone told me it's open. I don't know if this is still open and I can't find any reference on it.
I don't even know what branch of mathematics it falls under. so I can't even tag this question. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32477",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/6886/"
] | The lower bound (initially provided by Khandawit and Sriwasdi) was improved in 2009 by Dimitrios Pagonakis. The bound was improved from 0.227498 to 0.232239.
Tirasan Khandhawit, Dimitrios Pagonakis, Sira Sriswasdi. *Lower Bound for Convex Hull Area and Universal Cover Problems*. Int.J.Comput.Geom.Appl. 23 (2013) 197-212.
[arXiv:1101.5638](http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5638). DOI: [10.1142/S0218195913500076](http://arxiv.org/ct?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10%252E1142%2FS0218195913500076&v=cbb3f697) | The result of mine alluded to in A B's answer, giving an improved lower bound, is now on arxiv: <http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5638> |
186,508 | Added a GFCI in a bathroom that had no previous outlet. For supply I ran new cable from a nearby ungrounded ceiling box. Even though there was no ground in ceiling box I hooked bare ground wire to GFCI green ground screw.
There is power to GFCI but it will not trip when tested. My GFCI tester shows open ground. Should I remove the bare ground from the ground screw? Or could new GFCI be bad? I would have tried while there but had to let tenant back in and won't get back till next week. Just want to get a jump on it. Thank you | 2020/03/13 | [
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] | The test button on the GFCI should work it doesn’t use the ground. The tester uses the ground with a resistor to create a ground fault since the ground is not there the test function will not work with the plug in tester. As long as the test function on the receptacle works the receptacle is protected as required by code.
The electronics compare both the hot and neutral, a imbalance of more than ~5mA will cause a trip. This is a legal method of GFCI protection with a 2 wire circuit.
IF you want to run a ground wire back to the panel that feeds this circuit OR if there is a grounded circuit in the area that is fed from the same panel recent code changes allow a new separate ground wire to be installed.
However if the test button on the GFCI works the receptacle is protected.
Just a note, in my jurisdiction a rental requires a licensed electrician to do anything more than replace a device (light, receptacle or switch) for example. I have heard of some that require a license for even those but have not worked in a state that has that strict requirements. I would verify your local regs so you don’t get in trouble. | The instructions that come with the tester may or may not be clear, testers need a ground to function. Gardner Bender makes it clear, near the bottom of the [user instructions](https://images.homedepot-static.com/catalog/pdfImages/2c/2c4d8d01-92a3-48af-b58d-8bab598005ed.pdf) it says "**Caution** When testing GFCI's installed in two wire systems (no ground wire available) the tester may give a false indication that the GFCI is not functioning properly..."
It says "may" because for instance if it is installed in a metal box that is incidentally grounded it will still trip.
But I don't believe this is a legal installation. NEC 250.130(C) lists the options available connecting grounding conductor for circuit extensions. If you extend a circuit you have to ground it. There is a Informational Note referring to 406.4(D) for use of gfci receptacles, that section refers to replacement of existing receptacles, no reference to new circuit extensions. |
5,810,616 | I have a few wsadmin-jython questions:
1. If I write a bunch of jython scripts for webSphere v6.1, will they all still work on websphere v7? (backwards compatibility)
2. If I wish to call another jython script - can I pass sys.argv arguments?
Thank you very much. | 2011/04/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5810616",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/728122/"
] | It really depends how proficient you are with html, css, javascript and what tools you are using. I can tell that throughout planned theme will take a good slicer at least 2 days to master. Add the design time and usually it takes more time to design than to slice and dice it to end result.
If you have never used Magento before then it will take at least 6 months to become a somewhat good in designing and developing Magento in a way that it will take 2 days to output a theme | I recently attended the UK Magento Meetup & there were a couple of presentations from Retailers & their implementation partners about creating multi-store Magento websites, especially creating new store fronts for different countries (English, French, etc)
In each presentation the design agencies reckoned it took 3-4 weeks to implement a new store front - I believe this included design & template creation (but may also have included time to do the translation files, etc).
What was certain, is that nobody appeared to be suggesting that a template could be knocked out & implemented within 2 days. You should think about spending 2 days just testing .... |
422,259 | I have a Gigabyte wireless mouse (m7600), and Ubuntu 13.10 freshly installed on a Dell Inspiron n5110. My mouse isn't responding. The system recognizes the receiver. It shows up as Cypress Corp. if I run `lsusb`.
Things I have tried so far:
* Trying it on Windows 8.1 has no effect.
* Trying it on live distributions has no effect.
* Trying it in each USB port has no effect.
* Trying it on another computer is working.
* Trying other USB mice on this computer is working.
* Changing batteries has no effect.
It worked for quite some time, and suddenly stopped working yesterday. | 2014/02/17 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/422259",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/249306/"
] | Alright, got it working now. The USB dongle was at fault, it's somehow a tiny bit damaged, enough so it won't connect the pins to the USB of my laptop, but still reach those on my PC. | Try this, it worked for me:
1. Unplug dongle.
2. Run modprobe -r usbhid on the command line.
3. Plug dongle again.
Basically we are re installing the required drivers. |
422,259 | I have a Gigabyte wireless mouse (m7600), and Ubuntu 13.10 freshly installed on a Dell Inspiron n5110. My mouse isn't responding. The system recognizes the receiver. It shows up as Cypress Corp. if I run `lsusb`.
Things I have tried so far:
* Trying it on Windows 8.1 has no effect.
* Trying it on live distributions has no effect.
* Trying it in each USB port has no effect.
* Trying it on another computer is working.
* Trying other USB mice on this computer is working.
* Changing batteries has no effect.
It worked for quite some time, and suddenly stopped working yesterday. | 2014/02/17 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/422259",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/249306/"
] | I had the same problem. It turned out that my rechargeable AA battery had somehow stopped accepting a charge. When I put in another battery it fixed the problem. I switched from a Energizer to a Lenmar.
 | Try this, it worked for me:
1. Unplug dongle.
2. Run modprobe -r usbhid on the command line.
3. Plug dongle again.
Basically we are re installing the required drivers. |
422,259 | I have a Gigabyte wireless mouse (m7600), and Ubuntu 13.10 freshly installed on a Dell Inspiron n5110. My mouse isn't responding. The system recognizes the receiver. It shows up as Cypress Corp. if I run `lsusb`.
Things I have tried so far:
* Trying it on Windows 8.1 has no effect.
* Trying it on live distributions has no effect.
* Trying it in each USB port has no effect.
* Trying it on another computer is working.
* Trying other USB mice on this computer is working.
* Changing batteries has no effect.
It worked for quite some time, and suddenly stopped working yesterday. | 2014/02/17 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/422259",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/249306/"
] | Alright, got it working now. The USB dongle was at fault, it's somehow a tiny bit damaged, enough so it won't connect the pins to the USB of my laptop, but still reach those on my PC. | I had the same problem. It turned out that my rechargeable AA battery had somehow stopped accepting a charge. When I put in another battery it fixed the problem. I switched from a Energizer to a Lenmar.
 |
17,646 | This may be a silly question but I'm always a little nervous of doing my research. I'm toying with the idea of writing a crime story, several members of my family love detective stories and the idea appeals.
This raises a concern, obviously in order to write decent fiction the author must do a reasonable amount of research. But what are the best methods to research into some less than savory topics?
I can't imagine that simply opening my search engine of choice and looking for ways to murder people without leaving DNA evidence is an ideal life decision...
How can amateur writers get the information they need to create a well rounded story without going into academic papers (which are often very complex) or veering off into darker parts of the internet? | 2015/06/09 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/17646",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
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] | While I agree with @what sometimes I'm not sure it is so clear cut.
There are deeper, darker areas of research than the good old fashioned murder, I'm reasonably sure I wouldn't have any issue googling around for that sort of thing. However I have had occasion when I've thought 'I really don't want this showing up on my browser / google history!' At that point it largely becomes a technical exercise that relies heavily on your level of paranoia!
If you're concerned about something showing up in your browser history, there's always private browsing.
If your concern is about your ISP / government agencies / google et al know what you're searching for, then you should spend a little time researching [tor](https://www.torproject.org/). Which will give you the ability to search for the things you need anonymously (the basic is that you download a special browser, and use that) | How do you commit the perfect crime? By finding the solution in a book or on the net? Maybe. More likely you are a creative genius and think up what no police officer has thought of before. Writing the perfect crime novel is the same: you need some basic information about the evidence your criminal wants to avoid, but beyond that you certainly don't want to copy anything from anywhere. You want to be original, and to be original you have to invent it!
Finding the basic information is easy. You don't even have to go to any "dark places" or a research library. Google explained to me in a matter of minutes, that you are basically dripping DNA and leaving it behind cannot be avoided. That's all you need to know.
From there, the solution is obvious. If you cannot avoid leaving your DNA, you have two options: either you hide your DNA in a lot of other DNA (by murdering in a well-frequented place); or you never are where the murder happens (by murdering from a distance). How you do one or the other, you'll have to **make up** by using the creativity that makes you a writer.
Have fun!
---
If you are worried about the NSA informing the FBI when they analyse the data they got from Google, just use Qwant or another non-US search engine that does not store your search behavior and does not set any cookies. No one will know what you searched for, unless you are already on their list and they tap your internet connection. |
17,646 | This may be a silly question but I'm always a little nervous of doing my research. I'm toying with the idea of writing a crime story, several members of my family love detective stories and the idea appeals.
This raises a concern, obviously in order to write decent fiction the author must do a reasonable amount of research. But what are the best methods to research into some less than savory topics?
I can't imagine that simply opening my search engine of choice and looking for ways to murder people without leaving DNA evidence is an ideal life decision...
How can amateur writers get the information they need to create a well rounded story without going into academic papers (which are often very complex) or veering off into darker parts of the internet? | 2015/06/09 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/17646",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/8373/"
] | i might not answer your question, but i think i understand you. I had a similar problem. How to do it? How to write it?
I done these things to support my research:
1) My good friend is police officer and love good foot and drink. I told him what i want to do and asked him tell me what things i need to have in my pocket when i am going to search a body as an detective.
I even played Role Play game in real time as a detective character to try it.
I asked him what things police do first when they are catching someone.
Information from source to inderstand the problem.
And there is the other side:
2) Think like master villan. I literraly commited crime, but only on paper. Watched films about catching murderers, dark movies, not horors, like Zodiac, Silence of Lambs, i read Millenimu triology to understand how to think on a paper. Sherlock Holmes was my personal favorite material to read and look at. It is commercional, but those plots i good. Movies and books where author need you to think it.
3) Make alter ego. This is not simple. But in book, i am working on now i need to use some alter egos. So i created them. In my mind, real one. And trying situations where they will be functional.
Hope, it will help a bit.
Sorry for my english. | How do you commit the perfect crime? By finding the solution in a book or on the net? Maybe. More likely you are a creative genius and think up what no police officer has thought of before. Writing the perfect crime novel is the same: you need some basic information about the evidence your criminal wants to avoid, but beyond that you certainly don't want to copy anything from anywhere. You want to be original, and to be original you have to invent it!
Finding the basic information is easy. You don't even have to go to any "dark places" or a research library. Google explained to me in a matter of minutes, that you are basically dripping DNA and leaving it behind cannot be avoided. That's all you need to know.
From there, the solution is obvious. If you cannot avoid leaving your DNA, you have two options: either you hide your DNA in a lot of other DNA (by murdering in a well-frequented place); or you never are where the murder happens (by murdering from a distance). How you do one or the other, you'll have to **make up** by using the creativity that makes you a writer.
Have fun!
---
If you are worried about the NSA informing the FBI when they analyse the data they got from Google, just use Qwant or another non-US search engine that does not store your search behavior and does not set any cookies. No one will know what you searched for, unless you are already on their list and they tap your internet connection. |
17,646 | This may be a silly question but I'm always a little nervous of doing my research. I'm toying with the idea of writing a crime story, several members of my family love detective stories and the idea appeals.
This raises a concern, obviously in order to write decent fiction the author must do a reasonable amount of research. But what are the best methods to research into some less than savory topics?
I can't imagine that simply opening my search engine of choice and looking for ways to murder people without leaving DNA evidence is an ideal life decision...
How can amateur writers get the information they need to create a well rounded story without going into academic papers (which are often very complex) or veering off into darker parts of the internet? | 2015/06/09 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/17646",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/8373/"
] | While I agree with @what sometimes I'm not sure it is so clear cut.
There are deeper, darker areas of research than the good old fashioned murder, I'm reasonably sure I wouldn't have any issue googling around for that sort of thing. However I have had occasion when I've thought 'I really don't want this showing up on my browser / google history!' At that point it largely becomes a technical exercise that relies heavily on your level of paranoia!
If you're concerned about something showing up in your browser history, there's always private browsing.
If your concern is about your ISP / government agencies / google et al know what you're searching for, then you should spend a little time researching [tor](https://www.torproject.org/). Which will give you the ability to search for the things you need anonymously (the basic is that you download a special browser, and use that) | About twenty years ago I was looking for a poison for a play. In the university library was a book listing dangerous chemicals and their properties. I searched through the list until I found a common (found in just about any university laboratory and any plastics factory) chemical that disolves invisibly in hot water (mixed with instant coffee) and attacks the central nervous system. The one thing I 'fudged' was whether it was tasteless or not -- it appears nobody had tried.
However, I share some of your concerns about telling the reader things they may not have thought of. Firstly, I know how to make a number of explosives from common chemicals. For example, making the mixture the IRA used for so many years in car bombs is cheap and easy. Should I share this knowledge in a book? I'm not sure.
Secondly, one day I had an idea for a simple, inexpensive way for a terrorist organisation to disable the entire railway system in the UK. The result would not only be economic chaos, but the death toll would be high because of all the people scrambling to use cars. Should I publish that in a story? I think not. |
17,646 | This may be a silly question but I'm always a little nervous of doing my research. I'm toying with the idea of writing a crime story, several members of my family love detective stories and the idea appeals.
This raises a concern, obviously in order to write decent fiction the author must do a reasonable amount of research. But what are the best methods to research into some less than savory topics?
I can't imagine that simply opening my search engine of choice and looking for ways to murder people without leaving DNA evidence is an ideal life decision...
How can amateur writers get the information they need to create a well rounded story without going into academic papers (which are often very complex) or veering off into darker parts of the internet? | 2015/06/09 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/17646",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/8373/"
] | While I agree with @what sometimes I'm not sure it is so clear cut.
There are deeper, darker areas of research than the good old fashioned murder, I'm reasonably sure I wouldn't have any issue googling around for that sort of thing. However I have had occasion when I've thought 'I really don't want this showing up on my browser / google history!' At that point it largely becomes a technical exercise that relies heavily on your level of paranoia!
If you're concerned about something showing up in your browser history, there's always private browsing.
If your concern is about your ISP / government agencies / google et al know what you're searching for, then you should spend a little time researching [tor](https://www.torproject.org/). Which will give you the ability to search for the things you need anonymously (the basic is that you download a special browser, and use that) | i might not answer your question, but i think i understand you. I had a similar problem. How to do it? How to write it?
I done these things to support my research:
1) My good friend is police officer and love good foot and drink. I told him what i want to do and asked him tell me what things i need to have in my pocket when i am going to search a body as an detective.
I even played Role Play game in real time as a detective character to try it.
I asked him what things police do first when they are catching someone.
Information from source to inderstand the problem.
And there is the other side:
2) Think like master villan. I literraly commited crime, but only on paper. Watched films about catching murderers, dark movies, not horors, like Zodiac, Silence of Lambs, i read Millenimu triology to understand how to think on a paper. Sherlock Holmes was my personal favorite material to read and look at. It is commercional, but those plots i good. Movies and books where author need you to think it.
3) Make alter ego. This is not simple. But in book, i am working on now i need to use some alter egos. So i created them. In my mind, real one. And trying situations where they will be functional.
Hope, it will help a bit.
Sorry for my english. |
17,646 | This may be a silly question but I'm always a little nervous of doing my research. I'm toying with the idea of writing a crime story, several members of my family love detective stories and the idea appeals.
This raises a concern, obviously in order to write decent fiction the author must do a reasonable amount of research. But what are the best methods to research into some less than savory topics?
I can't imagine that simply opening my search engine of choice and looking for ways to murder people without leaving DNA evidence is an ideal life decision...
How can amateur writers get the information they need to create a well rounded story without going into academic papers (which are often very complex) or veering off into darker parts of the internet? | 2015/06/09 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/17646",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/8373/"
] | i might not answer your question, but i think i understand you. I had a similar problem. How to do it? How to write it?
I done these things to support my research:
1) My good friend is police officer and love good foot and drink. I told him what i want to do and asked him tell me what things i need to have in my pocket when i am going to search a body as an detective.
I even played Role Play game in real time as a detective character to try it.
I asked him what things police do first when they are catching someone.
Information from source to inderstand the problem.
And there is the other side:
2) Think like master villan. I literraly commited crime, but only on paper. Watched films about catching murderers, dark movies, not horors, like Zodiac, Silence of Lambs, i read Millenimu triology to understand how to think on a paper. Sherlock Holmes was my personal favorite material to read and look at. It is commercional, but those plots i good. Movies and books where author need you to think it.
3) Make alter ego. This is not simple. But in book, i am working on now i need to use some alter egos. So i created them. In my mind, real one. And trying situations where they will be functional.
Hope, it will help a bit.
Sorry for my english. | About twenty years ago I was looking for a poison for a play. In the university library was a book listing dangerous chemicals and their properties. I searched through the list until I found a common (found in just about any university laboratory and any plastics factory) chemical that disolves invisibly in hot water (mixed with instant coffee) and attacks the central nervous system. The one thing I 'fudged' was whether it was tasteless or not -- it appears nobody had tried.
However, I share some of your concerns about telling the reader things they may not have thought of. Firstly, I know how to make a number of explosives from common chemicals. For example, making the mixture the IRA used for so many years in car bombs is cheap and easy. Should I share this knowledge in a book? I'm not sure.
Secondly, one day I had an idea for a simple, inexpensive way for a terrorist organisation to disable the entire railway system in the UK. The result would not only be economic chaos, but the death toll would be high because of all the people scrambling to use cars. Should I publish that in a story? I think not. |
27,056 | On this Saint Patrick's Day, I was pondering on this thought:
It's a common belief that [Saint Patrick rid Ireland of snakes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick#St._Patrick_banishes_all_snakes_from_Ireland) - by chasing them into the sea. It's true that [Ireland doesn't have native snakes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reptiles_of_Ireland). But snakes are renown for being cold blooded and Ireland is renown for being cold - making them incompatible (I would have thought). It's likely that Ireland never had snakes to begin with.
Is there any physical evidence that Ireland ever had snakes? | 2015/03/17 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27056",
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] | **It's likely that Ireland never had snakes.**
[This article by national Geographic](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140315-saint-patricks-day-2014-snakes-ireland-nation/) says that there is no evidence of them having ever been there.
>
> Monaghan, who has trawled through vast collections of fossil and other records of Irish animals, has found no evidence of snakes ever existing in Ireland.
>
>
>
The most likely explanation is that Ireland has been cut off from the mainland since the last ice age, when it would have been too cold for them to exist. As the climate warmed, snakes were unable to migrate to Ireland as they did to Britain. | There never were any snakes in Ireland because Ireland took a long time to thaw out from the Ice Age Britain and the rest of Europe froze out before Ireland and as you know a snake is a reptile and reptiles like the warm climate and the snakes in Britain cant swim to Ireland |
8,348 | So, here's a breakdown of the question.
**Situation:** In the next month or two I will be moving house to a new-build detached house in the UK, which is on an estate of around 100 similar such properties.
**Problem:** I know I don't have to lecture this forum, but for the sake of making the question as clear-cut as possible; The construction of large housing estates on green-belt land has profound effects on your local and regional environment.
* Decreased drainage (of precipitation), due to an increase of impermeable surfaces (roads, roofs, pathways, etc)
* Change in land usage and soil composition and structure (unsettled soil, imported turf)
* Increased atmospheric pollutant from resident's vehicles, boilers, etc.
**Mission:** To reduce, offset, or eliminate the impacts of new-build housing on the local environment in the most cost-effective and conventional ways possible.
**Consider:**
* Answers should involve ways in which ordinary people can get involved in living a more sustainable lifestyle.
* This particular set of properties are already rather energy efficient. Supplied appliances are rated A, insulation is well-packed, and heat-loss values are low.
* To simply say "don't live in new-builds on greenbelt", while it is certainly a way to live more sustainably, doesn't help people who are in this situation.
* Most new-build homes in the UK are all-electric (with the exception of gas boilers).
**My Suggestions:**
* Provide a large area of permeable, well-maintained, and high-nutrient value soil. That is to say, less paving, more turf and bare earth, in the garden areas. Try to keep the soil in good-health by providing it with decaying leaves, and our own supply of compost.
* The usage of a Smart Electricity Meter can be useful (where your provider supplies them). You can measure your current energy usage and its cost. This would allow you to formulate the peak/trough of energy usage, and if your lowest-level can be reduced any further (devices on standby, unnecessary powered electronics overnight, etc)
* Ensure that when the central heating is on, that all windows and doors are secured, in order to get the greatest heat gain from the slightest fuel burn.
* Consider using renewable (full or part) energy suppliers. Suppliers vary from region to region. For anyone living in the UK, OVO Energy is a good bet. Although you'll find its more expensive for larger households. | 2019/07/04 | [
"https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/questions/8348",
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] | If one's desire is to "To reduce, offset, or eliminate the impacts of new-build housing on the local environment in the most cost-effective and conventional ways possible" then this should be done in the planning/design/construction phases of a new development/build. Once the development/build is complete, it is too late — far too late — to do anything that will have a meaningful impact. The environmental damage/debt is too large.
Given that "In the next month or two I will be moving house to a new-build" it sounds like all the decisions have already been made, and all the environmental damage has either been caused or locked-in. There is no way to rectify design failures in a "cost-effective" manner at this point. It would seem that you are attempting to close the gate after the horse has bolted.
You are, essentially, now in a position where you are moving into a development that probably paid no attention to environmental cost whatsoever (precious few of them do), and are becoming the owner/occupier of a new building with minimal environmental credentials (well insulated, a-rated appliances). Because you can't go back in time and redesign the development, or redesign the house, the only way to try and 'make up' for the damage that has already been caused/locked-in is to look forward.
In other words, the fact that it's a greenfield development is irrelevant. You can't undo or change that. You are 'just' an aware individual who now recognises that their existence on this planet, and the choices that they have made have, do, and will continue to cause damage that impacts on other forms of life. Your value system drives you to minimise this damage.
Your question, therefore, probably can be simplified to this:
"My (all-electric) house is well-insulated, and all my appliances are A-rated for energy efficiency. What can I do to live a more sustainable life?"
That is a very broad question, and one that you should narrow down to make it easier to answer. Instead of one broad question, perhaps it would be better to ask multiple, more specific questions?
* Is it worth getting a "Smart Meter" for an all-electric house? Given that they were invented to allow utilities to charge customers more money in conjunction with Time-Of-Use plans, is it actually in my best interest to install one? Can I monitor my consumption in some other way?
* I have [this type of] central heating. How can I modify my behaviour to make most efficient use of the heat it provides?
* I'm considering OVO Energy to supply my electricity here in [region]. Their [plan name] with [plan features] seems like it would let me get a decent fraction of the energy I need from renewable sources without breaking the bank. Anyone found a cheaper source of green electrons for an all-electric house?
* I recognise that lawns are basically a desolate wasteland when it comes to biodiversity. What can I do with my [X]m² back yard that will support local ecosystems? My climate is [climateType].
Many such/similar questions have already been asked in this forum. Skimming question titles or using the search might reveal them. If not, create a new question. Narrow-focus questions with meaningful keywords in the title make life easier for everyone.
Finally, I will offer at least one suggestion: You haven't *fully* described what sort of features make your house "energy efficient", so you may already have chosen your windows. If not, may I strongly suggest thermally-broken double-glazing with a low-e coat on the third surface and an argon-filled cavity? They are absolutely wonderful and will help plug the otherwise massive thermal holes that exist in the walls of your home. The real-world thermal performance of a building is only as good as the weakest point in the thermal envelope. | The impact of constructing your home is past. What you should consider is the future impact of your consumption to the environment.
I'd suggest the following:
* Calculate how much electricity you need for heating, cooling and appliances
* Purchase stocks of companies producing the electricity you need in a clean manner (hydropower, wind power, solar power, nuclear power -- yes, nuclear is CO2-free)
* Invest in young forest; the growth of your forest will absorb CO2 from the atmosphere during its lifetime. The cycle of forest in the nothern areas where I live exceeds 100 years. So, if you purchase a newly planted forest, it will be 100 years until it is useful for harvesting, and during those 100 years every year it absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere. During those 100 years, I assume the CO2 crisis has been solved.
My approach for investing in clean electricity companies is to calculate how much energy I need directly and indirectly, now and in the future (for example, the shopping mall where I visit also uses some electricity). Then I multiply the figure by 2, and calculate how many stocks are needed to produce this amount of electricity.
I use 4000 kWh / a directly. I also am planning to purchase an electric car that would consume 5000 kWh / a. So, according to my general rule, I would need to own twice of 9000 kWh / a or 18000 kWh / a of clean electricity production capacity. That's approximately how much capacity I own. (I also have significant investments in wind turbine manufacturers, solar cell / panel manufacturers, solar inverter manufacturers, etc).
My house is heated by district heating that produces CO2. It requires 10 000 kWh / a to heat, which produces 3220 kg of CO2 because where I live district heating uses coal mainly. My car emits around 3500 kg of CO2 per annum (directly from its tailpipe, and indirectly during oil refining). I have used a calculator which estimates that the indirect emissions of me (those not related to electricity use, heating, or my car) are 8500 kg of CO2 per year based on my consumption level. So, I produce around 15 000 kg of CO2 per year which I need to offset.
Fortunately, the forest I happen to own absorbs 40 000 kg of CO2 per year during its growth, more than twice of 15 000 kg. So, I could even afford to increase my consumption level. My forest is relatively young, so the stock of absorbed CO2 will increase over time, and those areas that are harvested, will be used to create sustainable bio-based materials, renewable forest energy, wood-based building materials, etc, that directly offset fossil fuel and concrete use.
If you can't afford to purchase enough forest and clean electricity capacity to offset your consumption, then your consumption level is too high for the environment! Your only option is to either accept the fact that you are over-consuming our non-renewable resources, or alternatively reduce your consumption level, or alternatively find ways to improve your income that would allow you to purchase more forest and clean electricity. |
137,122 | Would you please tell me what does this called in English?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bmkf7m.jpg) | 2017/07/24 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/137122",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/59725/"
] | That's a **drinking straw** (or simply [**straw**](http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/straw)).
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_straw):
>
> A **drinking straw** is a tube for transferring a beverage from its container to the mouth of the drinker. A thin tube of plastic (such as polypropylene and polystyrene) or other material, straight or with an angle-adjustable bellows segment, it is used by being held with one end in the mouth and another end in the drink. Muscular action (a combination of the muscles of the tongue and cheeks) reduces air pressure in the mouth and above the liquid in the straw, whereupon atmospheric pressure forces the beverage through the straw. [...] A **bendable straw** or "bendy straw" (known in the industry as an "articulated straw") has a concertina-type hinge near the top for convenience. This variation was invented by Joseph Friedman in 1937.
>
>
> | It's called a:
>
> [flexi-straw](https://www.google.com/search?q=flexi-straw&rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB359GB359&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6m9_J66HVAhVKGhQKHYTeBS4QsAQIxgE&biw=1280&bih=687)
>
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>
(from flexible) |
137,122 | Would you please tell me what does this called in English?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bmkf7m.jpg) | 2017/07/24 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/137122",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/59725/"
] | That's a **drinking straw** (or simply [**straw**](http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/straw)).
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_straw):
>
> A **drinking straw** is a tube for transferring a beverage from its container to the mouth of the drinker. A thin tube of plastic (such as polypropylene and polystyrene) or other material, straight or with an angle-adjustable bellows segment, it is used by being held with one end in the mouth and another end in the drink. Muscular action (a combination of the muscles of the tongue and cheeks) reduces air pressure in the mouth and above the liquid in the straw, whereupon atmospheric pressure forces the beverage through the straw. [...] A **bendable straw** or "bendy straw" (known in the industry as an "articulated straw") has a concertina-type hinge near the top for convenience. This variation was invented by Joseph Friedman in 1937.
>
>
> | May also be called "[bendable straws](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B004HX8F26)"
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uFGdO.jpg) |
52,236 | I've been offered a job at a better company with a much higher salary. I'll be signing the employment agreement sometime this week.
Anyways, if you've read my whole slew of other posts about my current workplace then I think resigning without drama is a key thing here.
After all the comments and uncomfortable conversations I'm not on the best of terms with my manager and HR.
The CEO of the company is my former manager (he got promoted during my time here) and he is actually the main head of the office but he's not in everyday. HR and my other manager are both in the office everyday but they aren't exactly my boss or 'in charge' if you know what I mean. It's a small office with just 12 people here.
I was thinking of sending out a respectful resignation notice email to all 3 of them but I'm not sure if that's the best way to go about it. I could do it in person to just the 2 of them but the CEO may not be around that week etc.
How would you handle this? Is it better to do it in person? Send out an email then have a meeting?
Also, according to Canadian law I only have to give 2 weeks notice because I'm not at a senior level. My employment contract says that I've to give 4 weeks notice. I've run out of vacation time too. The new place needs me to start in 3 weeks. I'm sure this won't go over well with the people I'm not on good terms with.
Edits:
I've done some more research and according to the law in British Columbia an employee is not required to give any notice at all if they would like to terminate their employment. I also haven't resigned my employment agreement since starting there over 2 years ago. | 2015/08/17 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/52236",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/33146/"
] | >
> How would you handle this? Is it better to do it in person?
>
>
>
**The correct way is to speak *in person* with your current boss if at all possible, and tell her/him that you are resigning.** You also need to indicate your last day. You don't need to go into a lot of details in this. From your prior posts, it doesn't sound like your resignation would be completely unexpected anyway.
Your boss will then alert whoever else needs to know about your departure (HR, his boss, etc), and eventually tell you whatever else needs to be done before your last day. Some companies want a resignation letter or email that they can keep on file, some don't. Sometimes you will have an exit interview with HR, fill out some paperwork, perform some knowledge transfer with others, whip up some additional documentation, etc. Your boss (and potentially HR) will guide you in all of that.
In spite of your bad experiences, now is not the time to be less than professional.
If you still haven't run into your CEO (or others that you would like to know you are leaving), you could send out a "Goodbye" email on your last day.
Something along the lines of "As many of you know, today is my last day... I learned a lot here... I enjoyed working with you... I wish you all good luck and much success."
When I send such an email, I always include my personal contact information, so that people can continue to get in touch with me. You may not want to do that with everyone, since it appears you didn't get along with all of them, but perhaps there are one or two. | The first question is really a matter of opinion. If you arent on the best of terms with your manager and HR, there is no point in rocking the boat more than it needs to be. Type up a resignation letter and give them a copy. As for the CEO, that is entirely up to you and how you feel your relationship is.
The second question is really a matter for a HR specialist or lawyer for your jurisdiction. What may be valid in one location, might not be true in another. |
52,236 | I've been offered a job at a better company with a much higher salary. I'll be signing the employment agreement sometime this week.
Anyways, if you've read my whole slew of other posts about my current workplace then I think resigning without drama is a key thing here.
After all the comments and uncomfortable conversations I'm not on the best of terms with my manager and HR.
The CEO of the company is my former manager (he got promoted during my time here) and he is actually the main head of the office but he's not in everyday. HR and my other manager are both in the office everyday but they aren't exactly my boss or 'in charge' if you know what I mean. It's a small office with just 12 people here.
I was thinking of sending out a respectful resignation notice email to all 3 of them but I'm not sure if that's the best way to go about it. I could do it in person to just the 2 of them but the CEO may not be around that week etc.
How would you handle this? Is it better to do it in person? Send out an email then have a meeting?
Also, according to Canadian law I only have to give 2 weeks notice because I'm not at a senior level. My employment contract says that I've to give 4 weeks notice. I've run out of vacation time too. The new place needs me to start in 3 weeks. I'm sure this won't go over well with the people I'm not on good terms with.
Edits:
I've done some more research and according to the law in British Columbia an employee is not required to give any notice at all if they would like to terminate their employment. I also haven't resigned my employment agreement since starting there over 2 years ago. | 2015/08/17 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/52236",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/33146/"
] | >
> How would you handle this? Is it better to do it in person?
>
>
>
**The correct way is to speak *in person* with your current boss if at all possible, and tell her/him that you are resigning.** You also need to indicate your last day. You don't need to go into a lot of details in this. From your prior posts, it doesn't sound like your resignation would be completely unexpected anyway.
Your boss will then alert whoever else needs to know about your departure (HR, his boss, etc), and eventually tell you whatever else needs to be done before your last day. Some companies want a resignation letter or email that they can keep on file, some don't. Sometimes you will have an exit interview with HR, fill out some paperwork, perform some knowledge transfer with others, whip up some additional documentation, etc. Your boss (and potentially HR) will guide you in all of that.
In spite of your bad experiences, now is not the time to be less than professional.
If you still haven't run into your CEO (or others that you would like to know you are leaving), you could send out a "Goodbye" email on your last day.
Something along the lines of "As many of you know, today is my last day... I learned a lot here... I enjoyed working with you... I wish you all good luck and much success."
When I send such an email, I always include my personal contact information, so that people can continue to get in touch with me. You may not want to do that with everyone, since it appears you didn't get along with all of them, but perhaps there are one or two. | I would recommend the following:
* From the company policy, find out whom the resignation should be handed to (Reporting Manager/HR/someone else?). Given your history with the company, it is essential that you hand over your resignation to the right person, because they might try to cause you more trouble by calling your resignation "invalid" if you submit it to the wrong person.
* Meet this person face-to-face (or over video chat/phone, if face-to-face is not feasible), and inform them of your decision to resign. It is likely they will push you into discussing the reasons. Avoid complaining or saying anything negative, but don't go over-the-top singing praises of the company either (especially given your history with them). Assure them of your support in ensuring a smooth transition of your current work.
* After the meeting, send them an email resignation. "As discussed this morning, I wish to resign ...", etc. People have this habit of "forgetting" things which were verbally stated. This is particularly important for you given your history and your somewhat tight notice period constraint. You don't want to hear this 2 weeks later: "Hey, we talked about your resignation on the 25th, not 18th, so you still have one week of notice period left."
* Personally, I would avoid sending out resignation emails to any more people than are necessary. I would, of course, inform ex-coworkers, but not send my resignation mail to them. Your CEO *was* your manager, he is not your manager now. If he is required to be "officially" communicated of your resignation, I expect your manager (or HR) to deal with that.
* I am not qualified to answer questions about notice periods in Canada, but the general advice is to politely negotiate the notice period to what you want. Ensuring a smooth transition of your current work also helps with that.
* Further to the above point, I always throw in a variant of the following in my resignation mails or meetings:
>
> I understand it is possible that some things might not get covered during the handover. Hence, if team members taking over my code run into problems after I have left, they are free to reach me by phone, and I will try to help them as much as I can.
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>
>
This usually works like a charm during the notice period negotiations, while in reality, I have received *zero* phone calls until now. |
6,931,245 | I'm new to Eclipse and downloaded the following version:
Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Indigo Release
Build id: 20110615-0604
[edit] **Eclipse Platform Version 3.7**
I have edited Java > Editor > Save Actions to do the following: Remove trailing white spaces on all lines, Correct indentation
When I save the .java file, those actions are not applied... is this a bug?
Found this that might be related: <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350475> | 2011/08/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6931245",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/250807/"
] | Well for those of you who have found this topic... I did find 2 solutions, no thanks to Eclipse, other than the fact that it is open source and people can write plugins.
**Eclipse Platform Version 3.7**
1. [AnyEdit](http://andrei.gmxhome.de/anyedit/) - plugin that does it for you when you Save file (I believe this is what eclipse SHOULD be doing)
2. Go to: Window > Preferences. Then under General > Keys. Make sure drop down for Scheme: is Default and enter 'remove trailing' in the filter. You should then see "Remove Trailing Whitespace" under the command column. Bind it to your own key command.
The only drawback to #2 is that you have to actually press the key binding while editing the file, kindof like a *cleanup* action.
Too bad Eclipse hasn't taken the approach that ALL file types should be configurable in this way... sometimes I miss TextPad. | Old question, but at least for newer Eclipse versions there's a better solution: Go to the **project properties**, then to **Project Facets**. If it tells you that your project isn't in faceted form yet, then convert it. Afterwards (or if it already was faceted), just **enable** the **JavaScript** checkbox.
I had the same issue with Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) and this fixed it for me, the save actions are now executed on save. |
6,931,245 | I'm new to Eclipse and downloaded the following version:
Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Indigo Release
Build id: 20110615-0604
[edit] **Eclipse Platform Version 3.7**
I have edited Java > Editor > Save Actions to do the following: Remove trailing white spaces on all lines, Correct indentation
When I save the .java file, those actions are not applied... is this a bug?
Found this that might be related: <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350475> | 2011/08/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6931245",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/250807/"
] | Well for those of you who have found this topic... I did find 2 solutions, no thanks to Eclipse, other than the fact that it is open source and people can write plugins.
**Eclipse Platform Version 3.7**
1. [AnyEdit](http://andrei.gmxhome.de/anyedit/) - plugin that does it for you when you Save file (I believe this is what eclipse SHOULD be doing)
2. Go to: Window > Preferences. Then under General > Keys. Make sure drop down for Scheme: is Default and enter 'remove trailing' in the filter. You should then see "Remove Trailing Whitespace" under the command column. Bind it to your own key command.
The only drawback to #2 is that you have to actually press the key binding while editing the file, kindof like a *cleanup* action.
Too bad Eclipse hasn't taken the approach that ALL file types should be configurable in this way... sometimes I miss TextPad. | Adding to [jlh's answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/26883768/5036067), I also had to configure the JavaScript include path of the project to enable save actions. Before that even a manual "Clean Up ..." from the source menu wouldn't work. |
6,931,245 | I'm new to Eclipse and downloaded the following version:
Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Indigo Release
Build id: 20110615-0604
[edit] **Eclipse Platform Version 3.7**
I have edited Java > Editor > Save Actions to do the following: Remove trailing white spaces on all lines, Correct indentation
When I save the .java file, those actions are not applied... is this a bug?
Found this that might be related: <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350475> | 2011/08/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6931245",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/250807/"
] | Assuming that this relates to JavaScript files, then the related Eclipse bug could be helpful.
The problem (as I've just experienced) is that you can edit the JavaScript -> Save Actions preferences via the context menu when editing a JavaScript file, but the actions will not be run.
The solution is to right click on the project containing the .js file, and select Configure -> Convert to JavaScript project.
The bad news is that this will then will also enable Eclipse's not-so-great JavaScript validation, therefore telling you that libraries such as moment.min.js are broken. | Old question, but at least for newer Eclipse versions there's a better solution: Go to the **project properties**, then to **Project Facets**. If it tells you that your project isn't in faceted form yet, then convert it. Afterwards (or if it already was faceted), just **enable** the **JavaScript** checkbox.
I had the same issue with Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) and this fixed it for me, the save actions are now executed on save. |
6,931,245 | I'm new to Eclipse and downloaded the following version:
Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Indigo Release
Build id: 20110615-0604
[edit] **Eclipse Platform Version 3.7**
I have edited Java > Editor > Save Actions to do the following: Remove trailing white spaces on all lines, Correct indentation
When I save the .java file, those actions are not applied... is this a bug?
Found this that might be related: <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350475> | 2011/08/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6931245",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/250807/"
] | Assuming that this relates to JavaScript files, then the related Eclipse bug could be helpful.
The problem (as I've just experienced) is that you can edit the JavaScript -> Save Actions preferences via the context menu when editing a JavaScript file, but the actions will not be run.
The solution is to right click on the project containing the .js file, and select Configure -> Convert to JavaScript project.
The bad news is that this will then will also enable Eclipse's not-so-great JavaScript validation, therefore telling you that libraries such as moment.min.js are broken. | Adding to [jlh's answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/26883768/5036067), I also had to configure the JavaScript include path of the project to enable save actions. Before that even a manual "Clean Up ..." from the source menu wouldn't work. |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | You can also configure your current Gmail account to add the new email address. This way you wont lose your contacts etc.
There are two steps to this:
1. Create the new account and forward all email to the old address. In the new account, click the settings button (gear icon in top-right) and go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" settings. Click "Add a forwarding address" and add your old email address. Afterwards, choose the "Forward a copy of incoming mail to" and select your old address.
2. Go back to the old account. Click the settings button and go to the "Accounts and Import" tab. In the "Send mail as" section, click "Add another email address you own". Enter your new email address.
You can then continue using your old email account. If you receive any emails at your new address, they will appear in your inbox. If you reply to them, Gmail should automatically respond from your new address - theoretically nobody would know about your old address. | Here's why you cannot switch your primary account. According to Google:
>
> You can use alternate email addresses to sign in to your Google Account, recover your password, and more. Alternate email addresses can only be associated with one Google Account at a time
>
>
>
So what you are doing by adding more email addresses to your account is, you are adding alternate email addresses. The only way is to logout. Clear your cache/cookies and then create a new Gmail address. Then auto forward your stuff to your new google linked Gmail account. Not sure if this helps. Hope it does. |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | Since this problem is 7 years old, for any people looking for the correct answer, please understand that there are some glaring problems with what the original poster has asked here:
>
> As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am
>
>
>
To create a new Gmail account, you should not be logging into Google. You can just go here and [create a new Google account](https://accounts.google.com/SignUp).
>
> I created a new email address, but when I go to my account it won't let me add a gmail email address or change my primary email.
>
>
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OP has a misunderstanding that once you create a new account, you can sign into your old one and switch everything over. It sucks, but you can't. That's why he's having so much trouble.
>
> I get everything you've said, but it still doesn't explain how I change my primary account to the new email address. I don't want emails routed forever, I'd like to drop that old mailbox one day.
>
>
>
Again, OP doesn't understand that there is no function to change a gmail address. There's some good information on the web, but the best answer (that gives a complete breakdown) I've found is here on [how to change gmail addresses](https://www.cloudgopher.com/articles/how-to-change-gmail-address).
Basically, you need to create a new gmail account and forward everything over to the new account from the old account. If you want your email, use what's called POP3 forwarding. If you want your entire account, then there are ways to move those apps over yourself:
* [How to move Google Drive](https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-transfer-all-my-Google-drive-and-Gmail-data-to-a-different-account)
* [How to move Google Contacts](https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-transfer-contacts-from-one-Gmail-account-to-another)
* [How to move Google Calendars](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/78739?hl=en)
Hope this helps anyone still having this problem in 2017! | Here's why you cannot switch your primary account. According to Google:
>
> You can use alternate email addresses to sign in to your Google Account, recover your password, and more. Alternate email addresses can only be associated with one Google Account at a time
>
>
>
So what you are doing by adding more email addresses to your account is, you are adding alternate email addresses. The only way is to logout. Clear your cache/cookies and then create a new Gmail address. Then auto forward your stuff to your new google linked Gmail account. Not sure if this helps. Hope it does. |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | You can also configure your current Gmail account to add the new email address. This way you wont lose your contacts etc.
There are two steps to this:
1. Create the new account and forward all email to the old address. In the new account, click the settings button (gear icon in top-right) and go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" settings. Click "Add a forwarding address" and add your old email address. Afterwards, choose the "Forward a copy of incoming mail to" and select your old address.
2. Go back to the old account. Click the settings button and go to the "Accounts and Import" tab. In the "Send mail as" section, click "Add another email address you own". Enter your new email address.
You can then continue using your old email account. If you receive any emails at your new address, they will appear in your inbox. If you reply to them, Gmail should automatically respond from your new address - theoretically nobody would know about your old address. | Log out and then create a new address. (Clear cookies if you have to.) If you want to retain all of your existing email (and anything else linked to that account), I'd recommend setting up the new "more professional" address to [auto-forward to your existing account](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5/can-i-auto-forward-my-gmail-to-another-address). Then you can simply give people the more professional address and receive email in one place. You'll also want to change your Reply-To in the "unwanted" account so that outgoing emails are "more professional" as well: Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Send mail as |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | You can logout of your Gmail account, and then [sign up for a new account](http://mail.google.com/mail/signup). Once you've created an account, go back to your original account and [forward everything to the new account](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5/can-i-auto-forward-my-gmail-to-another-address). | Since this problem is 7 years old, for any people looking for the correct answer, please understand that there are some glaring problems with what the original poster has asked here:
>
> As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am
>
>
>
To create a new Gmail account, you should not be logging into Google. You can just go here and [create a new Google account](https://accounts.google.com/SignUp).
>
> I created a new email address, but when I go to my account it won't let me add a gmail email address or change my primary email.
>
>
>
OP has a misunderstanding that once you create a new account, you can sign into your old one and switch everything over. It sucks, but you can't. That's why he's having so much trouble.
>
> I get everything you've said, but it still doesn't explain how I change my primary account to the new email address. I don't want emails routed forever, I'd like to drop that old mailbox one day.
>
>
>
Again, OP doesn't understand that there is no function to change a gmail address. There's some good information on the web, but the best answer (that gives a complete breakdown) I've found is here on [how to change gmail addresses](https://www.cloudgopher.com/articles/how-to-change-gmail-address).
Basically, you need to create a new gmail account and forward everything over to the new account from the old account. If you want your email, use what's called POP3 forwarding. If you want your entire account, then there are ways to move those apps over yourself:
* [How to move Google Drive](https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-transfer-all-my-Google-drive-and-Gmail-data-to-a-different-account)
* [How to move Google Contacts](https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-transfer-contacts-from-one-Gmail-account-to-another)
* [How to move Google Calendars](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/78739?hl=en)
Hope this helps anyone still having this problem in 2017! |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | You can also configure your current Gmail account to add the new email address. This way you wont lose your contacts etc.
There are two steps to this:
1. Create the new account and forward all email to the old address. In the new account, click the settings button (gear icon in top-right) and go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" settings. Click "Add a forwarding address" and add your old email address. Afterwards, choose the "Forward a copy of incoming mail to" and select your old address.
2. Go back to the old account. Click the settings button and go to the "Accounts and Import" tab. In the "Send mail as" section, click "Add another email address you own". Enter your new email address.
You can then continue using your old email account. If you receive any emails at your new address, they will appear in your inbox. If you reply to them, Gmail should automatically respond from your new address - theoretically nobody would know about your old address. | Just log out first, then create a new account. After that you can log off again, log in with your old account and in The Settings>Forwarding and Pop/IMAP set it to forward your mail to your new account.
As a side benefit, since they are both gmail accounts, when writing a new mail you can choose what address you want to use. That's what I use for my "formal" account for jobs applications and so. I log in with my "casual" account, send the resumes and stuff with the formal address, and replies will get forward from the formal account to the casual :) |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | You can logout of your Gmail account, and then [sign up for a new account](http://mail.google.com/mail/signup). Once you've created an account, go back to your original account and [forward everything to the new account](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5/can-i-auto-forward-my-gmail-to-another-address). | Just log out first, then create a new account. After that you can log off again, log in with your old account and in The Settings>Forwarding and Pop/IMAP set it to forward your mail to your new account.
As a side benefit, since they are both gmail accounts, when writing a new mail you can choose what address you want to use. That's what I use for my "formal" account for jobs applications and so. I log in with my "casual" account, send the resumes and stuff with the formal address, and replies will get forward from the formal account to the casual :) |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | Since this problem is 7 years old, for any people looking for the correct answer, please understand that there are some glaring problems with what the original poster has asked here:
>
> As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am
>
>
>
To create a new Gmail account, you should not be logging into Google. You can just go here and [create a new Google account](https://accounts.google.com/SignUp).
>
> I created a new email address, but when I go to my account it won't let me add a gmail email address or change my primary email.
>
>
>
OP has a misunderstanding that once you create a new account, you can sign into your old one and switch everything over. It sucks, but you can't. That's why he's having so much trouble.
>
> I get everything you've said, but it still doesn't explain how I change my primary account to the new email address. I don't want emails routed forever, I'd like to drop that old mailbox one day.
>
>
>
Again, OP doesn't understand that there is no function to change a gmail address. There's some good information on the web, but the best answer (that gives a complete breakdown) I've found is here on [how to change gmail addresses](https://www.cloudgopher.com/articles/how-to-change-gmail-address).
Basically, you need to create a new gmail account and forward everything over to the new account from the old account. If you want your email, use what's called POP3 forwarding. If you want your entire account, then there are ways to move those apps over yourself:
* [How to move Google Drive](https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-transfer-all-my-Google-drive-and-Gmail-data-to-a-different-account)
* [How to move Google Contacts](https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-transfer-contacts-from-one-Gmail-account-to-another)
* [How to move Google Calendars](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/78739?hl=en)
Hope this helps anyone still having this problem in 2017! | Just log out first, then create a new account. After that you can log off again, log in with your old account and in The Settings>Forwarding and Pop/IMAP set it to forward your mail to your new account.
As a side benefit, since they are both gmail accounts, when writing a new mail you can choose what address you want to use. That's what I use for my "formal" account for jobs applications and so. I log in with my "casual" account, send the resumes and stuff with the formal address, and replies will get forward from the formal account to the casual :) |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | Since this problem is 7 years old, for any people looking for the correct answer, please understand that there are some glaring problems with what the original poster has asked here:
>
> As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am
>
>
>
To create a new Gmail account, you should not be logging into Google. You can just go here and [create a new Google account](https://accounts.google.com/SignUp).
>
> I created a new email address, but when I go to my account it won't let me add a gmail email address or change my primary email.
>
>
>
OP has a misunderstanding that once you create a new account, you can sign into your old one and switch everything over. It sucks, but you can't. That's why he's having so much trouble.
>
> I get everything you've said, but it still doesn't explain how I change my primary account to the new email address. I don't want emails routed forever, I'd like to drop that old mailbox one day.
>
>
>
Again, OP doesn't understand that there is no function to change a gmail address. There's some good information on the web, but the best answer (that gives a complete breakdown) I've found is here on [how to change gmail addresses](https://www.cloudgopher.com/articles/how-to-change-gmail-address).
Basically, you need to create a new gmail account and forward everything over to the new account from the old account. If you want your email, use what's called POP3 forwarding. If you want your entire account, then there are ways to move those apps over yourself:
* [How to move Google Drive](https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-transfer-all-my-Google-drive-and-Gmail-data-to-a-different-account)
* [How to move Google Contacts](https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-transfer-contacts-from-one-Gmail-account-to-another)
* [How to move Google Calendars](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/78739?hl=en)
Hope this helps anyone still having this problem in 2017! | You can't change just the email address. You'd change the whole account or do some other irritating thing like the fixes above. Your email is your login for all of Google.
Now, that said, if you don't use Calendar, Docs, etc, then who cares, change accounts and use the forward on the old one to gradually migrate. In fact, that's better than just changing the email as you will get email sent to the old address. And once you feel that you've gotten enough gleaned from you rold address, turn off the forwarding and let all the adverspam you signed up for rot on the old account. |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | You can logout of your Gmail account, and then [sign up for a new account](http://mail.google.com/mail/signup). Once you've created an account, go back to your original account and [forward everything to the new account](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5/can-i-auto-forward-my-gmail-to-another-address). | Log out and then create a new address. (Clear cookies if you have to.) If you want to retain all of your existing email (and anything else linked to that account), I'd recommend setting up the new "more professional" address to [auto-forward to your existing account](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5/can-i-auto-forward-my-gmail-to-another-address). Then you can simply give people the more professional address and receive email in one place. You'll also want to change your Reply-To in the "unwanted" account so that outgoing emails are "more professional" as well: Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Send mail as |
93 | I have a stupidly long email address on Gmail and would like to get it changed, or even just get a new one, but I can't see how. As soon as I log in on Google it knows who I am and signing up for a new email doesn't work.
Is there a way to get my email address changed or get a new one that I can then switch to?
Edit 2 July 2010:
I need to clarify the question because I haven't had an answer to what I want to achieve. I want to change the primary address on my Google account (<https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount>). When I click the link to edit "Email addresses", the primary email is shown without an option to switch/change it. When I try add a new Gmail email address, it says
>
> "You cannot associate a Gmail address with your Google Account."
>
>
>
I want the primary email address on my Google account to be a shorter Gmail email address so that I can eventually retire the existing email address. | 2010/06/30 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/93",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/119/"
] | You can also configure your current Gmail account to add the new email address. This way you wont lose your contacts etc.
There are two steps to this:
1. Create the new account and forward all email to the old address. In the new account, click the settings button (gear icon in top-right) and go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" settings. Click "Add a forwarding address" and add your old email address. Afterwards, choose the "Forward a copy of incoming mail to" and select your old address.
2. Go back to the old account. Click the settings button and go to the "Accounts and Import" tab. In the "Send mail as" section, click "Add another email address you own". Enter your new email address.
You can then continue using your old email account. If you receive any emails at your new address, they will appear in your inbox. If you reply to them, Gmail should automatically respond from your new address - theoretically nobody would know about your old address. | You can't change just the email address. You'd change the whole account or do some other irritating thing like the fixes above. Your email is your login for all of Google.
Now, that said, if you don't use Calendar, Docs, etc, then who cares, change accounts and use the forward on the old one to gradually migrate. In fact, that's better than just changing the email as you will get email sent to the old address. And once you feel that you've gotten enough gleaned from you rold address, turn off the forwarding and let all the adverspam you signed up for rot on the old account. |
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