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10,765 | It is a given that, with time, questions and answers will become out dated. Good answers will not always apply to future patches, and questions may concern issues that simply do not exist in newer patches.
I have been linked to a few meta posts regarding the appropriate action. [The consensus here](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/946/outdated-answers-due-to-patches) is that out of date answers should be edited to be up to date.
The same mod has answered [a similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1339/how-should-we-deal-with-out-of-date-questions-answers), showing a markdown method to keep the original authors intent, but since has steered towards "leave a comment, alert the author" and "post your own, up to date answer".
[There is another similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1527/update-old-answers-according-to-patch-notes-for-unreleased-patch), however it does not appear to have had as much traffic, and the accepted answer appears to be a reference to the first question.
This is where my question comes in. **Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game**?
What defines the difference between updating an answer to be current, and going against the authors intent? | 2015/08/04 | [
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10765",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Having recently updated one of my own answers and also having stumbled upon this post, I feel compelled to give my two cents on the issue.
Some backstory: I noticed an old answer of mine having received some upvotes and also a bounty prizing my contribution. When I checked the answer, despite still valid, misses some mechanics that were added a long time after posting the answer. For completeness' sake, I updated the answer.
The answer itself is phrased as a reference list, which makes updating its content relevant. Being the original author, that gives me the responsibility to care for the answer I posted, which is why one of the suggestions when handling obsolete posts is to inform the author. Who better knows what to change, add or remove, than the human who wrote the text in the first place?
Now, authors eventually stop paying attention to their posts. When this happens, it means the responsibility of keeping the posts on-par with the current state of the topic relies on the community and hence the problem of changing an author's intent.
Since there are several kinds of answers, it might be hard to not modify an author's intent when editing (in short, there's no one rule to edit them all).
* For a reference answer, where most or all of the text is comprised of references to sources, it may be easy to edit the answer while updating the content.
* For more textual answers (descriptions of mechanics, strategies or walkthroughs) it may be hard to modify the answer while reflecting newer content. This is due in my opinion to two factors: the usefulness of older strategies for historical or game version related reasons and the difficulty of analyzing the content of the answer (a strategy in v1.0 might be 90% effective but in v1.1 it might be 80%, which doesn't invalidate it).
There is also one relevant factor in play here: reputation. Editing while under 2000 reputation gives +2 if the edit is accepted. And a good edit might give a lot of upvotes to what would be a poor post. This has happened to me on Superuser, where I formated an answer that later went on to get more than 50 upvotes. If an edit to what is an outdated post is substantial, it might be more beneficial to create a new answer, thereby preserving the older answer for anyone interested in it, while contributing with an up-to-date answer.
In short, when dealing with outdated posts:
* Inform the author of needed changes and allow for some time to happen.
* If the author does nothing in some time:
+ If the edits reflect on short (new) references, add them, indicating when they stopped working.
+ If the edits are substantial, write a new answer.
>
> Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game?
>
>
>
Answering your question, it depends on the kind of answer you are editing. In my opinion and as you phrased it (assuming that the solution is substancial), add the new solution as an answer. If the older solution isn't invalidated, leave it be . In any case, feel free to indicate whether an answer has a more efficient solution or if it has been invalidated (as a comment or, in last resort, as an edit indicating an up-to-date answer). | I disagree with the other answers. **It really depends on what sort of editing you are doing.**
**TL;DR** Edit if you're just updating old information, post a new answer if you're adding content.
---
I believe edits **should be used if you are updating the existing, obselete information. You're not adding anything; just updating.** Look at the below example:
>
> **Q:** [Minecraft] How can I make a golden apple?
>
>
> **A:** You can make an 'enchanted golden apple' with one apple surrounded by 8 gold blocks.
>
>
> ~~For a normal golden apple, you need to surround the apple in gold nuggets, which are dropped by Zombie Pigmen. However, this is less powerful than the enchanted version.~~
>
>
> As of version 1.6.1, normal golden apples are created by surrounding an apple with 8 gold *ingots*.
>
>
> [please note the history of golden apples has been simplified]
>
>
>
This is a good edit as it updates the answer to the current version of the game without adding any additional unnecessary content. Any new content that you add yourself is going against the author's intent.
---
However, **if you are adding new content** (such as a new strategy/procedure, or correcting the answer since it is wrong) **it should be posted as a new answer.**
Take the previous example; if I were to add that chickens now drop golden poop [they do not, ignore this example] and explained how to turn this into ingots (hence into golden apples), this would be a **bad** edit since it adds new content to the answer, which goes against the original intent of the answerer.
Anyway, posting a new answer will give you more rep than simply editing the existing answer, so you've got nothing to lose.
---
So really, it depends what your edit is. Avoid overwriting the original post, but make sure that it is up to date.
If your new answer is up against a highly-voted answer which is out of date, edit in a notice stating that this content is out of date as of version X.X to make users read on.
Also, remember to **never edit completely incorrect answers to be correct**. [A question in the Meta.SE FAQ](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5408/what-is-the-etiquette-for-correcting-old-questions-with-incorrect-answers) has already decided that incorrect content should not be edited to be correct. |
10,765 | It is a given that, with time, questions and answers will become out dated. Good answers will not always apply to future patches, and questions may concern issues that simply do not exist in newer patches.
I have been linked to a few meta posts regarding the appropriate action. [The consensus here](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/946/outdated-answers-due-to-patches) is that out of date answers should be edited to be up to date.
The same mod has answered [a similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1339/how-should-we-deal-with-out-of-date-questions-answers), showing a markdown method to keep the original authors intent, but since has steered towards "leave a comment, alert the author" and "post your own, up to date answer".
[There is another similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1527/update-old-answers-according-to-patch-notes-for-unreleased-patch), however it does not appear to have had as much traffic, and the accepted answer appears to be a reference to the first question.
This is where my question comes in. **Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game**?
What defines the difference between updating an answer to be current, and going against the authors intent? | 2015/08/04 | [
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10765",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Answers are our bread and butter. They're the whole reason the site *exists*. We also provide our strongest rewards for answers: 10 whole rep per upvote, along with perhaps an accept.
There's lots of incentive for answering a question. In fact, that's our heaviest moderation task; sorting the chaff from the wheat. We get plenty of contributions, but not all that many of them are very *useful*.
Which leads me to my suggestion:
If an answer is out of date, **post your own, up-to-date answer**. We're kind of making a mountain out of a molehill here. Unless the update is incredibly minor, such as the UI was updated to move the button or something, the process is straightforward, and has several advantages of doing so:
1. The question now has an up-to-date answer, and can help (potentially) many readers.
2. You get rep for doing so, which will reinforce the whole cycle nicely.
3. More importantly, the original answerer *won't* get more rep (or, at least, not as much. Accepted answers tend to garner additional drive-bys.).
At the end of the day, whoever has answered a question has tried to add some useful content, and with games continually updating, still has a useful answer for an older version of the game. As time passes, the answerer may not even play the game anymore, and may not even be able to keep the answer up to date. It seems counter productive to reward them some more because they happened to be the first or accepted answer.
The SE network tends to have a self-reinforcing cycle for this behaviour. We're in a bit of an edge case, as most of what we play can exist in multiple versions, and every answer potentially has some utility to a fraction of the playerbase.
The one issue we run into for this, though, is for MMOs and online games; these are games where you *can't* play older versions. It's the latest, or you're not playing. This is where the M.SE feature for obsolete answers would come in handy, but until then, the steps would be generally the same, except add one more to the end:
4. Downvote the old answer, and comment that it's now out-of-date, and doesn't work anymore.
Depending on how old the answer is, it might even be eligible for deletion; the answerer got their rep from helping, but without keeping it up to date, it's no longer a useful answer. But the rep won't go away, and deleting those old answers keeps the site much cleaner.
But deletion only applies in those cases where the answer is completely obsolete; MMOs and other online games that require specific versions. | I disagree with the other answers. **It really depends on what sort of editing you are doing.**
**TL;DR** Edit if you're just updating old information, post a new answer if you're adding content.
---
I believe edits **should be used if you are updating the existing, obselete information. You're not adding anything; just updating.** Look at the below example:
>
> **Q:** [Minecraft] How can I make a golden apple?
>
>
> **A:** You can make an 'enchanted golden apple' with one apple surrounded by 8 gold blocks.
>
>
> ~~For a normal golden apple, you need to surround the apple in gold nuggets, which are dropped by Zombie Pigmen. However, this is less powerful than the enchanted version.~~
>
>
> As of version 1.6.1, normal golden apples are created by surrounding an apple with 8 gold *ingots*.
>
>
> [please note the history of golden apples has been simplified]
>
>
>
This is a good edit as it updates the answer to the current version of the game without adding any additional unnecessary content. Any new content that you add yourself is going against the author's intent.
---
However, **if you are adding new content** (such as a new strategy/procedure, or correcting the answer since it is wrong) **it should be posted as a new answer.**
Take the previous example; if I were to add that chickens now drop golden poop [they do not, ignore this example] and explained how to turn this into ingots (hence into golden apples), this would be a **bad** edit since it adds new content to the answer, which goes against the original intent of the answerer.
Anyway, posting a new answer will give you more rep than simply editing the existing answer, so you've got nothing to lose.
---
So really, it depends what your edit is. Avoid overwriting the original post, but make sure that it is up to date.
If your new answer is up against a highly-voted answer which is out of date, edit in a notice stating that this content is out of date as of version X.X to make users read on.
Also, remember to **never edit completely incorrect answers to be correct**. [A question in the Meta.SE FAQ](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5408/what-is-the-etiquette-for-correcting-old-questions-with-incorrect-answers) has already decided that incorrect content should not be edited to be correct. |
10,765 | It is a given that, with time, questions and answers will become out dated. Good answers will not always apply to future patches, and questions may concern issues that simply do not exist in newer patches.
I have been linked to a few meta posts regarding the appropriate action. [The consensus here](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/946/outdated-answers-due-to-patches) is that out of date answers should be edited to be up to date.
The same mod has answered [a similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1339/how-should-we-deal-with-out-of-date-questions-answers), showing a markdown method to keep the original authors intent, but since has steered towards "leave a comment, alert the author" and "post your own, up to date answer".
[There is another similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1527/update-old-answers-according-to-patch-notes-for-unreleased-patch), however it does not appear to have had as much traffic, and the accepted answer appears to be a reference to the first question.
This is where my question comes in. **Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game**?
What defines the difference between updating an answer to be current, and going against the authors intent? | 2015/08/04 | [
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10765",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Having recently updated one of my own answers and also having stumbled upon this post, I feel compelled to give my two cents on the issue.
Some backstory: I noticed an old answer of mine having received some upvotes and also a bounty prizing my contribution. When I checked the answer, despite still valid, misses some mechanics that were added a long time after posting the answer. For completeness' sake, I updated the answer.
The answer itself is phrased as a reference list, which makes updating its content relevant. Being the original author, that gives me the responsibility to care for the answer I posted, which is why one of the suggestions when handling obsolete posts is to inform the author. Who better knows what to change, add or remove, than the human who wrote the text in the first place?
Now, authors eventually stop paying attention to their posts. When this happens, it means the responsibility of keeping the posts on-par with the current state of the topic relies on the community and hence the problem of changing an author's intent.
Since there are several kinds of answers, it might be hard to not modify an author's intent when editing (in short, there's no one rule to edit them all).
* For a reference answer, where most or all of the text is comprised of references to sources, it may be easy to edit the answer while updating the content.
* For more textual answers (descriptions of mechanics, strategies or walkthroughs) it may be hard to modify the answer while reflecting newer content. This is due in my opinion to two factors: the usefulness of older strategies for historical or game version related reasons and the difficulty of analyzing the content of the answer (a strategy in v1.0 might be 90% effective but in v1.1 it might be 80%, which doesn't invalidate it).
There is also one relevant factor in play here: reputation. Editing while under 2000 reputation gives +2 if the edit is accepted. And a good edit might give a lot of upvotes to what would be a poor post. This has happened to me on Superuser, where I formated an answer that later went on to get more than 50 upvotes. If an edit to what is an outdated post is substantial, it might be more beneficial to create a new answer, thereby preserving the older answer for anyone interested in it, while contributing with an up-to-date answer.
In short, when dealing with outdated posts:
* Inform the author of needed changes and allow for some time to happen.
* If the author does nothing in some time:
+ If the edits reflect on short (new) references, add them, indicating when they stopped working.
+ If the edits are substantial, write a new answer.
>
> Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game?
>
>
>
Answering your question, it depends on the kind of answer you are editing. In my opinion and as you phrased it (assuming that the solution is substancial), add the new solution as an answer. If the older solution isn't invalidated, leave it be . In any case, feel free to indicate whether an answer has a more efficient solution or if it has been invalidated (as a comment or, in last resort, as an edit indicating an up-to-date answer). | ### Outdated answers without any possible use are bad and should not exist
Ideally, we want users that come to this site to find an answer to a question, to find the best answer immediately, right on top, accepted and/or highly upvoted.
**However**, this does not mean that the entirety of an answer should be changed in order to turn it into the correct answer. For example, take a look at the [answer currently in question](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/181518/74333), [as it stood before the updates](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/revisions/181518/2):
>
> ### Simple Fix
>
>
> You can get the Steve Skin on Minecraft.net
>
>
> 1. Log in, go to Profile
> 2. [Download the reference skin](https://minecraft.net/images/char.png)
> 3. Upload the reference skin
>
>
> In this case you will have a Steve skin.
>
>
> ### Problems
>
>
> Uploading the reference skin still counts as there being a skin,
> because, well, it is there. The problem here is that skins uploaded to
> the skin server take precedence over skins included in Resource Packs
> (e.g. the default skin in Sphax PureBDCraft).
>
>
> Unfortunately there's no way to remove the skin from the skin-server
> completely.
>
>
>
At the time, it was a good answer, presenting a semi-decent workaround to the issue. It garnered upvotes and was accepted by the OP. At some point after this answer was posted, this workaround was made completely obsolete for **anyone** (by a change on the Minecraft website, not a game or even launcher patch!). This makes everything written in it utterly useless. It has no redeeming qualities. Really, no one needs the information in this answer any more, and it is very highly unlikely that anyone in the future will.
That said, it is obvious that this information should not be there in the first place, and current information should be added. This would turn the answer into:
>
> You can reset the skin on Minecraft.net
>
>
> 1. Log in, go to Profile
> 2. Scroll down to "Reset your skin"
> 3. Press the "Reset" button
>
>
> In this case you will have a Steve/Alex skin.
>
>
>
That's not an edit, it's a re-write, and should not be done, no matter how useful it would make the answer again.
Coming back to my title, **outdated answers without any possible use are bad and should not exist**. In my opinion, the single best solution in this case is to **delete** the answer. The only reason I have not yet deleted this answer is because I *can't*, since it's the accepted answer. |
10,765 | It is a given that, with time, questions and answers will become out dated. Good answers will not always apply to future patches, and questions may concern issues that simply do not exist in newer patches.
I have been linked to a few meta posts regarding the appropriate action. [The consensus here](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/946/outdated-answers-due-to-patches) is that out of date answers should be edited to be up to date.
The same mod has answered [a similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1339/how-should-we-deal-with-out-of-date-questions-answers), showing a markdown method to keep the original authors intent, but since has steered towards "leave a comment, alert the author" and "post your own, up to date answer".
[There is another similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1527/update-old-answers-according-to-patch-notes-for-unreleased-patch), however it does not appear to have had as much traffic, and the accepted answer appears to be a reference to the first question.
This is where my question comes in. **Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game**?
What defines the difference between updating an answer to be current, and going against the authors intent? | 2015/08/04 | [
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10765",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Answers are our bread and butter. They're the whole reason the site *exists*. We also provide our strongest rewards for answers: 10 whole rep per upvote, along with perhaps an accept.
There's lots of incentive for answering a question. In fact, that's our heaviest moderation task; sorting the chaff from the wheat. We get plenty of contributions, but not all that many of them are very *useful*.
Which leads me to my suggestion:
If an answer is out of date, **post your own, up-to-date answer**. We're kind of making a mountain out of a molehill here. Unless the update is incredibly minor, such as the UI was updated to move the button or something, the process is straightforward, and has several advantages of doing so:
1. The question now has an up-to-date answer, and can help (potentially) many readers.
2. You get rep for doing so, which will reinforce the whole cycle nicely.
3. More importantly, the original answerer *won't* get more rep (or, at least, not as much. Accepted answers tend to garner additional drive-bys.).
At the end of the day, whoever has answered a question has tried to add some useful content, and with games continually updating, still has a useful answer for an older version of the game. As time passes, the answerer may not even play the game anymore, and may not even be able to keep the answer up to date. It seems counter productive to reward them some more because they happened to be the first or accepted answer.
The SE network tends to have a self-reinforcing cycle for this behaviour. We're in a bit of an edge case, as most of what we play can exist in multiple versions, and every answer potentially has some utility to a fraction of the playerbase.
The one issue we run into for this, though, is for MMOs and online games; these are games where you *can't* play older versions. It's the latest, or you're not playing. This is where the M.SE feature for obsolete answers would come in handy, but until then, the steps would be generally the same, except add one more to the end:
4. Downvote the old answer, and comment that it's now out-of-date, and doesn't work anymore.
Depending on how old the answer is, it might even be eligible for deletion; the answerer got their rep from helping, but without keeping it up to date, it's no longer a useful answer. But the rep won't go away, and deleting those old answers keeps the site much cleaner.
But deletion only applies in those cases where the answer is completely obsolete; MMOs and other online games that require specific versions. | Having recently updated one of my own answers and also having stumbled upon this post, I feel compelled to give my two cents on the issue.
Some backstory: I noticed an old answer of mine having received some upvotes and also a bounty prizing my contribution. When I checked the answer, despite still valid, misses some mechanics that were added a long time after posting the answer. For completeness' sake, I updated the answer.
The answer itself is phrased as a reference list, which makes updating its content relevant. Being the original author, that gives me the responsibility to care for the answer I posted, which is why one of the suggestions when handling obsolete posts is to inform the author. Who better knows what to change, add or remove, than the human who wrote the text in the first place?
Now, authors eventually stop paying attention to their posts. When this happens, it means the responsibility of keeping the posts on-par with the current state of the topic relies on the community and hence the problem of changing an author's intent.
Since there are several kinds of answers, it might be hard to not modify an author's intent when editing (in short, there's no one rule to edit them all).
* For a reference answer, where most or all of the text is comprised of references to sources, it may be easy to edit the answer while updating the content.
* For more textual answers (descriptions of mechanics, strategies or walkthroughs) it may be hard to modify the answer while reflecting newer content. This is due in my opinion to two factors: the usefulness of older strategies for historical or game version related reasons and the difficulty of analyzing the content of the answer (a strategy in v1.0 might be 90% effective but in v1.1 it might be 80%, which doesn't invalidate it).
There is also one relevant factor in play here: reputation. Editing while under 2000 reputation gives +2 if the edit is accepted. And a good edit might give a lot of upvotes to what would be a poor post. This has happened to me on Superuser, where I formated an answer that later went on to get more than 50 upvotes. If an edit to what is an outdated post is substantial, it might be more beneficial to create a new answer, thereby preserving the older answer for anyone interested in it, while contributing with an up-to-date answer.
In short, when dealing with outdated posts:
* Inform the author of needed changes and allow for some time to happen.
* If the author does nothing in some time:
+ If the edits reflect on short (new) references, add them, indicating when they stopped working.
+ If the edits are substantial, write a new answer.
>
> Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game?
>
>
>
Answering your question, it depends on the kind of answer you are editing. In my opinion and as you phrased it (assuming that the solution is substancial), add the new solution as an answer. If the older solution isn't invalidated, leave it be . In any case, feel free to indicate whether an answer has a more efficient solution or if it has been invalidated (as a comment or, in last resort, as an edit indicating an up-to-date answer). |
10,765 | It is a given that, with time, questions and answers will become out dated. Good answers will not always apply to future patches, and questions may concern issues that simply do not exist in newer patches.
I have been linked to a few meta posts regarding the appropriate action. [The consensus here](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/946/outdated-answers-due-to-patches) is that out of date answers should be edited to be up to date.
The same mod has answered [a similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1339/how-should-we-deal-with-out-of-date-questions-answers), showing a markdown method to keep the original authors intent, but since has steered towards "leave a comment, alert the author" and "post your own, up to date answer".
[There is another similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1527/update-old-answers-according-to-patch-notes-for-unreleased-patch), however it does not appear to have had as much traffic, and the accepted answer appears to be a reference to the first question.
This is where my question comes in. **Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game**?
What defines the difference between updating an answer to be current, and going against the authors intent? | 2015/08/04 | [
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10765",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Answers are our bread and butter. They're the whole reason the site *exists*. We also provide our strongest rewards for answers: 10 whole rep per upvote, along with perhaps an accept.
There's lots of incentive for answering a question. In fact, that's our heaviest moderation task; sorting the chaff from the wheat. We get plenty of contributions, but not all that many of them are very *useful*.
Which leads me to my suggestion:
If an answer is out of date, **post your own, up-to-date answer**. We're kind of making a mountain out of a molehill here. Unless the update is incredibly minor, such as the UI was updated to move the button or something, the process is straightforward, and has several advantages of doing so:
1. The question now has an up-to-date answer, and can help (potentially) many readers.
2. You get rep for doing so, which will reinforce the whole cycle nicely.
3. More importantly, the original answerer *won't* get more rep (or, at least, not as much. Accepted answers tend to garner additional drive-bys.).
At the end of the day, whoever has answered a question has tried to add some useful content, and with games continually updating, still has a useful answer for an older version of the game. As time passes, the answerer may not even play the game anymore, and may not even be able to keep the answer up to date. It seems counter productive to reward them some more because they happened to be the first or accepted answer.
The SE network tends to have a self-reinforcing cycle for this behaviour. We're in a bit of an edge case, as most of what we play can exist in multiple versions, and every answer potentially has some utility to a fraction of the playerbase.
The one issue we run into for this, though, is for MMOs and online games; these are games where you *can't* play older versions. It's the latest, or you're not playing. This is where the M.SE feature for obsolete answers would come in handy, but until then, the steps would be generally the same, except add one more to the end:
4. Downvote the old answer, and comment that it's now out-of-date, and doesn't work anymore.
Depending on how old the answer is, it might even be eligible for deletion; the answerer got their rep from helping, but without keeping it up to date, it's no longer a useful answer. But the rep won't go away, and deleting those old answers keeps the site much cleaner.
But deletion only applies in those cases where the answer is completely obsolete; MMOs and other online games that require specific versions. | ### Outdated answers without any possible use are bad and should not exist
Ideally, we want users that come to this site to find an answer to a question, to find the best answer immediately, right on top, accepted and/or highly upvoted.
**However**, this does not mean that the entirety of an answer should be changed in order to turn it into the correct answer. For example, take a look at the [answer currently in question](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/181518/74333), [as it stood before the updates](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/revisions/181518/2):
>
> ### Simple Fix
>
>
> You can get the Steve Skin on Minecraft.net
>
>
> 1. Log in, go to Profile
> 2. [Download the reference skin](https://minecraft.net/images/char.png)
> 3. Upload the reference skin
>
>
> In this case you will have a Steve skin.
>
>
> ### Problems
>
>
> Uploading the reference skin still counts as there being a skin,
> because, well, it is there. The problem here is that skins uploaded to
> the skin server take precedence over skins included in Resource Packs
> (e.g. the default skin in Sphax PureBDCraft).
>
>
> Unfortunately there's no way to remove the skin from the skin-server
> completely.
>
>
>
At the time, it was a good answer, presenting a semi-decent workaround to the issue. It garnered upvotes and was accepted by the OP. At some point after this answer was posted, this workaround was made completely obsolete for **anyone** (by a change on the Minecraft website, not a game or even launcher patch!). This makes everything written in it utterly useless. It has no redeeming qualities. Really, no one needs the information in this answer any more, and it is very highly unlikely that anyone in the future will.
That said, it is obvious that this information should not be there in the first place, and current information should be added. This would turn the answer into:
>
> You can reset the skin on Minecraft.net
>
>
> 1. Log in, go to Profile
> 2. Scroll down to "Reset your skin"
> 3. Press the "Reset" button
>
>
> In this case you will have a Steve/Alex skin.
>
>
>
That's not an edit, it's a re-write, and should not be done, no matter how useful it would make the answer again.
Coming back to my title, **outdated answers without any possible use are bad and should not exist**. In my opinion, the single best solution in this case is to **delete** the answer. The only reason I have not yet deleted this answer is because I *can't*, since it's the accepted answer. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | I love the flexibility of sequences in Oracle as compared with other databases autoincrements, but the inability to set seq.nextval as a default for a pk column is somewhat annoying, and must be trivial to fix. | **Database** MySQL
**Defect** Foreign Keys supported only on some table types
**Description**
Enough said. It has obvious maintenance implications.
From the [MySQL manual](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-foreign-key-constraints.html)
>
> Foreign keys definitions are subject to the following conditions:
>
>
> * Both tables must be InnoDB tables and they must not be TEMPORARY tables.
>
>
>
And [here](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ansi-diff-foreign-keys.html):
>
> For storage engines other than InnoDB, MySQL Server parses the FOREIGN KEY syntax in CREATE TABLE statements, but does not use or store it.
>
>
>
This does not happen with any other major DB. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | I love the flexibility of sequences in Oracle as compared with other databases autoincrements, but the inability to set seq.nextval as a default for a pk column is somewhat annoying, and must be trivial to fix. | **Database** Microsoft SQL Server 2005
**Defect** Lack of array type parameters
**Description**
Useful in searches, a lot of times you need to pass a series of values to be matched against. In SQL 2005 you can do a workaround by using CLR inside SQLServer. Given the usefulness it would make more sense to have this feature out of the box.
This does not happen with SQL Server 2008 or Oracle. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | **Database** Oracle
**Problem** Temp table definitions are not private
**Description** Many databases (eg Postgres and Sybase) allow you to create temp tables on the fly, insert into them, add indexes if you want, then query from them. Oracle has temp tables, but the temp table definitions exist in a global name space. Therefore the temp table has to be created by a DBA, you need to synchronize between the table definition they used and your code, and if two pieces of code want similar (but not identical) table definitions, they need to use different names. These differences make temp tables far less convenient for developers.
Yes, I understand the benefits for the query optimizer of having global definitions. However for me the lack of convenience makes Oracle's temp tables virtually useless for me, while I use them very intensively in Postgres. | **Database** Postgres
**Defect** No analytic queries
**Description**
Analytic queries, introduced by Oracle, are part of the SQL 2003 standard. Unfortunately Postgres hasn't implemented them yet. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | **Database** MySQL 5.0.x and above
**Defect** Ring replication errors lead to inconsistent data on different nodes
**Description**
The most serious problem in production we face at the moment is that in a MySQL ring the ring itself produces an error and stops replicating.
Building a ring (or Master-Master-replication) is possible since 5.x.x: You chain the databases in a "ring" so that the replicate data to each other. Every database-node gets all the changes from all other nodes.
We assume that the error lies behind autoincrement- failures. This is known from normal replication, too, but in the new version there are no sufficinet error messages in the error log. I highly recommend not to use this feature in MySQL as long as the problems here are not fixed. | PostgreSQL doesn't have a good failover solution, but I understand they're working on it. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | **Database** MySQL
**Defect** Server will start up with damaged tables
**Description**
If MySQL has a damaged table - from either being killed during a write or some other failure - it will quite happily start up and allow the user to carry on as if the problem does not exist. Granted it will produce some error messages in the log, but from my experience this doesn't help when you're trying to figure out why an application is behaving oddly.
Most other databases will detect and repair the error on startup or simply refuse to start with any sort of corruption. | **Database** Postgres
**Defect** No analytic queries
**Description**
Analytic queries, introduced by Oracle, are part of the SQL 2003 standard. Unfortunately Postgres hasn't implemented them yet. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | Oracle databases are quite expensive
Oracle does what it does well but the licensing costs are horrendous. That has been improved by the release of Oracle XE but the limitations of that mean that it is a growth constraint on you solution. | Any SQL DBMS
Defect: Duplicate rows
One of the virtues of the relational model is that it represents everything without duplicate tuples, i.e. using relations, which have keys and no duplicates. Unfortunately SQL isn't built that way. This makes the database developer's life needlessly difficult. SQL developers have to deal with tables without keys and debug queries that return duplicate rows. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | **Database** Microsoft SQL Server 2005
**Defect** Badly implemented UI
**Description**
SQL Server management studio does not offer a great user experience:
* Tabbing behaviour is weird: you are always looking for the right tab
* Keeps on crashing on 64-bit versions
* Missing some features of preceding version, like overview of grants of stored procedures
This does not happen with version 2000. | Any SQL DBMS
Defect: Duplicate rows
One of the virtues of the relational model is that it represents everything without duplicate tuples, i.e. using relations, which have keys and no duplicates. Unfortunately SQL isn't built that way. This makes the database developer's life needlessly difficult. SQL developers have to deal with tables without keys and debug queries that return duplicate rows. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | Database: Oracle
Problem: The names of tables, procedures, columns, etc cannot exceed 30 characters. This is infuriating.
Problem: It's slapdash JDBC compliance. For example, stored procedures do not return results sets in a JDBC-compliant way, but instead of a proprietary OUT parameter type. This means you can't use higher-level JDBC abstractions. | PostgreSQL doesn't have a good failover solution, but I understand they're working on it. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | I love the flexibility of sequences in Oracle as compared with other databases autoincrements, but the inability to set seq.nextval as a default for a pk column is somewhat annoying, and must be trivial to fix. | PostgreSQL doesn't have a good failover solution, but I understand they're working on it. |
119,707 | We all have our favourite database. If you look objectively at your chosen database, what drawbacks does it have and what could be improved?
The rules:
* One reply per drawback with;
* a short description of the limitation, followed by;
* a more detailed description, an explanation of how it could be done better or an example of another technology that does not have the same limitation.
* Do not diss any database that you haven't used extensively. It is easy to take potshots at other technologies but we want to learn form your experience, not your prejudice. | 2008/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/119707",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19494/"
] | **Database** Oracle
**Defect** Did not handle long datatype well for too long
**Description**
Oracle only had the long datatype until 9i (I believe) at which point it was deprecated in favor of the LOBs. There is a ton of code out there, however, which still has longs and all of the related restrictions. The biggest of which was that each table could only have one long column and it had to be at the end of the columns. See [here](http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2008/06/long-datatype-in-oracle.html) for a more exhaustive list of restricitons on the long. | **Database : PostgreSQL**
\*\*Problem : \*\* is that connector for C# for example are not really up-to-date and crash with advanced feature. |
197,771 | I am using redwood 4x4s for the posts on an exterior deck. EVERY 4x4 at the Home Depot is stained with black from the binding straps, etc. See pic. Obviously this is not going to work if we're going to use a transparent stain and want it to look good.
Is there an effective way to remove this type of staining from redwood without damaging the natural color of the wood?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y2Nhi.jpg) | 2020/07/15 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/197771",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/90784/"
] | Both [finewoodworking.com](https://www.finewoodworking.com/2018/10/10/remove-iron-stains-wood) and [landscapetutorials.com](https://www.landscapetutorials.com/2019/02/how-to-renew-fence-or-deck.html) recommend using oxalic acid.
The first one has a powder/paste approach, likely appropriate for individual pieces.
>
> Start by sprinkling the oxalic acid powder over the stained area.
>
>
> Then use the toothbrush dipped in water to turn the powder into a paste. Scrub the paste gently over the stained areas. Let the paste sit on the wood for 30 minutes or so, until most of the water has evaporated and the paste has turned into a white crust. You should notice the black stain has significantly lightened through the paste.
>
>
> Rewet the powder with the toothbrush, then wipe off as much as you can with a clean rag. Repeat this process, wetting the paste and then wiping it off, several times to remove as much powder from the surface as you can.
>
>
>
The second one is more of a spray/scrub approach, more appropriate for a finished deck or fence.
>
> Make a oxalic acid spray solution per the directions on the box.
>
>
> Wet down the [wood].
>
>
> [S]pray the oxalic acid solution onto the wet wood.
>
>
> [R]ub it into the wood using a broom or brush. A standard plastic broom works very well. Do not use a wire brush. The black discoloration should start to fade as you rub the acid over it with the broom. Stains that are more persistent may need a second application, and a little scrubbing.
>
>
> About 30 minutes after the initial acid application, rinse off the [wood] with a strong stream of water from a hose. Allow to dry and the black coloration should be gone. The entire wood surface will also be slightly lighter and brighter in color than it was previously.
>
>
>
As the second site notes, this could result in the wood ending up lighter and brighter than it started. If this is a concern, you'll want to treat the entire piece as uniformly as you can. Start by testing in an inconspicuous area or on a scrap piece. | ### It looks like you need to plane it anyway!
From that picture, it looks like that post has a lot of surface damage. Has it rattled around in the back of a pickup on the way home, to pick up all those dents and scratches? If you're worried about how it'll look, I think those should be your first thing to worry about, not a bit of superficial dirt! And considering how comprehensively battered it seems to be, you'll need to run a plane over each side to sort those out - which as other comments have said, will naturally take off any dirt along with that thin layer of wood.
If you'd taken good care of your materials though, you could...
### Use oil to treat the wood, and don't worry too much about marks
If you're planning on applying polyurethane varnish or waterproofing woodstain then clearly you need a clean face on the wood before you apply it. Softwood is most likely to need this, because you need to keep water out of softwood to stop it rotting. (Based on the damage I can see, I suspect this may be what you've got?)
If your "redwood" is cedar or other rot-resistant hardwood though, generally you would use an oil-based treatment on the deck. The first step before treatment is to scrub off dirt with a tough brush, and that will naturally shift most of those marks. Any residual dirt on the wood simply fades over time, either by the dirt washing off, or the top fraction of a millimetre of wood slowly eroding with wear, or when you scrub it again next year to re-oil it. |
197,771 | I am using redwood 4x4s for the posts on an exterior deck. EVERY 4x4 at the Home Depot is stained with black from the binding straps, etc. See pic. Obviously this is not going to work if we're going to use a transparent stain and want it to look good.
Is there an effective way to remove this type of staining from redwood without damaging the natural color of the wood?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y2Nhi.jpg) | 2020/07/15 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/197771",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/90784/"
] | Two suggestions:
1. Try finding a different supplier. Check out another big-box store, or even better try to find a local lumberyard/sawmill. The local place may well have sawn their own on site and they'll never have been banded, so there won't be an issue. The time saved in cleaning may be worth an extra buck or two that they may charge. *It should go without saying that you'd return the marked up wood to its vendor.*
2. Use a plane, jointer or sanding block to sand through the marks. They're not likely more than skin deep, so taking off 1/32" or so is probably all that would be necessary and wouldn't appreciably weaken the wood in any way.
And a third idea based on [Graham's answer](https://diy.stackexchange.com/a/197801/34147)...
3. Pressure wash them. We did that with our deck prior to sealing it and all the lumber yard stamps washed right off. *Warning:* We found it difficult to get a nice, even surface coloration when pressure washing. No matter what I did, some of the surface grey seemed to remain, though most of the wood returned to the nicer, more golden color it started out at. | ### It looks like you need to plane it anyway!
From that picture, it looks like that post has a lot of surface damage. Has it rattled around in the back of a pickup on the way home, to pick up all those dents and scratches? If you're worried about how it'll look, I think those should be your first thing to worry about, not a bit of superficial dirt! And considering how comprehensively battered it seems to be, you'll need to run a plane over each side to sort those out - which as other comments have said, will naturally take off any dirt along with that thin layer of wood.
If you'd taken good care of your materials though, you could...
### Use oil to treat the wood, and don't worry too much about marks
If you're planning on applying polyurethane varnish or waterproofing woodstain then clearly you need a clean face on the wood before you apply it. Softwood is most likely to need this, because you need to keep water out of softwood to stop it rotting. (Based on the damage I can see, I suspect this may be what you've got?)
If your "redwood" is cedar or other rot-resistant hardwood though, generally you would use an oil-based treatment on the deck. The first step before treatment is to scrub off dirt with a tough brush, and that will naturally shift most of those marks. Any residual dirt on the wood simply fades over time, either by the dirt washing off, or the top fraction of a millimetre of wood slowly eroding with wear, or when you scrub it again next year to re-oil it. |
182,367 | Recently I’ve got stumbled upon the question: What’s the difference between *quite a lot*, *quite a few*, and *quite a bit*?
This is very confusing considering *a lot* and *a few* have almost opposite meanings.
As far as I can see in dictionaries *quite a <COUNT-WORD>* is always *many*. Is that so, or am I missing some important difference? | 2014/07/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/182367",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/83106/"
] | Regarding the fact that I agree with you about the same meaning of *quite a <COUNT-WORD>* and *many*. I think these there have the exact same meaning but they better be used when they fit in the context of the sentence although they can be replace each other pretty freely. For example, I
* It's better to say *"He wrote quite a few words about recent incident in UK lately."* than using "quite a bit of words".
* Or *"He has quite a lot of knowledge in this field"* rather than using *quite a few knowledge* or better to rephrase your sentence if you like to use it like: *"He knows quite a few facts about this subject"*.
* Or *"There is quite a bit of information in this book listed about the theory of Compute Science"* is make more sense than using the others.
So, the only thing that I can emphasize is to use ***a few*** with countable word and try to pick the best that fits to the context of the sentence. | Also, I would probably say "There are *quite a lot* of words on the page", but "There are *quite a few* words on the page" also sounds correct. However, "quite a bit" doesn't work in the same context. |
182,367 | Recently I’ve got stumbled upon the question: What’s the difference between *quite a lot*, *quite a few*, and *quite a bit*?
This is very confusing considering *a lot* and *a few* have almost opposite meanings.
As far as I can see in dictionaries *quite a <COUNT-WORD>* is always *many*. Is that so, or am I missing some important difference? | 2014/07/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/182367",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/83106/"
] | A few only with countable nouns. Generally a low quantity.
A few people helped me finish.
A bit of only with uncountable nouns. Low quantity.
A bit of help goes a long way
A lot of with either countable or uncountable nouns. High quantity.
A lot of people know me!
Now by adding quite to these, they reduce the idea of a lot, and they increase the ideas of a few and a bit.
Quite a few people helped me finish. Now it's a good quantity.
Quite a bit of help goes a long way. Now also a good quantity.
Quite a lot of people know me. Now this is not as emphasized as before, it has become a little softer.
Hope this helps! | Also, I would probably say "There are *quite a lot* of words on the page", but "There are *quite a few* words on the page" also sounds correct. However, "quite a bit" doesn't work in the same context. |
10,529,825 | I know that binding to CLR properties is slower than INotifyPropertyChanged.
But if my View Model does not change any of its property after it has been created then will it give me any performance gain if I provide empty implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged in my View Model?
Thanks. | 2012/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10529825",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/366141/"
] | It won't give you any performance benefits implementing this if you are not using it.
If the properties are only being set at initialisation you can change your binding mode to OneTime this should reduce the overhead.
Also this is a great page to checkout for databinding performance
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613546.aspx> | be aware that you set the **Mode=OneTime for all your bindings**. otherwise you can run into some memoryleak problems. see this [post](http://code.logos.com/blog/2008/10/detecting_bindings_that_should_be_onetime.html). |
10,529,825 | I know that binding to CLR properties is slower than INotifyPropertyChanged.
But if my View Model does not change any of its property after it has been created then will it give me any performance gain if I provide empty implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged in my View Model?
Thanks. | 2012/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10529825",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/366141/"
] | It won't give you any performance benefits implementing this if you are not using it.
If the properties are only being set at initialisation you can change your binding mode to OneTime this should reduce the overhead.
Also this is a great page to checkout for databinding performance
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613546.aspx> | Use Binding Mode=OneTime or implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface.
Otherwise you will have memory leak. See <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938416>. |
10,529,825 | I know that binding to CLR properties is slower than INotifyPropertyChanged.
But if my View Model does not change any of its property after it has been created then will it give me any performance gain if I provide empty implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged in my View Model?
Thanks. | 2012/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10529825",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/366141/"
] | Use Binding Mode=OneTime or implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface.
Otherwise you will have memory leak. See <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938416>. | be aware that you set the **Mode=OneTime for all your bindings**. otherwise you can run into some memoryleak problems. see this [post](http://code.logos.com/blog/2008/10/detecting_bindings_that_should_be_onetime.html). |
10,012,650 | Have upgraded to eclipse.indigo using a new installation. Added m2e. Maven shows up under Windows>Preferences. File>New>Other>Maven gets the following options: Checkout ..., Maven Module, Maven Project. The Maven POM file option is missing. I'm trying to add Maven support to an existing Java project. Have read the manuals, searches, helps, etc. No explanation as to why the Add POM option is missing. Any idea how to get this option to appear? | 2012/04/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10012650",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1313023/"
] | I don't have this option either, seems to have disappeared with the latest version. This bug report seems to point in this direction as well:
<https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-2709>
The standard way should be to create a new Maven project through the wizard, which will then also contain a POM file. You could use that to create a dummy project and then copy over the POM file.
In most cases, I also just copy an existing POM file to the project and start with that. | Quick workaround: Adding a POM by hand. (Also I'm not sure that I've ever seen an "Add POM" option.)
Simply add a file to your project (New > General > File), and name it *pom.xml*. On double-click on this file, the POM Editor will open. |
10,012,650 | Have upgraded to eclipse.indigo using a new installation. Added m2e. Maven shows up under Windows>Preferences. File>New>Other>Maven gets the following options: Checkout ..., Maven Module, Maven Project. The Maven POM file option is missing. I'm trying to add Maven support to an existing Java project. Have read the manuals, searches, helps, etc. No explanation as to why the Add POM option is missing. Any idea how to get this option to appear? | 2012/04/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10012650",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1313023/"
] | In order to create a POM on your project, and also change the project structure to Maven default, **right-click on your project > Configure > Convert to Maven Project**.
Don't forget to choose the correct *Packaging* type (in your case I guess it will be POM). | Quick workaround: Adding a POM by hand. (Also I'm not sure that I've ever seen an "Add POM" option.)
Simply add a file to your project (New > General > File), and name it *pom.xml*. On double-click on this file, the POM Editor will open. |
10,012,650 | Have upgraded to eclipse.indigo using a new installation. Added m2e. Maven shows up under Windows>Preferences. File>New>Other>Maven gets the following options: Checkout ..., Maven Module, Maven Project. The Maven POM file option is missing. I'm trying to add Maven support to an existing Java project. Have read the manuals, searches, helps, etc. No explanation as to why the Add POM option is missing. Any idea how to get this option to appear? | 2012/04/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10012650",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1313023/"
] | In order to create a POM on your project, and also change the project structure to Maven default, **right-click on your project > Configure > Convert to Maven Project**.
Don't forget to choose the correct *Packaging* type (in your case I guess it will be POM). | I don't have this option either, seems to have disappeared with the latest version. This bug report seems to point in this direction as well:
<https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-2709>
The standard way should be to create a new Maven project through the wizard, which will then also contain a POM file. You could use that to create a dummy project and then copy over the POM file.
In most cases, I also just copy an existing POM file to the project and start with that. |
260,137 | Do the yellow bars on the top/bottom/left/right of map points of interest signify anything? I've noticed 0, 1 and 2 bars.
As seen in the highlighted encounter (blue triangle) shown in the screenshot below, as well as the Phone Recording to the right.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/snKYr.jpg) | 2016/03/24 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/260137",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/43393/"
] | It appears to be markers to that show up opposite the POI from the center of your screen (at least on the PC version.)
I took a short video of it, here, that you can see. Watch as I move the map around, the dots move around, so that they are always on the opposite side of the POI from the center of my screen. They don't appear to serve any purpose other than decorative. | Tldr :Those are markers to help you navigate. Use the corresponding arrow keys (bar on right = right arrow, etc.) to select that icon.
Info :
You will probably encounter icons that you can't reach using the mouse from time to time. It can be frustrating if you want to fast travel to them. Fortunately, using the arrows keys, you can select and navigate through those icons. Those markers indicate which icon you will select using the corresponding arrow key. |
192,836 | I am looking for a process or a tool that would allow me to migrate data from an ESRI SDE Database to a SQL Spatial Database. This would include converting the ESRI geometry to SQL geometry types, as well as potentially having to convert ESRI domains to lookup tables. I have seen some tools out there that will take shapefiles and convert them to SQL spatial format and I have been successful in doing that but given the amount of data and how dynamic it has been, I would prefer to not have to convert my entire database into shapefiles first. Would it be easier to go from a File/Personal geodatabase? | 2016/05/09 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/192836",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/72839/"
] | If you have ArcGIS now, you should use the FME Workbench found in the Data Interoperability Extension to 'read' your SDE data and 'write' it as SQL Server Spatial. Or, get a trial version and migrate all your data over before the trial runs out.
In terms of the domains, If there is an opposite of 'table to domain', use that, and again use FME to load the table as SQL Server non-spatial data.
From there we use Python with pypyodbc to move data between MSSQL servers.
We use QGIS as our main SQL Server Spatial Editor. | Why not use GDAL/OGR? You should be able to convert directly from your sde database to sql server. Here are some links that might help:
This one should give you the syntax for your sql server connection:
<https://alastaira.wordpress.com/ogr2ogr-patterns-for-sql-server/>
This helps with the syntax for your sde connection:
[How to migrate data from ArcSDE to PostGIS?](https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/12989/how-to-migrate-data-from-arcsde-to-postgis) |
91,776 | <https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/green-onions/7837>
Which one of these transcriptions is more correct; the first one or second one? It seems the key isn't written correctly in the HD piano version but they sound similar. The HD piano version sounds more correct for the 4 + to end the measure but I kinda like the sound of the intervals in the bass. | 2019/11/10 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/91776",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/64353/"
] | You're right about that key signature. And I agree about those bare-fifths in the bass. AND I agree with PiedPiper about combining bits you like.
Perhaps arranging the left-hand notes into this pattern
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y2HSg.jpg)
Etc.
might do what you want. | Played this recently, and the chart was in 3♭s. Were it in F minor, 4♭s would be appropriate. However, were it in F Dorian, 3♭s would be correct. |
71,401 | I am in a position where I might have to prove that I made a certain amount of MB downloads from the Internet including webpages browsed to a court of law. Is there a way of finding this out from Windows Vista Ultimate. If I need to do this in the future is there a way of setting up Ultimate to audit my account to provide a trail of downloads ? | 2009/11/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/71401",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/18259/"
] | I am not a lawyer... but from what I know of the Windows auditing sub-system, you're not going to be able to track downloads. The particular browser (IE, Firefox, Safari) you used likely contains history that will show these downloads.
What will probably be of more value is working with your Internet Service Provider (e.g. Comcast, Qwest, Verizon, etc.). They likely will have logs that indicate what sites you were accessing, when and what was transferred.
Regarding the longer-term solution (where you want to be able to prove that you downloaded something) this can be difficult as any system that you own and control can probably have relatively easily faked logs (and may not really be trusted). Using a third-party proxy site that logs these access may help as it shifts the record keeping to someone else. | It completely depends on what you are using to download. Can you give us a bit more information about your environment? What browser(s)? Do you use download managers? What kind of downloads are you talking about? etc...
Your best bet is to set up some kind of logging proxy to run your Internet traffic through. This would record all of your Internet traffic and provide raw data for statistical analysis (sites visited, files downloaded, size of downloads...).
But even then, data in these types of systems are easily forged... |
71,401 | I am in a position where I might have to prove that I made a certain amount of MB downloads from the Internet including webpages browsed to a court of law. Is there a way of finding this out from Windows Vista Ultimate. If I need to do this in the future is there a way of setting up Ultimate to audit my account to provide a trail of downloads ? | 2009/11/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/71401",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/18259/"
] | It completely depends on what you are using to download. Can you give us a bit more information about your environment? What browser(s)? Do you use download managers? What kind of downloads are you talking about? etc...
Your best bet is to set up some kind of logging proxy to run your Internet traffic through. This would record all of your Internet traffic and provide raw data for statistical analysis (sites visited, files downloaded, size of downloads...).
But even then, data in these types of systems are easily forged... | Your ISP should have a log with your visited sites and all of your network transfers. Try contacting them. |
71,401 | I am in a position where I might have to prove that I made a certain amount of MB downloads from the Internet including webpages browsed to a court of law. Is there a way of finding this out from Windows Vista Ultimate. If I need to do this in the future is there a way of setting up Ultimate to audit my account to provide a trail of downloads ? | 2009/11/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/71401",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/18259/"
] | if you are using Internet Explorer, you may be able to recover information of interest to you from index.dat
>
> **index.dat** is a file used by the Internet Explorer web browser. The
> index.dat file functions as an active
> database, which runs as long as a user
> is logged on in Windows. It functions
> as a repository of redundant
> information, such as **web URLs**, **search
> queries** and **recently opened files**.
>
>
>
you can read the content of index.dat with [**WinSpy Index.dat Viewer**](http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/indexdat.html) | It completely depends on what you are using to download. Can you give us a bit more information about your environment? What browser(s)? Do you use download managers? What kind of downloads are you talking about? etc...
Your best bet is to set up some kind of logging proxy to run your Internet traffic through. This would record all of your Internet traffic and provide raw data for statistical analysis (sites visited, files downloaded, size of downloads...).
But even then, data in these types of systems are easily forged... |
71,401 | I am in a position where I might have to prove that I made a certain amount of MB downloads from the Internet including webpages browsed to a court of law. Is there a way of finding this out from Windows Vista Ultimate. If I need to do this in the future is there a way of setting up Ultimate to audit my account to provide a trail of downloads ? | 2009/11/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/71401",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/18259/"
] | I am not a lawyer... but from what I know of the Windows auditing sub-system, you're not going to be able to track downloads. The particular browser (IE, Firefox, Safari) you used likely contains history that will show these downloads.
What will probably be of more value is working with your Internet Service Provider (e.g. Comcast, Qwest, Verizon, etc.). They likely will have logs that indicate what sites you were accessing, when and what was transferred.
Regarding the longer-term solution (where you want to be able to prove that you downloaded something) this can be difficult as any system that you own and control can probably have relatively easily faked logs (and may not really be trusted). Using a third-party proxy site that logs these access may help as it shifts the record keeping to someone else. | Your ISP should have a log with your visited sites and all of your network transfers. Try contacting them. |
71,401 | I am in a position where I might have to prove that I made a certain amount of MB downloads from the Internet including webpages browsed to a court of law. Is there a way of finding this out from Windows Vista Ultimate. If I need to do this in the future is there a way of setting up Ultimate to audit my account to provide a trail of downloads ? | 2009/11/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/71401",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/18259/"
] | if you are using Internet Explorer, you may be able to recover information of interest to you from index.dat
>
> **index.dat** is a file used by the Internet Explorer web browser. The
> index.dat file functions as an active
> database, which runs as long as a user
> is logged on in Windows. It functions
> as a repository of redundant
> information, such as **web URLs**, **search
> queries** and **recently opened files**.
>
>
>
you can read the content of index.dat with [**WinSpy Index.dat Viewer**](http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/indexdat.html) | Your ISP should have a log with your visited sites and all of your network transfers. Try contacting them. |
13,040,838 | I am trying to update an application for the Apple App Store and when I attempt to validate it it fails with error "iPhone/iPod Touch: application executable is missing a required architecture. At least one of the following architecture(s) must be present: armv6". The problem is that I don't reference armv6 that I can find and my ios deployment target is 4.3. I am using xcode 4.5.1.
Settings:Architectures -> "armv7, armv7s" for all configurations.
I have already tried the information recommended here as well as other things with no success.
[iOS 6 - "application executable is missing required architecture: armv6"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12608395/ios-6-application-executable-is-missing-required-architecture-armv6) | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13040838",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323868/"
] | The ios deployment target must be set for both the project and the target application. | Add armv6 to the architecture if your deployment target less 4.3 |
48,048 | How would I merge content (e.g. a forum, with nodes, terms and users) from one Drupal site into another?
Here's my specific use case:
* I have a local site which just contains nodes, terms and users for a forum (these were imported with <http://drupal.org/project/phpbb2drupal> - and before you suggest just using it on my live site, I can't get it to work there, running into the issues described at <http://drupal.org/node/1033316> )
* I have a live site which has no forum, but has its own nodes, terms and users.
* I'd like to merge the local site forum into the live site, adding the forum to the live site. | 2012/10/18 | [
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/48048",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/users/4012/"
] | If it was just for nodes i would say use this:
<http://drupal.org/project/node_export>
As you need to migrate users and taxonomy terms as well I would use this:
<http://drupal.org/project/migrate>
Although there will be some php OOP coding to do. | You can use below script to dump into your new drupal 7:<http://goo.gl/GPmG9F> |
50,004,392 | I'm trying to write a program similar to the contacts app on an android phone using javafx. In the fxml file I have a VBox which contains three textfields, the first two fields are for first name and last name, and the third one is for a number.
Now what I want the program to do is when the textfield for number is filled with even a single character, another textfield to be automatically added to the VBox. (for another number).
and I want the same thing to happen for the next field. and any other field that follows, so it has a recursive form.
Now the only method I know that might accomplish this, is using a listener, but I have no idea how to create such a recursive listener. and The listener to the old field would have to be removed once it has accomplished its job, so it wouldn't continuously create new fields when typing something in the old field. but you can't remove a listener while you're inside it.
Is there a way to do this? | 2018/04/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/50004392",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5289097/"
] | One of the issues that your users might have is this
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/44jA2.jpg)
Maybe they disabled the auto-updates of Google Play, but is really weird that they can't see it, maybe it's due the devices. Is your device listed as compatible with the new version of your app? Did you tried clearing Google Play cache and trying it again?
PS: Make sure you change in your Gradle (Module app) your versionCode along with the VersionName
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Mj2B.jpg) | If new users are getting the new version installed then it is definitely uploaded to the Play store correctly.
If existing users aren't seeing "update" (just open) then it means there is something about the new version of the app that is incompatible with their devices. You can check this by trying uninstalling and re-installing. If they get the old version after an uninstall / re-install (or worse, if they can't install after uninstalling) it shows that only the old version is compatible with their device.
This probably means you changed something in the manifest to make it incompatible, but that is a whole different debugging problem. |
47,201 | I use Time Machine to backup to an external hard drive. That external drive also has a lot of other photos and unique info on that drive, too.
I'm not sure my Time Machine backed up my whole computer because of the computer turned off in the middle of the first time I used it (recently).
Questions:
1. Is there a way to confirm that the backup on the Time Machine is complete?
2. Lets say I just want to redo the backup from scratch. I can't format the external drive since it has a lot of other unique info. How can I delete the Time Machine information and have Time Machine automatically redo the backup? | 2012/04/02 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/47201",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/20724/"
] | The first question, how can you be sure a backup has completed, is answered by checking the menubar Time Machine item. It will tell you the date of the last completed backup.
Secondly if you want to perform another complete Time Machine backup you can stop Time Machine, eject the Time Machine drive, plug in a fresh drive and re-enable Time Machine using that drive as the backup destination. A complete new backup will be performed.
You could also just delete everything on the original Time Machine drive but it is slightly more risky. If something bad happened before the new backup completed you would be without the backup you are not sure about *and* the new backup. | When TimeMachine runs if the previous backup was interrupted it will do a check to work out what it needs to do to run a complete backup.
Let it run and it will automatically give you a complete backup.
Also, in System Prefs - Time Machine, check the options to see if anything has been excluded. You can optionally exclude disks and folders - clearly you don't want that, so best to confirm it. |
54,126 | Matthew 1:18 (NIV)
>
> This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about[a]: His mother
> Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came
> together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
>
>
>
It says Mary became pregnant through the Holy Spirit, but how does one rule-out the involvement of a male in fertilizing the egg? Other miraculous conceptions in the bible are not usually understood as involving a non-sexual conception, so why is a non-sexual conception inferred here? | 2021/01/02 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/54126",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/32532/"
] | There are three things that have led people to believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, based on the inspired record in Matt 1:18-25 -
* **V18**, "before they [Mary and Joseph] came together [= had slept together], Mary was found with a child in the womb out of [= ἐκ] the Holy Spirit
* **V19-24** - Joseph then considers this and plans to break the engagement but quietly to minimize the problem on Mary because Joseph knew that he had had no part in the conception
* **V25**, (BLB) "But he did not know her until she had brought forth a Son, and he called His name Jesus." Other versions are more bunt:
**NIV**: But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son.
**NLT**: But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son was born.
**NASB**: but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son
**CSB**: but did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son
**GNT**: But he had no sexual relations with her before she gave birth to her son
Thus, the inspired record in Matthew confirms that Mary had a virgin birth when Jesus was born. The physician, Luke, also confirms that Mary was a virgin in Luke 1:26-35 -
>
> In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee
> called Nazareth, to a **virgin** pledged in marriage to a man named
> Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
> The angel appeared to her and said, “Greetings,b you who are highly
> favored! The Lord is with you.c”
>
>
> Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of
> greeting this might be. So the angel told her, “Do not be afraid,
> Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive and
> give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus. He will
> be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God
> will give Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over
> the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”
>
>
> “How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
>
>
> The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power
> of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will
> be called the Son of God.
>
>
> | Here is the passage from the ancient Greek translation to which he appeals:
>
> [Isaiah 7:14](https://studybible.info/Brenton/Isaiah%207:14)
> Brenton(i) 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel.
>
>
>
Matthew has demonstrated repeatedly that he is working from a Greek translation, not from a Hebrew text [(though see here)](https://www.academia.edu/32013676/Hebrew_Gospel_of_MATTHEW_by_George_Howard_Part_One_pdf). He is determined by hook or crook to have every OT passage (as found in the Greek translation) find a corresponding "fulfillment" in his gospel. For example, "out of Egypt have I called my son" is proffered by Matthew as being "fulfilled" in Joseph's family escaping Herod (something of which his biographers never show any knowledge, and clearly refers to Israel escaping slavery in Egypt). And he has his family moving to Nazareth "fulfilling" the passage:
>
> [Jdg 13:5 KJV] (5) For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: **for the child shall be a Nazarite** unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
>
>
>
>
> [Mat 2:23 KJV] (23) And he came **and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene**.
>
>
>
So Matthew contrives all kinds of fictional nonsense to show that Jesus was, in fact, the Messiah, and the fulfillment of ALL prophecy.
Since that is his driving design for his gospel (and the same is true of all the NT), he recasts the "sign" that Isaiah predicted for his current time as referring to the NT times, aka "the Messianic Age":
>
> [Isa 7:16 KJV] (16) For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
>
>
>
>
> [Isa 8:4 KJV] (4) For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
>
>
> |
58,603 | According to the poem:
>
> Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
>
> Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
>
> Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
>
> One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
>
> In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
>
> One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them,
>
> One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
>
> In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
>
>
>
This implies that the One Ring has power over the other rings and those that bear them. I'm not fully knowledgeable about the state of the other rings in the setting of the Lord of the Rings trilogy but I'm under the impression that nine rings were worn by the Nazgûl were already under the power of Sauron. The rings given to the Dwarves were lost, or Sauron had recovered them. The rings owned by the elves could have been destroyed or safely hidden so to avoid being used by anyone.
Why was it imperative that the One Ring be destroyed if its control over the other ring bearers would be negligible? | 2014/06/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58603",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/27933/"
] | The control that the One Ring has over the others is significant but that's not the real reason why it must be destroyed.
If we look at *Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age*, in *The silmarillion*, we'll see the reason why the One Ring was made and the reason why it must be destroyed:
>
> And much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring; for the power of the Elven-rings was very great, and that which should govern them must be a thing of surpassing potency; and Sauron forged it in the Mountain of Fire in the Land of Shadow. And while he wore the One Ring he could perceive all the things that were done by means of the lesser rings, and he could see and govern the very thoughts of those that wore them.
>
>
>
A key part of this is the statement that **much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring**.
From there it's obvious: destroy the One Ring and you also destroy that part of Sauron's power that he put into it. Sauron as a result is greatly diminished, and is no longer able to act as a material threat to the world. | The One Ring would:
* Solidify the control of the Ringwraiths and empower them toward greater evil than they were already capable of.
* Prevent the use of the 3 Elven rings because as long as Sauron had the One Ring, no one would consider using the 3 in any way for fear of being controlled, manipulated and eventually taken over as a powerful remote under Sauron's control.
* It would return a great deal of Sauron's capacity and power to him, since he bound much of his fea (spiritual energies) within the One Ring.
Destroying it ensured he would never have access to that power again and would go from being one of the strongest powers in Middle Earth to fading away to nothing. |
58,603 | According to the poem:
>
> Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
>
> Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
>
> Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
>
> One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
>
> In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
>
> One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them,
>
> One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
>
> In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
>
>
>
This implies that the One Ring has power over the other rings and those that bear them. I'm not fully knowledgeable about the state of the other rings in the setting of the Lord of the Rings trilogy but I'm under the impression that nine rings were worn by the Nazgûl were already under the power of Sauron. The rings given to the Dwarves were lost, or Sauron had recovered them. The rings owned by the elves could have been destroyed or safely hidden so to avoid being used by anyone.
Why was it imperative that the One Ring be destroyed if its control over the other ring bearers would be negligible? | 2014/06/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58603",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/27933/"
] | The control that the One Ring has over the others is significant but that's not the real reason why it must be destroyed.
If we look at *Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age*, in *The silmarillion*, we'll see the reason why the One Ring was made and the reason why it must be destroyed:
>
> And much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring; for the power of the Elven-rings was very great, and that which should govern them must be a thing of surpassing potency; and Sauron forged it in the Mountain of Fire in the Land of Shadow. And while he wore the One Ring he could perceive all the things that were done by means of the lesser rings, and he could see and govern the very thoughts of those that wore them.
>
>
>
A key part of this is the statement that **much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring**.
From there it's obvious: destroy the One Ring and you also destroy that part of Sauron's power that he put into it. Sauron as a result is greatly diminished, and is no longer able to act as a material threat to the world. | It is likely that Sauron's purpose in creating the Ruling Ring was indeed complete dominion over the Elves through their rings, but by the time of LOTR the Ring means something very different to Sauron and the Free Peoples. In addition to controlling the other Rings, The Ruling Ring focuses and multiplies the willpower of its master. Armies will flock to his banner. Wielding the Ring does not make one invincible, but it massively enhances one's military strength.
Even without the Ring, Sauron has gathered conventional military strength to extend control over Middle Earth, but he must fight many hard battles to achieve his end. Recovering the Ring would aid his campaign, but more importantly it would prevent the only thing that he believes can stop him, which is another person claiming the Ring and using it to build up their own military.
For the Free Peoples though, this would simply be to replace domination by one Dark Lord with another. While the Ring is in existence it is only a matter of time before somebody seizes and uses it, and this is the reason why it was imperative to destroy it. The control that the One Ring has over the Three was certainly not negligible – the Elves defences are dependent on them. But the reasons for destroying the ring go far deeper. |
58,603 | According to the poem:
>
> Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
>
> Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
>
> Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
>
> One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
>
> In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
>
> One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them,
>
> One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
>
> In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
>
>
>
This implies that the One Ring has power over the other rings and those that bear them. I'm not fully knowledgeable about the state of the other rings in the setting of the Lord of the Rings trilogy but I'm under the impression that nine rings were worn by the Nazgûl were already under the power of Sauron. The rings given to the Dwarves were lost, or Sauron had recovered them. The rings owned by the elves could have been destroyed or safely hidden so to avoid being used by anyone.
Why was it imperative that the One Ring be destroyed if its control over the other ring bearers would be negligible? | 2014/06/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58603",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/27933/"
] | The One Ring would:
* Solidify the control of the Ringwraiths and empower them toward greater evil than they were already capable of.
* Prevent the use of the 3 Elven rings because as long as Sauron had the One Ring, no one would consider using the 3 in any way for fear of being controlled, manipulated and eventually taken over as a powerful remote under Sauron's control.
* It would return a great deal of Sauron's capacity and power to him, since he bound much of his fea (spiritual energies) within the One Ring.
Destroying it ensured he would never have access to that power again and would go from being one of the strongest powers in Middle Earth to fading away to nothing. | It is likely that Sauron's purpose in creating the Ruling Ring was indeed complete dominion over the Elves through their rings, but by the time of LOTR the Ring means something very different to Sauron and the Free Peoples. In addition to controlling the other Rings, The Ruling Ring focuses and multiplies the willpower of its master. Armies will flock to his banner. Wielding the Ring does not make one invincible, but it massively enhances one's military strength.
Even without the Ring, Sauron has gathered conventional military strength to extend control over Middle Earth, but he must fight many hard battles to achieve his end. Recovering the Ring would aid his campaign, but more importantly it would prevent the only thing that he believes can stop him, which is another person claiming the Ring and using it to build up their own military.
For the Free Peoples though, this would simply be to replace domination by one Dark Lord with another. While the Ring is in existence it is only a matter of time before somebody seizes and uses it, and this is the reason why it was imperative to destroy it. The control that the One Ring has over the Three was certainly not negligible – the Elves defences are dependent on them. But the reasons for destroying the ring go far deeper. |
849,746 | Well, the internet is working flawless, all the sites are fine, and I can use my webmail from the provider website, althought I can't **send** anything from Outlook, funnily I receive everything, and all computers here use Outlook, also, tried Thunderbird, same happens.
I tried to ping and do tracert's from the command line, and they all time out, even if I try to ping Google.com and I also have a Yahoo account with the same issue, so it's not my provider fault, the tracert stop at the router. I removed all blocks from the router, disabled everything, my router firewall is right now all in mininum security.
I also tried to restart several times, and once in a while the mails are sent
I'm really lost...
UPDATE: If I change the DNS server suddenly everything works for some 30 minutes, then everything is blocked again, maybe my ip is being blocked? | 2017/05/12 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/849746",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/415066/"
] | some ISPs will block outbound mail to everything but their mailservers to stop people from sending spam from their local connection.
I'd call your ISP and ask them if they are blocking outbound email. | Having another, external site show the same behavior does not prove your provider is not at fault. Having some work while others do not would point the finger away from them, but not completely. @Mike is right in the answer below. Having no working examples of sending SMTP is actually indicative of possible provider blocking.
Try to telnet to a couple of SMTP servers on port 25, see if you get a "helo". If it is blocked, you can ask your ISP why they're blocking, not whether they are. |
24,505 | As we all know, werewolves are humans that are transformed into ravenous flesh eating monsters. Some are [sentient](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf%27s_Hour), but most appear to be feral hunters of humans. Is there such a thing as reverse Lycanthropy? If so, what is the first story of an animal cyclicly turning into a human similar to the way humans turn into werewolves? I'm looking for the earliest example from the movies, TV, books, comics, or legends. | 2012/10/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24505",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356/"
] | In the Terry Pratchett Discworld Novel Reaper Man, the character [Lupine](http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Lupine) is a wolf who, under the full moon, turns into a wolf-man. | If you count role playing games, then yes. Both the 1st Edition of Dungeons and Dragons and in more recent versions, there were creatures known as [wolfweres](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfwere_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29). These were wolves that gained the ability to turn into humans. I don't know if they have any precedent in lore before that time. |
24,505 | As we all know, werewolves are humans that are transformed into ravenous flesh eating monsters. Some are [sentient](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf%27s_Hour), but most appear to be feral hunters of humans. Is there such a thing as reverse Lycanthropy? If so, what is the first story of an animal cyclicly turning into a human similar to the way humans turn into werewolves? I'm looking for the earliest example from the movies, TV, books, comics, or legends. | 2012/10/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24505",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356/"
] | Likely not what you're looking for, but the nature of "first appearance" questions typically warrants this token "ancient legend" response:
I can't give an accurate date, but these stories are typically over 1000 years old, for fun. Most are likely 2000 or more years old.
In many ancient Asian legends there are stories of animals that, after meeting some condition, are able to transform into humans for periods of time.
The most common, is the fox. The "**Huli Jing**" or "**Kitsune**" (Chinese or Japanese respectively) is sometimes described as a demon fox, or fox spirit, or a fox that has lived 100 years. Make no mistake, this is no "god that takes the form of a fox" or anything, this is literally a fox that "gains a spirit, or becomes one, after living 100 years".
These foxes can transform into humans for a time, and often take the form of beautiful women, hoping to seduce a man and (in some cases) take his heart or liver. Some stories say that after eating 100 hearts/livers the fox can become a human permanently. The fox myth is all over the place stretching through many nations. This fits best with the notion of cyclic transformation, as the fox is technically unable to stay human and is "cursed/gifted" with human form. The restrictions on this are usually never clearly stated, as the stories written from the perspective of the fox are typically ones that show the fox as benevolent and having fallen in love with some person, but cursed to be a fox. Often they can't stay human simply because it uses too much energy.
A second example is the **White Snake**. The specific story of Madame White Snake (published in 1620, but existed in oral form for centuries) states that a thousand year old white snake fell in love with a man and transformed herself into a woman to win him. Her goal was not to become human, but instead a goddess through doing good deeds. This isn't a cyclic transformation though.
A third example is that of the **Bakeneko**. A cat that has lived for 100 years, or simply grew too heavy, may become a Bakeneko. This cat can transform into a "cat-monster" by night where it: takes the form of a human, can re-animate corpses, throw fireballs, and, of course, kill/eat people.
There are many others, often paired with the "if the animal lives 100 years, *this happens*". Some other examples are: badgers, raccoon-dogs, sea serpents, and seals. | If you count role playing games, then yes. Both the 1st Edition of Dungeons and Dragons and in more recent versions, there were creatures known as [wolfweres](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfwere_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29). These were wolves that gained the ability to turn into humans. I don't know if they have any precedent in lore before that time. |
24,505 | As we all know, werewolves are humans that are transformed into ravenous flesh eating monsters. Some are [sentient](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf%27s_Hour), but most appear to be feral hunters of humans. Is there such a thing as reverse Lycanthropy? If so, what is the first story of an animal cyclicly turning into a human similar to the way humans turn into werewolves? I'm looking for the earliest example from the movies, TV, books, comics, or legends. | 2012/10/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24505",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356/"
] | Likely not what you're looking for, but the nature of "first appearance" questions typically warrants this token "ancient legend" response:
I can't give an accurate date, but these stories are typically over 1000 years old, for fun. Most are likely 2000 or more years old.
In many ancient Asian legends there are stories of animals that, after meeting some condition, are able to transform into humans for periods of time.
The most common, is the fox. The "**Huli Jing**" or "**Kitsune**" (Chinese or Japanese respectively) is sometimes described as a demon fox, or fox spirit, or a fox that has lived 100 years. Make no mistake, this is no "god that takes the form of a fox" or anything, this is literally a fox that "gains a spirit, or becomes one, after living 100 years".
These foxes can transform into humans for a time, and often take the form of beautiful women, hoping to seduce a man and (in some cases) take his heart or liver. Some stories say that after eating 100 hearts/livers the fox can become a human permanently. The fox myth is all over the place stretching through many nations. This fits best with the notion of cyclic transformation, as the fox is technically unable to stay human and is "cursed/gifted" with human form. The restrictions on this are usually never clearly stated, as the stories written from the perspective of the fox are typically ones that show the fox as benevolent and having fallen in love with some person, but cursed to be a fox. Often they can't stay human simply because it uses too much energy.
A second example is the **White Snake**. The specific story of Madame White Snake (published in 1620, but existed in oral form for centuries) states that a thousand year old white snake fell in love with a man and transformed herself into a woman to win him. Her goal was not to become human, but instead a goddess through doing good deeds. This isn't a cyclic transformation though.
A third example is that of the **Bakeneko**. A cat that has lived for 100 years, or simply grew too heavy, may become a Bakeneko. This cat can transform into a "cat-monster" by night where it: takes the form of a human, can re-animate corpses, throw fireballs, and, of course, kill/eat people.
There are many others, often paired with the "if the animal lives 100 years, *this happens*". Some other examples are: badgers, raccoon-dogs, sea serpents, and seals. | In the Terry Pratchett Discworld Novel Reaper Man, the character [Lupine](http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Lupine) is a wolf who, under the full moon, turns into a wolf-man. |
24,505 | As we all know, werewolves are humans that are transformed into ravenous flesh eating monsters. Some are [sentient](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf%27s_Hour), but most appear to be feral hunters of humans. Is there such a thing as reverse Lycanthropy? If so, what is the first story of an animal cyclicly turning into a human similar to the way humans turn into werewolves? I'm looking for the earliest example from the movies, TV, books, comics, or legends. | 2012/10/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24505",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356/"
] | In the Terry Pratchett Discworld Novel Reaper Man, the character [Lupine](http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Lupine) is a wolf who, under the full moon, turns into a wolf-man. | In The Harry Dresden series, there is a book where a character is actually a wolf who takes human form by choice.
(Spoilers):
>
> In Fool Moon, Tera advises the Alphas, whom she met via the Northwest Passage Project, and agreed to teach them the ways of being a wolf.
> At the end of Fool Moon, she left civilization for the wilderness. She was implied to be a wolf who could transform into a human, the opposite of a werewolf. One of the possible clues was that Harry Dresden could not Soulgaze her.
> Source: <http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com/wiki/Tera_West>
>
>
> |
24,505 | As we all know, werewolves are humans that are transformed into ravenous flesh eating monsters. Some are [sentient](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf%27s_Hour), but most appear to be feral hunters of humans. Is there such a thing as reverse Lycanthropy? If so, what is the first story of an animal cyclicly turning into a human similar to the way humans turn into werewolves? I'm looking for the earliest example from the movies, TV, books, comics, or legends. | 2012/10/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24505",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356/"
] | In the Terry Pratchett Discworld Novel Reaper Man, the character [Lupine](http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Lupine) is a wolf who, under the full moon, turns into a wolf-man. | We have an accepted answer which is definitely older, but for future querents, I want to mention Peter David's 1989 novel, *[Howling Mad](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175935.Howling_Mad)*, features a wolf bitten by a werewolf who's cursed to turn human under the full moon. It's a romance novel, of sorts. |
24,505 | As we all know, werewolves are humans that are transformed into ravenous flesh eating monsters. Some are [sentient](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf%27s_Hour), but most appear to be feral hunters of humans. Is there such a thing as reverse Lycanthropy? If so, what is the first story of an animal cyclicly turning into a human similar to the way humans turn into werewolves? I'm looking for the earliest example from the movies, TV, books, comics, or legends. | 2012/10/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24505",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356/"
] | Likely not what you're looking for, but the nature of "first appearance" questions typically warrants this token "ancient legend" response:
I can't give an accurate date, but these stories are typically over 1000 years old, for fun. Most are likely 2000 or more years old.
In many ancient Asian legends there are stories of animals that, after meeting some condition, are able to transform into humans for periods of time.
The most common, is the fox. The "**Huli Jing**" or "**Kitsune**" (Chinese or Japanese respectively) is sometimes described as a demon fox, or fox spirit, or a fox that has lived 100 years. Make no mistake, this is no "god that takes the form of a fox" or anything, this is literally a fox that "gains a spirit, or becomes one, after living 100 years".
These foxes can transform into humans for a time, and often take the form of beautiful women, hoping to seduce a man and (in some cases) take his heart or liver. Some stories say that after eating 100 hearts/livers the fox can become a human permanently. The fox myth is all over the place stretching through many nations. This fits best with the notion of cyclic transformation, as the fox is technically unable to stay human and is "cursed/gifted" with human form. The restrictions on this are usually never clearly stated, as the stories written from the perspective of the fox are typically ones that show the fox as benevolent and having fallen in love with some person, but cursed to be a fox. Often they can't stay human simply because it uses too much energy.
A second example is the **White Snake**. The specific story of Madame White Snake (published in 1620, but existed in oral form for centuries) states that a thousand year old white snake fell in love with a man and transformed herself into a woman to win him. Her goal was not to become human, but instead a goddess through doing good deeds. This isn't a cyclic transformation though.
A third example is that of the **Bakeneko**. A cat that has lived for 100 years, or simply grew too heavy, may become a Bakeneko. This cat can transform into a "cat-monster" by night where it: takes the form of a human, can re-animate corpses, throw fireballs, and, of course, kill/eat people.
There are many others, often paired with the "if the animal lives 100 years, *this happens*". Some other examples are: badgers, raccoon-dogs, sea serpents, and seals. | In The Harry Dresden series, there is a book where a character is actually a wolf who takes human form by choice.
(Spoilers):
>
> In Fool Moon, Tera advises the Alphas, whom she met via the Northwest Passage Project, and agreed to teach them the ways of being a wolf.
> At the end of Fool Moon, she left civilization for the wilderness. She was implied to be a wolf who could transform into a human, the opposite of a werewolf. One of the possible clues was that Harry Dresden could not Soulgaze her.
> Source: <http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com/wiki/Tera_West>
>
>
> |
24,505 | As we all know, werewolves are humans that are transformed into ravenous flesh eating monsters. Some are [sentient](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf%27s_Hour), but most appear to be feral hunters of humans. Is there such a thing as reverse Lycanthropy? If so, what is the first story of an animal cyclicly turning into a human similar to the way humans turn into werewolves? I'm looking for the earliest example from the movies, TV, books, comics, or legends. | 2012/10/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24505",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356/"
] | Likely not what you're looking for, but the nature of "first appearance" questions typically warrants this token "ancient legend" response:
I can't give an accurate date, but these stories are typically over 1000 years old, for fun. Most are likely 2000 or more years old.
In many ancient Asian legends there are stories of animals that, after meeting some condition, are able to transform into humans for periods of time.
The most common, is the fox. The "**Huli Jing**" or "**Kitsune**" (Chinese or Japanese respectively) is sometimes described as a demon fox, or fox spirit, or a fox that has lived 100 years. Make no mistake, this is no "god that takes the form of a fox" or anything, this is literally a fox that "gains a spirit, or becomes one, after living 100 years".
These foxes can transform into humans for a time, and often take the form of beautiful women, hoping to seduce a man and (in some cases) take his heart or liver. Some stories say that after eating 100 hearts/livers the fox can become a human permanently. The fox myth is all over the place stretching through many nations. This fits best with the notion of cyclic transformation, as the fox is technically unable to stay human and is "cursed/gifted" with human form. The restrictions on this are usually never clearly stated, as the stories written from the perspective of the fox are typically ones that show the fox as benevolent and having fallen in love with some person, but cursed to be a fox. Often they can't stay human simply because it uses too much energy.
A second example is the **White Snake**. The specific story of Madame White Snake (published in 1620, but existed in oral form for centuries) states that a thousand year old white snake fell in love with a man and transformed herself into a woman to win him. Her goal was not to become human, but instead a goddess through doing good deeds. This isn't a cyclic transformation though.
A third example is that of the **Bakeneko**. A cat that has lived for 100 years, or simply grew too heavy, may become a Bakeneko. This cat can transform into a "cat-monster" by night where it: takes the form of a human, can re-animate corpses, throw fireballs, and, of course, kill/eat people.
There are many others, often paired with the "if the animal lives 100 years, *this happens*". Some other examples are: badgers, raccoon-dogs, sea serpents, and seals. | We have an accepted answer which is definitely older, but for future querents, I want to mention Peter David's 1989 novel, *[Howling Mad](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175935.Howling_Mad)*, features a wolf bitten by a werewolf who's cursed to turn human under the full moon. It's a romance novel, of sorts. |
598,287 | I'm developing a generator to create a C# API wrapper for Facebook's API. I'm just about finished with the basic coding, except that there doesn't seem to be any well-formed declaration of the method signatures of all the API methods.
I can parse the [schema for the element types](http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd) to figure out what the names of all the methods are (they're anything at the end that ends with `_response` - they all have a corresponding method). The signatures are [documented on their wiki](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API), but there doesn't seem to be a single place they're all defined, as in a schema.
Any suggestions, besides screen scraping the wiki?
---
One step closer: All the signatures seem to be defined in JSON on the [API Test Console](http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php?api) page. Of course, this doesn't help with typing, but having it all in once place makes it a bit less work if I'm going to screen scrape. | 2009/02/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/598287",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2596/"
] | Facebook never released such a document, and the REST API that this question relates to has been deprecated. | There is a Facebook XSD at <http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd>. It defines the full schema and has the information you are looking for neatly packaged. No need to screen scrape :-p |
598,287 | I'm developing a generator to create a C# API wrapper for Facebook's API. I'm just about finished with the basic coding, except that there doesn't seem to be any well-formed declaration of the method signatures of all the API methods.
I can parse the [schema for the element types](http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd) to figure out what the names of all the methods are (they're anything at the end that ends with `_response` - they all have a corresponding method). The signatures are [documented on their wiki](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API), but there doesn't seem to be a single place they're all defined, as in a schema.
Any suggestions, besides screen scraping the wiki?
---
One step closer: All the signatures seem to be defined in JSON on the [API Test Console](http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php?api) page. Of course, this doesn't help with typing, but having it all in once place makes it a bit less work if I'm going to screen scrape. | 2009/02/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/598287",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2596/"
] | Facebook never released such a document, and the REST API that this question relates to has been deprecated. | You should look into using the C# SDK for the Graph API. It might not have the type safety you're looking for, but it is fairly complete and can be used with a variety of .net app types (MVC, WinForms, ASP.NET, etc)
<http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/> |
3,679 | Great Saints are said to have lot of powers which come for their meditation. Like god Sai Baba removing out the intestines and cleaning them, and Sri Madvirat Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy telling the future etc.
My question is, do they know **everything**? I mean, physics, chemistry, maths, computer science, future, astrospace etc? Can they answer 'any' question related to those?
Scientists are conducting lot of researches, sending spacecrafts into other planets spending lot of money. I think that the great saints have answers for all those that the scientists are intended to find out. | 2014/11/11 | [
"https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/3679",
"https://hinduism.stackexchange.com",
"https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/users/312/"
] | They do not know 'everything'. Swami Vivekananda said that a realized soul knows the essence of Reality; it does not mean that he knows every particular aspect of It's infinite manifestations. To know clay does not mean that you know every form of clay. To know Brahman is to know everything as One without a second - without manifestation. To be conscious of the One, you cannot be aware of the many, and vice versa. He said that if you are seeing the rope as a snake, you only see the snake and not the rope. When you see the rope, you no longer see the snake. You cannot see both at the same time. Likewise if you see Brahman, you no longer see the world of maya; and vice versa.
He also said that for a man who practices continence and meditation, it is very easy to concentrate on a subject and learn it very quickly.
A knower of Brahman looks on knowledge of this world as an intelligent man of this world looks on the play of small children. He knows it is all foolishness and just play of no consequence. Or he looks on it as a man may look on the struggles of some ants; it is nothing compared to the knowledge of Brahman. | Great saints can know everything if they want to. The potential is there. When the word '*Sarvagyaata*' or Omniscient is used, it indicates a potency to know everything. Although, they choose not to intervene too much in the mundane aspects, unless required.
>
> "The avatar role-plays with deliberate and voluntary self-limitation.
> The avatar has infinite knowledge which he can choose to access,
> though ordinarily he does not, or else does so selectively"
>
>
>
--Excerpt from the book 'Being Different' |
127,952 | I am using QGIS 2.6.0-Brighton and I am trying to add a custom field to my layer made from a shapefile of Italian provinces; everything seems fine when I create a categorized views using region codes, something like this:
then when I try to add a custom field to the associated table in order to create a custom aggregation (like the Macro Region shown on this picture)
when I go back to the map everything seems to be screwed up, and this is the result I am getting (e.g. islands look like little red crosses, thick polygon borders):
Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug? | 2015/01/01 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/127952",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/43506/"
] | It is because you are still in editing mode. What you are seeing are little red 'x' symbols over every vertex in your shapefile.
Once you have finished with your edit, right-click your layer and click 'stop editing' and everything will be as it was. | You are in edit mode. Just click the pencil to save your new column and disable edit mode. |
62,219,409 | We are looking to access an external vendor's Redshift data. We are on the same platform (AWS). What is the best approach?
Is it possible to directly connect to their Redshift instance as opposed to copy data from their Redshift database to an S3 bucket in our account? | 2020/06/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/62219409",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5236758/"
] | I have solved your same problem changing the user database password with a password like name.number in the database access in the security section. Then copying that password in the MongoURI | in your database URI You got to replace with username that you created on mongodb Atlas same goes with the and .
For example if your credentials are:-
username: jonDoe, password: test@abcd, database name: myBlogs
mongodb://jonDoe:test@abcd@xxxx-uaglu.mongodb.net/myBlogs?retryWrites=true&w=majority. |
93,667 | I want to create image from hard disk without free space (useless space) in linux(ex3 type).
I've been tried to create image with **dd** command but this command gave us total size of hard disk.
I need data on this hard disk without free space.
thanks a lot. | 2009/12/12 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/93667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24098/"
] | Sounds like [Partimage](http://www.partimage.org/) might be what you are looking for? | +1 Partimage . The [system rescue CD](http://www.sysresccd.org) might help if you just want to save something. Plug in a removable drive and/or a network mount once it has booted and write the image to disk.
If you're trying to image an entire drive for transport, don't forget to save the partition table (and the boot sector for a bootable) |
93,667 | I want to create image from hard disk without free space (useless space) in linux(ex3 type).
I've been tried to create image with **dd** command but this command gave us total size of hard disk.
I need data on this hard disk without free space.
thanks a lot. | 2009/12/12 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/93667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24098/"
] | Sounds like [Partimage](http://www.partimage.org/) might be what you are looking for? | If you're using LVM, clonezilla is the way to go. |
93,667 | I want to create image from hard disk without free space (useless space) in linux(ex3 type).
I've been tried to create image with **dd** command but this command gave us total size of hard disk.
I need data on this hard disk without free space.
thanks a lot. | 2009/12/12 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/93667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24098/"
] | If you're using LVM, clonezilla is the way to go. | +1 Partimage . The [system rescue CD](http://www.sysresccd.org) might help if you just want to save something. Plug in a removable drive and/or a network mount once it has booted and write the image to disk.
If you're trying to image an entire drive for transport, don't forget to save the partition table (and the boot sector for a bootable) |
18,902 | What does a *dry* sense of humor mean?
[This article](http://www.ehow.com/how_2151193_develop-dry-sense-humor.html#ixzz1IGUHd0GX) explains how to develop it, but not what it is.
>
> **How to Develop a Dry Sense of Humor**
>
>
> Developing a dry sense of
> humor can be challenging and fun.
> Learn how to develop one. If you
> really want to (and you know you do)
> then read the article.
>
>
> | 2011/04/01 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/18902",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/740/"
] | Here is a relevant definition that says it all:
>
> **dry** *adjective*
>
> (of a joke or sense of humor) subtle, expressed in a matter-of-fact way, and having the appearance of being unconscious or unintentional:
>
> *he delighted his friends with a dry, covert sense of humor*
>
>
> [NOAD](http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_us1242243#m_en_us1242243)
>
>
> | It should mean being sarcastic and ironic.
Check my answer here: [The word ‘dryly’ as an adverb](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/18840/the-word-dry-as-an-adverb) |
18,902 | What does a *dry* sense of humor mean?
[This article](http://www.ehow.com/how_2151193_develop-dry-sense-humor.html#ixzz1IGUHd0GX) explains how to develop it, but not what it is.
>
> **How to Develop a Dry Sense of Humor**
>
>
> Developing a dry sense of
> humor can be challenging and fun.
> Learn how to develop one. If you
> really want to (and you know you do)
> then read the article.
>
>
> | 2011/04/01 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/18902",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/740/"
] | Here is a relevant definition that says it all:
>
> **dry** *adjective*
>
> (of a joke or sense of humor) subtle, expressed in a matter-of-fact way, and having the appearance of being unconscious or unintentional:
>
> *he delighted his friends with a dry, covert sense of humor*
>
>
> [NOAD](http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_us1242243#m_en_us1242243)
>
>
> | The article itself is an example of dry humor. |
566,888 | So I conducted a though experiment where I take a hollow spherical conductor and beef it up with a lot of electric charge. Here, I have ignored the ionization of air due to that huge amount of charge. Okay, coming to the point, is it possible that the hollow conductor, which is made of a certain metal and let's say if that piece of metal has low elastic limit, rupture due to the effect of its own electric pressure?
If we give it enough charge for a given radius then the charge density can be made substantially high (again assuming ionization of air to be absent and that the conductor can store that amount of charge). | 2020/07/20 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/566888",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/269573/"
] | No!
Uniform motion is motion in which velocity is constant and acceleration is 0.
Uniform acceleration : Motion in which acceleration is constant , therefore velocity is increasing or decreasing or even just the direction is changing for example a uniform circular motion
**Note:** Every uniform motion is having uniform acceleration but vice-versa does not always hold true | No, uniform motion implies constant speed, whereas uniform acceleration means constant acceleration. |
146,773 | I don't mean the plans, pictures, etc., I mean the actual thing.
**Had she actually seen it with her own eyes before she was taken on board as a prisoner?** | 2016/12/07 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146773",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/70161/"
] | **No.** According to the new (and fully canon) ANH novelisation, Leia hadn't seen the Death Star before. When she collected the plans in orbit of Scarif, her ship was apparently isolated in the hold of a larger Rebel capital ship which could explain why she didn't see it.
These are her thoughts as she first arrived at the Death Star (with Vader) after having been removed from the Tantive IV.
>
> *Leia spun back toward the viewport. She was still, after everything, expecting to see Coruscant, the capitol planet. But there was only a small gray moon hovering in the sea of stars.
>
> A moon that wasn’t orbiting a planet? No, it had to be a small planet. It grew larger…larger…larger as they moved toward it, until it filled the viewport completely.
>
> Leia’s heart sank to her feet.
>
> **That wasn’t…
>
> It couldn’t be…
>
> How…?**
> The stars weren’t winking around the hulking sphere as she’d first thought. The flickering lights were swarms of TIE fighters moving in formation, screeching as they passed the approaching Devastator. Those weren’t craters marring the sphere’s surface, but plating and towers. The large crater she’d spotted right away was no crater at all—it almost looked like a circular dish.*
>
>
> [A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/A_New_Hope:_The_Princess,_the_Scoundrel,_and_the_Farm_Boy)
>
>
>
Interestingly the implication seems to be that she wasn't actually aware that the station was fully operational, merely that it was planned. | I've just came back from the Rogue One, and this contradicts previous information. It wasn't clearly said but it seemed that Leia never saw the Death Star or its destructive power before.
Leia is on the Tantive IV (as in the beginning of Episode IV) during the final battle on Scarif, which was docked to the command ship. She must have seen the Death Star destroy the planet. However, in this case they didn't use the full power, so she didn't see the instant annihilation the Death Star demonstrated in episode IV. |
214,914 | What is a better way of saying "in order to demonstrate this, I will..."? I already use "to that effect" in the same paragraph. I'm looking for something as compact and concise as "to that effect" that will also be a good transition for the beginning of a new paragraph. | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214914",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Perhaps "To illustrate this, I will...", "Demonstrating this, I will..." or "As an example,.." | Is the sentence in question immediately followed by the character actually performing the demonstration? In that case:
"Observe."
(Does thing).
However, the whole thought "in order to demonstrate this, I will..." might be completely unnecessary. If the character already talked about the thing, just having them do the thing should save words. |
214,914 | What is a better way of saying "in order to demonstrate this, I will..."? I already use "to that effect" in the same paragraph. I'm looking for something as compact and concise as "to that effect" that will also be a good transition for the beginning of a new paragraph. | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214914",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Perhaps "To illustrate this, I will...", "Demonstrating this, I will..." or "As an example,.." | Is it appropriate to use "Therefore"? |
214,914 | What is a better way of saying "in order to demonstrate this, I will..."? I already use "to that effect" in the same paragraph. I'm looking for something as compact and concise as "to that effect" that will also be a good transition for the beginning of a new paragraph. | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214914",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Perhaps "To illustrate this, I will...", "Demonstrating this, I will..." or "As an example,.." | "I'll show this (is true, is so, isn't so) by. . . |
214,914 | What is a better way of saying "in order to demonstrate this, I will..."? I already use "to that effect" in the same paragraph. I'm looking for something as compact and concise as "to that effect" that will also be a good transition for the beginning of a new paragraph. | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214914",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I would sometimes use "to this end", however that is also more a general term. Something like: "We wish to show that space whales are secretly communicating with us. To this end, we will monitor the frequencies determined to be most likely to carry space whale song." | Is the sentence in question immediately followed by the character actually performing the demonstration? In that case:
"Observe."
(Does thing).
However, the whole thought "in order to demonstrate this, I will..." might be completely unnecessary. If the character already talked about the thing, just having them do the thing should save words. |
214,914 | What is a better way of saying "in order to demonstrate this, I will..."? I already use "to that effect" in the same paragraph. I'm looking for something as compact and concise as "to that effect" that will also be a good transition for the beginning of a new paragraph. | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214914",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I would sometimes use "to this end", however that is also more a general term. Something like: "We wish to show that space whales are secretly communicating with us. To this end, we will monitor the frequencies determined to be most likely to carry space whale song." | Is it appropriate to use "Therefore"? |
214,914 | What is a better way of saying "in order to demonstrate this, I will..."? I already use "to that effect" in the same paragraph. I'm looking for something as compact and concise as "to that effect" that will also be a good transition for the beginning of a new paragraph. | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214914",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I would sometimes use "to this end", however that is also more a general term. Something like: "We wish to show that space whales are secretly communicating with us. To this end, we will monitor the frequencies determined to be most likely to carry space whale song." | "I'll show this (is true, is so, isn't so) by. . . |
214,914 | What is a better way of saying "in order to demonstrate this, I will..."? I already use "to that effect" in the same paragraph. I'm looking for something as compact and concise as "to that effect" that will also be a good transition for the beginning of a new paragraph. | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214914",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Is the sentence in question immediately followed by the character actually performing the demonstration? In that case:
"Observe."
(Does thing).
However, the whole thought "in order to demonstrate this, I will..." might be completely unnecessary. If the character already talked about the thing, just having them do the thing should save words. | Is it appropriate to use "Therefore"? |
214,914 | What is a better way of saying "in order to demonstrate this, I will..."? I already use "to that effect" in the same paragraph. I'm looking for something as compact and concise as "to that effect" that will also be a good transition for the beginning of a new paragraph. | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214914",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Is the sentence in question immediately followed by the character actually performing the demonstration? In that case:
"Observe."
(Does thing).
However, the whole thought "in order to demonstrate this, I will..." might be completely unnecessary. If the character already talked about the thing, just having them do the thing should save words. | "I'll show this (is true, is so, isn't so) by. . . |
144,289 | To cast [cube](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/spellcasting#Cube)-shaped spells,
>
> You select a cube's point of origin, which lies anywhere on a face of the cubic effect.
>
>
>
After looking through a multitude of other questions regarding Thunderwave (see [1](https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/56895/spell-area-of-effect-range), [2](https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/48998/is-thunderwave-centered-on-the-caster), [3](https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/144271/can-i-cast-thunderwave-and-be-at-the-center-of-its-bottom-face-but-not-be-affec/144284#144282)), which has a range of **self**, it seems to be general consensus that you can cast Thunderwave as the picture below shows.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1aDW7.png)
But the thing is, this means you have a range of **5ft** for casting it, doesn't it? Your point of origin is the square 5ft in front of you. I just assumed that a range of **self** meant something like this.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8IU0Q.png)
You wouldn't take damage since:
>
> A cube's point of origin is not included in the cube's area of effect, unless you decide otherwise.
>
>
>
In order for both these images to be possible casts of Thunderwave, a range of **self** and a **5ft** are the same. Is this interpretation correct?
PS: I didn't show the cube to have 15ft height, but that's to keep things simple. Assume the cube has the proper height, but for this question, we are focusing on the bottom third of it. | 2019/04/01 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/144289",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/31589/"
] | Yes, there is a difference
--------------------------
Or rather, No, your interpretation is incorrect.
First of all, let's look at the rules really quick.
[Area of Effect on a Grid](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/xgte/dungeon-masters-tools#AreasofEffectonaGrid), DMG (I don't have the DMG in DnD Beyond, so this excerpt is from Xanathars)
>
> Choose an intersection of squares as the point of origin of an area of effect, then follow the rules for that kind of area as normal (see the “Areas of Effect” section in chapter 10 of the Player’s Handbook). If an area of effect is circular and covers at least half a square, it affects that square.
>
>
>
So by the very nature of using a grid template, you're bound by the rules of choosing an intersection as the point of origin. Your character sits at the center of a square and occupies the entire square. The edges and corners of your square are 0 feet. The next square over, those far edges are all 5 feet away (including diagonals). Similarly, most characters have a melee reach of 5 feet which extends out towards the adjacent 8 squares. When creatures move out of those tiles, opportunity attacks are provoked. Range is always calculated from your tile boundary outwards and excludes the tile that the edges the range touches belong to. So 5 feet from your edge is another edge, but it excludes the next tile over. In this way, you can count the squares in a typical 5-foot grid system to calculate range.
So, a range of self is actually the "5-foot" range image you posted, since you are choosing a corner 0 feet away. If you had a 5-foot range, you could choose the intersection of any square up to 5 feet away, effectively moving the effect one tile away from yourself.
Remember that your point or origin is not always centered on a face of a cube, but rather anywhere on any face of that cube. So you must always pick a corner as the origin, but you could "translate" that cube any way you'd like.
[Areas of Effect, Cube](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/spellcasting#Cube), PHB
>
> You select a cube's point of origin, which lies anywhere on a face of the cubic effect. The cube's size is expressed as the length of each side.
>
>
> | Thunderwave has two ranges
--------------------------
Thunderwave has two ranges:
>
> **[Thunderwave](https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/thunderwave)**
>
>
> Range: Self (15-foot cube)
>
>
>
### Self
The first part says you are the target. So you cast *thunderwave* on yourself. The self part it can **target** [only you](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/spellcasting#Range) (this is different from affecting only you, as the second range will show):
>
> Other spells, such as the *shield* spell, affect only you. These spells have a range of self.
>
>
>
This does not affect where the cube appears.
### 15-foot-cube
The second range says the area of effect ("A wave of thunderous force sweeps out from you. Each creature in a 15-foot cube originating from you") is a 15 foot cube with you at the origin, following the targeting rules in the [Basic Rule](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/spellcasting#Cube) or PHB.
>
> You select a cube's point of origin, which lies anywhere on a face of the cubic effect. The cube's size is expressed as the length of each side.
>
>
> A cube's point of origin is not included in the cube's area of effect, unless you decide otherwise.
>
>
>
So the cube can look like either of the images you posted at your choice, but neither of those is a range of "5ft" or "self." They both depict the squares of a 15 foot cube. Not that it is a cube, so both of those would also be 15 feet high as well, but you said as much in your PS. |
123,739 | I currently use ntfs-3g on my mac to be able to write to NTFS-formatted drives. I have seen two commercial alternatives that boast better performance and more advanced features - [Tuxera](http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/) (a commercial version of ntfs-3g it seems) and [Paragon](http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/).
Are these products really better? Any experiences, hard facts, benchmarks from real-world use? | 2010/03/24 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/123739",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3007/"
] | Mixed-mode WPA2-PSK is probably good enough, as long as your passphrase is well-chosen. If you don't really need TKIP (WPA "1") anymore, consider making it WPA2-only (that is, AES-CCMP only), because there have been some attacks against TKIP recently.
MAC address filtering is a waste of time. MAC addresses are easily discovered and spoofed. Using a "hidden" SSID (a.k.a. "non-broadcast" SSID, a.k.a. "Closed Network") is also a waste of time. | You could use a penetration testing system like [BackTrack](http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ "BackTrack"). |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | >
> "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks."
>
>
>
Your suggested reply is perfect. Stop fretting. | It's human nature believe it or not for people to want to help, show or instruct others so use this to your advantage because you won't be able to later on. Very graciously thank everyone for the welcome and then fall on your sword and concede very briefly and in the tamest way express your appreciation for those who will bare with you and understand that there are things you will have to learn and appreciate their understanding and help........ I am truly taken back at how welcomed I have been made to feel. I look forward to working with and getting to know you all. I'm hoping to get up to speed as quickly as possible and appreciate in advance your patience and understanding in learning the ways of this new endeavor. I am so excited and grateful to be here. Thank you all again. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | Since the position is fully remote, I think it would be appropriate to reply with:
* Friendly "thank you" as OP stated
* Your full and correct email signature. Follow the norms at your company, if everyone else has phone and title and pronouns, make sure your signature has those. If they just use a short signature, make sure your contact details are up to date in whatever your company uses as a directory.
* Specific to the remote role - Your general location and time zone. Languages spoken may also be valuable for international companies. This can open up opportunities to meet professionally for lunch or drinks with another remote worker in the same area. It also helps you and your new coworkers offset meeting times to be within sane hours for your local time zones.
The idea from @iBug to reply on the 2nd day is good. | >
> "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks."
>
>
>
Your suggested reply is perfect. Stop fretting. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | >
> Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks."
>
>
>
Yes
>
> Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ?
>
>
>
No.
That type of detail is "need/reason to know" and not for general consumption. Talk about your hobbies in a socially appropriate context (lunch, water cooler, etc) and talk about your professional background/role with the people you work with directly and only when this is actually relevant to the current topic. | >
> "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks."
>
>
>
Your suggested reply is perfect. Stop fretting. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | Remote or Large workforces are much the same in this regard, the point of the email is simply to open communications, sometimes everyone will ignore it, sometimes the enthusiastic few will respond, those who respond will reflect the culture of the workplace just as much as your response will.
What is important in a Remote scenario is how you use this email as your tool for getting to know the key stakeholders in the workforce.
### Delay replying
The [answer from iBug](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/177988/115414) is 100% spot on for this, but so is the [advice from Freiheit](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/177988/115414), your response will likely end the end of this email chain, more importantly it signals the end of your "settling" in phase. Give everyone time across different timezones a chance to reach out to you, after all this is an informal exchange so it won't be hugh on their priority list yet. When you respond it will be informally accepted that you are "ready for work".
* If you don't receive a lot of responses, or any right away, give it a few hours, but that in itself will be a reflection of the culture, its not a bad thing, it just is how it is, so if there is no response and you *think* it has been a reasonable passage of time for them to respond, then maybe it's just not how they do things, then you should reply to show you are not ignoring your supervisor... that is also important!
#### Setup your email signature.
In a remote role your first email sent to everyone is important for a number of reasons, no more so than just like plugging into the matrix, your first response will be your projection of your "Digital Self"
After getting a few responses you should get a feel for the general culture of the team, make sure your email signature matches those of other people who are working in a similar position. If there have been no examples to copy, which will be normal, most people don't include a signature on a reply, then copy the signature from your supervisor.
If you think about how remote workforces interact, you are likely to have some IM platform that will have a profile, that might be your O365, GSuite, GitHub profile or something else. Make sure this is setup, if no such things have been communicated to you then your email signature is all you've got, when everyone needs to find you, they'll do a search in their inbox and your signature will tell them *how to communicate with you*.
If you want to be contacted via phone or IM then include your phone number or handle. What is appropriate here is up to you, but if you put your phone number you are pretty much broadcasting to everyone that you want them to use it.
### Content
As for the content of your message, a simple warm or positive response is all that is needed. For everyone else though, this is your first impression and you get one shot at that, so keep it brief but get some personality in there. I would avoid any "in-jokes" because lets face it, you're not quite "in" yet. If this is an international organisation then you *should* use localised terms, especially if you think they would be internationally recognisable, I would also encourage injecting any cultural references that you feel are important. For those too lazy to look elsewhere, your response is all they know about you and for good or bad, will be their only reference when they do need to communicate with you.
#### Be approachable and Humble
As listed above, for everyone else, the email from your supervisor, and your response probably makes up 99% of what they know about you. Its not just facts though, its the inference too. A formal, flowery and long-winded response is boring, no one will read it, and you can guess what they will think of you... A one liner will be similar.
You want the recipient to feel like they *could* contact you if they needed to. They may never need to, but you certainly don't want to alienate the other existing and perhaps long standing members of the team, especially those whose aspirations you may have trampled by accepting the position. So be Humble, thank everyone and talk to how you will try to meet their high standards.
* The one exception to this is where your role is specifically to improve everyone else, even in this situation you will not win any friends by being condescending.
#### Who are you, to them?
Put yourself in the recipient's shoes, they get 50 emails a day, so they don't want to have to scroll through your life story, they want an at-a-glance view of who you are and what you mean to them. In the workplace this means roles and responsibilities. You should be very aware of what these are as part of the recruitment/employment process. If you are not, or if your role is ambiguous, this is your one shot to set the record straight.
For traditional roles putting the position in your email signature is usually enough, for some more obscure or non-traditional or more specific roles, it may help if you can
#### What is your availability
Again with the profile elements, but in a remote workplace this can be crucial.
This is an example of someone who just came to mind:
>
> G'day Team!
>
> Thanks for your warm welcomes, I'm excited to be a part of this team and I'm looking forward meeting everyone in the upcoming weeks.
>
>
> If you need me urgently I'm always on *Teams*. After work you'll find me out the back playing basketball with my kids, or the dogs, but they're not too good at it yet...
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Quirky Toad
>
> .Net Technical Lead
>
> Really Cool Software
>
> Melbourne, Australia (UTC+10)
>
>
>
The key here is that it fits in most small email preview panes and still captures some personality and hobbies in a conversational tone, instead of sending a bullet list of your attributes. Pick one or two topics, what you show here will be perceived to be the most important things to you, whether they are or not is up to you, but for everyone else, it is clear that these topics are OK to talk about in public and will form the basis of small talk when we get to those awkward pauses in online meetings and your supervisor can't figure out how to approve the stragglers in from the lobby. | It's human nature believe it or not for people to want to help, show or instruct others so use this to your advantage because you won't be able to later on. Very graciously thank everyone for the welcome and then fall on your sword and concede very briefly and in the tamest way express your appreciation for those who will bare with you and understand that there are things you will have to learn and appreciate their understanding and help........ I am truly taken back at how welcomed I have been made to feel. I look forward to working with and getting to know you all. I'm hoping to get up to speed as quickly as possible and appreciate in advance your patience and understanding in learning the ways of this new endeavor. I am so excited and grateful to be here. Thank you all again. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | You were lucky enough to end up in a workplace that seems personal enough, that the welcome messages actually sounded warm and welcoming. Personally, I would add something along the lines of "I'm hoping to meet you guys in person or over an online drink soon, to get to know you."
But the actual reason I write this answer, is to remind you to take things easy. Either message would have been fine, neither could have let to a distaster! Try working on not overthinking simple things, and trusting your gut/first ideas. It will make your (work) life a lot easier. If it leads you wrong some day, you can blame it on me. | It's human nature believe it or not for people to want to help, show or instruct others so use this to your advantage because you won't be able to later on. Very graciously thank everyone for the welcome and then fall on your sword and concede very briefly and in the tamest way express your appreciation for those who will bare with you and understand that there are things you will have to learn and appreciate their understanding and help........ I am truly taken back at how welcomed I have been made to feel. I look forward to working with and getting to know you all. I'm hoping to get up to speed as quickly as possible and appreciate in advance your patience and understanding in learning the ways of this new endeavor. I am so excited and grateful to be here. Thank you all again. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | >
> Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks."
>
>
>
Yes
>
> Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ?
>
>
>
No.
That type of detail is "need/reason to know" and not for general consumption. Talk about your hobbies in a socially appropriate context (lunch, water cooler, etc) and talk about your professional background/role with the people you work with directly and only when this is actually relevant to the current topic. | Since the position is fully remote, I think it would be appropriate to reply with:
* Friendly "thank you" as OP stated
* Your full and correct email signature. Follow the norms at your company, if everyone else has phone and title and pronouns, make sure your signature has those. If they just use a short signature, make sure your contact details are up to date in whatever your company uses as a directory.
* Specific to the remote role - Your general location and time zone. Languages spoken may also be valuable for international companies. This can open up opportunities to meet professionally for lunch or drinks with another remote worker in the same area. It also helps you and your new coworkers offset meeting times to be within sane hours for your local time zones.
The idea from @iBug to reply on the 2nd day is good. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | >
> "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks."
>
>
>
Your suggested reply is perfect. Stop fretting. | You don't need to respond to this email chain at all. It's assumed that you received those welcome messages and possibly read them. If you're not comfortable in replying to them, then don't.
If you do want to reply, then a simple "Thanks everyone for the warm welcomes!" is fine. Depending on the company, you may or may not be prompted by your manager and/or HR at some point to write an introduction note to your coworkers. At that time, you can share that information, like your role, hobbies, etc. It's generally good for the company to prompt you to do that, because it facilitates camaraderie ("Oh, you like LOCAL\_SPORTS\_TEAM? I also like LOCAL\_SPORTS\_TEAM, what do you think about STAR\_PLAYER this season?"), but not every company does. If your manager doesn't prompt you to write an introduction email within your first couple days, you may want to prompt your manager to prompt you to write one, just because it does facilitate camaraderie and that helps create a better work environment. If your manager says it's not necessary, then it's not necessary; some companies are just like that. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | I will disagree with other answers: apply the desk decoration test. If the culture of the company is such that you would keep some decoration on your desk that related to your personal life (picture of your pet, funny mug about your hobby, whatever) then you can include something relating to your personal life in your intro e-mail (*if you want to*).
It basically serves the same purpose as having something on your desk: it marks a topic as being safe to ask about. Since a lot of people have things they don't want to talk about\*, having a clear indication of a good topic is a kindness to your teammates, and will make it a lot easier for them to start talking to you. You don't need to go into any detail, just enough so that the topic has been opened and people can talk to you personally if they want to. (\*And some people don't want to talk about *anything*.)
The main difference between remote and in person is being more deliberate about sharing information, since a lot of cues (e.g. the funny desk mug) are missing. (As well as deliberate communication about work-related things, instead of "just have an open office plan and everyone will collaborate automatically"...ha, ha.) | It's human nature believe it or not for people to want to help, show or instruct others so use this to your advantage because you won't be able to later on. Very graciously thank everyone for the welcome and then fall on your sword and concede very briefly and in the tamest way express your appreciation for those who will bare with you and understand that there are things you will have to learn and appreciate their understanding and help........ I am truly taken back at how welcomed I have been made to feel. I look forward to working with and getting to know you all. I'm hoping to get up to speed as quickly as possible and appreciate in advance your patience and understanding in learning the ways of this new endeavor. I am so excited and grateful to be here. Thank you all again. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | >
> Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks."
>
>
>
Yes
>
> Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ?
>
>
>
No.
That type of detail is "need/reason to know" and not for general consumption. Talk about your hobbies in a socially appropriate context (lunch, water cooler, etc) and talk about your professional background/role with the people you work with directly and only when this is actually relevant to the current topic. | It's human nature believe it or not for people to want to help, show or instruct others so use this to your advantage because you won't be able to later on. Very graciously thank everyone for the welcome and then fall on your sword and concede very briefly and in the tamest way express your appreciation for those who will bare with you and understand that there are things you will have to learn and appreciate their understanding and help........ I am truly taken back at how welcomed I have been made to feel. I look forward to working with and getting to know you all. I'm hoping to get up to speed as quickly as possible and appreciate in advance your patience and understanding in learning the ways of this new endeavor. I am so excited and grateful to be here. Thank you all again. |
177,980 | My supervisor started the e-mail thread of welcoming me to the team/department. Several team members has already replied (including the boss of my supervisor so I'm extra nervous) with a brief but warm welcome message. I was wondering what is the best way to reply in this thread.
This is my first fully remote role so I am not that familiar with how it works yet.
Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks." or Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ? | 2021/08/30 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177980",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/129196/"
] | >
> Would a short reply like "Thanks for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be working with everyone and I'm looking forward meeting you in the upcoming weeks."
>
>
>
Yes
>
> Should I be adding my professional background/main tasks of my role/hobbies/etc. ?
>
>
>
No.
That type of detail is "need/reason to know" and not for general consumption. Talk about your hobbies in a socially appropriate context (lunch, water cooler, etc) and talk about your professional background/role with the people you work with directly and only when this is actually relevant to the current topic. | You were lucky enough to end up in a workplace that seems personal enough, that the welcome messages actually sounded warm and welcoming. Personally, I would add something along the lines of "I'm hoping to meet you guys in person or over an online drink soon, to get to know you."
But the actual reason I write this answer, is to remind you to take things easy. Either message would have been fine, neither could have let to a distaster! Try working on not overthinking simple things, and trusting your gut/first ideas. It will make your (work) life a lot easier. If it leads you wrong some day, you can blame it on me. |
25,872 | Whenever I enter my school I'm forbidden to drink energy drinks. I asked them why and they listed lots of reasons why I wasn't allowed.
I asked "why is smoking not forbidden but something so simple as drinking energy drinks is?" and they replied "smoking is a personal decision and drinking energy drinks doesn't just harm you but everyone around you due to the "behaviour" you output under the influence of energy drinks".
Are there any ways I can legally get around this ban? | 2018/02/06 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/25872",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/15495/"
] | >
> "When ever I enter my college I'm forbidden to drink energy drinks..."
>
>
>
You are under a contract and bound by the rules and regulations of the college; read the contract you signed when you registered for classes and paid tuition.
That contract will stipulate what you are allowed to do and not do in classes, in your interactions with tutors and faculty, and on the college grounds, either public or private, and probably covers a dress code, phone usage, and on and on.
The only "loophole" you have available is to stop going to college.
In addition, you are 17 and a minor under the law in many jurisdictions; this means you have fewer "rights" than an adult. And, the contract is technically between your parents and the college, not you and the college. | You could evade it by getting cancer.
-------------------------------------
Schools and colleges in the UK are required (by the Equality Act 2010) to provide '[reasonable adjustment](https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/what-are-reasonable-adjustments)' for students with disability. Cancer and other debilitating illnesses [deplete energy](http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/coping/physically/diet-problems/managing/putting-on-weight/high-calorie-drinks) and sufferers are often prescribed high energy supplements and [caffeine-rich drinks and injectables](http://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/cafcit-injection/drug/3107/). Some of these are marketed under brand names but are essentially identical to retail high-caffeine drinks.
If you got this added to your education plan (typically by showing the college a prescription and a note from doctor explaining why this adjustment needs to be made) the college would be bound by law to allow you to drink them. |
25,872 | Whenever I enter my school I'm forbidden to drink energy drinks. I asked them why and they listed lots of reasons why I wasn't allowed.
I asked "why is smoking not forbidden but something so simple as drinking energy drinks is?" and they replied "smoking is a personal decision and drinking energy drinks doesn't just harm you but everyone around you due to the "behaviour" you output under the influence of energy drinks".
Are there any ways I can legally get around this ban? | 2018/02/06 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/25872",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/15495/"
] | Unfortunately you cannot, the only solution is to stop at a shop after school finishes and buy an energy drink from there. Then you can drink it as you are not at school anymore. | You could evade it by getting cancer.
-------------------------------------
Schools and colleges in the UK are required (by the Equality Act 2010) to provide '[reasonable adjustment](https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/what-are-reasonable-adjustments)' for students with disability. Cancer and other debilitating illnesses [deplete energy](http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/coping/physically/diet-problems/managing/putting-on-weight/high-calorie-drinks) and sufferers are often prescribed high energy supplements and [caffeine-rich drinks and injectables](http://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/cafcit-injection/drug/3107/). Some of these are marketed under brand names but are essentially identical to retail high-caffeine drinks.
If you got this added to your education plan (typically by showing the college a prescription and a note from doctor explaining why this adjustment needs to be made) the college would be bound by law to allow you to drink them. |
33,583 | I am using ubuntu for development. And I want to test my application on IE. So, instead of remote desktop I want to access IE as remote application from other windows machine. So the other guy whose working on windows machine can continue with his work and I can also test my application.
Are there any ways to access IE as remote application between windows and ubuntu ? | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/33583",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/12526/"
] | To run multiple sessions as you describe, the Windows machine would need to be running Windows Server. The terminal service for the desktop editions are limited to one active session at once so they don't devalue the server.
If you have a spare Windows license lying around, you could always install it in VirtualBox and enable seamless mode. You would access IE as a virtual application with the start panel as a "bonus".
([Image source](http://blog.slyon.de/2007/09/07/virtualbox-seamless-mode-2/)) | There is something called TeamViewer (<http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx>) which can be installed on each system and is cross-platform. You might be able to use this for your needs. |
33,583 | I am using ubuntu for development. And I want to test my application on IE. So, instead of remote desktop I want to access IE as remote application from other windows machine. So the other guy whose working on windows machine can continue with his work and I can also test my application.
Are there any ways to access IE as remote application between windows and ubuntu ? | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/33583",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/12526/"
] | To run multiple sessions as you describe, the Windows machine would need to be running Windows Server. The terminal service for the desktop editions are limited to one active session at once so they don't devalue the server.
If you have a spare Windows license lying around, you could always install it in VirtualBox and enable seamless mode. You would access IE as a virtual application with the start panel as a "bonus".
([Image source](http://blog.slyon.de/2007/09/07/virtualbox-seamless-mode-2/)) | You can try my packaged application called [WinConn](http://stanev.org/winconn/)
Further details in this AU Q&A:
* [Remmina remoteapp over RDP](https://askubuntu.com/questions/148159/remmina-remoteapp-over-rdp/167901#167901) |
24,612,909 | I am a computer science student. I studied C, then came to C++[an object oriented one] and now Java[More Object Oriented]. My question is whether 'C' language is of any importance these days? Did I study it for the sake of studying the languages in the order in which they were developed so as to understand languages step by step?
Is there things that can be done only with C? What is it's scope? | 2014/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24612909",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2557939/"
] | The main scopes are:
* drivers
* operating systems
* systems where performance is critical
* small embedded systems (thanks Joachim) | C is still heavily used in situations where otherwise one would drop down to assembler, since it's one of the few structured languages to let users code that close to the hardware.
And a lot of what claims to be C++ code is C code with an OOP wrapper. |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Fuzz testing never hurts: <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fuzztest/index.html>
Fuzz testing helps you make sure that your application is secure against any opportunity for user input.
Fuzz testing is a little awkward for JUnit tests in a way, because they are "random". You might want to loop and run a number of fuzz tests on each input avenue in a test suite. | There are commercial tools such as VeraCode that do security scanning. I don't work for them but my company uses it. It seems quite thorough. |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | There are commercial tools such as VeraCode that do security scanning. I don't work for them but my company uses it. It seems quite thorough. | It depends what your Java app actually is. If you are building a web service/API, for example, OWASP have a separate Top 10 just for API's which have things listed in a different priority than the regular top 10. See [OWASP Project API Security](https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/)
According to Nordic API's, you might find that it involves a lot of manual testing since you can't automate much of, good explanation of the API top 10 here: <https://nordicapis.com/testing-owasps-top-10-api-security-vulnerabilities/> |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Don't know is it exactly what you are looking for, but there is a blog post by Stephen Colebourne (author of joda-time and future new standard java8 date-time API) about testing security permissions with junit: [Stephen Colebourne's blog: Testing a security permission](http://blog.joda.org/2004/11/testing-security-permission_5894.html) | Tools like [Sonar](http://www.sonarsource.org/) and [FindBugs](http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/) can also be an automated way to find at least some security issues (FindBugs is at quite effective at finding risks of SQL injection and such). |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Fuzz testing never hurts: <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fuzztest/index.html>
Fuzz testing helps you make sure that your application is secure against any opportunity for user input.
Fuzz testing is a little awkward for JUnit tests in a way, because they are "random". You might want to loop and run a number of fuzz tests on each input avenue in a test suite. | Automated security testing is *hard* but that doesn't mean its not worth doing.
My suggestion for web apps - use your existing Unit and Integration tests (like Selenium) and then proxy them through a security tool like OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy).
See <http://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/wiki/SecRegTests> for more details.
Simon (ZAP Project Lead) |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Fuzz testing never hurts: <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fuzztest/index.html>
Fuzz testing helps you make sure that your application is secure against any opportunity for user input.
Fuzz testing is a little awkward for JUnit tests in a way, because they are "random". You might want to loop and run a number of fuzz tests on each input avenue in a test suite. | It depends what your Java app actually is. If you are building a web service/API, for example, OWASP have a separate Top 10 just for API's which have things listed in a different priority than the regular top 10. See [OWASP Project API Security](https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/)
According to Nordic API's, you might find that it involves a lot of manual testing since you can't automate much of, good explanation of the API top 10 here: <https://nordicapis.com/testing-owasps-top-10-api-security-vulnerabilities/> |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Fuzz testing never hurts: <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fuzztest/index.html>
Fuzz testing helps you make sure that your application is secure against any opportunity for user input.
Fuzz testing is a little awkward for JUnit tests in a way, because they are "random". You might want to loop and run a number of fuzz tests on each input avenue in a test suite. | Tools like [Sonar](http://www.sonarsource.org/) and [FindBugs](http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/) can also be an automated way to find at least some security issues (FindBugs is at quite effective at finding risks of SQL injection and such). |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Don't know is it exactly what you are looking for, but there is a blog post by Stephen Colebourne (author of joda-time and future new standard java8 date-time API) about testing security permissions with junit: [Stephen Colebourne's blog: Testing a security permission](http://blog.joda.org/2004/11/testing-security-permission_5894.html) | Fuzz testing never hurts: <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fuzztest/index.html>
Fuzz testing helps you make sure that your application is secure against any opportunity for user input.
Fuzz testing is a little awkward for JUnit tests in a way, because they are "random". You might want to loop and run a number of fuzz tests on each input avenue in a test suite. |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Don't know is it exactly what you are looking for, but there is a blog post by Stephen Colebourne (author of joda-time and future new standard java8 date-time API) about testing security permissions with junit: [Stephen Colebourne's blog: Testing a security permission](http://blog.joda.org/2004/11/testing-security-permission_5894.html) | It depends what your Java app actually is. If you are building a web service/API, for example, OWASP have a separate Top 10 just for API's which have things listed in a different priority than the regular top 10. See [OWASP Project API Security](https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/)
According to Nordic API's, you might find that it involves a lot of manual testing since you can't automate much of, good explanation of the API top 10 here: <https://nordicapis.com/testing-owasps-top-10-api-security-vulnerabilities/> |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Don't know is it exactly what you are looking for, but there is a blog post by Stephen Colebourne (author of joda-time and future new standard java8 date-time API) about testing security permissions with junit: [Stephen Colebourne's blog: Testing a security permission](http://blog.joda.org/2004/11/testing-security-permission_5894.html) | Automated security testing is *hard* but that doesn't mean its not worth doing.
My suggestion for web apps - use your existing Unit and Integration tests (like Selenium) and then proxy them through a security tool like OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy).
See <http://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/wiki/SecRegTests> for more details.
Simon (ZAP Project Lead) |
7,502,069 | Is there such a thing as *automated security testing* in Java? If so, how is it implemented? Is it just JUnit tests written to try and exploit known server vulnerabilities, or are their security-centric testing frameworks?
As a segue I'm also interested in this OWASP Security Testing Framework, but can't tell if they're using "framework" in a classic sense (meaning a set of guidelines and procedures to follow), or in a software context (where they are actually providing automated security testing components).
Thanks to any that can shed some light on this for me! | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7502069",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/892029/"
] | Don't know is it exactly what you are looking for, but there is a blog post by Stephen Colebourne (author of joda-time and future new standard java8 date-time API) about testing security permissions with junit: [Stephen Colebourne's blog: Testing a security permission](http://blog.joda.org/2004/11/testing-security-permission_5894.html) | There are commercial tools such as VeraCode that do security scanning. I don't work for them but my company uses it. It seems quite thorough. |
54 | In [this answer](https://ell.stackexchange.com/a/185/54), Liam W said [emphasis added]
>
> 'A Japanese' **infers** the Japanese person is a thing, and not a person.
> This is what **deems** it offensive.
>
>
> 'A Japanese Person' **infers** the Japanese person is just that - a
> person, and is therefore considered fine for use.
>
>
>
While not wanting to go [this far](http://xkcd.com/1133/) in using simple words, should we try to use simple and common words that are easily understood by people learning English?
An exception to this would be technical terms to do with English, such as "split infinitive". They should still be used, because it is easier to google for "split infinitive" than "boldly putting a word between "to" and the verb". | 2013/01/24 | [
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54",
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/users/54/"
] | Do not avoid them in contexts where the meaning can be inferred from that context. That is the best way for users to learn them!
OTOH, definitely avoid them if not knowing their meaning will make given answer confusing - when the meaning is not apparent. Alternatively, reiterate, rephrase the same thing using simpler terms to make it clear.
In the example case both bolded words are used in context that makes their meaning fairly apparent, so there is no harm in leaving them in. | Coming to think of it and now that I have been using this site for almost three days, it makes sense to me that simple language should be highly preferred here simply because of the fact that we can expect to see "a lot" of foreign-language visitors here and more we make it simple for them to "comprehend the answer" more the better. |
54 | In [this answer](https://ell.stackexchange.com/a/185/54), Liam W said [emphasis added]
>
> 'A Japanese' **infers** the Japanese person is a thing, and not a person.
> This is what **deems** it offensive.
>
>
> 'A Japanese Person' **infers** the Japanese person is just that - a
> person, and is therefore considered fine for use.
>
>
>
While not wanting to go [this far](http://xkcd.com/1133/) in using simple words, should we try to use simple and common words that are easily understood by people learning English?
An exception to this would be technical terms to do with English, such as "split infinitive". They should still be used, because it is easier to google for "split infinitive" than "boldly putting a word between "to" and the verb". | 2013/01/24 | [
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54",
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/users/54/"
] | Do not avoid them in contexts where the meaning can be inferred from that context. That is the best way for users to learn them!
OTOH, definitely avoid them if not knowing their meaning will make given answer confusing - when the meaning is not apparent. Alternatively, reiterate, rephrase the same thing using simpler terms to make it clear.
In the example case both bolded words are used in context that makes their meaning fairly apparent, so there is no harm in leaving them in. | I think that the example is a borderline case:
Certainly, the content could be expressed elegantly enough without using the words "infer" and "deem". They do not add better precision or explanation.
On the other hand, for me, the answer (and the question) was new and surprising and I really learned something, and yet I have no problems whatsoever with words like "infer" and "deem".
So, I would advice that one should use words that are understood by most people who would actually be interested in the answer to the question, but this is probably the case here. |
54 | In [this answer](https://ell.stackexchange.com/a/185/54), Liam W said [emphasis added]
>
> 'A Japanese' **infers** the Japanese person is a thing, and not a person.
> This is what **deems** it offensive.
>
>
> 'A Japanese Person' **infers** the Japanese person is just that - a
> person, and is therefore considered fine for use.
>
>
>
While not wanting to go [this far](http://xkcd.com/1133/) in using simple words, should we try to use simple and common words that are easily understood by people learning English?
An exception to this would be technical terms to do with English, such as "split infinitive". They should still be used, because it is easier to google for "split infinitive" than "boldly putting a word between "to" and the verb". | 2013/01/24 | [
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54",
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/users/54/"
] | I think that the example is a borderline case:
Certainly, the content could be expressed elegantly enough without using the words "infer" and "deem". They do not add better precision or explanation.
On the other hand, for me, the answer (and the question) was new and surprising and I really learned something, and yet I have no problems whatsoever with words like "infer" and "deem".
So, I would advice that one should use words that are understood by most people who would actually be interested in the answer to the question, but this is probably the case here. | Coming to think of it and now that I have been using this site for almost three days, it makes sense to me that simple language should be highly preferred here simply because of the fact that we can expect to see "a lot" of foreign-language visitors here and more we make it simple for them to "comprehend the answer" more the better. |
54 | In [this answer](https://ell.stackexchange.com/a/185/54), Liam W said [emphasis added]
>
> 'A Japanese' **infers** the Japanese person is a thing, and not a person.
> This is what **deems** it offensive.
>
>
> 'A Japanese Person' **infers** the Japanese person is just that - a
> person, and is therefore considered fine for use.
>
>
>
While not wanting to go [this far](http://xkcd.com/1133/) in using simple words, should we try to use simple and common words that are easily understood by people learning English?
An exception to this would be technical terms to do with English, such as "split infinitive". They should still be used, because it is easier to google for "split infinitive" than "boldly putting a word between "to" and the verb". | 2013/01/24 | [
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54",
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/users/54/"
] | Do not avoid them in contexts where the meaning can be inferred from that context. That is the best way for users to learn them!
OTOH, definitely avoid them if not knowing their meaning will make given answer confusing - when the meaning is not apparent. Alternatively, reiterate, rephrase the same thing using simpler terms to make it clear.
In the example case both bolded words are used in context that makes their meaning fairly apparent, so there is no harm in leaving them in. | I think we should use technical terms, but make sure that they are explained, and not go too overboard to the point of making the answer sound like it came from an academic journal. |
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