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235,340 | I'm currently in the phase of planning a time system for my world and I am starting to run into logistical issues.
My world essentially is an island in an endless ocean. No universe, no rotation of sun nor planet (there is no planet, it's essentially a flat endless plane).
I have a pretty solid explanation for days (... | 2022/09/09 | [
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] | You ask if it is plausible to develop the concept of a year. Calendars were made because there's a need to keep track of time due to argicultral, astronomical or religious reasons.
As you said in your edit, your world has no stars and planets, no seasons and everyday is the same, but there is religion (God of Light, p... | This is a tricky one, but perhaps a year based on the passing of the generations? A new year could start when the first born child of the ruling/head/royal family is born/passes initiation into adulthood/etc and the year ends when the next generation reaches the same period, perhaps with some intercalary time (during t... |
235,340 | I'm currently in the phase of planning a time system for my world and I am starting to run into logistical issues.
My world essentially is an island in an endless ocean. No universe, no rotation of sun nor planet (there is no planet, it's essentially a flat endless plane).
I have a pretty solid explanation for days (... | 2022/09/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/235340",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/82228/"
] | 2 forms of options come to mind, natural cycles or manmade cycles.
**Natural Cycles**
Several common timings (years, days) com from natural phenomena. Rotation around the sun and the rotation of the earth. But these phenomena don't exist in your world, instead if the most common crop has a regular period (going fro... | Without natural cycles to base periods of time on, humans would simply use multiples, and/or man-made events. Humans love order and categorization, and in fact our survival depends on it; I suspect this would likely be the case for any sentient civilized species.
[Weeks primarily exist because of celestial observation... |
235,340 | I'm currently in the phase of planning a time system for my world and I am starting to run into logistical issues.
My world essentially is an island in an endless ocean. No universe, no rotation of sun nor planet (there is no planet, it's essentially a flat endless plane).
I have a pretty solid explanation for days (... | 2022/09/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/235340",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/82228/"
] | 2 forms of options come to mind, natural cycles or manmade cycles.
**Natural Cycles**
Several common timings (years, days) com from natural phenomena. Rotation around the sun and the rotation of the earth. But these phenomena don't exist in your world, instead if the most common crop has a regular period (going fro... | If those living on this place are human or humanoids, they could end up with a decimal grouping for time, or any other numerical base:
* 1 day
* 10 days = 1 decade
* 10 decades = 1 month
* ad libitum |
529,079 | SQL Server best practice recommends separate drives for the the data and log files. Do you really get a speed increase if both logical drives are located on the same EVA? | 2013/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/529079",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/182895/"
] | Possibly, yes... per-block-device queuing is one distinct area that may benefit from the separation, even when going to the same physical group of disks. | Generally, on older storage that has specific raids for specific volumes, they recommended keeping the logs and data on different raids. These days, most storage is installed with pools that span all IO across large groups of disks. In a big pool, there's no need to avoid having logs and data for any database on the sa... |
529,079 | SQL Server best practice recommends separate drives for the the data and log files. Do you really get a speed increase if both logical drives are located on the same EVA? | 2013/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/529079",
"https://serverfault.com",
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] | Ah - just my area of specialisation!
SQL 'best practices' assume that you use separate physical disk for the data and log yes, but that's in either a server with physical disks locally attached or via traditional SAN methods where a LUN was just part of a single SAN disk. EVAs are very different to this.
Depending on... | Possibly, yes... per-block-device queuing is one distinct area that may benefit from the separation, even when going to the same physical group of disks. |
529,079 | SQL Server best practice recommends separate drives for the the data and log files. Do you really get a speed increase if both logical drives are located on the same EVA? | 2013/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/529079",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/182895/"
] | Ah - just my area of specialisation!
SQL 'best practices' assume that you use separate physical disk for the data and log yes, but that's in either a server with physical disks locally attached or via traditional SAN methods where a LUN was just part of a single SAN disk. EVAs are very different to this.
Depending on... | Generally, on older storage that has specific raids for specific volumes, they recommended keeping the logs and data on different raids. These days, most storage is installed with pools that span all IO across large groups of disks. In a big pool, there's no need to avoid having logs and data for any database on the sa... |
529,079 | SQL Server best practice recommends separate drives for the the data and log files. Do you really get a speed increase if both logical drives are located on the same EVA? | 2013/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/529079",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/182895/"
] | Totally agree with Chopper3. The theoretical disk separation of DB files / logs for performance that you did for good-old JBODs is long gone.
An EVA with a large disk group (plenty of spindles) is all you need.
Besides, if you actually watch what SQL Server or Oracle, for that matter, do at the hardware level, the ... | Generally, on older storage that has specific raids for specific volumes, they recommended keeping the logs and data on different raids. These days, most storage is installed with pools that span all IO across large groups of disks. In a big pool, there's no need to avoid having logs and data for any database on the sa... |
529,079 | SQL Server best practice recommends separate drives for the the data and log files. Do you really get a speed increase if both logical drives are located on the same EVA? | 2013/08/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/529079",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/182895/"
] | Ah - just my area of specialisation!
SQL 'best practices' assume that you use separate physical disk for the data and log yes, but that's in either a server with physical disks locally attached or via traditional SAN methods where a LUN was just part of a single SAN disk. EVAs are very different to this.
Depending on... | Totally agree with Chopper3. The theoretical disk separation of DB files / logs for performance that you did for good-old JBODs is long gone.
An EVA with a large disk group (plenty of spindles) is all you need.
Besides, if you actually watch what SQL Server or Oracle, for that matter, do at the hardware level, the ... |
38,645 | I was watching Pokemon Sun Moon and I think its a continuation because he knows about Pokemon from other regions.
But the question is that why did he became a small kid, from a young guy, who challenged Alain in Kalos League Finals?
He nearly won the match so why did he need to go to Pokemon School? | 2017/01/28 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/38645",
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] | Ash Ketchum has, and will always be, 10 years of age. Sun and Moon has only changed the art style and focus of the anime. Whilst Pokemon of old had some comedy in it, Sun and Moon has made it a priority.
source for age: <http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ash_Ketchum> | If you haven't noticed, Ash is always 10 no matter what series it is. He never ages. Physically, he is the same 10-year old boy from Kanto that we see in the very first episode of Pokemon. |
260,503 | Simple question. If you have a compiled and published ASP.NET web application running on a server and you need to update, say, a line in one of the codebehind files. Do you shut down the entire site, republish, then load the site back up? Or do you publish straight to your live site with users still using it? | 2008/11/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/260503",
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] | For myself, place an app.offline app\_offline.htm file into the site, then overwrite the entire website with the latest published build.
there are a few options when building a site -> one dll for the site or one per page. if u just updated one line in a code behind, and you have chosen the build option for one per pa... | If it is a single file and a simple site that uses that app\_code folder to store the code behinds, I simply xcopy up the new files. If I use http expiration headers I may need to do some better scheduling to make sure things like javascript files and css sheets match the rest of the site that was updated. |
260,503 | Simple question. If you have a compiled and published ASP.NET web application running on a server and you need to update, say, a line in one of the codebehind files. Do you shut down the entire site, republish, then load the site back up? Or do you publish straight to your live site with users still using it? | 2008/11/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/260503",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1574/"
] | For myself, place an app.offline app\_offline.htm file into the site, then overwrite the entire website with the latest published build.
there are a few options when building a site -> one dll for the site or one per page. if u just updated one line in a code behind, and you have chosen the build option for one per pa... | For emergency patches:
If its just a codebehind file, I copy the entire /bin/ out and replace all DLL's (mostly out of habit)
If its an aspx, I just copy the aspx.
For actual deployments, I have an automated system that checks out the code from source control, builds a clean release build, takes the site offline, an... |
270,928 | I'd like to track down a possible bug in Visual Studio, but that's awfully hard without the debug symbols for Visual Studio itself. Does Microsoft make these available? | 2008/11/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/270928",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | No, the closest thing are the debug symbols for the libraries which can be downloaded following the the steps [here](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503). But like I said, these are not for visual studio itself. | Based on my experience, most of the Visual Studio Dlls had symbols in the symbol server. msenv.dll is one of the most important. |
270,928 | I'd like to track down a possible bug in Visual Studio, but that's awfully hard without the debug symbols for Visual Studio itself. Does Microsoft make these available? | 2008/11/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/270928",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/35334/"
] | An up-to-date Visual Studio should already have the option to load symbols from Microsoft (Check: Tools->Options->Debug->Symbols). When it comes to debugging Visual Studio itself, have a look at this [blog post](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/calvin_hsia/archive/2009/06/08/9711306.aspx). | No, the closest thing are the debug symbols for the libraries which can be downloaded following the the steps [here](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503). But like I said, these are not for visual studio itself. |
270,928 | I'd like to track down a possible bug in Visual Studio, but that's awfully hard without the debug symbols for Visual Studio itself. Does Microsoft make these available? | 2008/11/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/270928",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/35334/"
] | An up-to-date Visual Studio should already have the option to load symbols from Microsoft (Check: Tools->Options->Debug->Symbols). When it comes to debugging Visual Studio itself, have a look at this [blog post](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/calvin_hsia/archive/2009/06/08/9711306.aspx). | Based on my experience, most of the Visual Studio Dlls had symbols in the symbol server. msenv.dll is one of the most important. |
56,203 | I had a job about 9 years ago working in a university office where I was essentially a full-time administrative assistant, using some software to manage various aspects of the departmental office. The software was poor, written by a student at the university actually, to fit the specific needs of the office.
Fast forw... | 2015/10/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56203",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
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] | Assuming your email gets past the admin assistant to the dean, unless there is a pressing business need I doubt that they would be prepared to spend the money.
However, if you want to try to contact them and see what happens, then you need to make sure you cover the following points:
* **Cost/benefit analysis.** How ... | What unique need is met by this software that can't be met by existing off-the-shelf software? It seems likely the cheapest way to improve the situation would be to abandon the software and import the data into an existing free or commercial application.
Students are particularly prone to writing small custom applicat... |
226,524 | I am having a 64 bit laptop which does not support VT.
It is a Dell Machine.For some recovery (I have a server whose rsync backup I am recovering)
I necessarily need to have a 64 bit guest.The guest OS is CentOS.
My host OS is Ubuntu 10.04 (with all updates)
and guest to create is CentOS 64 bit 5.5 version.
How ever... | 2011/01/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/226524",
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] | You can't run 64-bit guest using VirtualBox on hardware without VT. Seems silly that you can't run the same type as your host without VT, but you can't. Either use 32-bit guest or buy hardware that supports VT. You might also want to look into a para-virtualization solution like Xen which can run 64-bit without VT. Als... | I have a HP dv-6 laptop running Windows 7 Home Edition (64-bit). It has a quad core AMD Phenom processor and, I to cannot enable the VT feature in the BIOS (because it's not there) but, I've installed VMWare Server 2.0x and I'm able to run any Linux 64-bit guest. I made the move from Virtual Box 3x to VMWare Server 2x ... |
57,920,885 | I have deployed an AI model on Google Cloud Platform in the 'SavedModel' format. The model is able to make predictions when I enter sample input data through the 'Test & Use' facility on AI Platform.
Now, I would like to expose API endpoints so that other front end applications (eg. Android) can make use of this deplo... | 2019/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/57920885",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/12029259/"
] | You can use the Graph to create a sharing link to a document. But the user will have to sign in to view the document I believe. I'm not sure what licensing they need but you can try this with your users to see.
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-createlink?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http> | You can use the Google Docs API to work with documents stored in Google Drive. If you are using Java there is a "Quickstart" at the following link:
<https://developers.google.com/docs/api/quickstart/java> |
8,272 | Guys, I'm a poet who is going to do an experimental poetry project. I want to record sounds of the landscape for my show. I guess it's something like doing filed recording. What portable recorder do you recommend for someone new in the field but who wants the best audio? I don't want to spend more than $150. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/8272",
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] | Zoom H2 is a safe bet. | You might consider renting some gear if this is a 1 time deal. Many cities have audio rental houses. You can probably get a Zoom H2 for $20-30/day or less.
DO you have more specific info on what you want to capture? The more we know about what you are recording, the more the SSD community can help. Is it possible tha... |
8,272 | Guys, I'm a poet who is going to do an experimental poetry project. I want to record sounds of the landscape for my show. I guess it's something like doing filed recording. What portable recorder do you recommend for someone new in the field but who wants the best audio? I don't want to spend more than $150. | 2011/05/26 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/8272",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/1104/"
] | I can personally recommend the Zoom products. I personally have the H4n Series which is a bit more pricey - <http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h4n/> However they have a great reputation for portable recorders and the mics are very high quality. If the other guys are saying the H2 is a good shout, id go for it!
Ho... | You might consider renting some gear if this is a 1 time deal. Many cities have audio rental houses. You can probably get a Zoom H2 for $20-30/day or less.
DO you have more specific info on what you want to capture? The more we know about what you are recording, the more the SSD community can help. Is it possible tha... |
37,384 | If two Calabi-Yau 3-folds are bi-rational to each other via a Flop , then what is the relation between their mirrors ? | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/37384",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
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] | I assume the question regards the coherent sheaves on these two CY's.
These CY's should be regarded as the "same" complex manifold with two
different choices of complexified symplectic forms ("Kahler form," in
physics terminology).
The mirrors are a "single" symplectic manifold with two different
complex structures on... | Small contractions are mirrors to degenerations, so: degenerate, then deform out. |
13,784,509 | I am building receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves to evaluate classifiers using the area under the curve (AUC) (more details on that at end of post). Unfortunately, points on the curve often go below the diagonal. For example, I end up with graphs that look like the one here (ROC curve in blue, identity line... | 2012/12/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13784509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | Note based on some very helpful emails about this from the people that wrote the articles cited above, and the discussion above, the right answer seems to be: do not try to "fix" individual points in an ROC curve unless you build an entirely new classifier, and then be sure to leave out some test data to see if that wa... | Yes, swapping a point for (1-fp, 1-tp) is theoretically effective, but increasing sample size is a safe bet too.
It does seem that your system has a non-monotonic response characteristic so be careful not to bend the rules of the ROC too much or you will impact the robustness of the AUC.
That said, you could try to u... |
3,893 | Can anybody explain to me about "nibbana" and how it is different form "nirvana"?
Are there views about it and ways to get to it? | 2014/10/01 | [
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] | Nirvana (Sanskrit, also nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbana, nibbāna - it's all the same word)
>
> **Extinguishing the fires**
>
>
> In the Buddhist tradition, nirvana is described as the extinguishing of the fires that cause suffering.
> These fires are typically identified as the fires of attachment
> (raga), aversion (dve... | Nirvana / nibana is when:
* you have calmed all fabrications
* you experienced something beyond the 5 aggregates when the fabrications have calmed down
* your worldly perceptions or ignorance has subsided or changed forever or become very thin thus causing some or all of the fetters to fall off |
3,893 | Can anybody explain to me about "nibbana" and how it is different form "nirvana"?
Are there views about it and ways to get to it? | 2014/10/01 | [
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] | Nirvana (Sanskrit, also nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbana, nibbāna - it's all the same word)
>
> **Extinguishing the fires**
>
>
> In the Buddhist tradition, nirvana is described as the extinguishing of the fires that cause suffering.
> These fires are typically identified as the fires of attachment
> (raga), aversion (dve... | I'll add one meaning for this word Nirvana, I came across recently (YouTube). It was used in Aasivakam, a pre-Buddhist sramana philosophy / religion. Founder of Aasivakam was contemporary to Buddha / Mahavir.
In Tamil language, it's neer (water) + vannam (color). It's one of 7 colors used to represent 7 stages of enli... |
3,893 | Can anybody explain to me about "nibbana" and how it is different form "nirvana"?
Are there views about it and ways to get to it? | 2014/10/01 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/3893",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/1011/"
] | Nirvana / nibana is when:
* you have calmed all fabrications
* you experienced something beyond the 5 aggregates when the fabrications have calmed down
* your worldly perceptions or ignorance has subsided or changed forever or become very thin thus causing some or all of the fetters to fall off | I'll add one meaning for this word Nirvana, I came across recently (YouTube). It was used in Aasivakam, a pre-Buddhist sramana philosophy / religion. Founder of Aasivakam was contemporary to Buddha / Mahavir.
In Tamil language, it's neer (water) + vannam (color). It's one of 7 colors used to represent 7 stages of enli... |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | Depending on the system there are a couple of ways to do it.
Try to avoid fragmentation in the first place, if you allocate blocks in powers of 2 you have less a chance of causing this kind of fragmentation. There are a couple of other ways around it but if you ever reach this state then you just OOM at that point bec... | * write the pool to operate as a list of allocations, you can then extended and destroyed as needed. this can reduce fragmentation.
* and/or implement allocation transfer (or move) support so you can compact active allocations. the object/holder may need to assist you, since the pool may not necessarily know how to tra... |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | Depending on the system there are a couple of ways to do it.
Try to avoid fragmentation in the first place, if you allocate blocks in powers of 2 you have less a chance of causing this kind of fragmentation. There are a couple of other ways around it but if you ever reach this state then you just OOM at that point bec... | Implementing [object pools](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_pool_pattern) for the objects that you frequently allocate will drive fragmentation down considerably without the need to change your memory allocator. |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | Depending on the system there are a couple of ways to do it.
Try to avoid fragmentation in the first place, if you allocate blocks in powers of 2 you have less a chance of causing this kind of fragmentation. There are a couple of other ways around it but if you ever reach this state then you just OOM at that point bec... | It would be helpful to know more exactly what you are actually trying to do, because there are many ways to deal with this.
But, the first question is: is this actually happening, or is it a theoretical concern?
One thing to keep in mind is you normally have a lot more virtual memory address space available than p... |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | I wanted to add my 2 cents only because no one else pointed out that from your description it sounds like you are implementing a standard heap allocator (i.e what all of us already use every time when we call malloc() or operator new).
A heap is exactly such an object, that goes to virtual memory manager and asks for ... | Depending on the system there are a couple of ways to do it.
Try to avoid fragmentation in the first place, if you allocate blocks in powers of 2 you have less a chance of causing this kind of fragmentation. There are a couple of other ways around it but if you ever reach this state then you just OOM at that point bec... |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | Implementing [object pools](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_pool_pattern) for the objects that you frequently allocate will drive fragmentation down considerably without the need to change your memory allocator. | * write the pool to operate as a list of allocations, you can then extended and destroyed as needed. this can reduce fragmentation.
* and/or implement allocation transfer (or move) support so you can compact active allocations. the object/holder may need to assist you, since the pool may not necessarily know how to tra... |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | It would be helpful to know more exactly what you are actually trying to do, because there are many ways to deal with this.
But, the first question is: is this actually happening, or is it a theoretical concern?
One thing to keep in mind is you normally have a lot more virtual memory address space available than p... | * write the pool to operate as a list of allocations, you can then extended and destroyed as needed. this can reduce fragmentation.
* and/or implement allocation transfer (or move) support so you can compact active allocations. the object/holder may need to assist you, since the pool may not necessarily know how to tra... |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | I wanted to add my 2 cents only because no one else pointed out that from your description it sounds like you are implementing a standard heap allocator (i.e what all of us already use every time when we call malloc() or operator new).
A heap is exactly such an object, that goes to virtual memory manager and asks for ... | * write the pool to operate as a list of allocations, you can then extended and destroyed as needed. this can reduce fragmentation.
* and/or implement allocation transfer (or move) support so you can compact active allocations. the object/holder may need to assist you, since the pool may not necessarily know how to tra... |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | Implementing [object pools](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_pool_pattern) for the objects that you frequently allocate will drive fragmentation down considerably without the need to change your memory allocator. | It would be helpful to know more exactly what you are actually trying to do, because there are many ways to deal with this.
But, the first question is: is this actually happening, or is it a theoretical concern?
One thing to keep in mind is you normally have a lot more virtual memory address space available than p... |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | I wanted to add my 2 cents only because no one else pointed out that from your description it sounds like you are implementing a standard heap allocator (i.e what all of us already use every time when we call malloc() or operator new).
A heap is exactly such an object, that goes to virtual memory manager and asks for ... | Implementing [object pools](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_pool_pattern) for the objects that you frequently allocate will drive fragmentation down considerably without the need to change your memory allocator. |
7,857,462 | Suppose I have a memory pool object with a constructor that takes a pointer to a large chunk of memory ptr and size N. If I do many random allocations and deallocations of various sizes I can get the memory in such a state that I cannot allocate an M byte object contiguously in memory even though there may be a lot fre... | 2011/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7857462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/805547/"
] | I wanted to add my 2 cents only because no one else pointed out that from your description it sounds like you are implementing a standard heap allocator (i.e what all of us already use every time when we call malloc() or operator new).
A heap is exactly such an object, that goes to virtual memory manager and asks for ... | It would be helpful to know more exactly what you are actually trying to do, because there are many ways to deal with this.
But, the first question is: is this actually happening, or is it a theoretical concern?
One thing to keep in mind is you normally have a lot more virtual memory address space available than p... |
110,977 | I have a video in 4k that i would like to downscale to 1080p. What i want to do is having the video with the same quality and carachteristics as the original but at 1080p.
I have tried the following:
1.- changing the output resolution to 1080p.
2.- stablished the "Percentage scale for render resolution" to 100%.
3.- ... | 2018/06/17 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/110977",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/57054/"
] | You have to use a compression like H264. Your 4k Video has also a compression on it and that the reason why it is smaller than your 1080 video. | If you just want to downscale the video (so no cuts or anything like that), I don't think that blender is your best choice here.
I usually use handbrake (<https://handbrake.fr/>) for that purpose.
---
If you want to use blender anyway you could try several things:
1. Use "perceptually lossless". Maybe the file is s... |
93,105 | I have a Dell Dimension 4700 helping hold the floor down in the corner of my office and thought it would be useful to install a hypervisor and then use the box for something. EXSi has been my hypervisor of choice. But it will not run on the hardware.
Is there any alternatives that are worth using? I would prefer bare-... | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/93105",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13685/"
] | I've been quite happy with [XenServer](http://www.xenserver.com) recently. It is a bare-metal hypervisor and is free (as in beer). It will run Linux VMs without hardware assist (e.g., Intel's VT) but in order to do Windows (or any other VM-unaware OSes), you'll need it, so YMMV.
If you can put up with installing and m... | I have heard many a good thing about [Xen](http://xen.org/). Seems to be used quite heavily in the ISP and hosting market, appears to have proved it's worth. Can't hurt to give it a go.
>
> The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open
> source industry standard for
> virtualization, offers a powerful,
> efficient, and s... |
93,105 | I have a Dell Dimension 4700 helping hold the floor down in the corner of my office and thought it would be useful to install a hypervisor and then use the box for something. EXSi has been my hypervisor of choice. But it will not run on the hardware.
Is there any alternatives that are worth using? I would prefer bare-... | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/93105",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13685/"
] | Are you ***sure*** ESXi won't run on that hardware? Sure it will not be *supported*, but there are lots of platform where ESXi isn't supported but runs very nicely.
On Dell's product page, I can see it has mainly Intel on-board stuff: chipset, SATA controller and network adapter; all of them work perfectly in ESXi, so... | I have heard many a good thing about [Xen](http://xen.org/). Seems to be used quite heavily in the ISP and hosting market, appears to have proved it's worth. Can't hurt to give it a go.
>
> The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open
> source industry standard for
> virtualization, offers a powerful,
> efficient, and s... |
93,105 | I have a Dell Dimension 4700 helping hold the floor down in the corner of my office and thought it would be useful to install a hypervisor and then use the box for something. EXSi has been my hypervisor of choice. But it will not run on the hardware.
Is there any alternatives that are worth using? I would prefer bare-... | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/93105",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13685/"
] | I have heard many a good thing about [Xen](http://xen.org/). Seems to be used quite heavily in the ISP and hosting market, appears to have proved it's worth. Can't hurt to give it a go.
>
> The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open
> source industry standard for
> virtualization, offers a powerful,
> efficient, and s... | A thing you need to take into consideration is security.
Without VT-x you get crappy performance, because the hypervisor will emulate alot of stuff on the CPU and you will have ring-compression.
Without VT-d you could face problems with devices doing DMA and other nasty stuff.
Take security into consideration when do... |
93,105 | I have a Dell Dimension 4700 helping hold the floor down in the corner of my office and thought it would be useful to install a hypervisor and then use the box for something. EXSi has been my hypervisor of choice. But it will not run on the hardware.
Is there any alternatives that are worth using? I would prefer bare-... | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/93105",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13685/"
] | I've been quite happy with [XenServer](http://www.xenserver.com) recently. It is a bare-metal hypervisor and is free (as in beer). It will run Linux VMs without hardware assist (e.g., Intel's VT) but in order to do Windows (or any other VM-unaware OSes), you'll need it, so YMMV.
If you can put up with installing and m... | A thing you need to take into consideration is security.
Without VT-x you get crappy performance, because the hypervisor will emulate alot of stuff on the CPU and you will have ring-compression.
Without VT-d you could face problems with devices doing DMA and other nasty stuff.
Take security into consideration when do... |
93,105 | I have a Dell Dimension 4700 helping hold the floor down in the corner of my office and thought it would be useful to install a hypervisor and then use the box for something. EXSi has been my hypervisor of choice. But it will not run on the hardware.
Is there any alternatives that are worth using? I would prefer bare-... | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/93105",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13685/"
] | Are you ***sure*** ESXi won't run on that hardware? Sure it will not be *supported*, but there are lots of platform where ESXi isn't supported but runs very nicely.
On Dell's product page, I can see it has mainly Intel on-board stuff: chipset, SATA controller and network adapter; all of them work perfectly in ESXi, so... | A thing you need to take into consideration is security.
Without VT-x you get crappy performance, because the hypervisor will emulate alot of stuff on the CPU and you will have ring-compression.
Without VT-d you could face problems with devices doing DMA and other nasty stuff.
Take security into consideration when do... |
210,642 | I want to purchase software for my Ubuntu 12.04 (through Sofware Center) but now I can't use my Ubuntu computer (it's not at home), I'm only with my Mac, and the software I want to buy has a reduced price just until November 3... How can I buy from Ubuntu Software Center from my Mac? I have an account already. | 2012/11/01 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/210642",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/103728/"
] | * You can buy using another computer
* You can use a live disk to boot your mac into Ubuntu
* If your really lucky the distributor will have "keys" that work in software center
Your purchase is linked to your account, so really you just need to log in "somewhere" and make the purchase.
I recommend using a Live CD or ... | The only way I can think of to do this is to [install Ubuntu on a virtual machine](http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/27/install-run-ubuntu-linux-virtualbox/) within OSX and download the software on that. As long as you log in with the same credentials on both instances of Ubuntu, your purchase will be remembered. |
350,461 | As I understand them, apparently an inode basically points to the beginning of a file stored on disk. But it also seems that directories have the same functionality as well (i.e., they store the addresses of other files). I was wondering then, why is it useful to have an inode array around, with a bunch of inodes that ... | 2011/10/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/350461",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/102740/"
] | An `inode` the a [data structure that contains information about a file](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode). You might be thinking of *inode numbers* which are indexes into a list of inodes. | Directories don't have same functionality. They're just the listing of (name, inode) pairs. Suppose it's a big file stored at multiple data blocks on disc then it is the inode struct which keeps list of all pointers to those data blocks. dentry is just the hook which takes you to significant inode struct. There are sev... |
132,143 | Once in a while I'll run my car into something and I'll go flying through the windshield and die. Other times, I'll ram into something at at even higher speed, stay inside the car, and be just fine.
Is there something that governs whether or not I'm wearing a seatbelt, or is this just random? | 2013/09/25 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/132143",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3062/"
] | Well, simply you can't. It's real life physics that when you drive into a solid object with that much force that your body is sent flying. I tried using a roll cage to see if it helps you at all but to no avail.
There are rumors going about that if you wait in the car long enough without driving you put on a seat belt... | There is no way to buckle up, even if you sit there he still doesn't buckle up. He will put a helmet on, though. There has been plenty of times I flew through the window and lived. |
132,143 | Once in a while I'll run my car into something and I'll go flying through the windshield and die. Other times, I'll ram into something at at even higher speed, stay inside the car, and be just fine.
Is there something that governs whether or not I'm wearing a seatbelt, or is this just random? | 2013/09/25 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/132143",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3062/"
] | On PC, if you hold `f`, the character will buckle up, and won't fly out so easily. | There is no way to buckle up, even if you sit there he still doesn't buckle up. He will put a helmet on, though. There has been plenty of times I flew through the window and lived. |
48,451 | It seems to me that everyone uses **NUnit** without even considering the other options. I think this is because:
* Everyone is familiar with it already so they won't have to learn a new API.
* It is already set up with their continuous integration server to work with NUnit.
Am I wrong about this?
I decided to use **... | 2011/02/16 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/48451",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3543/"
] | I've started to use **[Gallio/MbUnit](http://gallio.org)** several years ago. And the features and gems it provides are just so powerful that I've never regretted my choice. In fact, I'm now part of the development team of the Gallio OSS project; so I can contribute to make it even more awesome.
* **MbUnit** has many ... | Picking one and using it is perhaps the most important step here.
Personally I would choose [NUnit](http://www.nunit.org/) for a few reasons. First and foremost is tooling support. There is a [free add-in for Visual Studio 2010](http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c8164c71-0836-4471-80ce-633383031099/), and ... |
48,451 | It seems to me that everyone uses **NUnit** without even considering the other options. I think this is because:
* Everyone is familiar with it already so they won't have to learn a new API.
* It is already set up with their continuous integration server to work with NUnit.
Am I wrong about this?
I decided to use **... | 2011/02/16 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/48451",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3543/"
] | I've started to use **[Gallio/MbUnit](http://gallio.org)** several years ago. And the features and gems it provides are just so powerful that I've never regretted my choice. In fact, I'm now part of the development team of the Gallio OSS project; so I can contribute to make it even more awesome.
* **MbUnit** has many ... | The one reason is NUNIT become more industry standard than xUnit.
But personally, i love xunit. |
48,451 | It seems to me that everyone uses **NUnit** without even considering the other options. I think this is because:
* Everyone is familiar with it already so they won't have to learn a new API.
* It is already set up with their continuous integration server to work with NUnit.
Am I wrong about this?
I decided to use **... | 2011/02/16 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/48451",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3543/"
] | MSTest
------
I personally use MSTest. NUnit is really nice, but in VS2010, MSTest is already fully integrated into the IDE and there are full project templates for it. For .NET, if you're using 2010, then I think MSTest is the way to go (MSTest in VS2008 I don't think is up to par) simply for the code coverage, test ... | Picking one and using it is perhaps the most important step here.
Personally I would choose [NUnit](http://www.nunit.org/) for a few reasons. First and foremost is tooling support. There is a [free add-in for Visual Studio 2010](http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c8164c71-0836-4471-80ce-633383031099/), and ... |
48,451 | It seems to me that everyone uses **NUnit** without even considering the other options. I think this is because:
* Everyone is familiar with it already so they won't have to learn a new API.
* It is already set up with their continuous integration server to work with NUnit.
Am I wrong about this?
I decided to use **... | 2011/02/16 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/48451",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3543/"
] | MSTest
------
I personally use MSTest. NUnit is really nice, but in VS2010, MSTest is already fully integrated into the IDE and there are full project templates for it. For .NET, if you're using 2010, then I think MSTest is the way to go (MSTest in VS2008 I don't think is up to par) simply for the code coverage, test ... | The one reason is NUNIT become more industry standard than xUnit.
But personally, i love xunit. |
48,451 | It seems to me that everyone uses **NUnit** without even considering the other options. I think this is because:
* Everyone is familiar with it already so they won't have to learn a new API.
* It is already set up with their continuous integration server to work with NUnit.
Am I wrong about this?
I decided to use **... | 2011/02/16 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/48451",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3543/"
] | Picking one and using it is perhaps the most important step here.
Personally I would choose [NUnit](http://www.nunit.org/) for a few reasons. First and foremost is tooling support. There is a [free add-in for Visual Studio 2010](http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c8164c71-0836-4471-80ce-633383031099/), and ... | The one reason is NUNIT become more industry standard than xUnit.
But personally, i love xunit. |
44,736 | James 1:8 (ESV),
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Here "double-minded" is a translation of δίψυχος, a compound of δίς, meaning "twice" (from δύο, the number "2") and ψυχή, referring to "soul".
The word seems to indicate someone who is two-souled, not in a literal sense of actually having two diff... | 2020/01/26 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/44736",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/20336/"
] | The humanity of man, inwardly, is as complex - and more so - than the body of man which is wondrously composed. 'I am fearfully and wonderfully made' says the Psalmist, 139:14.
But just as the internals of the body are not (visibly) compartmentalised (though the organs all have their own specialised functions) so the ... | It is hard to understand this verse without reading 5-7.
I had an experience of being double-minded. I was one-day seeking answers from God concerning a particular doctrine. I had my ideas about what the doctrine meant. But, a few people had different views concerning this doctrine. So, I thought I would seek God’s w... |
44,736 | James 1:8 (ESV),
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Here "double-minded" is a translation of δίψυχος, a compound of δίς, meaning "twice" (from δύο, the number "2") and ψυχή, referring to "soul".
The word seems to indicate someone who is two-souled, not in a literal sense of actually having two diff... | 2020/01/26 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/44736",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/20336/"
] | The humanity of man, inwardly, is as complex - and more so - than the body of man which is wondrously composed. 'I am fearfully and wonderfully made' says the Psalmist, 139:14.
But just as the internals of the body are not (visibly) compartmentalised (though the organs all have their own specialised functions) so the ... | I get what you mean, although, I will not be able to answer as articulate as above responders.
I am diagnosed bipolar disorder. I found this question because I asked Google "is double minded same as bipolar.
My thoughts are not the same as gods but I was trying to figure it out double-minded means like two different pe... |
23,579,349 | I have three clinical data files in \*.xls . I saved these three files in microsoft excel as \*.csv file . and then I imported these \*.csv files into the Weka tool . To use Apriori association rule, I changed the data types to Nominal data types through " weka>>filters>>unsupervised>>attribute>>NumericToNominal " . Bu... | 2014/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23579349",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3398804/"
] | to use the Association Apriori algorithm all attributes should be discretized. you may have attributes which are numeric. so convert it to discrete values | Did you click on "Apply" next to the Filter area? It will convert everything to Nominal. |
23,579,349 | I have three clinical data files in \*.xls . I saved these three files in microsoft excel as \*.csv file . and then I imported these \*.csv files into the Weka tool . To use Apriori association rule, I changed the data types to Nominal data types through " weka>>filters>>unsupervised>>attribute>>NumericToNominal " . Bu... | 2014/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23579349",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3398804/"
] | Did you click on "Apply" next to the Filter area? It will convert everything to Nominal. | >
> To use Apriori association rule, I changed the data types to Nominal data types through weka>>filters>>unsupervised>>attribute>>NumericToNominal.
>
>
>
Did you make sure all the attributes were converted to nominal after using the filter? Excel sometimes misidentifies the types of values in cells, especially w... |
23,579,349 | I have three clinical data files in \*.xls . I saved these three files in microsoft excel as \*.csv file . and then I imported these \*.csv files into the Weka tool . To use Apriori association rule, I changed the data types to Nominal data types through " weka>>filters>>unsupervised>>attribute>>NumericToNominal " . Bu... | 2014/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23579349",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3398804/"
] | to use the Association Apriori algorithm all attributes should be discretized. you may have attributes which are numeric. so convert it to discrete values | >
> To use Apriori association rule, I changed the data types to Nominal data types through weka>>filters>>unsupervised>>attribute>>NumericToNominal.
>
>
>
Did you make sure all the attributes were converted to nominal after using the filter? Excel sometimes misidentifies the types of values in cells, especially w... |
38,734 | On my Samsung Galaxy Nexus running AOKP 4.2 JellyBean, WiFi has worked without issue before on this exact same hotspot, and it is currently working for other devices, so I'm assuming the error is in the phone. After trying another hotspot, I could see that the WiFi is definitely dead. But after enabling encryption on m... | 2013/01/31 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/38734",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/15575/"
] | You could install an alternate launcher like Nova and assign the buttons to do different things. Alternatively you can flash a ROM that has the home button going to Google Search by default. | Galaxy S3 stock ROM has S-Voice on home key double press (do a double click like with a mouse), its not Google's app but its not so bad at all.
If you want to launch another app (like Google's Voice Search), you need to decompile, edit and recompile the framework.jar of your phone to add that function. I would suggest... |
38,734 | On my Samsung Galaxy Nexus running AOKP 4.2 JellyBean, WiFi has worked without issue before on this exact same hotspot, and it is currently working for other devices, so I'm assuming the error is in the phone. After trying another hotspot, I could see that the WiFi is definitely dead. But after enabling encryption on m... | 2013/01/31 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/38734",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/15575/"
] | You could install an alternate launcher like Nova and assign the buttons to do different things. Alternatively you can flash a ROM that has the home button going to Google Search by default. | Stock roms hardly comes with enhanced options. IMO you should switch back to Cyanogen based ROMS or any other custom roms. I prefer/rely Cyano as I am using it past 3 years and has lots of revealed options which is good and bad as well. Currently I own a OnePlus One with cyanogen 11S. Alternatively you can root your ph... |
1,494,617 | Is there an unofficial spec anywhere that explains how to reverse engineer a Flash .FLA file?
I'm specifically interested in creating an application that can "auto-scene plan" a Flash document programmatically, pulling in content from other files, arranging that content into layers, without needing the Flash IDE open.... | 2009/09/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1494617",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/46914/"
] | I've spent days looking around the internet, to see if there is anyway in to, do a reverse engineer but nought really. I don't there is a .FLA spec floating about. I've spent the last couple of days looking. If there was one, and you were using it, you would receive a cease and desist letter from Adobe, followed by the... | You might wanna check the swf file specification:
<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/> |
1,494,617 | Is there an unofficial spec anywhere that explains how to reverse engineer a Flash .FLA file?
I'm specifically interested in creating an application that can "auto-scene plan" a Flash document programmatically, pulling in content from other files, arranging that content into layers, without needing the Flash IDE open.... | 2009/09/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1494617",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/46914/"
] | I've spent days looking around the internet, to see if there is anyway in to, do a reverse engineer but nought really. I don't there is a .FLA spec floating about. I've spent the last couple of days looking. If there was one, and you were using it, you would receive a cease and desist letter from Adobe, followed by the... | Although there is no official documentation, this guy tried at least in some primary analysis
The fla format | benjaminwolsey.de
<http://benjaminwolsey.de/node/49> |
1,494,617 | Is there an unofficial spec anywhere that explains how to reverse engineer a Flash .FLA file?
I'm specifically interested in creating an application that can "auto-scene plan" a Flash document programmatically, pulling in content from other files, arranging that content into layers, without needing the Flash IDE open.... | 2009/09/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1494617",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/46914/"
] | I've spent days looking around the internet, to see if there is anyway in to, do a reverse engineer but nought really. I don't there is a .FLA spec floating about. I've spent the last couple of days looking. If there was one, and you were using it, you would receive a cease and desist letter from Adobe, followed by the... | It should be noted that all FLA files saved in CS5 or later are now technically ZIP files that use the open XFL format. You can actually rename a FLA file to ZIP and decompress it. Subsequently, Flash supports saving directly to the XFL format.
The XFL format is a folder structure consisting of files and folders that ... |
1,494,617 | Is there an unofficial spec anywhere that explains how to reverse engineer a Flash .FLA file?
I'm specifically interested in creating an application that can "auto-scene plan" a Flash document programmatically, pulling in content from other files, arranging that content into layers, without needing the Flash IDE open.... | 2009/09/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1494617",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/46914/"
] | Although there is no official documentation, this guy tried at least in some primary analysis
The fla format | benjaminwolsey.de
<http://benjaminwolsey.de/node/49> | You might wanna check the swf file specification:
<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/> |
1,494,617 | Is there an unofficial spec anywhere that explains how to reverse engineer a Flash .FLA file?
I'm specifically interested in creating an application that can "auto-scene plan" a Flash document programmatically, pulling in content from other files, arranging that content into layers, without needing the Flash IDE open.... | 2009/09/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1494617",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/46914/"
] | It should be noted that all FLA files saved in CS5 or later are now technically ZIP files that use the open XFL format. You can actually rename a FLA file to ZIP and decompress it. Subsequently, Flash supports saving directly to the XFL format.
The XFL format is a folder structure consisting of files and folders that ... | You might wanna check the swf file specification:
<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/> |
1,494,617 | Is there an unofficial spec anywhere that explains how to reverse engineer a Flash .FLA file?
I'm specifically interested in creating an application that can "auto-scene plan" a Flash document programmatically, pulling in content from other files, arranging that content into layers, without needing the Flash IDE open.... | 2009/09/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1494617",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/46914/"
] | It should be noted that all FLA files saved in CS5 or later are now technically ZIP files that use the open XFL format. You can actually rename a FLA file to ZIP and decompress it. Subsequently, Flash supports saving directly to the XFL format.
The XFL format is a folder structure consisting of files and folders that ... | Although there is no official documentation, this guy tried at least in some primary analysis
The fla format | benjaminwolsey.de
<http://benjaminwolsey.de/node/49> |
122,461 | I recently discovered how powerful humidifiers can be in terms of generating cold.
What happens if you run a humidifier in a small room that has an air conditioner?
The dehumidifier can produce air up to 12 degrees cooler than the ambient temperature. The air conditioner can take away the swampy humidity.
However, ... | 2017/09/01 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/122461",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/74935/"
] | Potentially, but not in the way you suggest. [Evaporative coolers (aka swamp coolers)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler) are an efficient way of cooling by adding moisture to the air. If the relative humidity is already high, then the additional moisture will need to be removed, with either an AC system... | I assume, in your post, you meant to say 'humidifier'.
You have a great idea there, but not without a couple small glitches.
First, a standard HVAC system does not actually remove humidity. The perceived dehumidifying is simply the return air duct sucking the humidity from the air, but the humidity rests on the interi... |
28,939 | In the movie *Wreck-it Ralph*, characters can move from game-to-game using the (dodgy) power-board known as *'Game Central Station'*:
Are we to believe that every game in the arcade is plugged in to this one power board? *(eye-twitch)*
Or can the game... | 2013/01/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28939",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11061/"
] | To answer a question like this, you have to accept the rules of the universe, as they have been laid out, and hope that they are consistent. Clearly, the universe of *Wreck-it Ralph* is not our universe, as the game characters are not merely AIs, but actual digital life forms, perhaps something like an electricity elem... | I think it's more [artistic license](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicense). The movie had a lot of unrealistic correspondence between the digital and the physical because it's much easier for people to understand and relate to something physical. Case in point: the ending scene where Ralph is able... |
28,939 | In the movie *Wreck-it Ralph*, characters can move from game-to-game using the (dodgy) power-board known as *'Game Central Station'*:
Are we to believe that every game in the arcade is plugged in to this one power board? *(eye-twitch)*
Or can the game... | 2013/01/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28939",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11061/"
] | This was directly addressed by the film's lead actor, John C. Reilly (who portrays the titular Ralph). In short, the *possibility* of traveling beyond Litwak's Arcade was already under consideration ***even as the first film was being marketed.***
>
> **Movieline:** ***So here's the big question: If there are, say, h... | I think it's more [artistic license](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicense). The movie had a lot of unrealistic correspondence between the digital and the physical because it's much easier for people to understand and relate to something physical. Case in point: the ending scene where Ralph is able... |
47,888 | I've just watched the first season of Tokyo Ghoul anime, and in one episode the subtitle translation made a note where it said some Ghoul had a Kagune related with speed or something like that, which seemed to imply there were classes of kagunes. With the exception of Hinami who inherited traits from her father and mot... | 2018/07/17 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/47888",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/3028/"
] | There are [four different kagune types](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Kagune#Rc_Types), which depend on kakuhou position in body:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8CCNs.png)
* **Ukaku** - fast kagune, capable of distant attacks, but ukaku ghouls get ti... | "Speed type" is probably a translation of Ukaku (Literally: "Feather-red"). Ukaku is one of the four types of kagunes (Ukaku, Koukaku, Rinkaku and Bikaku).
Each type of kagune is considered to be "stronger" than one type, and "weaker" than one type, e.g., rinkaku is generally best against a koukaku, but it's worst aga... |
5,985 | What are the requirements for **Paranoid Personality Disorder** as specified by the current revision of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual? | 2014/03/16 | [
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/5985",
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com",
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/users/4626/"
] | The so-called glymphatic system, pump washing the brain with cerebrospinal fluid during sleep, has already been mentioned in answer to the SE question "Do you need to sleep every night?" It seems more than just a memory cleanup process as if on a computer, but "has significant implications for treating 'dirty brain dis... | This answer seems pretty obvious to me. Maybe? Yes with enough genetic engineering or chemical perturbation it might be possible to remove the need for sleep because it is uncertain if all multicellular organism sleep at this time. If it ever is proven that all multicellular organisms must sleep then the answer would b... |
5,985 | What are the requirements for **Paranoid Personality Disorder** as specified by the current revision of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual? | 2014/03/16 | [
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/5985",
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com",
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] | There has been studies that shown that cerebrospinal fluid's circulation in the brain is dramatically(20x) increased during sleep. It is believed that **during sleep, cerebrospinal fluid circulation helps clear out toxic by products of brain metabolism.**
>
> As a result, the cerebrospinal fluid could not only flow m... | This answer seems pretty obvious to me. Maybe? Yes with enough genetic engineering or chemical perturbation it might be possible to remove the need for sleep because it is uncertain if all multicellular organism sleep at this time. If it ever is proven that all multicellular organisms must sleep then the answer would b... |
5,985 | What are the requirements for **Paranoid Personality Disorder** as specified by the current revision of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual? | 2014/03/16 | [
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/5985",
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com",
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/users/4626/"
] | The so-called glymphatic system, pump washing the brain with cerebrospinal fluid during sleep, has already been mentioned in answer to the SE question "Do you need to sleep every night?" It seems more than just a memory cleanup process as if on a computer, but "has significant implications for treating 'dirty brain dis... | There has been studies that shown that cerebrospinal fluid's circulation in the brain is dramatically(20x) increased during sleep. It is believed that **during sleep, cerebrospinal fluid circulation helps clear out toxic by products of brain metabolism.**
>
> As a result, the cerebrospinal fluid could not only flow m... |
28,106,901 | I know that there are plenty of ways to share data between controllers in Angular.
e.g. snooping prototypical data from parent scope, notifying controllers by scope events, shared services etc.
But what is the idiomatic way to share data for all controllers in a view?
I've read this post: [Share data between controll... | 2015/01/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28106901",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317384/"
] | Just for reference: There is an SAP Hana extension for liquibase available [here](https://liquibase.jira.com/wiki/display/CONTRIB/Hana+extension) that might add some support to liquibase for SAPs Hana DB. | SAPHANA does not appear to be a supported Liquibase database. |
133,169 | I stupidly neglected to pre-drill a hole before nailing into a thin bit of wood, causing a small (hairline, inch each way) split.
I believe it needs only a cosmetic repair - and it would be hard to clamp, putting me off expanding glues.
The nail needs to stay in place, but not be glued in place.
Should I use filler,... | 2018/02/18 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/133169",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/47774/"
] | If the nail is holding this thin piece in place I would use wood glue over filler, filler may not hold the split together where wood glue would. | If it is not enough concern to make it worth replacing, put a little filler in it. |
153,844 | I was just wondering if anyone know of a Windows application that will remove formatting from any text in the clipboard? So if I copy something from Word into another document, the content is pasted as the original text without formatting. I want this to work no matter what application I paste into. | 2010/06/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/153844",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/37822/"
] | [Puretext](http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/) does everything you want - and only that. | I achieve this by pasting in to Notepad (or your text-only editor of choice) and re-copying.
Works when copying from anywhere to anywhere.
But, I imagine this isn't *quite* what you're looking for - but it works... |
391,654 | MethodA calls an MethodB which in turn calls MethodC.
There is NO exception handling in MethodB or MethodC. But there is exception handling in MethodA.
In MethodC an exception occurs.
Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
What is wrong with this?
In my mind, at some point a... | 2019/05/09 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/391654",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/333082/"
] | As a general principle, don't catch exceptions unless you know what to do with them. If MethodC throws an exception, but MethodB has no useful way to handle it, then it should allow the exception to propagate up to MethodA.
The only reasons why a method should have a catch and rethrow mechanism are:
* You want to con... | >
> What is wrong with this ?
>
>
>
Absolutely nothing.
>
> Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
>
>
>
"handles it appropriately" is the important part. That's the crux of Structured Exception Handling.
If your code can do something "useful" with an Exception, go ... |
391,654 | MethodA calls an MethodB which in turn calls MethodC.
There is NO exception handling in MethodB or MethodC. But there is exception handling in MethodA.
In MethodC an exception occurs.
Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
What is wrong with this?
In my mind, at some point a... | 2019/05/09 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/391654",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/333082/"
] | As a general principle, don't catch exceptions unless you know what to do with them. If MethodC throws an exception, but MethodB has no useful way to handle it, then it should allow the exception to propagate up to MethodA.
The only reasons why a method should have a catch and rethrow mechanism are:
* You want to con... | You have to make a difference between Libraries and Applications.
Libraries can throw uncaught exceptions freely
==============================================
When you design a library, at some point you have to think about what can go wrong. Parameters could be in the wrong range or `null`, external resources could... |
391,654 | MethodA calls an MethodB which in turn calls MethodC.
There is NO exception handling in MethodB or MethodC. But there is exception handling in MethodA.
In MethodC an exception occurs.
Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
What is wrong with this?
In my mind, at some point a... | 2019/05/09 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/391654",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/333082/"
] | As a general principle, don't catch exceptions unless you know what to do with them. If MethodC throws an exception, but MethodB has no useful way to handle it, then it should allow the exception to propagate up to MethodA.
The only reasons why a method should have a catch and rethrow mechanism are:
* You want to con... | What's wrong with the pattern you describe is that method A will have no way of distinguishing between three scenarios:
1. Method B failed in an anticipated fashion.
2. Method C failed in a fashion not anticipated by method B, but while method B was performing an operation that could be safely abandoned.
3. Method C f... |
391,654 | MethodA calls an MethodB which in turn calls MethodC.
There is NO exception handling in MethodB or MethodC. But there is exception handling in MethodA.
In MethodC an exception occurs.
Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
What is wrong with this?
In my mind, at some point a... | 2019/05/09 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/391654",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/333082/"
] | >
> What is wrong with this ?
>
>
>
Absolutely nothing.
>
> Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
>
>
>
"handles it appropriately" is the important part. That's the crux of Structured Exception Handling.
If your code can do something "useful" with an Exception, go ... | You have to make a difference between Libraries and Applications.
Libraries can throw uncaught exceptions freely
==============================================
When you design a library, at some point you have to think about what can go wrong. Parameters could be in the wrong range or `null`, external resources could... |
391,654 | MethodA calls an MethodB which in turn calls MethodC.
There is NO exception handling in MethodB or MethodC. But there is exception handling in MethodA.
In MethodC an exception occurs.
Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
What is wrong with this?
In my mind, at some point a... | 2019/05/09 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/391654",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/333082/"
] | >
> What is wrong with this ?
>
>
>
Absolutely nothing.
>
> Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
>
>
>
"handles it appropriately" is the important part. That's the crux of Structured Exception Handling.
If your code can do something "useful" with an Exception, go ... | What's wrong with the pattern you describe is that method A will have no way of distinguishing between three scenarios:
1. Method B failed in an anticipated fashion.
2. Method C failed in a fashion not anticipated by method B, but while method B was performing an operation that could be safely abandoned.
3. Method C f... |
391,654 | MethodA calls an MethodB which in turn calls MethodC.
There is NO exception handling in MethodB or MethodC. But there is exception handling in MethodA.
In MethodC an exception occurs.
Now, that exception is bubbling up to MethodA, which handles it appropriately.
What is wrong with this?
In my mind, at some point a... | 2019/05/09 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/391654",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/333082/"
] | You have to make a difference between Libraries and Applications.
Libraries can throw uncaught exceptions freely
==============================================
When you design a library, at some point you have to think about what can go wrong. Parameters could be in the wrong range or `null`, external resources could... | What's wrong with the pattern you describe is that method A will have no way of distinguishing between three scenarios:
1. Method B failed in an anticipated fashion.
2. Method C failed in a fashion not anticipated by method B, but while method B was performing an operation that could be safely abandoned.
3. Method C f... |
38,679 | Ernie, from Sesame Street, says the following lines aloud while he is lying awake in bed:
>
> Boy, am I thirsty. Am I thirsty. Am I thirrrrsty!
>
>
>
I don't think it's a question.
I have no idea why he doesn't say "I am thirsty".
Classic Sesame Street - [Ernie gets thirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsty!](https://www.youtube.... | 2014/11/06 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/38679",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/5245/"
] | You are correct; Ernie is not asking a question, but making a statement.
As you may know, most declarative sentences in English follow subject-verb-object (SVO) order, but they [can be reversed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93verb_inversion_in_English) or altered. Inversion can be used for [emphasis](ht... | >
> "Boy, am I thirsty."
>
>
>
Boy here is a simple exclamation, emphasizing the sentiment that follows. He could have said, "Oh" or "My" or "Gosh" or any number of other mild exclamations in its place.
"Am I thirsty."
This type of phrase is used to assert that one is thirsty. He could have said, "I am thirsty,"... |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | Hypothetical situation:
Let's say you have a zip code field. On the client-side you validate that it must be in a "00000" or "00000-0000" pattern. Since you're allowing a hyphen, you decide to store the field as a varchar in the database.
So, some evil user comes along and decides to bypass all of your client-side v... | Honestly, users don't care what you consider "sensitive" or "critical" data. Those criteria are up to them to decide.
I know that if I was a user of your application and I saw my data change without me directly doing something to cause the change...I would close my account up as fast as possible. It would be readily a... |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | Your data may not be worth much, that's fine by me.
BUT, attackers could inject [CSRF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csrf) "cross site request forgery" attack code into your application; users of your site *may* have their data at *other* sites compromised. Yes, it would require those 'other sites' to have bugs, but th... | Anyone performing HTTP POSTs to your server via your web site (with jQuery validation) can also perform HTTP POSTs via some other means that bypasses the jQuery validation. For example, I could use System.Net.HttpWebRequest to POST some data to your server with the appropriate cookies that injects malicious content int... |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | Your data may not be worth much, that's fine by me.
BUT, attackers could inject [CSRF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csrf) "cross site request forgery" attack code into your application; users of your site *may* have their data at *other* sites compromised. Yes, it would require those 'other sites' to have bugs, but th... | To answer your second question:
You need to use a whitelist to keep malicious input out of the incoming comments.
The .NET Framework request validation does a very good job of stopping XSS payloads in incoming POST requests. It may not, however, prevent other malicious or mischevious HTML from getting into the commen... |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | Hypothetical situation:
Let's say you have a zip code field. On the client-side you validate that it must be in a "00000" or "00000-0000" pattern. Since you're allowing a hyphen, you decide to store the field as a varchar in the database.
So, some evil user comes along and decides to bypass all of your client-side v... | Anyone performing HTTP POSTs to your server via your web site (with jQuery validation) can also perform HTTP POSTs via some other means that bypasses the jQuery validation. For example, I could use System.Net.HttpWebRequest to POST some data to your server with the appropriate cookies that injects malicious content int... |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | Your data may not be worth much, that's fine by me.
BUT, attackers could inject [CSRF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csrf) "cross site request forgery" attack code into your application; users of your site *may* have their data at *other* sites compromised. Yes, it would require those 'other sites' to have bugs, but th... | Check out the Tamper Data extension for firefox. You can feed the server anything you want very easily |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | Honestly, users don't care what you consider "sensitive" or "critical" data. Those criteria are up to them to decide.
I know that if I was a user of your application and I saw my data change without me directly doing something to cause the change...I would close my account up as fast as possible. It would be readily a... | This an excellent and brave question. The short (and possibly brave) answer is you don't. If you are aware of all the security vulnerabilities and you still don't believe it's necessary, then that's your choice.
It really depends on who your users are, who the site is exposed to (in terms of intranet or internet) and ... |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | Hypothetical situation:
Let's say you have a zip code field. On the client-side you validate that it must be in a "00000" or "00000-0000" pattern. Since you're allowing a hyphen, you decide to store the field as a varchar in the database.
So, some evil user comes along and decides to bypass all of your client-side v... | This an excellent and brave question. The short (and possibly brave) answer is you don't. If you are aware of all the security vulnerabilities and you still don't believe it's necessary, then that's your choice.
It really depends on who your users are, who the site is exposed to (in terms of intranet or internet) and ... |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | Security is a dependability attribute that is defined as *the probability that the system resists to an attack*, or else *the probability a fault is not maliciously activated*.
In order to implement security, you must perform a **threat analysis**. Complex computer systems are subject to deeper analyses (think about a... | Check out the Tamper Data extension for firefox. You can feed the server anything you want very easily |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | I believe that you need to validate both on the client side and on the server side, and here's why.
**On the client side**, you are often saving the user from submitting data that is obviously wrong. They have not filled in a required field. They have put letters in a field that is only supposed to contain numbers. Th... | To answer your second question:
You need to use a whitelist to keep malicious input out of the incoming comments.
The .NET Framework request validation does a very good job of stopping XSS payloads in incoming POST requests. It may not, however, prevent other malicious or mischevious HTML from getting into the commen... |
4,739,668 | Thanks to everyone who commented or posted an answer! I've kept my original question and update below for completeness.
[Feb 16, 2011 - Update 2] As some people point out - my question should have been: **Given a standard asp.net 4 form, if I don't have any server side validation, what types of malicious attacks am I... | 2011/01/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4739668",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21261/"
] | This an excellent and brave question. The short (and possibly brave) answer is you don't. If you are aware of all the security vulnerabilities and you still don't believe it's necessary, then that's your choice.
It really depends on who your users are, who the site is exposed to (in terms of intranet or internet) and ... | Check out the Tamper Data extension for firefox. You can feed the server anything you want very easily |
276,292 | How can I continuously capture images from a webcam?
I want to experiment with object recognition (by maybe using java media framework).
I was thinking of creating two threads
one thread:
* Node 1: capture live image
* Node 2: save image as "1.jpg"
* Node 3: wait 5 seconds
* Node 4: repeat...
other thread:
* Nod... | 2008/11/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/276292",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/35962/"
] | [Here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/115835/what-is-the-best-method-to-capture-images-from-a-live-video-device-for-use-by-a) is a similar question with some - yet unaccepted - answers. One of them mentions [FMJ](http://fmj-sf.net/) as a java alternative to JMF. | I have used JMF on a videoconference application and it worked well on two laptops: one with integrated webcam and another with an old USB webcam. It requires JMF being installed and configured before-hand, but once you're done you can access the hardware via Java code fairly easily. |
276,292 | How can I continuously capture images from a webcam?
I want to experiment with object recognition (by maybe using java media framework).
I was thinking of creating two threads
one thread:
* Node 1: capture live image
* Node 2: save image as "1.jpg"
* Node 3: wait 5 seconds
* Node 4: repeat...
other thread:
* Nod... | 2008/11/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/276292",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/35962/"
] | You can try [Java Webcam SDK](http://www.smaxe.com/product.jsf?id=juv-webcam-sdk) library also.
SDK demo applet is available at [link](http://demo.smaxe.com/juv-na-demo-webcam.html). | I believe the web-cam application software which comes along with the web-cam, or you native windows webcam software can be run in a batch script(windows/dos script) after turning the web cam on(i.e. if it needs an external power supply). In the bacth script , u can add appropriate delay to capture after certain time p... |
276,292 | How can I continuously capture images from a webcam?
I want to experiment with object recognition (by maybe using java media framework).
I was thinking of creating two threads
one thread:
* Node 1: capture live image
* Node 2: save image as "1.jpg"
* Node 3: wait 5 seconds
* Node 4: repeat...
other thread:
* Nod... | 2008/11/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/276292",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/35962/"
] | I have used JMF on a videoconference application and it worked well on two laptops: one with integrated webcam and another with an old USB webcam. It requires JMF being installed and configured before-hand, but once you're done you can access the hardware via Java code fairly easily. | Recommand using FMJ for multimedia relatived java app. |
276,292 | How can I continuously capture images from a webcam?
I want to experiment with object recognition (by maybe using java media framework).
I was thinking of creating two threads
one thread:
* Node 1: capture live image
* Node 2: save image as "1.jpg"
* Node 3: wait 5 seconds
* Node 4: repeat...
other thread:
* Nod... | 2008/11/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/276292",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/35962/"
] | Java usually doesn't like accessing hardware, so you will need a driver program of some sort, as goldenmean said. I've done this on my laptop by finding a command line program that snaps a picture. Then it's the same as goldenmean explained; you run the command line program from your java program in the takepicture() r... | There's a pretty nice interface for this in [processing](http://processing.org), which is kind of a [pidgin](http://www.flight404.com/_videos/pigeonCam.mov) java designed for graphics. It gets used in some image recognition work, such as that link.
Depending on what you need out of it, you might be able to load the vi... |
276,292 | How can I continuously capture images from a webcam?
I want to experiment with object recognition (by maybe using java media framework).
I was thinking of creating two threads
one thread:
* Node 1: capture live image
* Node 2: save image as "1.jpg"
* Node 3: wait 5 seconds
* Node 4: repeat...
other thread:
* Nod... | 2008/11/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/276292",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/35962/"
] | Java usually doesn't like accessing hardware, so you will need a driver program of some sort, as goldenmean said. I've done this on my laptop by finding a command line program that snaps a picture. Then it's the same as goldenmean explained; you run the command line program from your java program in the takepicture() r... | FMJ can do this, as can the supporting library it uses, LTI-CIVIL. Both are on sourceforge. |
47,697,440 | I've got a fast Dell Precision 7720 laptop with a solid state drive, and all my applications load really quickly - apart from Management Studio. I also had this problem on my previous laptop.
I've read a number of discussions on this - and especially [this one](https://superuser.com/questions/7247/why-does-it-take-so-... | 2017/12/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/47697440",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/601622/"
] | I had a similar issue on Windows 10 where Management Studio's SSMS.exe would launch but take forever just to get to the splash screen, before any connections; no UI would display. My fix:
1. Close SSMS.exe
2. Rename *C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio\14.0* to *14.0\_OLD*
3. Lau... | I'm using v18, remove all folders (old ssms versions), and start again.
SSMS create only needed folder, and speed up startup up. |
53,298 | [Source](https://www.thedivineindia.com/bhagavad-gita-chapter-5-shlok-11/7136)
Gita chapter 5 verse 11
>
> kāyena manasā buddhyā kevalair indriyair api
> yoginaḥ karma kurvanti saṅgaṁ tyaktvātma-śhuddhaye
>
>
>
>
> Meaning: The yogis, while giving up **attachment**, perform actions with their body, senses, mind... | 2022/10/27 | [
"https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/53298",
"https://hinduism.stackexchange.com",
"https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/users/27529/"
] | In Shiva Purana Bhagawan Shiva said to Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu the following.:
>
> *madātmakamidaṃ nityaṃ mama sānnidhyakāraṇam |
> mahatpūjyamidaṃ nityamabhedālliṃgasiṃginoḥ || 43 || yatrapratiṣṭhitaṃ yena madīyaṃ liṃgamīdṛśam |
> tatra pratiṣṭhitaḥ sohamapratiṣṭhopi vatsakau || 44 || matsāmyamekaliṃgasya sthāpa... | **Why is Shiva worshipped as a Lingam?**
The answer is that the Saivites use the linga form to signify nameless and formless aspects (Niskala) of the deity.
>
> Sages said:- 8. Everywhere the deities are worshipped only in their
> image. How is that Siva is worshipped both in the image and the linga?
>
>
> Suta sa... |
784,458 | I just discovered the [Falcon programming language](http://falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=Home) today and would like to experiment with it a bit. As it is quite new, there is no ide. That's not a problem as I can use Vim. It would be helpful if there were a Vim syntax file for Falcon, but I can't seem to find one. Can ... | 2009/04/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/784458",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/77777/"
] | There doesn't seem to be one, as far as I can see (and google). You could try writing one, but be warned, it's not that simple as it may sound. Sure, it's not that much of a problem if you only want to highlight syntax keywords, but going into regexing something (and only that something) can get a bit difficult.
I'm n... | Check the Vim documentation, it has an entire section about [syntax highlighting](http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/syntax.html) files and how to write your own [custom syntax files](http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/syntax.html#mysyntaxfile). |
784,458 | I just discovered the [Falcon programming language](http://falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=Home) today and would like to experiment with it a bit. As it is quite new, there is no ide. That's not a problem as I can use Vim. It would be helpful if there were a Vim syntax file for Falcon, but I can't seem to find one. Can ... | 2009/04/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/784458",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/77777/"
] | Check out:
svn://falconpl.org/falcon/docs/trunk/SyntaxHilight
It's a bit outdated, but should be workable. | Check the Vim documentation, it has an entire section about [syntax highlighting](http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/syntax.html) files and how to write your own [custom syntax files](http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/syntax.html#mysyntaxfile). |
784,458 | I just discovered the [Falcon programming language](http://falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=Home) today and would like to experiment with it a bit. As it is quite new, there is no ide. That's not a problem as I can use Vim. It would be helpful if there were a Vim syntax file for Falcon, but I can't seem to find one. Can ... | 2009/04/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/784458",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/77777/"
] | Check the Vim documentation, it has an entire section about [syntax highlighting](http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/syntax.html) files and how to write your own [custom syntax files](http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/syntax.html#mysyntaxfile). | Steve Oliver wrote a VIM syntax file for Falcon. It's located here: <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2745> |
784,458 | I just discovered the [Falcon programming language](http://falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=Home) today and would like to experiment with it a bit. As it is quite new, there is no ide. That's not a problem as I can use Vim. It would be helpful if there were a Vim syntax file for Falcon, but I can't seem to find one. Can ... | 2009/04/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/784458",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/77777/"
] | Check out:
svn://falconpl.org/falcon/docs/trunk/SyntaxHilight
It's a bit outdated, but should be workable. | There doesn't seem to be one, as far as I can see (and google). You could try writing one, but be warned, it's not that simple as it may sound. Sure, it's not that much of a problem if you only want to highlight syntax keywords, but going into regexing something (and only that something) can get a bit difficult.
I'm n... |
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