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853 | When a post is flagged for moderator attention, does the flag expire, or is it visible to the moderators whenever they check the list of the flagged posts?
I know that comment flags age away after 4 days, but is that valid also for "moderator attention" flags? | 2011/03/22 | [
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/853",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/users/252/"
] | According to the [blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/), they expire after two days. Of course, that was two years ago, and a lot has changed since then, so this may now be significantly different.
In any case, moderator flags should not be ignored for so long that they expire—they should either be attended to or dismissed by the mods. | Moderator flags do not expire. In fact, even if they are dismissed, they will reappear if someone else flags the same post. |
245,181 | The GFI in our bathroom was tripping somewhat frequently when my wife used the blow dryer. Other than the vanity light there were not other things operating on this circuit. If the GFI did not trip, the plug to the hair dryer would be quite hot to the touch. To my limited knowledge, a danger sign.
After a ridiculous quote by an electrician to diagnosis the problem, I decided to watch some you tube videos. I bought a GFI tester and the outlet was hooked up correctly. However, I noticed that the circuit had a 20a breaker, but the GFI was 15a. So first step, I replaced it with a new 20a GFI. After testing all symptoms were gone. No hot hair dryer plug and no tripping.
I checked the other GFIs despite them working correctly. All were 15a GFIs but on a 20a circuit. One was the kitchen which get used very heavily. I went ahead and replaced them all, just to be safe but it left me with some questions:
1. How bad is it to have a 15a GFI on a 20a circuit?
2. Do you think that the problem in our bathroom was just a bad GFI? Related to the mismatch in circuit and outlet rating? Or something else? | 2022/02/22 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/245181",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/35156/"
] | My understanding is that you can have multiple 15 amp outlets on a 20 Amp circuit but not just one. GFCI's trip on a fault, not an overload so the existing GFCI was probably going bad. Hair dryers can easily use 15 amps and that would heat up the plug a bit. If the GFCI outlet was old and had been used a lot, the plug might not have been as tight as it should be but not enough to arc but would heat up more. | >
> However, I noticed that the circuit had a 20a breaker, but the GFI was 15a. So first step, I replaced it with a new 20a GFI.
>
> How bad is it to have a 15a GFI on a 20a circuit?
>
>
>
It's not bad at all and is totally legal. There was never a problem here; you reacted to this over nothing.
>
> Do you think that the problem in our bathroom was just a bad GFI? Related to the mismatch in circuit and outlet rating? Or something else?
>
>
>
Fair chance there was nothing wrong with the old GFCI. The heating of the socket is the clue.
You fixed the problem "by accident" in the course of swapping the GFCI.
What you actually had was a bad connection on the "Line" terminals. Most likely, a screw was not torqued correctly, and the connection was loose. Loose connections cause *series arcing* and that creates a great deal of heat. Series arcing can also cause fires, which is why they have AFCI (Arc Fault) breakers now to catch these faults.
This is why NEC now requires torque screwdrivers to set torque wherever a torque is specified.
If that was an AFCI receptacle (e.g. an AFCI/GFCI dual-mode) then it may have been detecting this arcing. Because of the way the signal travels, an AFCI receptacle can "hear" a series arc fault in its supply wires. |
24,034,659 | HI I am building a php page, where I can upload some csv files from Credit card terminal, to show the owner of the shop, today sales, and make some statistics.
I am using MYISAM in my database.
This is just one line, from the csv file, to show what info I got to work with.
Transaction Date: 22-05-2014 00:00:12;
Store: MCdonalds\_denmark;
Terminal POS: 00008101;
Last Oper Num: 138;
Host Code: 88135;
PAN: 4571xxxxxxxxxxx5362;
Operation: Authorizazion req;
POS data Code: 5 - ICC;
Amount: 70;
Acquirer: SDID;
Transaction Result: Approved;
How do I avoid duplicate values in MySQLi database, if a user by accident uploading the csv file twice, the filename is not truly unique, right now i am checking every line with a mysql command if NOT EXIST, but it takes about 8 min, to upload a csv file with 500.000 lines, when I use mysqli command NOT EXIST.
I can see that the bigger the table gets, the slower the upload is running ? and the table will only get bigger and bigger over time.
Are there better options, maybe running a cronjob at night, to look for duplicates, or is it just the users problem to avoid uploading the same file twice.
Are there any other totally different work approach to solve the problem ?? | 2014/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24034659",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3291960/"
] | First thing. Do you do this like that:
Until lines
Read line - save data to DB;
Read next line
If so... first do this "one time".
Gather all lines, split it to affordable chunks of Update statements and run them massively.
This will save you much time.
Duplicates - If I'd hit big performance issues - i would be adding everything as it is and have cron task which cleans the table. | I found a solution, to the speed issue, i'm indexing all the columns, where I got "WHERE" clause on, and I did not change any sql commands in my php script, it took down, the execution time, down from 15 minutes to 10 sec.
 |
10,384 | I often come across answers flagged for LQ in the corresponding review queue which don't really fit into the categories of a LQ post - not spam, not better as a comment, not better as a question, etc. Using a broader definition, the post *is* of low quality; perhaps it's not very clear, or the physics is incorrect, but it remains an apparently honest attempt to answer the question. The correct course of action would seem to be to downvote rather than to vote to delete, but voting isn't offered via the LQP review interface. I often just open the question in a new tab via the title-link and vote there, while completing the review as 'Looks OK' in the other tab. This seems annoying; why shouldn't I be able to vote on content I happened to come across in this queue? Or to take it further, why shouldn't a downvote be an acceptable resolution to a LQP review? Is there a stated rationale for this, or should this become a [feature-request](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request "show questions tagged 'feature-request'")? | 2018/01/25 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10384",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11053/"
] | This issue has been discussed repeatedly on mother meta. Some examples:
* [Add downvote option to Low Quality Review Queue list of potential actions](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/228738/346882),
* [Why is voting removed from new review system?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/140405/346882),
* [(Up)Voting on Low-Quality Posts in Review tasks](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/191276/346882),
etc., and links therein.
There is a (debatable) rationale behind the decision of removing the voting option from the LQP queue. I'll copy some relevant paragraphs here, mainly for completeness, but I really encourage you to go there and read the posts for yourself.
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> It's always seemed to me that the purpose of the low-quality-posts queue was to automatically detect and remove low quality posts. [...] Voting on the post is unnecessary in order to accomplish this.
>
>
>
${}$
>
> The core philosophy here is that each queue focuses on a specific task or question, and provides the tools most important for resolving it. If you want to do something else, there will always be a prominent link to the full question page. A concern with allowing voting in the Low Quality queue specifically is that you're not viewing answers in the context of other answers, or a question in the context of its answers. You're never able to vote in these circumstances normally - it's worth remembering that voting directly from the list of questions was considered early on, and discarded as too likely to produce bad results.
>
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>
You may or may not agree with these statements. If you don't, the best you can do is to go there and post an answer (or create a new post, if necessary). Unfortunately, I don't think you will be able to change people's mind, as this has already been thought through and a sort of consensus has been reached. The LQP queue is not, in general, for voting. If you do want to vote, you'll have to open the post in a separate tab. | There's a few things going on here that I can see, and I previously ranted about that subject [here](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9027), about a year and a half ago. At the time I proposed trying out a change in the mods' response to VLQ flags, which I think is still in place, but we didn't really have the time or energy to analyze any changes that happened at the time.
The first thing to keep in mind is that much of the existing guidance, both on this meta and more generally in SE, was written with the expectation that VLQ flags would be handled by moderators. Within that paradigm, deletion is *not* the right response: moderators are not and should not be arbiters of the technical correctness of posts.
However, just because moderators shouldn't be doing that job, that doesn't mean that the job shouldn't be done at all: the whole point of this site is that we have mechanisms (however imperfect) for recognising people with expertise in the field and knowledge of this site, and which give those people moderation abilities that can affect other users' content, from how prominently displayed they are (via the voting privilege at 10 and 125 rep) through editing (at 2k) all the way up to voting to delete answers (at 20k). The LQP queue is the point of contact that puts experienced users in front of content that might need to be deleted.
I think [the answer that probably inspired you to write this](https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/382157) ([screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ewgQ.png) for stability) is an excellent example of not-even-wrong post that, while it is ostensibly an honest attempt to answer the question (so Not An Answer doesn't apply), is so deeply and completely wrong that this site is not obliged to give that type of content a platform. Those types of answers harm the site: the signal-to-noise ratio matters, very much, in attracting the types of expert answerers that make this site great.
So: independently of whether the system allows you to downvote, I would encourage you to vote to delete (or Recommend Deletion for <20k users) those kinds of posts. We have some ~30 users with the 20k rep needed to delete answers, and over the past year or so we have started to get more and more community-driven deletions of posts that really shouldn't be given a platform here. As a particularly positive development, a nontrivial fraction of them include Recommend Deletion votes from the much wider and active >2k rep section of our userbase ([example](https://physics.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/202672), [screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HxeUS.jpg)).
However, while I've yet to come across a deletion that I've disagreed with (or that anyone with this site's best interests in mind could reasonably disagree with), the three-20k deletions that currently occur tend to feature, much more often than I'd like, a set of three or four regular faces instead of a wider set of characters, which would be a much healthier situation. So: please review the LQP queue, and please don't hesitate to hit the Delete / Recommend Deletion button, particularly if you're 20k+, if you think the answer really doesn't add anything at all to the site.
---
Now, having said all of that, I should add a huge **caveat**, which is the reason I haven't pushed further in this direction since my previous rant. The wisdom-of-the-crowd method, as implemented broadly by SE, does have its pitfalls, and the claims that it can unduly lead to censorship are real and cannot be ignored. In order for this moderation mechanism to work correctly, that danger needs to be offset by a suitable set of checks and balances, which can detect and correct deletions where the crowd gets carried away.
To my mind, what we really need here is (i) a list, accessible to 10k+ users, of all the posts that have been deleted (maybe only including 60 or 90 days' worth of data), with the ability to filter according to whether they were deleted by moderators / the roomba / the community, and (ii) a healthy population of users which regularly checks that list and then corrects any undue deletions by flagging or taking them to chat or meta as required.
However, the software tools aren't really up to scratch yet (the closest we have are [the 10k review tools](https://physics.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=delete&daterange=last30days), which haven't gotten any love from the dev team in a long time), and I'm not really sure that we're quite there yet in terms of a critical mass of actively-reviewing 10k+ users. It's a problem that can be solved with [some additional software features](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/301967/distinguish-automated-vs-mod-vs-community-deletions-in-the-10k-tools) (← nudge nudge vote vote) and some more time, so I think the best thing to do now is wait some more until that critical mass is there before doing a solid push for the software. |
376,064 | Can a new USB C dock like this for example:
[USB C dock with Power Delivery](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B07DC25FHC)
be connected and work with an old Macbook (or other USB A gen 2.0 or 3.0 computer) using an adapter like in the picture for example?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kcmt2.png)
If so:
Can I then connect a power adapter, e.g. "Apple 61w usb-c power adapter" or a regular smartphone USB C power adapter to the **PD port on the USB C dock** to deliver power to the dock so as the dock now becomes a **powered usb hub**? (I know it'll not charge the old Mac though. A powered dock/hub is required for more power-hungry devices like several external HDD.)
[I'm concerned that the new dock may damage the old USB A port, especially when the power adapter is connected to the PD port so as the dock tries to send power to the old USB A. For new USB C it detects when the port "wants" to get power and it'll also power the devices connected to the dock along with the computer. The intention with the old Macbook is to power only the dock and the connected peripherals]
Thanks! | 2019/11/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/376064",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/177232/"
] | The new dock will not damage your old USB A port. USB is backwards compatible, so connecting an USB 3 dock to a USB 2 (or older) system is not going to damage anything.
The old USB A plug does not support what is known as "Alternate Mode" in USB Type-C. Therefore you'll not be able to get the HDMI port on the dock working.
In theory, the USB related functionality such as the built-in 2 port USB hub, and the SD/TF-card reader will be able to function with your converter plug. However, if you connect it to a USB 2.0 computer, you will ofcourse not get USB 3.0 ports or speed on the dock.
The type-C PD connector on the dock will not enable you to power the old MacBook Pro via the USB A plug, as it does not support the same type of power delivery as USB type-C.
Whether or not the hub in the dock gets powered by the way of the type-C PD plugin depends on how exactly that Novoo hub is designed. I don't think it is likely to work, as a 61W USB-C power adapter is working at 20V (~3A) - while the USB hub inside the dock is usually powered at 5V. | Please do not use the adapters pictured for anything, they violate the USB specification and run the risk of shorting out your power supply. This could be quite dangerous and expensive.
Since your computer has a USB-A port then find a dock with an attached USB-A cable. If you need HDMI output from your dock then there's still options, but they will likely cost more than the USB-C docks because they have more electronics in them to make it work. This is because USB-C supports passing through video natively and USB-A does not. Even if you were successful in connecting the dock with the adapters you've shown, and not start a fire, the HDMI port will not work.
There is a reason the dock has a USB-C connector and not a USB-A connector. This being that the USB-C connector has more wires in it, those wires are needed to support the HDMI output. There are USB-A docks with HDMI output but they will cost at least twice as much because they have a graphics chip in them and this dock does not.
Don't do it. |
14,150,845 | I got 4 jobs:
1, 2, 3, 4.
2's condition: s(1);
3's condition: s(2);
4's condition: s(1) & s(2) & s(3)
all these jobs are **daily jobs**
the first day is ok.
the second day, the 4th job triggered **mutilple times**:
I think when 1 success, and the status of 2 and 3 are still 'success'(the last days status),
so the job 4 triggered,
then 2 success, triggered again...
so is there any solution for this? becase I only want these condition is based on the current day's result. | 2013/01/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/14150845",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1583460/"
] | This is already answered on stackoverflow.com
The solution depends on the version of Autosys you are using. If it is R11, the newest version, you can set look back dependencies on job\_a to only run if job\_c has ran to S within X hours.
Full answer here:
[Autosys dependency on mainframe job](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1780761/autosys-dependency-on-mainframe-job) | One solution is to include all the 4 jobs in a Box job, and whenever the Box jobs starts all the job will become active and will run only in the completion of all the dependencies. |
14,150,845 | I got 4 jobs:
1, 2, 3, 4.
2's condition: s(1);
3's condition: s(2);
4's condition: s(1) & s(2) & s(3)
all these jobs are **daily jobs**
the first day is ok.
the second day, the 4th job triggered **mutilple times**:
I think when 1 success, and the status of 2 and 3 are still 'success'(the last days status),
so the job 4 triggered,
then 2 success, triggered again...
so is there any solution for this? becase I only want these condition is based on the current day's result. | 2013/01/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/14150845",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1583460/"
] | This is already answered on stackoverflow.com
The solution depends on the version of Autosys you are using. If it is R11, the newest version, you can set look back dependencies on job\_a to only run if job\_c has ran to S within X hours.
Full answer here:
[Autosys dependency on mainframe job](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1780761/autosys-dependency-on-mainframe-job) | Put all 4 jobs in a box. Then, you can change the run condition of job4 to just the success of job3. |
14,150,845 | I got 4 jobs:
1, 2, 3, 4.
2's condition: s(1);
3's condition: s(2);
4's condition: s(1) & s(2) & s(3)
all these jobs are **daily jobs**
the first day is ok.
the second day, the 4th job triggered **mutilple times**:
I think when 1 success, and the status of 2 and 3 are still 'success'(the last days status),
so the job 4 triggered,
then 2 success, triggered again...
so is there any solution for this? becase I only want these condition is based on the current day's result. | 2013/01/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/14150845",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1583460/"
] | Yes if you are running latest version of Autosys you can set the success condition depending on time.
In your case you can set as:
4's condition: s(1, 23.00) & s(2, 23.00) & s(3, 23.00)
This condition checks if the jobs 1,2,3 were successful within last 23 hours.
Format is:
S(*jobname*, *hh*.*mm*) | One solution is to include all the 4 jobs in a Box job, and whenever the Box jobs starts all the job will become active and will run only in the completion of all the dependencies. |
14,150,845 | I got 4 jobs:
1, 2, 3, 4.
2's condition: s(1);
3's condition: s(2);
4's condition: s(1) & s(2) & s(3)
all these jobs are **daily jobs**
the first day is ok.
the second day, the 4th job triggered **mutilple times**:
I think when 1 success, and the status of 2 and 3 are still 'success'(the last days status),
so the job 4 triggered,
then 2 success, triggered again...
so is there any solution for this? becase I only want these condition is based on the current day's result. | 2013/01/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/14150845",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1583460/"
] | Yes if you are running latest version of Autosys you can set the success condition depending on time.
In your case you can set as:
4's condition: s(1, 23.00) & s(2, 23.00) & s(3, 23.00)
This condition checks if the jobs 1,2,3 were successful within last 23 hours.
Format is:
S(*jobname*, *hh*.*mm*) | Put all 4 jobs in a box. Then, you can change the run condition of job4 to just the success of job3. |
1,276,174 | I have the need from an asp.net web site to send out many SMS messages at once, and also poll a POP3 account for an incoming mail, and then SMS that out to many recipients, one at a time.
The way I am thinking of doing this is a windows service that would connect to my sql back-end to see if there are SMS messages to be sent out, like every 10-20 seconds or so. If so, get all the messages in a list, delete them from the table, and then proceed to send them out.
Same way with the pop account.
Any ideas on how to best provide this service without causing blocking in the asp.net web page when it is kicked off (e.g. messages added to sql server)?
Platform is windows server 2003 R2, sql 2008 standard, asp.net 3.5 SP1.
Thanks for your advice. | 2009/08/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1276174",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/43754/"
] | We have implemented similar scenarios using SQL Server service broker's Queueing mechanism. The idea is that every inserted SMS record is caught by a trigger which inserts a message containing the SmsID into the service broker Queue.
You then need a stored procedure which receives messages from the Queue. If there are no messages, your procedure will run until the next entry is inserted. That's OK, since it does not take up resources to listen to the Queue.
Next you'll need a Windows service who continuously (recursively) calls the STP, assembles the SMS and sends it.
The Advantage of the Service Broker Queue over a flag in a table is thread safety. This way you could have as many instances of your Service as you want w/o having to worry too much about concurrency issues.
You can find a nice Service Broker tutoial here: <http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3640771> | Instead of using an Sql Server for the queuing you could use MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing) for this.
MSMQ is quite easy to set up and once it is up and running it is more scalable than Sql Server.
So what you could do was to setup a new queue in MSMQ that would receive the messages you wanted to send. The message would normally be some sort of Message object that describe the message, the sender and the recipient.
Then you would either setup a service that would poll the queue at a regular interval or you could setup MSMQ to start a class of your choice each time a new Message was sent to the queue.
If you need a log of the messages you could have the service / sender object write to a log in sql server when the message was sent. |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | I have heard great things about [Spiceworks](http://www.spiceworks.com/). Its big features are:
* creating an inventory of PCs and their installed software - Windows, Mac, Linux
* creating an inventory of routers, printers, and anything IP based.
* help desk ticketing
* network monitoring
* nice reporting | Check with your PC manufacturer. Most of the business ones have their own free inventory software that you can use. Even if you just have one of these computers, grab the software to see if it meets your needs, and it might discover other PC brands too. (Hint, hint.)
* Dell has [OpenManage](http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/management/openmanage?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&redirect=1)
* HP has [System Insight Manager](http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html), which also discovers & manages your servers & printers
* IBM has [IBM Director](http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/director/)
The basic version is free, and then they resell software & services to sit atop these and provide more value. They do stuff like remote control, software distribution, yadda yadda yadda. Dell and HP's ones have web consoles with database back ends, which make it easier to roll your own reports too. |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | I have heard great things about [Spiceworks](http://www.spiceworks.com/). Its big features are:
* creating an inventory of PCs and their installed software - Windows, Mac, Linux
* creating an inventory of routers, printers, and anything IP based.
* help desk ticketing
* network monitoring
* nice reporting | Assuming you are on an Active Directory domain you can very quickly develop a Windows PowerShell script to do it all remotely via WMI queries. If I could post a link, I would link you to a copy of the script I wrote.
Apart from writing a script there is the Microsoft Server Center stuff |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | [CPU-z](http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) has a command line function that will write thing about the computer to a html file. That will give you memory and CPU type/speed. I believe the software [Everest](http://www.lavalys.com/news.php?article=57&selcat=PN&lang=en) can do the same for most of the other things you're looking for, except perhaps monitor type. | Assuming you are on an Active Directory domain you can very quickly develop a Windows PowerShell script to do it all remotely via WMI queries. If I could post a link, I would link you to a copy of the script I wrote.
Apart from writing a script there is the Microsoft Server Center stuff |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | There are lots of solutions (just [google "computer inventory"](http://www.google.com/search?q=computer%20inventory)), but the one I know of is [OCS Inventory NG](http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/), although depending on your needs you may want to look for something a bit more friendly, as this open source project is somewhat complex. | Assuming you are on an Active Directory domain you can very quickly develop a Windows PowerShell script to do it all remotely via WMI queries. If I could post a link, I would link you to a copy of the script I wrote.
Apart from writing a script there is the Microsoft Server Center stuff |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | Check with your PC manufacturer. Most of the business ones have their own free inventory software that you can use. Even if you just have one of these computers, grab the software to see if it meets your needs, and it might discover other PC brands too. (Hint, hint.)
* Dell has [OpenManage](http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/management/openmanage?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&redirect=1)
* HP has [System Insight Manager](http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html), which also discovers & manages your servers & printers
* IBM has [IBM Director](http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/director/)
The basic version is free, and then they resell software & services to sit atop these and provide more value. They do stuff like remote control, software distribution, yadda yadda yadda. Dell and HP's ones have web consoles with database back ends, which make it easier to roll your own reports too. | Our tool is Admin Arsenal. It does require your environment to be managed via Active Directory. www.AdminArsenal.com |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | I have heard great things about [Spiceworks](http://www.spiceworks.com/). Its big features are:
* creating an inventory of PCs and their installed software - Windows, Mac, Linux
* creating an inventory of routers, printers, and anything IP based.
* help desk ticketing
* network monitoring
* nice reporting | Our tool is Admin Arsenal. It does require your environment to be managed via Active Directory. www.AdminArsenal.com |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | There are lots of solutions (just [google "computer inventory"](http://www.google.com/search?q=computer%20inventory)), but the one I know of is [OCS Inventory NG](http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/), although depending on your needs you may want to look for something a bit more friendly, as this open source project is somewhat complex. | Check with your PC manufacturer. Most of the business ones have their own free inventory software that you can use. Even if you just have one of these computers, grab the software to see if it meets your needs, and it might discover other PC brands too. (Hint, hint.)
* Dell has [OpenManage](http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/management/openmanage?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&redirect=1)
* HP has [System Insight Manager](http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html), which also discovers & manages your servers & printers
* IBM has [IBM Director](http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/director/)
The basic version is free, and then they resell software & services to sit atop these and provide more value. They do stuff like remote control, software distribution, yadda yadda yadda. Dell and HP's ones have web consoles with database back ends, which make it easier to roll your own reports too. |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | I have heard great things about [Spiceworks](http://www.spiceworks.com/). Its big features are:
* creating an inventory of PCs and their installed software - Windows, Mac, Linux
* creating an inventory of routers, printers, and anything IP based.
* help desk ticketing
* network monitoring
* nice reporting | [CPU-z](http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) has a command line function that will write thing about the computer to a html file. That will give you memory and CPU type/speed. I believe the software [Everest](http://www.lavalys.com/news.php?article=57&selcat=PN&lang=en) can do the same for most of the other things you're looking for, except perhaps monitor type. |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | There are lots of solutions (just [google "computer inventory"](http://www.google.com/search?q=computer%20inventory)), but the one I know of is [OCS Inventory NG](http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/), although depending on your needs you may want to look for something a bit more friendly, as this open source project is somewhat complex. | [CPU-z](http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) has a command line function that will write thing about the computer to a html file. That will give you memory and CPU type/speed. I believe the software [Everest](http://www.lavalys.com/news.php?article=57&selcat=PN&lang=en) can do the same for most of the other things you're looking for, except perhaps monitor type. |
1,760 | For someone looking after a small 50 Windows PC network (Mainly XP - some Vista), are there any tools that can do an automatic inventory of the network e.g.
* OS
* Memory size
* Hard drive type and size
* Serial numbers
* Monitor type
etc.
At the moment, someone has to go from PC to PC writing all this stuff down. | 2009/04/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1760",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1072/"
] | Assuming you are on an Active Directory domain you can very quickly develop a Windows PowerShell script to do it all remotely via WMI queries. If I could post a link, I would link you to a copy of the script I wrote.
Apart from writing a script there is the Microsoft Server Center stuff | Our tool is Admin Arsenal. It does require your environment to be managed via Active Directory. www.AdminArsenal.com |
58,632 | I was wondering how many official "*Republics*" there are in the *Star Wars* universe?
One, two, three? I know about the **Old Republic** and the **New Republic** but I was wondering if there are any more.
Can the answerer please use the Star Wars movies or *Thrawn trilogy* (I am reading the first book now) as reference because only some of my Star Wars knowledge is on the Expanded Universe.
Note: to limit confusion in answers please show your estimated time periods for each republic. | 2014/06/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58632",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/24140/"
] | If you only use movies or Thrawn Trilogy, there were only two:
* Old [Galactic Republic](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Republic) (~25,000 years BBY - 19BBY)
* [The New Republic](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/New_Republic) (post-Palpatine) (4ABY-27 ABY, though one may quibble that post-28ABY Alliance should be counted)
Thrawn trilogy didn't introduce any new ones. It mentioned several worlds but none of them held an official title of Republic.
However, Later EU had other smaller republics (Ylesian Republic, Altirian Republic, Moralan republic). | Generally speaking, DVK's separation into the New and Old Republic are correct. However, one could also argue that there were *three* Republics. Ruusan Reformations carried out after the New Sith Wars (Darth Bane era) ushered in a new "phase" to what we call the Old Republic. In fact, Palpatine refers to it in Attack of the Clones when he says "I will not let this Republic which as stood for a thousand years be split in two!" The EU has established that the Republic and Jedi Order are both around 25000 years old, but then why wouldn't Palpatine have just said that? |
58,632 | I was wondering how many official "*Republics*" there are in the *Star Wars* universe?
One, two, three? I know about the **Old Republic** and the **New Republic** but I was wondering if there are any more.
Can the answerer please use the Star Wars movies or *Thrawn trilogy* (I am reading the first book now) as reference because only some of my Star Wars knowledge is on the Expanded Universe.
Note: to limit confusion in answers please show your estimated time periods for each republic. | 2014/06/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58632",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/24140/"
] | If you only use movies or Thrawn Trilogy, there were only two:
* Old [Galactic Republic](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Republic) (~25,000 years BBY - 19BBY)
* [The New Republic](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/New_Republic) (post-Palpatine) (4ABY-27 ABY, though one may quibble that post-28ABY Alliance should be counted)
Thrawn trilogy didn't introduce any new ones. It mentioned several worlds but none of them held an official title of Republic.
However, Later EU had other smaller republics (Ylesian Republic, Altirian Republic, Moralan republic). | For comprehension, I rather see it as Wikipedia does. "The Old Republic" ~25000 BBY, that formed into the "Galactic Republic" in 1032 BBY, [19BBY-4ABY was the Empires rise] and then the "New Republic" as it was reorganised in 4BBY and then destroyed again in 34BBY in The Force Awakens.
So, two. But people often speak of the Old Republic and mean the "Galactic Republic" phase. At least as far as I understood! |
58,632 | I was wondering how many official "*Republics*" there are in the *Star Wars* universe?
One, two, three? I know about the **Old Republic** and the **New Republic** but I was wondering if there are any more.
Can the answerer please use the Star Wars movies or *Thrawn trilogy* (I am reading the first book now) as reference because only some of my Star Wars knowledge is on the Expanded Universe.
Note: to limit confusion in answers please show your estimated time periods for each republic. | 2014/06/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58632",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/24140/"
] | Generally speaking, DVK's separation into the New and Old Republic are correct. However, one could also argue that there were *three* Republics. Ruusan Reformations carried out after the New Sith Wars (Darth Bane era) ushered in a new "phase" to what we call the Old Republic. In fact, Palpatine refers to it in Attack of the Clones when he says "I will not let this Republic which as stood for a thousand years be split in two!" The EU has established that the Republic and Jedi Order are both around 25000 years old, but then why wouldn't Palpatine have just said that? | For comprehension, I rather see it as Wikipedia does. "The Old Republic" ~25000 BBY, that formed into the "Galactic Republic" in 1032 BBY, [19BBY-4ABY was the Empires rise] and then the "New Republic" as it was reorganised in 4BBY and then destroyed again in 34BBY in The Force Awakens.
So, two. But people often speak of the Old Republic and mean the "Galactic Republic" phase. At least as far as I understood! |
94,095 | I just ordered a cheap Comodo PositiveSSL Certificate via a UK reseller, and I was rather surprised to find that the following files were emailed to me automatically, in a zip file:
* Root CA Certificate - AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt
* Intermediate CA Certificate - COMODORSAAddTrustCA.crt
* Intermediate CA Certificate - COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt
* Your PositiveSSL Certificate - domain\_name.crt
Additionally the cert itself (the last file) is added in text form at the end of the email.
It's for a site that does not need a lot of security - it does not handle credit cards or other highly confidential information. I set up a strong passphrase on the associated private key.
Am I right in assuming this cert is useless without the private key and passphrase? Or, given that email can be considered compromised, would an attacker wishing to decrypt my site traffic be at an advantage if they have these files?
I am minded to re-generate the certificate immediately, but I worry that Comodo will just "helpfully" send me a new zip file. I would much rather download all these files from the reseller's SSL website. | 2015/07/16 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/94095",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/81142/"
] | You are right assuming the certificate is useless without the private key, so sending it in the mail is no big security risk and is common practice actually. The certificate is supposed to be public, connecting to your website would also provide me with your certificate, so no need to hack your email there.
**edit**
When starting the connection the server sends the certificate which incorporates the public key. The client will generate a (symmetric) session key used for encrypting the rest of the communication and encrypt this with the public key. Now only the server with the corresponding private key can decrypt this session key and use it to decrypt and encrypt the following data.
This way it doesn't matter if someone else has your certificate, as long as they don't have the private key belonging to it, they won't be able to decrypt the session key and won't be able to impersonate your server. | Yes, what you are getting in the zip file is exactly what every visitor to your site would get every time they start a TLS session - the public keys with certifying information. The private key is the only thing that should be kept hidden from unauthorized access. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | Let me suggest a totally different approach:
Why not work **with** the cool conditions instead of against?
* You could let the dough proof for a long time, e.g. overnight in the fridge. This allows for a lot less yeast and hence a less *yeasty* taste, which is usually desired. Also, more complex flavors develop during long proofing times. (There is a reason french baguette may wait for two days before baking.) For a start, aim for about 5% yeast1 and use cool instead of lukewarm liquid.
You might have to adjust your attitude, because this requires some planning ahead, but gives you more degrees of freedom on the other hand: Fresh bread / cake in the morning without having to get up before dawn and more tolerance with regard to proofing / timing - the dough can handle an extra hour or two in the fridge easily. (Especially nice if you have a baby or a crazy schedule...)
* You could also dump the dough in cold water and proof it there. As crazy as it sounds, it works. See more [here](https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/52124/what-are-the-advantages-of-bathed-bread/52138%2352138).
If you'd rather stick with warm conditions, I'd aim for [30°C](https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/yeast_temp.html) for optimum (=quickest) activity. Yeast starts to die at about 45°C, completely dead at 55°C. Also, warmer dough tends to proof unevenly and have a "flat" taste (can't find a better word).
---
1 fresh yeast, percentage based on flour weight.
Adjust dry yeast accordingly: fresh to dry conversion rate is 1:3, so use 2% dry yeast. | A commonly quoted temperature to never exceed with warm ingredients or proofing environments is 43°C. If using an oven, cover your dough container, check oven with a thermometer beforehand, and be aware of radiated heat effects from the elements themselves. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | Rise from chilled @ 32C and keep rising until around 80-85% of desired height has been achieved.
Return back to the chiller, it will continue to rise for a short time, keep in the chiller until dough is firm again and stable enough to take the weight of toppings. | I've done this a few times, kinda - we have a baking stone, and I'll preheat that, make sure it's cool enough to touch, and set the dough on the warmed stone.
It works pretty well to give a warm environment, the warmth lasts because the closed oven contains heat, and there's little to no risk of overheating the yeast. I have both gone with regular preheating for ~5min, and the lowest-temperature-preheating for a bit longer, the former is quicker to heat but more likely to overshoot (or needing time to even the heat out), the latter slower and more controlled.
Another *potential* alternative, depending on your oven, might be to turn the oven on (bake setting, usually) but keep the temperature set to zero. In our oven, that turns on the light, the machinery is humming, and the oven gets kinda warm - not hot, but just warm, preparing to heat but not doing so.
I've used this to dehydrate things before, because I can leave it going for quite some time without needing to re-check or re-warm. It wouldn't work for me with bread dough, since with aforementioned baking stone it would take longer to warm up than it would for the dough to actually rise (since especially the bottom of the dough, against the stone, will rise very differently from the top) . But if you don't have a baking stone it may work very well for you. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | Let me suggest a totally different approach:
Why not work **with** the cool conditions instead of against?
* You could let the dough proof for a long time, e.g. overnight in the fridge. This allows for a lot less yeast and hence a less *yeasty* taste, which is usually desired. Also, more complex flavors develop during long proofing times. (There is a reason french baguette may wait for two days before baking.) For a start, aim for about 5% yeast1 and use cool instead of lukewarm liquid.
You might have to adjust your attitude, because this requires some planning ahead, but gives you more degrees of freedom on the other hand: Fresh bread / cake in the morning without having to get up before dawn and more tolerance with regard to proofing / timing - the dough can handle an extra hour or two in the fridge easily. (Especially nice if you have a baby or a crazy schedule...)
* You could also dump the dough in cold water and proof it there. As crazy as it sounds, it works. See more [here](https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/52124/what-are-the-advantages-of-bathed-bread/52138%2352138).
If you'd rather stick with warm conditions, I'd aim for [30°C](https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/yeast_temp.html) for optimum (=quickest) activity. Yeast starts to die at about 45°C, completely dead at 55°C. Also, warmer dough tends to proof unevenly and have a "flat" taste (can't find a better word).
---
1 fresh yeast, percentage based on flour weight.
Adjust dry yeast accordingly: fresh to dry conversion rate is 1:3, so use 2% dry yeast. | Rise from chilled @ 32C and keep rising until around 80-85% of desired height has been achieved.
Return back to the chiller, it will continue to rise for a short time, keep in the chiller until dough is firm again and stable enough to take the weight of toppings. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | Let me suggest a totally different approach:
Why not work **with** the cool conditions instead of against?
* You could let the dough proof for a long time, e.g. overnight in the fridge. This allows for a lot less yeast and hence a less *yeasty* taste, which is usually desired. Also, more complex flavors develop during long proofing times. (There is a reason french baguette may wait for two days before baking.) For a start, aim for about 5% yeast1 and use cool instead of lukewarm liquid.
You might have to adjust your attitude, because this requires some planning ahead, but gives you more degrees of freedom on the other hand: Fresh bread / cake in the morning without having to get up before dawn and more tolerance with regard to proofing / timing - the dough can handle an extra hour or two in the fridge easily. (Especially nice if you have a baby or a crazy schedule...)
* You could also dump the dough in cold water and proof it there. As crazy as it sounds, it works. See more [here](https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/52124/what-are-the-advantages-of-bathed-bread/52138%2352138).
If you'd rather stick with warm conditions, I'd aim for [30°C](https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/yeast_temp.html) for optimum (=quickest) activity. Yeast starts to die at about 45°C, completely dead at 55°C. Also, warmer dough tends to proof unevenly and have a "flat" taste (can't find a better word).
---
1 fresh yeast, percentage based on flour weight.
Adjust dry yeast accordingly: fresh to dry conversion rate is 1:3, so use 2% dry yeast. | I've done this a few times, kinda - we have a baking stone, and I'll preheat that, make sure it's cool enough to touch, and set the dough on the warmed stone.
It works pretty well to give a warm environment, the warmth lasts because the closed oven contains heat, and there's little to no risk of overheating the yeast. I have both gone with regular preheating for ~5min, and the lowest-temperature-preheating for a bit longer, the former is quicker to heat but more likely to overshoot (or needing time to even the heat out), the latter slower and more controlled.
Another *potential* alternative, depending on your oven, might be to turn the oven on (bake setting, usually) but keep the temperature set to zero. In our oven, that turns on the light, the machinery is humming, and the oven gets kinda warm - not hot, but just warm, preparing to heat but not doing so.
I've used this to dehydrate things before, because I can leave it going for quite some time without needing to re-check or re-warm. It wouldn't work for me with bread dough, since with aforementioned baking stone it would take longer to warm up than it would for the dough to actually rise (since especially the bottom of the dough, against the stone, will rise very differently from the top) . But if you don't have a baking stone it may work very well for you. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | 50C (122F) would be a very high proofing temperature. The thermal death point of yeast is 55C, and you'll definitely hit a point of diminishing returns if you get too hot (most likely, you will have really rapid proofing on the outside of the loaf and an underproofed "core").
I would recommend setting your oven to the lowest temperature, and then once it feels perceptibly warm, turn it off and use it to proof. If you're doing a long proof, you can turn it back on for a minute or two every so often, but I wouldn't ever let it actually get up to temperature. | I've done this a few times, kinda - we have a baking stone, and I'll preheat that, make sure it's cool enough to touch, and set the dough on the warmed stone.
It works pretty well to give a warm environment, the warmth lasts because the closed oven contains heat, and there's little to no risk of overheating the yeast. I have both gone with regular preheating for ~5min, and the lowest-temperature-preheating for a bit longer, the former is quicker to heat but more likely to overshoot (or needing time to even the heat out), the latter slower and more controlled.
Another *potential* alternative, depending on your oven, might be to turn the oven on (bake setting, usually) but keep the temperature set to zero. In our oven, that turns on the light, the machinery is humming, and the oven gets kinda warm - not hot, but just warm, preparing to heat but not doing so.
I've used this to dehydrate things before, because I can leave it going for quite some time without needing to re-check or re-warm. It wouldn't work for me with bread dough, since with aforementioned baking stone it would take longer to warm up than it would for the dough to actually rise (since especially the bottom of the dough, against the stone, will rise very differently from the top) . But if you don't have a baking stone it may work very well for you. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | In the winter, I usually get fine results proofing in a bowl with a second bowl inverted on top of it, and then putting the whole thing in the oven, turned off, and just the light on. The light bulb usually produces enough heat to keep the inside of my oven at about 90˚F (32˚C?), and that gives me a good rise. | I use the pull-out warming tray on my oven set on its lowest temperature. I've never actually checked the temperature, but its rather cool. I can easily touch the bottom of the drawer without any discomfort. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | Let me suggest a totally different approach:
Why not work **with** the cool conditions instead of against?
* You could let the dough proof for a long time, e.g. overnight in the fridge. This allows for a lot less yeast and hence a less *yeasty* taste, which is usually desired. Also, more complex flavors develop during long proofing times. (There is a reason french baguette may wait for two days before baking.) For a start, aim for about 5% yeast1 and use cool instead of lukewarm liquid.
You might have to adjust your attitude, because this requires some planning ahead, but gives you more degrees of freedom on the other hand: Fresh bread / cake in the morning without having to get up before dawn and more tolerance with regard to proofing / timing - the dough can handle an extra hour or two in the fridge easily. (Especially nice if you have a baby or a crazy schedule...)
* You could also dump the dough in cold water and proof it there. As crazy as it sounds, it works. See more [here](https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/52124/what-are-the-advantages-of-bathed-bread/52138%2352138).
If you'd rather stick with warm conditions, I'd aim for [30°C](https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/yeast_temp.html) for optimum (=quickest) activity. Yeast starts to die at about 45°C, completely dead at 55°C. Also, warmer dough tends to proof unevenly and have a "flat" taste (can't find a better word).
---
1 fresh yeast, percentage based on flour weight.
Adjust dry yeast accordingly: fresh to dry conversion rate is 1:3, so use 2% dry yeast. | I use the pull-out warming tray on my oven set on its lowest temperature. I've never actually checked the temperature, but its rather cool. I can easily touch the bottom of the drawer without any discomfort. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | Rise from chilled @ 32C and keep rising until around 80-85% of desired height has been achieved.
Return back to the chiller, it will continue to rise for a short time, keep in the chiller until dough is firm again and stable enough to take the weight of toppings. | I use the pull-out warming tray on my oven set on its lowest temperature. I've never actually checked the temperature, but its rather cool. I can easily touch the bottom of the drawer without any discomfort. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | 50C (122F) would be a very high proofing temperature. The thermal death point of yeast is 55C, and you'll definitely hit a point of diminishing returns if you get too hot (most likely, you will have really rapid proofing on the outside of the loaf and an underproofed "core").
I would recommend setting your oven to the lowest temperature, and then once it feels perceptibly warm, turn it off and use it to proof. If you're doing a long proof, you can turn it back on for a minute or two every so often, but I wouldn't ever let it actually get up to temperature. | Rise from chilled @ 32C and keep rising until around 80-85% of desired height has been achieved.
Return back to the chiller, it will continue to rise for a short time, keep in the chiller until dough is firm again and stable enough to take the weight of toppings. |
53,698 | During wintertime it is often cold enough in my apartment that proofing takes much longer than in summer. I'd like to use my oven to create a warmer environment, in which the dough would rise faster. I can go 30-50 degrees celsius, the question is what temperature is safe and at what temperature will I actually start baking the dough. Is 50 degrees celsius still ok or not? | 2015/01/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/53698",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2217/"
] | A commonly quoted temperature to never exceed with warm ingredients or proofing environments is 43°C. If using an oven, cover your dough container, check oven with a thermometer beforehand, and be aware of radiated heat effects from the elements themselves. | I use the pull-out warming tray on my oven set on its lowest temperature. I've never actually checked the temperature, but its rather cool. I can easily touch the bottom of the drawer without any discomfort. |
83 | I only use my table saw and circular saw, both with ripping blades, a few times a year. How can I tell when it's time to replace them?
I imagine I'm not going to lose them to wear, but then again, maybe I've hit an occasional nail. I don't know whether storage and rust cause degradation or if any rust is superficial and gets knocked off when I use them again. | 2015/03/17 | [
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/questions/83",
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com",
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/users/94/"
] | Your blade will start to show signs of dullness. These include:
* Binding
* Excessive force required to advance cut
* Excessive tearing/chipout
* Burning the wood
It helps if you can remember the "feel" of cutting with a sharp blade to help recognize these signs. One of them alone may be a result of improper technique. But when multiple signs stack up, you can be more sure that it's time to switch out blades. | Sometimes when people believe their saw is dull, what it really needs is a cleaning. The resins from the wood build up in the teeth over time and gum up the cutting edge. Soaking the blade in simple green or another cleaner of choice and then scrubbing the teeth with an old toothbrush can prolong cutting life. |
16,780,149 | I am looking for a way to convert [Markdown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) to HTML and back, more out of interest than real need. I am aware of the loss of information on such a conversion.
I hope for an [html2text.pl](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?html2text.pl) like conversion. If there is no such utility in Perl I would try to take this script as a base for a CPAN module. | 2013/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16780149",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/367180/"
] | [HTML::WikiConverter::Markdown](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML%3a%3aWikiConverter%3a%3aMarkdown) seems up to the task. | There you go: [Pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html) can convert almost anything to anything. Sorry, no perl though. |
829 | I am exploring the world of self-made pasta at the moment.
My first experiments, doing everything entirely by hand, show that if you want to do this on a frequent basis and not just as a one-time thing, you need *tools*.
I can see a number of pasta making tools on the market: Sieves, rolling mechanisms of various complexity, etc. A lot of them look like crap that's going to break after the third use, and a lot exceed my budget.
I am therefore tempted to ask a generic "what tools and instruments are there for making Pasta?" question and mark it Community Wiki, in the hopes of gathering a lot of input and discovering something simple and affordable I've not yet thought of.
Will this work?
Any thoughts?
>
> **Update**: I've posted the question [here](https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/7833/tools-for-making-pasta).
>
>
> | 2010/10/04 | [
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/829",
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2693/"
] | I think that would be fine, as long as you make it CW (since there won't be a "correct" answer). Generic equipment discussion is definitely on topic. What might get off topic is discussion of a particular make / model of a piece of equipment. So discussion of Blenders is ok, but Blend-tec 1000 v3 would be off topic. Keep that in mind and you should be fine (doesn't sound like your question will tread that territory anyway). | Even though you want to stay in the generic field, make sure to indicate *what you are expecting from the piece of equipment*; what is essential, and what is not essential. It will provide you with a better compendium that is specific to your answer while laying out what makes the different pieces valuable.
Even after you have bought your machine, people who may be cruising cooking.SE since they're in the market for the same will understand better what criteria they might consider, what factors into the cost, and will learn more about the different features. |
829 | I am exploring the world of self-made pasta at the moment.
My first experiments, doing everything entirely by hand, show that if you want to do this on a frequent basis and not just as a one-time thing, you need *tools*.
I can see a number of pasta making tools on the market: Sieves, rolling mechanisms of various complexity, etc. A lot of them look like crap that's going to break after the third use, and a lot exceed my budget.
I am therefore tempted to ask a generic "what tools and instruments are there for making Pasta?" question and mark it Community Wiki, in the hopes of gathering a lot of input and discovering something simple and affordable I've not yet thought of.
Will this work?
Any thoughts?
>
> **Update**: I've posted the question [here](https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/7833/tools-for-making-pasta).
>
>
> | 2010/10/04 | [
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/829",
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2693/"
] | Since your question is intended to gather a *list* of relevant answers, and you don't expect one answer to be the most applicable, it should be a [community wiki](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts).
Whether a subjective question is appropriate for the site is somewhat, well... subjective. The "guidelines" at the bottom of this blog post provides some criteria to help:
[**Good Subjective, Bad Subjective**](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/) | Even though you want to stay in the generic field, make sure to indicate *what you are expecting from the piece of equipment*; what is essential, and what is not essential. It will provide you with a better compendium that is specific to your answer while laying out what makes the different pieces valuable.
Even after you have bought your machine, people who may be cruising cooking.SE since they're in the market for the same will understand better what criteria they might consider, what factors into the cost, and will learn more about the different features. |
207,468 | I am stuck with placing Label on the Grid lines. Below is the data grid on the map. I created the grid using data driven pages.
After I turned on the Label, the labelling appeared inside the grid. I want it to be placed on the line itself with a little buffer around it. I have explored the placement properties of the grid layer and it looks as if there is no option there[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f0B6B.jpg)
I wish I could placed the Labeling on the gridLines/borders instead of inside the grid. | 2016/08/18 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/207468",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/64017/"
] | The ["Polygonize"](https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorgeometry.html#polygonize) tool from the Processing toolbox still works fine for me on simple lines:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nQzi9.png)
It is however necessary that the lines intersect, or share common vertices. And lines should have no self-intersection.
You might need to snap the corner vertices to get it working. I usually set the snapping tolerance to 10 pixels to the vertex. | If there are no holes, I would create a scratch layer with a single polygon big enough to cover your whole area. Then I would intersect it with your lines-to-polygons result and split it further as necessary. |
207,468 | I am stuck with placing Label on the Grid lines. Below is the data grid on the map. I created the grid using data driven pages.
After I turned on the Label, the labelling appeared inside the grid. I want it to be placed on the line itself with a little buffer around it. I have explored the placement properties of the grid layer and it looks as if there is no option there[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f0B6B.jpg)
I wish I could placed the Labeling on the gridLines/borders instead of inside the grid. | 2016/08/18 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/207468",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/64017/"
] | The ["Polygonize"](https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorgeometry.html#polygonize) tool from the Processing toolbox still works fine for me on simple lines:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nQzi9.png)
It is however necessary that the lines intersect, or share common vertices. And lines should have no self-intersection.
You might need to snap the corner vertices to get it working. I usually set the snapping tolerance to 10 pixels to the vertex. | Looking at your image I would assume that each line does not fully encompass an area, the lines are just acting as fences and not reconnecting back at the beginning. Your polygons are being created from the ends of the lines so the 'lines to polygons' tool is working fine, its the data thats the issue.
I'm afraid the only you can do that I can think of is to digitise a new layer of polygons. Thankfully QGIS has made that really easy with the trace digitising tool (a magnet icon) which is available in 2.14 |
9,221,970 | I want to use embedded HSQLDB file-based tables in my production system, but I heard that it had some issues with data corruption before. So my question is - are new versions of it (2.2.8) vulnerable to data corruption issues, for example when the machine lost power or java process was killed? And are there some configuration options that would help to avoid it? | 2012/02/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9221970",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/486057/"
] | HSQLDB is designed to recover the database after a machine or java process crash.
Over the years, persistence has been improved. Currently there is no known issue. With the default settings, in case of a crash, you may lose only the changes made to the database in the last half second. And you can reduce this to zero if you wish.
In any case it is a good idea to use the built-in database backup features for added safety. HSQLDB relies on the JVM fsync() and other methods which interact with the OS. These are generally reliable, but might show a glitch at some point. | Yes, hsqldb **may** corrupt data even without suddenly dying process. Be prepared to build an automatic backup/recovery system and sometimes tools to fix corrupted data.
My experiences of HSQL upsies:
* Non unique values in a column set as unique. (hsql 1.8).
* Corrupted all non-ascii characters in all varchar columns (hsql 2. something if memory serves).
* Corrupted all values in all timestamp columns. (latests hsql)
That said, **it is quite nice database most of the time**. I you are babysitting just one or two instances, you are not very likely to encounter corruption issues. |
8,615 | OK i have created a content type. But what will be the url that will show the list of all posts in specific content type?
Basically I want to make a link or a menu item that will show all posts in specific content type but off course paginated. | 2011/08/05 | [
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/8615",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/users/1403/"
] | You will have to use the [Views](http://drupal.org/project/views) module to create list filtering for a specific content type.
The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content (nodes in Views 1, almost anything in Views 2) are presented. Traditionally, Drupal has hard-coded most of this, particularly in how taxonomy and tracker lists are formatted.
This tool is essentially a smart query builder that, given enough information, can build the proper query, execute it, and display the results. It has four modes, plus a special mode, and provides an impressive amount of functionality from these modes.
Among other things, Views can be used to generate reports, create summaries, and display collections of images and other content.
You need Views if:
1. You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort
it differently.
2. You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you want to
sort it differently; for example, alphabetically.
3. You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a certain
type.
4. You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display
articles the way you like.
Views can do a lot more than that, but those are some of the obvious uses of Views.
Here is a series of [awesome tutorials on Views](http://nodeone.se/blogg/learn-views-with-nodeone-part-1-overview) (**I am not affiliated with the author(s)**) | If you are referring to a URL that every user with permission to view published nodes would see, then a Drupal fresh installation doesn't have such a URL. There is a URL that only users with the permission to administer nodes can see, and that shows the list of all the nodes, which can then be filtered by content type and other criteria.
For a URL that is accessible to anybody, you need to use a third-party module, such as Views, as Nigel already reported. Using [Views Bulk Operations (VBO)](http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations), you can create a page that is very similar to the page to administer content, but that is visible to any user having less restrictive permissions. Being a view, it can be customized as every view; in particular, the filter criteria are the usual exposed filters used by Views.
 |
53,092,651 | I have a backend system developed with C# .NET 4.0. I wish to embed the light weight web server Kestrel on it. Has anyone done so? or can point me to a direction how to do such?
Cheers! | 2018/10/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/53092651",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1034912/"
] | [**KestrelHttpServer** : "A cross platform web server for ASP.NET ***Core***."](https://github.com/aspnet/KestrelHttpServer). (emphasis added by me).
So that's no, and no. | I did it, but of course only by opening Kestrel which serves a .net core application as a background process. The .Net Framework app communicates with the .net core app via inter-process communication over a websocket on localhost. |
25,258 | Is it possible to reconstruct a grid of polygones or polylines from the centroids?
I am looking for a arcGIS tool or script that will allow me to reconstruct a grid of polygons or polylines from their centroids.
 | 2012/05/11 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/25258",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/5114/"
] | apparently there is a tool that allows you to do that in mapinfo
<http://www.kxcad.net/mapinfo/mapinfo_professional/mapinfow-37-10.html> | calculating the shortest distance , there is a logic behind it.
When we ask the bing or google service to give a shortest distance betwen point A to point B , it gives us the route which is drivable , if there a one way from B to A which is short , it wont give that route.
So how you have to proceed it
1. Calculate the route and distance from Point A to B
2. Calculate the route and distance from Point B to A.
take the Route which has shortest distance. |
8,169 | I remember reading a book in the 70s, so it could be YA. It is set on modern-day Earth, and the story is about a boy. His mother is sick (maybe cancer?) and he is socially awkward, so he doesn't have much self-esteem. He stumbles upon an old building (maybe a barn?) and somehow meets a person/creature who tells him that the King of Light (or maybe the King of Sun) and the Queen of Dark (or maybe the Queen of Moon?) have been at war with each other for a long time, each wanting to take over. He is told he has been given the choice over who will rule.
The boy thinks the Queen is beautiful, so he chooses her. Everything feels calm, and people who were mean to him are no longer mean. However, as he goes about his day, he sees that people become more and more sad, depressed, and lethargic. His mother in particular becomes sullen and morose. No one has any energy. Frantic, he runs back to the space and says that he wants to make a different choice...
So, the boy chooses Light. This time as he goes about his day, he sees his mother having more energy to work around the house, people are accomplishing things, etc. After a while, however, he sees that people are becoming too angry and too rough. There is too much energy and people start fighting.
He goes back to the place, frightened and confused. He says that both choices brought negative reactions, so both choices were wrong. If both choices were wrong, how could he choose?
The person/creature tells him that there is a right choice. The boy is confused. The person/creature tells him that he had another choice. He could choose to do nothing.
And that is what he chooses.
So, balance is restored and the war between Light and Dark continue. The moral is something like “balance is necessary and one must fight to keep that balance.”
I've always wanted to find the book again, but I cannot remember a title nor an author. If anyone knows what book this is, I will be eternally grateful. | 2011/12/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8169",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3929/"
] | * If you mean, the luckiest, TVTropes has this to say:
>
> Whenever a poker game is shown in Star Trek: The Next Generation, you can bet that Riker will always turn out with a possible straight that he's bluffing about. Whether or not the bluff is called, though, depends on which would be more dramatically convenient.
>
>
>
* If you mean, the best player, Riker again.
[This article](http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/05/poker-pop-culture-star-trek-the-next-generation-6576.htm) quotes Picard from "The Price" episode:
>
> “Commander Riker conducts master classes in poker,” explains Picard.
>
>
>
As a nice illustration, see the game in "All Good Things...", after which Worf asks of Riker:
>
> “Four hands in a row, how does he do it?”
>
>
>
* If you mean can theoretically be the best player if he used 100% his full abilities, it would possibly be LaForge.
In “Ethics”, he admits to being capable of reading everyone's cards with his "Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement" (VISOR), though he claims he never actually uses that ability in their competitive games. | Data seems the most able to fill that role given that he is shown to clean house with the players in "Time's Arrow". He mentions at some point during the series that he initially memorized virtually every book on the subject but found that the actual game was different than the mere "book" knowledge. Given that he can simulate games in his head with actual data culled from past games as well as being able to precisely recall each player's appearance or gestures at any given moment and weight that against the numerical performance of that player and the game as a whole. |
8,169 | I remember reading a book in the 70s, so it could be YA. It is set on modern-day Earth, and the story is about a boy. His mother is sick (maybe cancer?) and he is socially awkward, so he doesn't have much self-esteem. He stumbles upon an old building (maybe a barn?) and somehow meets a person/creature who tells him that the King of Light (or maybe the King of Sun) and the Queen of Dark (or maybe the Queen of Moon?) have been at war with each other for a long time, each wanting to take over. He is told he has been given the choice over who will rule.
The boy thinks the Queen is beautiful, so he chooses her. Everything feels calm, and people who were mean to him are no longer mean. However, as he goes about his day, he sees that people become more and more sad, depressed, and lethargic. His mother in particular becomes sullen and morose. No one has any energy. Frantic, he runs back to the space and says that he wants to make a different choice...
So, the boy chooses Light. This time as he goes about his day, he sees his mother having more energy to work around the house, people are accomplishing things, etc. After a while, however, he sees that people are becoming too angry and too rough. There is too much energy and people start fighting.
He goes back to the place, frightened and confused. He says that both choices brought negative reactions, so both choices were wrong. If both choices were wrong, how could he choose?
The person/creature tells him that there is a right choice. The boy is confused. The person/creature tells him that he had another choice. He could choose to do nothing.
And that is what he chooses.
So, balance is restored and the war between Light and Dark continue. The moral is something like “balance is necessary and one must fight to keep that balance.”
I've always wanted to find the book again, but I cannot remember a title nor an author. If anyone knows what book this is, I will be eternally grateful. | 2011/12/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8169",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3929/"
] | Riker, Geordi, Troi, and Data all have bonuses going for them:
* Riker is great at bluffing, and has rather good luck
* Geordi could see through the back of the cards
* Troi is an empath, and can generally tell when someone is bluffing
* Data has memorized an immense number of games and can easily calculate probabilities
But they also tend to check and balance each other in various ways:
* Troi can't read Data
* Data starts out unable to tell if anyone's bluffing, but gets better as the series goes on
* They usually play with cards that have a special backing that Geordi can't see through (said to Worf after a game once)
* Troi and Riker were once quite close, and still retain the empathic link - she can almost certainly tell when he is bluffing, even if she has some difficulty with the others | Data seems the most able to fill that role given that he is shown to clean house with the players in "Time's Arrow". He mentions at some point during the series that he initially memorized virtually every book on the subject but found that the actual game was different than the mere "book" knowledge. Given that he can simulate games in his head with actual data culled from past games as well as being able to precisely recall each player's appearance or gestures at any given moment and weight that against the numerical performance of that player and the game as a whole. |
8,169 | I remember reading a book in the 70s, so it could be YA. It is set on modern-day Earth, and the story is about a boy. His mother is sick (maybe cancer?) and he is socially awkward, so he doesn't have much self-esteem. He stumbles upon an old building (maybe a barn?) and somehow meets a person/creature who tells him that the King of Light (or maybe the King of Sun) and the Queen of Dark (or maybe the Queen of Moon?) have been at war with each other for a long time, each wanting to take over. He is told he has been given the choice over who will rule.
The boy thinks the Queen is beautiful, so he chooses her. Everything feels calm, and people who were mean to him are no longer mean. However, as he goes about his day, he sees that people become more and more sad, depressed, and lethargic. His mother in particular becomes sullen and morose. No one has any energy. Frantic, he runs back to the space and says that he wants to make a different choice...
So, the boy chooses Light. This time as he goes about his day, he sees his mother having more energy to work around the house, people are accomplishing things, etc. After a while, however, he sees that people are becoming too angry and too rough. There is too much energy and people start fighting.
He goes back to the place, frightened and confused. He says that both choices brought negative reactions, so both choices were wrong. If both choices were wrong, how could he choose?
The person/creature tells him that there is a right choice. The boy is confused. The person/creature tells him that he had another choice. He could choose to do nothing.
And that is what he chooses.
So, balance is restored and the war between Light and Dark continue. The moral is something like “balance is necessary and one must fight to keep that balance.”
I've always wanted to find the book again, but I cannot remember a title nor an author. If anyone knows what book this is, I will be eternally grateful. | 2011/12/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8169",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3929/"
] | Data seems the most able to fill that role given that he is shown to clean house with the players in "Time's Arrow". He mentions at some point during the series that he initially memorized virtually every book on the subject but found that the actual game was different than the mere "book" knowledge. Given that he can simulate games in his head with actual data culled from past games as well as being able to precisely recall each player's appearance or gestures at any given moment and weight that against the numerical performance of that player and the game as a whole. | Data would have to be thrown in there-as a machine of his capability, memorizing and watching where the cards are shuffled would guarantee he knows which card is where at all times. |
8,169 | I remember reading a book in the 70s, so it could be YA. It is set on modern-day Earth, and the story is about a boy. His mother is sick (maybe cancer?) and he is socially awkward, so he doesn't have much self-esteem. He stumbles upon an old building (maybe a barn?) and somehow meets a person/creature who tells him that the King of Light (or maybe the King of Sun) and the Queen of Dark (or maybe the Queen of Moon?) have been at war with each other for a long time, each wanting to take over. He is told he has been given the choice over who will rule.
The boy thinks the Queen is beautiful, so he chooses her. Everything feels calm, and people who were mean to him are no longer mean. However, as he goes about his day, he sees that people become more and more sad, depressed, and lethargic. His mother in particular becomes sullen and morose. No one has any energy. Frantic, he runs back to the space and says that he wants to make a different choice...
So, the boy chooses Light. This time as he goes about his day, he sees his mother having more energy to work around the house, people are accomplishing things, etc. After a while, however, he sees that people are becoming too angry and too rough. There is too much energy and people start fighting.
He goes back to the place, frightened and confused. He says that both choices brought negative reactions, so both choices were wrong. If both choices were wrong, how could he choose?
The person/creature tells him that there is a right choice. The boy is confused. The person/creature tells him that he had another choice. He could choose to do nothing.
And that is what he chooses.
So, balance is restored and the war between Light and Dark continue. The moral is something like “balance is necessary and one must fight to keep that balance.”
I've always wanted to find the book again, but I cannot remember a title nor an author. If anyone knows what book this is, I will be eternally grateful. | 2011/12/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8169",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3929/"
] | * If you mean, the luckiest, TVTropes has this to say:
>
> Whenever a poker game is shown in Star Trek: The Next Generation, you can bet that Riker will always turn out with a possible straight that he's bluffing about. Whether or not the bluff is called, though, depends on which would be more dramatically convenient.
>
>
>
* If you mean, the best player, Riker again.
[This article](http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/05/poker-pop-culture-star-trek-the-next-generation-6576.htm) quotes Picard from "The Price" episode:
>
> “Commander Riker conducts master classes in poker,” explains Picard.
>
>
>
As a nice illustration, see the game in "All Good Things...", after which Worf asks of Riker:
>
> “Four hands in a row, how does he do it?”
>
>
>
* If you mean can theoretically be the best player if he used 100% his full abilities, it would possibly be LaForge.
In “Ethics”, he admits to being capable of reading everyone's cards with his "Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement" (VISOR), though he claims he never actually uses that ability in their competitive games. | Riker, Geordi, Troi, and Data all have bonuses going for them:
* Riker is great at bluffing, and has rather good luck
* Geordi could see through the back of the cards
* Troi is an empath, and can generally tell when someone is bluffing
* Data has memorized an immense number of games and can easily calculate probabilities
But they also tend to check and balance each other in various ways:
* Troi can't read Data
* Data starts out unable to tell if anyone's bluffing, but gets better as the series goes on
* They usually play with cards that have a special backing that Geordi can't see through (said to Worf after a game once)
* Troi and Riker were once quite close, and still retain the empathic link - she can almost certainly tell when he is bluffing, even if she has some difficulty with the others |
8,169 | I remember reading a book in the 70s, so it could be YA. It is set on modern-day Earth, and the story is about a boy. His mother is sick (maybe cancer?) and he is socially awkward, so he doesn't have much self-esteem. He stumbles upon an old building (maybe a barn?) and somehow meets a person/creature who tells him that the King of Light (or maybe the King of Sun) and the Queen of Dark (or maybe the Queen of Moon?) have been at war with each other for a long time, each wanting to take over. He is told he has been given the choice over who will rule.
The boy thinks the Queen is beautiful, so he chooses her. Everything feels calm, and people who were mean to him are no longer mean. However, as he goes about his day, he sees that people become more and more sad, depressed, and lethargic. His mother in particular becomes sullen and morose. No one has any energy. Frantic, he runs back to the space and says that he wants to make a different choice...
So, the boy chooses Light. This time as he goes about his day, he sees his mother having more energy to work around the house, people are accomplishing things, etc. After a while, however, he sees that people are becoming too angry and too rough. There is too much energy and people start fighting.
He goes back to the place, frightened and confused. He says that both choices brought negative reactions, so both choices were wrong. If both choices were wrong, how could he choose?
The person/creature tells him that there is a right choice. The boy is confused. The person/creature tells him that he had another choice. He could choose to do nothing.
And that is what he chooses.
So, balance is restored and the war between Light and Dark continue. The moral is something like “balance is necessary and one must fight to keep that balance.”
I've always wanted to find the book again, but I cannot remember a title nor an author. If anyone knows what book this is, I will be eternally grateful. | 2011/12/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8169",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3929/"
] | * If you mean, the luckiest, TVTropes has this to say:
>
> Whenever a poker game is shown in Star Trek: The Next Generation, you can bet that Riker will always turn out with a possible straight that he's bluffing about. Whether or not the bluff is called, though, depends on which would be more dramatically convenient.
>
>
>
* If you mean, the best player, Riker again.
[This article](http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/05/poker-pop-culture-star-trek-the-next-generation-6576.htm) quotes Picard from "The Price" episode:
>
> “Commander Riker conducts master classes in poker,” explains Picard.
>
>
>
As a nice illustration, see the game in "All Good Things...", after which Worf asks of Riker:
>
> “Four hands in a row, how does he do it?”
>
>
>
* If you mean can theoretically be the best player if he used 100% his full abilities, it would possibly be LaForge.
In “Ethics”, he admits to being capable of reading everyone's cards with his "Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement" (VISOR), though he claims he never actually uses that ability in their competitive games. | Data would have to be thrown in there-as a machine of his capability, memorizing and watching where the cards are shuffled would guarantee he knows which card is where at all times. |
8,169 | I remember reading a book in the 70s, so it could be YA. It is set on modern-day Earth, and the story is about a boy. His mother is sick (maybe cancer?) and he is socially awkward, so he doesn't have much self-esteem. He stumbles upon an old building (maybe a barn?) and somehow meets a person/creature who tells him that the King of Light (or maybe the King of Sun) and the Queen of Dark (or maybe the Queen of Moon?) have been at war with each other for a long time, each wanting to take over. He is told he has been given the choice over who will rule.
The boy thinks the Queen is beautiful, so he chooses her. Everything feels calm, and people who were mean to him are no longer mean. However, as he goes about his day, he sees that people become more and more sad, depressed, and lethargic. His mother in particular becomes sullen and morose. No one has any energy. Frantic, he runs back to the space and says that he wants to make a different choice...
So, the boy chooses Light. This time as he goes about his day, he sees his mother having more energy to work around the house, people are accomplishing things, etc. After a while, however, he sees that people are becoming too angry and too rough. There is too much energy and people start fighting.
He goes back to the place, frightened and confused. He says that both choices brought negative reactions, so both choices were wrong. If both choices were wrong, how could he choose?
The person/creature tells him that there is a right choice. The boy is confused. The person/creature tells him that he had another choice. He could choose to do nothing.
And that is what he chooses.
So, balance is restored and the war between Light and Dark continue. The moral is something like “balance is necessary and one must fight to keep that balance.”
I've always wanted to find the book again, but I cannot remember a title nor an author. If anyone knows what book this is, I will be eternally grateful. | 2011/12/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8169",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3929/"
] | Riker, Geordi, Troi, and Data all have bonuses going for them:
* Riker is great at bluffing, and has rather good luck
* Geordi could see through the back of the cards
* Troi is an empath, and can generally tell when someone is bluffing
* Data has memorized an immense number of games and can easily calculate probabilities
But they also tend to check and balance each other in various ways:
* Troi can't read Data
* Data starts out unable to tell if anyone's bluffing, but gets better as the series goes on
* They usually play with cards that have a special backing that Geordi can't see through (said to Worf after a game once)
* Troi and Riker were once quite close, and still retain the empathic link - she can almost certainly tell when he is bluffing, even if she has some difficulty with the others | Data would have to be thrown in there-as a machine of his capability, memorizing and watching where the cards are shuffled would guarantee he knows which card is where at all times. |
3,848 | I was recently investigating some statistics related to the music industry and came across some interesting information that I was not aware of (though I should have been). I started to post a question on H:SE asking for verification of what I found but further searches turned up some additional sources which verified what I had discovered. There happens to be a misconception in popular culture about this topic because the information reported by the industry is misleading.
I thought it would be interesting or fun for others if I posted a question on H:SE about it to allow others to research the topic as well and discover what I found, but since I know the answer it seemed disingenuous to do so.
Thoughts? Should I just file this away in the cobwebs of my own mind as a happy little fact that makes me smile? Or would posting something like this on H:SE be ok? I thought I would ask here before abandoning the idea. I trust the feedback I will receive here as being what's best for H:SE. | 2018/11/15 | [
"https://history.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3848",
"https://history.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.meta.stackexchange.com/users/33089/"
] | [Self-answered questions](https://history.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer) are fine on Stack Exchange, subject to the usual caveats about being on-topic for the site .etc.
You simply click the checkbox that says "Answer your own question" at the bottom of the Ask Question page:
Then just type in your answer, before submitting the question and answer together.
---
However, if you already know the answer, I would post it with your question (although by all means encourage others to research, and add further answers if they discover more).
Otherwise it may appear like you are posting "quiz" questions (which really haven't gone down well here in the past). | Sempaiscuba is right that in general there's nothing wrong with doing this.
However, for me at least here on this site, I've had some practical problems with that in the past.
If you post the correct answer with the question, the problem is that there's no real point in anyone else posting an answer. From my POV as a poster, you knew what answer you wanted from go, and even if I think its wrong and have a much better one, most likely you're just going to stick with accepting your own, which will forever appear at the top. So there isn't much point in bothering to answer.
If you *don't* post the correct answer with the question, I can tell you from experience that other answerers here are maddeningly great at posting well-written answers that may get lots of upvotes, but don't much resemble your "right" answer.
I've done this myself in the past a few times, and have never been very satisfied with the results. The main problem is that other posters persistently post answers that in my mind weren't the Right Answer when I thought up the question. Exhibit A is [this question](https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/3170/were-there-ever-actual-organizations-of-pirates) I posted, which I finally had to answer myself after waiting 2 years.
Either way, its a lot like posting a job opening with a "preferred candidate". Ultimitely, it just doesn't seem fully fair to everyone else. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | You can't. If you need that functionality you should [file](http://bugreporter.apple.com/) a feature request with Apple, but I suspect it is a hardware limitation that in the screen controller. | As far as Android is concerned, right now I don't believe there's multi-touch support due to Google having removed support for it as per Apple's request. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | I would guess that 5 fingers is the upper limit. I imagine the engineers assumed most people have two hands with five fingers per hand, so the average person holding the phone in one hand only has five fingers to work with.
Holding your phone with just your thumbs seems precarious at best, so using it as a trumpet seems unlikely. | I have no idea if it would work on Android, but there will be an upper limit for the number of simultaneous touches that you can have. Future iPhones/iPods may up that limit, but it's not defined and you shouldn't assume that you can handle more than a few realistically. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | I would guess that 5 fingers is the upper limit. I imagine the engineers assumed most people have two hands with five fingers per hand, so the average person holding the phone in one hand only has five fingers to work with.
Holding your phone with just your thumbs seems precarious at best, so using it as a trumpet seems unlikely. | Just a note: the iPad can recognize 11 touches. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | You can't. If you need that functionality you should [file](http://bugreporter.apple.com/) a feature request with Apple, but I suspect it is a hardware limitation that in the screen controller. | I have no idea if it would work on Android, but there will be an upper limit for the number of simultaneous touches that you can have. Future iPhones/iPods may up that limit, but it's not defined and you shouldn't assume that you can handle more than a few realistically. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | Just a note: the iPad can recognize 11 touches. | As far as Android is concerned, right now I don't believe there's multi-touch support due to Google having removed support for it as per Apple's request. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | I would guess that 5 fingers is the upper limit. I imagine the engineers assumed most people have two hands with five fingers per hand, so the average person holding the phone in one hand only has five fingers to work with.
Holding your phone with just your thumbs seems precarious at best, so using it as a trumpet seems unlikely. | As far as Android is concerned, right now I don't believe there's multi-touch support due to Google having removed support for it as per Apple's request. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | You can't. If you need that functionality you should [file](http://bugreporter.apple.com/) a feature request with Apple, but I suspect it is a hardware limitation that in the screen controller. | I would guess that 5 fingers is the upper limit. I imagine the engineers assumed most people have two hands with five fingers per hand, so the average person holding the phone in one hand only has five fingers to work with.
Holding your phone with just your thumbs seems precarious at best, so using it as a trumpet seems unlikely. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | I would guess that 5 fingers is the upper limit. I imagine the engineers assumed most people have two hands with five fingers per hand, so the average person holding the phone in one hand only has five fingers to work with.
Holding your phone with just your thumbs seems precarious at best, so using it as a trumpet seems unlikely. | The system is only capable of tracking 5 finger touches at once. You should only ever get 5 touch events at the same time, I think anything over that is ignored.
You're probably seeing odd behavior because its not consistently picking the same 5 out of 8 fingers to report touch events on. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | Just a note: the iPad can recognize 11 touches. | The system is only capable of tracking 5 finger touches at once. You should only ever get 5 touch events at the same time, I think anything over that is ignored.
You're probably seeing odd behavior because its not consistently picking the same 5 out of 8 fingers to report touch events on. |
1,202,484 | I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.
Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?
Thanks | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1202484",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56875/"
] | Just a note: the iPad can recognize 11 touches. | I have no idea if it would work on Android, but there will be an upper limit for the number of simultaneous touches that you can have. Future iPhones/iPods may up that limit, but it's not defined and you shouldn't assume that you can handle more than a few realistically. |
48,700 | I'm working on a science fiction story in which electricity had been wiped out from earth. I need, though, to sort out how it happened.
What I look for
* Humanity can no longer use electricity as we do nowadays.
* It might be possible to develop a new way to simulate what we do nowadays with electricity, but it'd take at least 50 years.
* There is no problem if lightnings or other "natural electricity" still happen.
EDIT: There's no problem here if the answer requires technologies not yet developed.
As an example of a possible answer, there's the explanation given in the series Revolution, even though I feel that would still need some development.
**Spoiler alert**
>
> There, the Blackout happend due to Nanites, a nanobot, the size of a virus, that does two things: Absorb electricity and replicate.
>
>
> | 2016/07/27 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/48700",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9526/"
] | **Rogue AI**
Sure, the idea of Steampunk Theme park seemed really cool at first, with the most advanced androids posing as a variety of NPCs and all kinds of wonderous contraptions that had been designed to run on steam.
Then the managerial AI got a bit out of control and decided that it sure could increase the profits if it made all of humanity into Guests.
Next thing you know the AI has taken control of most infraestructure and is most adamant about not allowing the Guests to access eletricity, even using tatical drone attacks to make sure no one is using anything that would break immersion. | a very powerful solar pulse from solar flare could destroy power lines which would destroy the average person's access to electricity. Stuff like cell phones and computers would be unaffected but without any way to charge them it wouldn't last long.
Several nuclear weapons detonated high up in the earths atmosphere could create a series of electromagnetic pulses that would destroy most electronic machines throughout the world
Or maybe some sort of futuristic nanite weapon release into our atmosphere designed to destroy electronic machines. |
48,700 | I'm working on a science fiction story in which electricity had been wiped out from earth. I need, though, to sort out how it happened.
What I look for
* Humanity can no longer use electricity as we do nowadays.
* It might be possible to develop a new way to simulate what we do nowadays with electricity, but it'd take at least 50 years.
* There is no problem if lightnings or other "natural electricity" still happen.
EDIT: There's no problem here if the answer requires technologies not yet developed.
As an example of a possible answer, there's the explanation given in the series Revolution, even though I feel that would still need some development.
**Spoiler alert**
>
> There, the Blackout happend due to Nanites, a nanobot, the size of a virus, that does two things: Absorb electricity and replicate.
>
>
> | 2016/07/27 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/48700",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9526/"
] | As has been pointed out in the comments, there are lots of important reasons why we can't prevent *electricity* from working at all. The key, then, is to imagine ways of preventing humans from *harnessing* electricity. Trying to screw with electromagnetism is problematic - again, messes with ecology/biology, and could possibly be easily defeated by shielding.
A better bet is to deprive these humans of the **material inputs** necessary to create electricity. The most guaranteed way of accomplishing this is to put your humans in a setting where all metal only exists in trace amounts. This would make it basically impossible for humans to harness electricity in any meaningful way. "No metal" might be too limiting for you though: perhaps you want to eliminate electricity as a premise for some futurist samurai. In that case, you can probably get away with only eliminating the most conductive common metals: copper, silver, gold, aluminum, zinc. Any generator made with less conductive metal, like nickel or iron, is going to be be very very week. If someone did not know about electricity to begin with, they would have a really hard time discovering it using low conductivity metals. If the humans in your world *already* know that electricity can be harnessed, and that they are otherwise deprived of this ability, they might be able to rig something up using nickel wire, but it will be super limited and inefficient. If this is the case, say so in the comments below so I (or more likely someone else) can work on figuring out just how inefficient.
Note that whatever narrative device you use to eliminate technologically useful quantities of copper, silver, gold, aluminum, zinc (whether it be removing it from earth, or putting your humans on another planet), you will still need some trace amounts of copper and zinc, which are nutritionally essential to humans. | a very powerful solar pulse from solar flare could destroy power lines which would destroy the average person's access to electricity. Stuff like cell phones and computers would be unaffected but without any way to charge them it wouldn't last long.
Several nuclear weapons detonated high up in the earths atmosphere could create a series of electromagnetic pulses that would destroy most electronic machines throughout the world
Or maybe some sort of futuristic nanite weapon release into our atmosphere designed to destroy electronic machines. |
48,700 | I'm working on a science fiction story in which electricity had been wiped out from earth. I need, though, to sort out how it happened.
What I look for
* Humanity can no longer use electricity as we do nowadays.
* It might be possible to develop a new way to simulate what we do nowadays with electricity, but it'd take at least 50 years.
* There is no problem if lightnings or other "natural electricity" still happen.
EDIT: There's no problem here if the answer requires technologies not yet developed.
As an example of a possible answer, there's the explanation given in the series Revolution, even though I feel that would still need some development.
**Spoiler alert**
>
> There, the Blackout happend due to Nanites, a nanobot, the size of a virus, that does two things: Absorb electricity and replicate.
>
>
> | 2016/07/27 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/48700",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9526/"
] | In the *Council Wars* series, Eric Flint introduces *Mother*, a super-AI [with ubiquitous sensors](http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200311/0743471644___0.htm) and effectors1 capable of absorbing remotely most sources of energy.
So, low voltages are okay, but as soon as a voltage reaches a given threshold, *zzzzt* it disappears into whatever higher dimension *Mother* reaches out of. The same happens with bombs, extreme heat and even powerful enough spring coils.
This setup would be ideal for your purposes.
---
(1) never called *that*, but the behaviour is indistinguishable from the Culture's effectors. | a very powerful solar pulse from solar flare could destroy power lines which would destroy the average person's access to electricity. Stuff like cell phones and computers would be unaffected but without any way to charge them it wouldn't last long.
Several nuclear weapons detonated high up in the earths atmosphere could create a series of electromagnetic pulses that would destroy most electronic machines throughout the world
Or maybe some sort of futuristic nanite weapon release into our atmosphere designed to destroy electronic machines. |
48,700 | I'm working on a science fiction story in which electricity had been wiped out from earth. I need, though, to sort out how it happened.
What I look for
* Humanity can no longer use electricity as we do nowadays.
* It might be possible to develop a new way to simulate what we do nowadays with electricity, but it'd take at least 50 years.
* There is no problem if lightnings or other "natural electricity" still happen.
EDIT: There's no problem here if the answer requires technologies not yet developed.
As an example of a possible answer, there's the explanation given in the series Revolution, even though I feel that would still need some development.
**Spoiler alert**
>
> There, the Blackout happend due to Nanites, a nanobot, the size of a virus, that does two things: Absorb electricity and replicate.
>
>
> | 2016/07/27 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/48700",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9526/"
] | In the *Council Wars* series, Eric Flint introduces *Mother*, a super-AI [with ubiquitous sensors](http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200311/0743471644___0.htm) and effectors1 capable of absorbing remotely most sources of energy.
So, low voltages are okay, but as soon as a voltage reaches a given threshold, *zzzzt* it disappears into whatever higher dimension *Mother* reaches out of. The same happens with bombs, extreme heat and even powerful enough spring coils.
This setup would be ideal for your purposes.
---
(1) never called *that*, but the behaviour is indistinguishable from the Culture's effectors. | **Rogue AI**
Sure, the idea of Steampunk Theme park seemed really cool at first, with the most advanced androids posing as a variety of NPCs and all kinds of wonderous contraptions that had been designed to run on steam.
Then the managerial AI got a bit out of control and decided that it sure could increase the profits if it made all of humanity into Guests.
Next thing you know the AI has taken control of most infraestructure and is most adamant about not allowing the Guests to access eletricity, even using tatical drone attacks to make sure no one is using anything that would break immersion. |
48,700 | I'm working on a science fiction story in which electricity had been wiped out from earth. I need, though, to sort out how it happened.
What I look for
* Humanity can no longer use electricity as we do nowadays.
* It might be possible to develop a new way to simulate what we do nowadays with electricity, but it'd take at least 50 years.
* There is no problem if lightnings or other "natural electricity" still happen.
EDIT: There's no problem here if the answer requires technologies not yet developed.
As an example of a possible answer, there's the explanation given in the series Revolution, even though I feel that would still need some development.
**Spoiler alert**
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> There, the Blackout happend due to Nanites, a nanobot, the size of a virus, that does two things: Absorb electricity and replicate.
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So, low voltages are okay, but as soon as a voltage reaches a given threshold, *zzzzt* it disappears into whatever higher dimension *Mother* reaches out of. The same happens with bombs, extreme heat and even powerful enough spring coils.
This setup would be ideal for your purposes.
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(1) never called *that*, but the behaviour is indistinguishable from the Culture's effectors. | As has been pointed out in the comments, there are lots of important reasons why we can't prevent *electricity* from working at all. The key, then, is to imagine ways of preventing humans from *harnessing* electricity. Trying to screw with electromagnetism is problematic - again, messes with ecology/biology, and could possibly be easily defeated by shielding.
A better bet is to deprive these humans of the **material inputs** necessary to create electricity. The most guaranteed way of accomplishing this is to put your humans in a setting where all metal only exists in trace amounts. This would make it basically impossible for humans to harness electricity in any meaningful way. "No metal" might be too limiting for you though: perhaps you want to eliminate electricity as a premise for some futurist samurai. In that case, you can probably get away with only eliminating the most conductive common metals: copper, silver, gold, aluminum, zinc. Any generator made with less conductive metal, like nickel or iron, is going to be be very very week. If someone did not know about electricity to begin with, they would have a really hard time discovering it using low conductivity metals. If the humans in your world *already* know that electricity can be harnessed, and that they are otherwise deprived of this ability, they might be able to rig something up using nickel wire, but it will be super limited and inefficient. If this is the case, say so in the comments below so I (or more likely someone else) can work on figuring out just how inefficient.
Note that whatever narrative device you use to eliminate technologically useful quantities of copper, silver, gold, aluminum, zinc (whether it be removing it from earth, or putting your humans on another planet), you will still need some trace amounts of copper and zinc, which are nutritionally essential to humans. |
25,560 | I have a server with multiple users which each have multiple authorized SSH keys. Is there any effective way (command line utility?) to keep track of which key belongs to who and to quickly remove/add keys (apart from ssh-copy-id)? | 2011/02/10 | [
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] | I'd checkout the [Monkeysphere](http://web.monkeysphere.info/) project. It uses OpenPGP's web of trust concepts to manage ssh's authorized\_keys and known\_hosts files, without requiring changes to the ssh client or server. | Bastillion - <https://www.bastillion.io>
Users manage their own SSH keys based on profiles that have been assigned to them.
<https://www.bastillion.io/docs/using/keymanagement/> |
54,169 | One headline on [the December 21, 2022 episode of *Tucker Carlson Tonight*](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-accuses-volodymyr-zelensky-waging-war-against-christianity) claimed that "Zelensky has declared war against Christianity", referring to Ukrainian President [Volodymyr Zelenskyy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XwnoK.png)
In this episode, Carlson says:
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> You will not hear a word on television tonight about the fact that Zelensky has banned an entire ancient Christian denomination in Ukraine, and then seized churches, and then thrown priests into jail.
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What is the basis for these claims? | 2022/12/22 | [
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] | The best way to tell a lie is to tell a partial truth.
It is true that the Ukrainian government has [raided several churches associated with the Russian Orthodox Church](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/22/ukraine-security-service-raids-1000-year-old-monastery-in-kyiv). What Carlson failed to mention was that key elements in those raided churches were suspected of providing intelligence to Russia. Some of those churches are hotbeds of treacherous behavior.
It is true that Zelensky has [proposed legislation to ban this particular church](https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/december/lavra-ukraine-orthodox-church-russia-religious-freedom-uoc.html). What Carlson failed to mention was that Zelensky and his government do not have any issues with the Catholics and Protestants in Ukraine, or with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. What Carlson also failed to mention was that the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church split in three branches. Two of those branches merged and asked for (and received) independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. This is the [Orthodox Church of Ukraine](https://emerging-europe.com/news/the-explainer-the-split-in-ukraines-orthodox-church/). The third branch (the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate) remains a part of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with which Zelensky and his government has a problem. Some of that church's members (including church leaders) are actively acting against the Ukrainian government and are providing intelligence to Russia regarding Ukrainian troop movements.
This is not "a war on Christianity". What it is is a war against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Some of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church churches are loyal to Ukraine, but others definitely are not. | This is an addition to the excellent answer by David Hammen in order to give more historic and local context.
During the time of the USSR, Russian Orthodox Church was essentially under a complete control of the state. Specifically, [priests were reporting to KGB and often were KGB officers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church#Glasnost_and_evidence_of_collaboration_with_the_KGB).
The arrangement was beneficial for the regime. On the one hand, they were letting a bit of steam go off as there are always some religious people even in a formally atheist state. On the other hand, the priests were providing an extremely valuable intelligence on the population, especially on the groups which were known for being disloyal.
If you look deeper into the history, you can see that strong ties between the Moscovian government and the Russian Orthodox Church can be traced back at least to the times of Ivan the Terrible, who was [controlling the church with an iron grip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible#Religion).
With the fall of the USSR KGB got split and rebranded as FSB in Russia / SBU in Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church meanwhile remained tightly connected to the former KGB. Not everyone was happy with this. Simplifying a bit, this has resulted in a split within the church. Now there are multiple Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. For example, there is an [Orthodox Church of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine), which is a result of unification of several orthodox churches in Ukraine.
The church which got a "special attention" from SBU these days is the [Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Partiarchate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_(Moscow_Patriarchate)). For a long time it has enjoyed pretty much an immunity and nobody dared to touch it. In the meantime, there were plenty of publicly known cases anti-Ukrainian activities ranging from not performing funerals for the fallen Ukrainian soldiers and telling the congregation that Ukraine must fall and be re-unified with "mother Russia" to cases where in the occupied territories the [priests were helping the invaders to identify people who should be captured and houses which should be robbed first](https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/styler/batyushka-predatel-unichtozhil-pol-sela-rukami-1654112418.html) and [gathering intel on Ukrainian forces for Russia](https://glavcom.ua/country/incidents/svjashchennik-moskovskoji-tserkvi-sjade-v-tjurmu-na-12-rokiv-detali--893898.html).
It probably also did not help that during one of the raids a [priest was caught in bed with a boy](https://glavcom.ua/country/society/shokujuchi-detali-obshuku-foto-891430.html). This was hardly a surprise as this kind of behaviour is an open secret. For example, a famous Russian journalist Aleksandr Nevzorov (who used to study in Moscow Theological Academy) was talking about it for years. It is only now, however, that someone was publicly caught in the act.
So in Ukraine these raids by SBU are not seen as attacks on Christianity.
In fact, people are very supportive of this. They even jokingly say that SBU ("СБУ" - "Служба Безбеки України" - "Ukraine's Security Service") is in fact ["Служба Божа України" (Ukraine's God's/Godly Service)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibljZntBwXM).
Many people are very happy indeed that this is happening, although they express unhappiness that it took decades for SBU to begin looking at this problem. |
10,888 | Is there some way to tell who has created which tags, and when? If a method doesn't exist I would petition SO to add this, as I would very much enjoy seeing tags I created being used by other people.
SO must track creator meta-data on tags since a badge is awarded for creating a tag used by 50+ questions (taxidermist). | 2009/07/29 | [
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10,888 | Is there some way to tell who has created which tags, and when? If a method doesn't exist I would petition SO to add this, as I would very much enjoy seeing tags I created being used by other people.
SO must track creator meta-data on tags since a badge is awarded for creating a tag used by 50+ questions (taxidermist). | 2009/07/29 | [
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In the general case nothing from SO will help you in finding such information, and you'll have to compile it on your own. | This is now covered by the **Taxonomist** badge.
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63,123 | As of today, Turkey appears to have withdrawn from the [Istanbul Convention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Convention), an effort by the Council of Europe to create a standard legal approach to battling violence against women and domestic abuse.
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> On 20 March 2021, Turkey has announced its withdrawal from the agreement by presidential decree published in the official gazette. The withdrawal is criticized in social media, and by NGOs. CHP spokesperson claimed that the agreement cannot be withdrawn without parliamentary approval, since it is approved by parliament in 2012. According to CHP and some lawyers, the right to approve the international agreements still belongs to the parliament according to Article 90 of the Constitution. Therefore, when withdrawn these treaties, the parliament must approve. According to the government, the president has the authority to withdraw the international agreements as stated in article 3 of the presidential decree no 9.
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While the legitimacy of the apparent withdrawal via a presidential decree is being questioned, the question remains: why withdraw, and why withdraw now? It's been 10 years since the document was ratified by Turkey, so why only withdraw now, or at all? | 2021/03/20 | [
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> "the Istanbul Convention, originally intended to promote women’s rights, was hijacked by a group of people attempting to normalize homosexuality – which is incompatible with Turkey’s social and family values. Hence, the decision to withdraw."
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And the bone of contention in that regard seems to be the convention's
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> Conservative groups and some officials from Erdogan's Islamic-oriented ruling party take issue with these terms, saying they promote homosexuality. They also say the agreement encourages divorce, undermining the “sacred” family.
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The official [communique](https://www.iletisim.gov.tr/english/haberler/detay/statement-regarding-turkeys-withdrawal-from-the-istanbul-convention) is rather similar
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> Türkiye is not the only country who has serious concerns about the Istanbul Convention. Six members of the European Union (Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia) did not ratify the Istanbul Convention. Poland has taken steps to withdraw from the Convention, citing an attempt by the LGBT community to impose their ideas about gender on the entire society.
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I don't know much about the timing. The announcement wasn't close to any elections, as far as I can tell. It might have been part of the spats with EU and/or CoE (["sofagate"](https://www.bbc.com/news/56676344) was next month). Or more likely related to human rights groups [criticizing](https://www.ilga-europe.org/press-release/turkish-government-steps-up-attacks-lgbti-citizens/) Turkey's increased rhetoric against homosexuality in the previous month.
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> On February 2, Justice Minister and the Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu called LGBT people “perverts” on Twitter. The social media platform has since flagged the tweet as violating its rules against “hateful conduct”.
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CoE has been criticizing Turkey's record on LGBT, but this criticism goes back [years](https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/council-of-europe-commissioner-criticizes-ban-on-lgbt-pride-march-in-istanbul-114807). I'm not sure any of the criticism relied on the Istanbul Convention, as opposed to the ECHR (which e.g. CoE complained that Turkey was contravening its article 11 by banning LGBT pride events). Withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention didn't really achieve much in terms of stemming criticism from CoE, e.g. CoE complained/asked again [in June](https://stockholmcf.org/coe-asks-turkey-to-stop-stigmatization-of-lgbti-people/) "to stop the stigmatization of LGBTI people and uphold their freedoms of assembly". | BBC's comment has part of truth in it: "Turkish conservatives argue its principles of gender equality and non-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation undermine family values and promote homosexuality."
However, the reason of timing is different.
This tolerance was highly abused by women, and false rape and domestic violence accusations and are skyrocketed. Hundreds of thousands of men went to jail with no evidence, and women rights movements show no appreciation, instead acted like a win against men on the battlefront.
Therefore since the legal process in Turkey is already enough to protect women, (minor authorities who applies those are the problem) this convention became obsolete.
**Edit:** Below are the most popular examples after few min. of research.
1 - Two girls accused their father for rape. Later they confessed they were lying because they owe money for their boyfriend and they didn't want to be punished by their father. Father is still in jail.
<https://twitter.com/Hurriyet/status/1354717098363281411?s=20>
2 - After revealed that a 13 years old girl got pregnant, she states "I was raped by this 17 years old boy." to her father. Her father shot and kill the boy. Later she confesses that she simply had sex with her boyfriend, and wanted to protect him.
<https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/tecavuz-cinayetinde-flas-gelisme-15-yasindaki-kizi-da-gozaltinda-40785194>
3 - The father did not give his credit card to his daughter. The daughter tells the police she was sexually assaulted by her father. Later she confesses.
<https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/cinsel-saldiri-ile-suclanan-baba-kredi-kartini-vermedigim-icin-40885943>
4 - The girls tells she was raped by her mother's boyfriend. Even the mother states that her daughter was most likely lying. Yet the man sentenced to 20 years. But when she heard the sentence was 20 years, she finds it too much and confesses she was lying.
<https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/durun-iftira-attim-40419582>
5 - The man slaps 2 girls who were stealing. The girls tells the police they were harrassed, and the man sentenced to 30 years. 6 years later the girls confesses they were lying. But the man's 30 years sentence is still enforced.
<https://www.milliyet.com.tr/yerel-haberler/sakarya/6-yil-sonra-iftira-attim-dedi-ama-30-yillik-ceza-degismedi-10016353>
6 - Nephew simply start running by yelling "My uncle sexually harassed her." on the street. People gathered and beat the man to the point of death. When she sees the uncle is soon get killed, she confessed she was lying.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qZj0m1vBhCw>
7 - The girl has sexual intercourse with 2 boys from her school. Later she tells she was raped. The boys spent 17 months in jail during trial. Later the court dismisses the case.
<https://www.gazetevatan.com/yasam/ozel-universitede-tecavuz-skandali-yeni-gelisme-1295664> |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
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There is a huge list of things you can do that will provide value to your business and yourself AND improve your velocity or the amount of quality value you provide that don't involve pulling things from a backlog, try those first. | Thought I would expand upon some of the other answers here. Personally I think that adding to an active sprint is a very bad idea.
Scrum is all about the team committing to finish a scope of work that is set in stone. The team commits to that work in the planning before the sprint begins.
During the sprint, the team should be kept distraction free to focus entirely on implementing their commitment.
For those who disagree, has one read the original Jeff Sutherland [Scrum](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Scrum.html?id=RoPZCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) bible?
With this in mind, let’s review why adding to the sprint might be a bad idea.
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***Firstly, it encourages individuals to increase scope without first consulting the team as a whole.***
Everyone took part in planning and committed to the work. This takes a lot of time and effort. So, similarly, adding any additional work means that the team should review this and commit.
This is obviously hassle during the sprint. Individuals consult the product owner and discussions ensue. Perhaps there are several candidates to add as the backlog is not quite ready. After all, it doesn’t need to be ready as there’s an active sprint in progress and this was unexpected.
Disagreements about what to add and priorities of non sprint work then becomes a major distraction.
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***OK what about if all work is finished?***
In my lifetime in working in Scrum, I can honestly say I’ve never heard a question about adding to the sprint, opened the Scrum board, and seen a board with all work done. It’s always a busy board with lots of work in progress!
What this question highlights are two things:
1. the individual and possibly the team needs Scrum training
2. the team has underlying issues
around collaboration
Typically the individual is not collaborating. They have finished their work and they are looking for a new individual task. This should not happen in Scrum if there is any unfinished tasks.
Instead, the individual should be collaborating with others, working as a team to finish each task in turn. *That collaboration and teamwork is the essence of Scrum!* An individual "running out of work” or “with nothing to do” should never happen. *The Scrum team will run out of work when the sprint ends.*
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***Temptation, temptation, temptation!***
Because it’s a lot of bother to discuss what new work to add, and there exists a culture of adding more tasks to the sprint, it’s very tempting to simply drag new work in without consulting anyone.
This is a very dangerous practice. Perhaps the individual chats to the product owner, agrees some priority, adds the work and assigns to themselves.
It can be an unpleasant surprise for team mates to see the scope of work increase. The Scrum Master then faces additional headaches in “policing” the sprint backlog.
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***It Distorts The Burn Down Charts***
The hint is in the name; Burn *Down*. That is down not up. The Burn Down chart should never burn up. If this chart is burning up then the Scrum team should carefully consider the issues presented above.
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***The Solution***
So, what’s the solution? Well thankfully there is a very simply and easy solution. That is, simply *finish the sprint early*! This avoids all the issues mentioned above. The team can review the early finish during the retrospective and commit to more story points in the subsequent sprint. Over time they will refine and at some point will finish on the final day as intended.
This will be much easier if they are distraction free to focus entirely on their commitment.
If in the early days of the Scrum team, they finish a few days early. So what? They still continue working and picking top priorities off the backlog. It’s not a problem to worry about because the team accuracy will increase and this problem will go away.
—————
***Final Thoughts***
Teams that add to sprint backlogs, work individually and so on, really need to introspect. Do they consider themselves a Scrum team? What is a Scrum team? The answers maybe quite revealing. There may be confusion as to what is Scrum. Moreover it maybe that the team does not want to be a Scrum team once they really understand what that means. That’s ok! There are other approaches and some may work much better. It’s all good. |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
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"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | Bring something from the project backlog into the sprint (after discussions with scrum master and project owner).
The size of the item you undertake will depend on how much time you have. If there is nothing small enough create a sub-task of a bigger task to get it started (ie do some of the preliminary work).
Alternatively create some tasks that make the code base better. I have never seen a code base that could not be improved in some way. Review some code add more unit tests etc.. | Thought I would expand upon some of the other answers here. Personally I think that adding to an active sprint is a very bad idea.
Scrum is all about the team committing to finish a scope of work that is set in stone. The team commits to that work in the planning before the sprint begins.
During the sprint, the team should be kept distraction free to focus entirely on implementing their commitment.
For those who disagree, has one read the original Jeff Sutherland [Scrum](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Scrum.html?id=RoPZCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) bible?
With this in mind, let’s review why adding to the sprint might be a bad idea.
---
***Firstly, it encourages individuals to increase scope without first consulting the team as a whole.***
Everyone took part in planning and committed to the work. This takes a lot of time and effort. So, similarly, adding any additional work means that the team should review this and commit.
This is obviously hassle during the sprint. Individuals consult the product owner and discussions ensue. Perhaps there are several candidates to add as the backlog is not quite ready. After all, it doesn’t need to be ready as there’s an active sprint in progress and this was unexpected.
Disagreements about what to add and priorities of non sprint work then becomes a major distraction.
---
***OK what about if all work is finished?***
In my lifetime in working in Scrum, I can honestly say I’ve never heard a question about adding to the sprint, opened the Scrum board, and seen a board with all work done. It’s always a busy board with lots of work in progress!
What this question highlights are two things:
1. the individual and possibly the team needs Scrum training
2. the team has underlying issues
around collaboration
Typically the individual is not collaborating. They have finished their work and they are looking for a new individual task. This should not happen in Scrum if there is any unfinished tasks.
Instead, the individual should be collaborating with others, working as a team to finish each task in turn. *That collaboration and teamwork is the essence of Scrum!* An individual "running out of work” or “with nothing to do” should never happen. *The Scrum team will run out of work when the sprint ends.*
---
***Temptation, temptation, temptation!***
Because it’s a lot of bother to discuss what new work to add, and there exists a culture of adding more tasks to the sprint, it’s very tempting to simply drag new work in without consulting anyone.
This is a very dangerous practice. Perhaps the individual chats to the product owner, agrees some priority, adds the work and assigns to themselves.
It can be an unpleasant surprise for team mates to see the scope of work increase. The Scrum Master then faces additional headaches in “policing” the sprint backlog.
---
***It Distorts The Burn Down Charts***
The hint is in the name; Burn *Down*. That is down not up. The Burn Down chart should never burn up. If this chart is burning up then the Scrum team should carefully consider the issues presented above.
---
***The Solution***
So, what’s the solution? Well thankfully there is a very simply and easy solution. That is, simply *finish the sprint early*! This avoids all the issues mentioned above. The team can review the early finish during the retrospective and commit to more story points in the subsequent sprint. Over time they will refine and at some point will finish on the final day as intended.
This will be much easier if they are distraction free to focus entirely on their commitment.
If in the early days of the Scrum team, they finish a few days early. So what? They still continue working and picking top priorities off the backlog. It’s not a problem to worry about because the team accuracy will increase and this problem will go away.
—————
***Final Thoughts***
Teams that add to sprint backlogs, work individually and so on, really need to introspect. Do they consider themselves a Scrum team? What is a Scrum team? The answers maybe quite revealing. There may be confusion as to what is Scrum. Moreover it maybe that the team does not want to be a Scrum team once they really understand what that means. That’s ok! There are other approaches and some may work much better. It’s all good. |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
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"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | Sprints do not address products but periods. If a sprint lasts two weeks, it cannot finish earlier.
If the products planned for the sprint have been finished in advance (I think your question goes in such direction), nice. But that doesn't mean that the sprint is finished. Get your backlog and follow on.
In fact, a good scrum master would experience this situation almost half of the sprints. This should not be exceptional.
The end of the sprint is just a period to look back, understand what happened, assess the lessons learned, and make a new plan for the next sprint, based on this fresh experience.
If your team advances quickly, you have two things to do. First, give them more work, because they need something to do. Second, and the most important move: **see how to reward them if they do deserve a reward** (naturally, a single sprint is not enough, but if they keep the pace along some time). If they're good, you don't want to separate them. You don't want the members to leave. You need the company to recognize the effort and react in consequence. You should make some noise about them being good. You need the stockholders to know them. A highly productive team is not easy to gather. | Thought I would expand upon some of the other answers here. Personally I think that adding to an active sprint is a very bad idea.
Scrum is all about the team committing to finish a scope of work that is set in stone. The team commits to that work in the planning before the sprint begins.
During the sprint, the team should be kept distraction free to focus entirely on implementing their commitment.
For those who disagree, has one read the original Jeff Sutherland [Scrum](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Scrum.html?id=RoPZCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) bible?
With this in mind, let’s review why adding to the sprint might be a bad idea.
---
***Firstly, it encourages individuals to increase scope without first consulting the team as a whole.***
Everyone took part in planning and committed to the work. This takes a lot of time and effort. So, similarly, adding any additional work means that the team should review this and commit.
This is obviously hassle during the sprint. Individuals consult the product owner and discussions ensue. Perhaps there are several candidates to add as the backlog is not quite ready. After all, it doesn’t need to be ready as there’s an active sprint in progress and this was unexpected.
Disagreements about what to add and priorities of non sprint work then becomes a major distraction.
---
***OK what about if all work is finished?***
In my lifetime in working in Scrum, I can honestly say I’ve never heard a question about adding to the sprint, opened the Scrum board, and seen a board with all work done. It’s always a busy board with lots of work in progress!
What this question highlights are two things:
1. the individual and possibly the team needs Scrum training
2. the team has underlying issues
around collaboration
Typically the individual is not collaborating. They have finished their work and they are looking for a new individual task. This should not happen in Scrum if there is any unfinished tasks.
Instead, the individual should be collaborating with others, working as a team to finish each task in turn. *That collaboration and teamwork is the essence of Scrum!* An individual "running out of work” or “with nothing to do” should never happen. *The Scrum team will run out of work when the sprint ends.*
---
***Temptation, temptation, temptation!***
Because it’s a lot of bother to discuss what new work to add, and there exists a culture of adding more tasks to the sprint, it’s very tempting to simply drag new work in without consulting anyone.
This is a very dangerous practice. Perhaps the individual chats to the product owner, agrees some priority, adds the work and assigns to themselves.
It can be an unpleasant surprise for team mates to see the scope of work increase. The Scrum Master then faces additional headaches in “policing” the sprint backlog.
---
***It Distorts The Burn Down Charts***
The hint is in the name; Burn *Down*. That is down not up. The Burn Down chart should never burn up. If this chart is burning up then the Scrum team should carefully consider the issues presented above.
---
***The Solution***
So, what’s the solution? Well thankfully there is a very simply and easy solution. That is, simply *finish the sprint early*! This avoids all the issues mentioned above. The team can review the early finish during the retrospective and commit to more story points in the subsequent sprint. Over time they will refine and at some point will finish on the final day as intended.
This will be much easier if they are distraction free to focus entirely on their commitment.
If in the early days of the Scrum team, they finish a few days early. So what? They still continue working and picking top priorities off the backlog. It’s not a problem to worry about because the team accuracy will increase and this problem will go away.
—————
***Final Thoughts***
Teams that add to sprint backlogs, work individually and so on, really need to introspect. Do they consider themselves a Scrum team? What is a Scrum team? The answers maybe quite revealing. There may be confusion as to what is Scrum. Moreover it maybe that the team does not want to be a Scrum team once they really understand what that means. That’s ok! There are other approaches and some may work much better. It’s all good. |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | Bring something from the project backlog into the sprint (after discussions with scrum master and project owner).
The size of the item you undertake will depend on how much time you have. If there is nothing small enough create a sub-task of a bigger task to get it started (ie do some of the preliminary work).
Alternatively create some tasks that make the code base better. I have never seen a code base that could not be improved in some way. Review some code add more unit tests etc.. | I'd encourage slack to be used for personal improvement. Sure, pull in stories from the backlog, but make sure you spend some time on yourselves: learn a new language, practice your craft with a kata, refactor some stuff, tweak, refine or write new tools to help you out, go and talk to a stakeholder, colleague or client, find out what your QA team does, take time to understand how your UX process works.
There is a huge list of things you can do that will provide value to your business and yourself AND improve your velocity or the amount of quality value you provide that don't involve pulling things from a backlog, try those first. |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | Bring something from the project backlog into the sprint (after discussions with scrum master and project owner).
The size of the item you undertake will depend on how much time you have. If there is nothing small enough create a sub-task of a bigger task to get it started (ie do some of the preliminary work).
Alternatively create some tasks that make the code base better. I have never seen a code base that could not be improved in some way. Review some code add more unit tests etc.. | Working on stretch or future sprint backlog items seems to be the common thing to do, which makes a lot of sense if your sprint backlog items are small enough and clearly defined. However, backlog items that may place the "done" code into a "no longer done" state should be avoided.
If the sprint is truly finished, tag it, prepare it for delivery, deliver it, and put your source code repositories into the "next sprint" state so there's no risk that late sprint changes will put delivery at risk. |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | What my team does is pull tasks in from the backlog that are reasonably small enough to complete with respect to how early we finished. If we're done with *that*, we give our QA team time to catch up with their testing, and the developers get a "free day" - we can use this to look into other issues not related to the current sprint, topics we want to research, configure/reconfigure our environments, etc.
Don't put a whole ton of work in just because you've finished early. Stick to what your team has committed to do in this sprint, and if extra work gets finished, that's an awesome plus. | Thought I would expand upon some of the other answers here. Personally I think that adding to an active sprint is a very bad idea.
Scrum is all about the team committing to finish a scope of work that is set in stone. The team commits to that work in the planning before the sprint begins.
During the sprint, the team should be kept distraction free to focus entirely on implementing their commitment.
For those who disagree, has one read the original Jeff Sutherland [Scrum](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Scrum.html?id=RoPZCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) bible?
With this in mind, let’s review why adding to the sprint might be a bad idea.
---
***Firstly, it encourages individuals to increase scope without first consulting the team as a whole.***
Everyone took part in planning and committed to the work. This takes a lot of time and effort. So, similarly, adding any additional work means that the team should review this and commit.
This is obviously hassle during the sprint. Individuals consult the product owner and discussions ensue. Perhaps there are several candidates to add as the backlog is not quite ready. After all, it doesn’t need to be ready as there’s an active sprint in progress and this was unexpected.
Disagreements about what to add and priorities of non sprint work then becomes a major distraction.
---
***OK what about if all work is finished?***
In my lifetime in working in Scrum, I can honestly say I’ve never heard a question about adding to the sprint, opened the Scrum board, and seen a board with all work done. It’s always a busy board with lots of work in progress!
What this question highlights are two things:
1. the individual and possibly the team needs Scrum training
2. the team has underlying issues
around collaboration
Typically the individual is not collaborating. They have finished their work and they are looking for a new individual task. This should not happen in Scrum if there is any unfinished tasks.
Instead, the individual should be collaborating with others, working as a team to finish each task in turn. *That collaboration and teamwork is the essence of Scrum!* An individual "running out of work” or “with nothing to do” should never happen. *The Scrum team will run out of work when the sprint ends.*
---
***Temptation, temptation, temptation!***
Because it’s a lot of bother to discuss what new work to add, and there exists a culture of adding more tasks to the sprint, it’s very tempting to simply drag new work in without consulting anyone.
This is a very dangerous practice. Perhaps the individual chats to the product owner, agrees some priority, adds the work and assigns to themselves.
It can be an unpleasant surprise for team mates to see the scope of work increase. The Scrum Master then faces additional headaches in “policing” the sprint backlog.
---
***It Distorts The Burn Down Charts***
The hint is in the name; Burn *Down*. That is down not up. The Burn Down chart should never burn up. If this chart is burning up then the Scrum team should carefully consider the issues presented above.
---
***The Solution***
So, what’s the solution? Well thankfully there is a very simply and easy solution. That is, simply *finish the sprint early*! This avoids all the issues mentioned above. The team can review the early finish during the retrospective and commit to more story points in the subsequent sprint. Over time they will refine and at some point will finish on the final day as intended.
This will be much easier if they are distraction free to focus entirely on their commitment.
If in the early days of the Scrum team, they finish a few days early. So what? They still continue working and picking top priorities off the backlog. It’s not a problem to worry about because the team accuracy will increase and this problem will go away.
—————
***Final Thoughts***
Teams that add to sprint backlogs, work individually and so on, really need to introspect. Do they consider themselves a Scrum team? What is a Scrum team? The answers maybe quite revealing. There may be confusion as to what is Scrum. Moreover it maybe that the team does not want to be a Scrum team once they really understand what that means. That’s ok! There are other approaches and some may work much better. It’s all good. |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | I'd encourage slack to be used for personal improvement. Sure, pull in stories from the backlog, but make sure you spend some time on yourselves: learn a new language, practice your craft with a kata, refactor some stuff, tweak, refine or write new tools to help you out, go and talk to a stakeholder, colleague or client, find out what your QA team does, take time to understand how your UX process works.
There is a huge list of things you can do that will provide value to your business and yourself AND improve your velocity or the amount of quality value you provide that don't involve pulling things from a backlog, try those first. | Sprints do not address products but periods. If a sprint lasts two weeks, it cannot finish earlier.
If the products planned for the sprint have been finished in advance (I think your question goes in such direction), nice. But that doesn't mean that the sprint is finished. Get your backlog and follow on.
In fact, a good scrum master would experience this situation almost half of the sprints. This should not be exceptional.
The end of the sprint is just a period to look back, understand what happened, assess the lessons learned, and make a new plan for the next sprint, based on this fresh experience.
If your team advances quickly, you have two things to do. First, give them more work, because they need something to do. Second, and the most important move: **see how to reward them if they do deserve a reward** (naturally, a single sprint is not enough, but if they keep the pace along some time). If they're good, you don't want to separate them. You don't want the members to leave. You need the company to recognize the effort and react in consequence. You should make some noise about them being good. You need the stockholders to know them. A highly productive team is not easy to gather. |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | Working on stretch or future sprint backlog items seems to be the common thing to do, which makes a lot of sense if your sprint backlog items are small enough and clearly defined. However, backlog items that may place the "done" code into a "no longer done" state should be avoided.
If the sprint is truly finished, tag it, prepare it for delivery, deliver it, and put your source code repositories into the "next sprint" state so there's no risk that late sprint changes will put delivery at risk. | I'd encourage slack to be used for personal improvement. Sure, pull in stories from the backlog, but make sure you spend some time on yourselves: learn a new language, practice your craft with a kata, refactor some stuff, tweak, refine or write new tools to help you out, go and talk to a stakeholder, colleague or client, find out what your QA team does, take time to understand how your UX process works.
There is a huge list of things you can do that will provide value to your business and yourself AND improve your velocity or the amount of quality value you provide that don't involve pulling things from a backlog, try those first. |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | Bring something from the project backlog into the sprint (after discussions with scrum master and project owner).
The size of the item you undertake will depend on how much time you have. If there is nothing small enough create a sub-task of a bigger task to get it started (ie do some of the preliminary work).
Alternatively create some tasks that make the code base better. I have never seen a code base that could not be improved in some way. Review some code add more unit tests etc.. | For us a Sprint never ends early. We only increased our velocity or solved the problem in a way that makes us get more work done in the sprint.
Saying that we always have a backlog of items that are prioritized in order of importance by our product owners. When any team can fit more work into the sprint it is very easy for them to see what to do next on the list that will fit positively into the sprints remaining time given their velocity.
This avoids any downtime by the group waiting for discussions with Product Owner/Scrum Master on what should be done next. Our Product Owners and Scrum Masters keep on top of this list so there is always more work waiting to be put into the next sprint (or current one if time allowed.) |
179,183 | What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will the stories be added to the current Sprint ? If yes, what if these stories won't be finished in time. Is the Sprint failed then? | 2012/12/12 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179183",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/62059/"
] | Bring something from the project backlog into the sprint (after discussions with scrum master and project owner).
The size of the item you undertake will depend on how much time you have. If there is nothing small enough create a sub-task of a bigger task to get it started (ie do some of the preliminary work).
Alternatively create some tasks that make the code base better. I have never seen a code base that could not be improved in some way. Review some code add more unit tests etc.. | What my team does is pull tasks in from the backlog that are reasonably small enough to complete with respect to how early we finished. If we're done with *that*, we give our QA team time to catch up with their testing, and the developers get a "free day" - we can use this to look into other issues not related to the current sprint, topics we want to research, configure/reconfigure our environments, etc.
Don't put a whole ton of work in just because you've finished early. Stick to what your team has committed to do in this sprint, and if extra work gets finished, that's an awesome plus. |
6,476,344 | I am new android developer. When i run eclipse.exe the the following warning is shown
Eclipse :eclipse.exe -Entry Point Not Found
The procedure entry point \_JVM\_LoadSystemLibrary@4 could not be located in the dynamic link library jvm.dll
what can i do now. please help me any one. | 2011/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6476344",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/669904/"
] | Please make sure your JRE/JDK is properly installed. Check environment variables of your computer OS too. | Download this file and install it **Systems (KB2999226)**
I've installed it on windows 7 for x64-based system and it worked!!!
the link is given bellow...
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49093> |
130,772 | Found something related [Why aren't application downloads routinely done over HTTPS?](https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18853/why-arent-application-downloads-routinely-done-over-https)
---
This is a question about general security from a noob. I couldn't find anything relevant about this topic via my Google searches. Google prefers to display actual application problems with java & ssl/https/downloads.
**Why does Oracle still offer its official JDK (Java Development Kit) archives via plaintext HTTP?**
I'm genuinely curious, because IT tech (Twitter, Google, Facebook, Github, ..., cool stuff) seems to be advancing towards HTTPS end-to-end encryption, so that if we trust in CAs (see below), we should have good guarantee that the software (or code) downloaded from these sites is original., Java and othter communities around JVM seem active, and yet, the company paying the development of the official JVM cannot afford to upgrade its website with downloads to SSL/TLS.
I'm very curious about this in general, because people on Internet seems to write a lot about bugs in crypto software (like Heartbleed and others which I forgot) and yet, many people and companies not actually engaged in software engineering download and run code that can be very easily infected by malicious MITM (and now we almost certainly know that certain powerful entities actually do this).
**How much can we rely on Certificate Autorities?** AFAIK, some of them are in countries, where single entity (gov) can covertly do whatever it wants on their machines. | 2016/07/22 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/130772",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/118273/"
] | On the mobile side, unless you specifically asked your provider for it, IPs are ***normally*** private (NATed) which makes it quite difficult to reach from outside that network.
With the wifi connection, again your connection gets NATed by your router, making the device unreachable directly too.
Finally note that an IP address is a publicly available information and not an attack vector by itself. | An IP alone is not enough for hacking your phone. And while it doesn't slow an attacker down, the same time it does absolutely nothing to help attacking you.
IP addresses are no secrets, quite the opposite. It's just necessary for any (internet) connection to work. And even if this particular software wouldn't show the address, there are plenty opportuninties to get your IP.
Just don't worry about it. |
113,895 | So here is my problem, I'm an intern at a fairly large offices. My supervisor and manager are out of the office for at least another 2 weeks and I've finished the work they have set me. Usually I wouldn't be hugely busy but now I am literally sitting at my desk more or less twiddling my thumbs, or trying new programming languages. My manager asked my team members before he left to give me work if they had any to give, but I have yet to receive anything.
So my question is how could I phrase asking for work when going around my department that wouldn't come off as desperate? Or what kind of way could I write a group email? | 2018/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113895",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/87998/"
] | You're overthinking this. Didn't your supervisor assign somebody from the team to temporarily manage your tasks? If yes, ask that person. If no, you could ask a senior member of your team:
>
> Hey, my supervisor assigned tasks to me and I'm already done with them, while my supervisor is still away for at least 2 weeks. Do you have time to review my completed tasks with me and possibly give me some new tasks to work on?
>
>
>
If they don't have time, ask that senior person who else may have time. | Finishing your work earlier than expected (*while still performing well*) is seen as something nice. Your supervisor will be happy with this!
What I would do, is **send a quick email to your supervisor** (and possibly your manager too, depending on who keeps an eye on whatever you do.) telling him you finished early, solved the problem and will be asking your coworkers for more work.
>
> Hi *supervisor*,
>
>
> I finished task X early and solved the issue by doing Y. I will be asking my coworkers for new tasks to do now, as we agreed upon before you left.
>
>
> Good luck with the business trip (or holiday, or whatever they're doing)
>
>
> Kind regards, mynameissecret
>
>
>
This way, your supervisor knows what you're up to. If your coworkers fail to give you any new tasks, you can get back to your supervisor on this.
As for asking for new tasks from your coworkers, I would ask **in person first**. This way you have the best chance on getting a response fast. I like to start the conversation in person and if needed explain what my skills are. It might happen that they don't know of a task just by the top of their head. I then ask them to email me with any tasks they have available for me.
Now it can happen that they forget to send you a task, or maybe you just don't hear back from them. Send them an email at the end of the day asking for a task.
>
> Hi coworker,
>
>
> Did you manage to find the time to assign some tasks to me? If not, do you know who else I could ask for a new task?
>
>
> Thanks for helping me,
>
>
> mynameissecret.
>
>
>
Now, on to what you should be doing while **waiting for a new task**. As I understand, your supervisor did not give you any material to work on other than the first task. I would put time in learning new things. Read up on articles, search for tutorials etc. If you're unsure if you are allowed to do these things, you could include a line mentioning this in the email you initially send to your supervisor. This way you're letting him know you're doing something productive while waiting. |
113,895 | So here is my problem, I'm an intern at a fairly large offices. My supervisor and manager are out of the office for at least another 2 weeks and I've finished the work they have set me. Usually I wouldn't be hugely busy but now I am literally sitting at my desk more or less twiddling my thumbs, or trying new programming languages. My manager asked my team members before he left to give me work if they had any to give, but I have yet to receive anything.
So my question is how could I phrase asking for work when going around my department that wouldn't come off as desperate? Or what kind of way could I write a group email? | 2018/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113895",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/87998/"
] | Asking for work is never seen as desperate. Quite the opposite, it is seen as proactive.
You first go to your colleagues, and if they have nothing for you, then you just walk to the nearest manager. Most have plenty of work that would be useful but not useful enough to justify spending manpower on, so if you offer to work for them for free (it’s free to them) they will take you up on that offer. | Finishing your work earlier than expected (*while still performing well*) is seen as something nice. Your supervisor will be happy with this!
What I would do, is **send a quick email to your supervisor** (and possibly your manager too, depending on who keeps an eye on whatever you do.) telling him you finished early, solved the problem and will be asking your coworkers for more work.
>
> Hi *supervisor*,
>
>
> I finished task X early and solved the issue by doing Y. I will be asking my coworkers for new tasks to do now, as we agreed upon before you left.
>
>
> Good luck with the business trip (or holiday, or whatever they're doing)
>
>
> Kind regards, mynameissecret
>
>
>
This way, your supervisor knows what you're up to. If your coworkers fail to give you any new tasks, you can get back to your supervisor on this.
As for asking for new tasks from your coworkers, I would ask **in person first**. This way you have the best chance on getting a response fast. I like to start the conversation in person and if needed explain what my skills are. It might happen that they don't know of a task just by the top of their head. I then ask them to email me with any tasks they have available for me.
Now it can happen that they forget to send you a task, or maybe you just don't hear back from them. Send them an email at the end of the day asking for a task.
>
> Hi coworker,
>
>
> Did you manage to find the time to assign some tasks to me? If not, do you know who else I could ask for a new task?
>
>
> Thanks for helping me,
>
>
> mynameissecret.
>
>
>
Now, on to what you should be doing while **waiting for a new task**. As I understand, your supervisor did not give you any material to work on other than the first task. I would put time in learning new things. Read up on articles, search for tutorials etc. If you're unsure if you are allowed to do these things, you could include a line mentioning this in the email you initially send to your supervisor. This way you're letting him know you're doing something productive while waiting. |
70 | How does one go about building a page in wordpress that contains a contact form full of custom fields, boxes, inputs, etc. completely determined by the author of the site. It seems odd that wordpress currently lacks this feature, but knowing the wordpress community, it's unlikely that we must do without. | 2010/08/11 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/92/"
] | One of the most common plugins used to do this is [Contact Form 7](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/). There are also [numerous other free plugins](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=contact+form&sort=) to add this functionality, as well as paid plugins such as [Gravity Forms](http://www.gravityforms.com/). | Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress
=======================================
For years and years I have been using the form plugin from dagon design: <http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-form-mailer-plugin-for-wordpress/> for free! (so let me do my happy user giveback thing:)
This plugin has a wide range of features including:
* Support for multiple instances
* An easy to use dynamic form generation system (any number of fields, in any order)
* multiple recipients
* multiple file attachments
* optional auto reply feature
* an image verification system
* numerous security features (including protection against email header injection)
* a message template system
* multiple languages
* and too many other things to list.
This plugin was designed to be easy to use, while still being extremely flexible. If you just want a simple contact form, you can set one up with just a few clicks.
For those of you who need something a bit more advanced, you can completely customize the plugin to fit your needs – whether it is 5 fields or 500. A non-WordPress version is also available. ReCaptcha support has also been added, as well as support for storing the data in a delimited file.
It has served me well for years. |
70 | How does one go about building a page in wordpress that contains a contact form full of custom fields, boxes, inputs, etc. completely determined by the author of the site. It seems odd that wordpress currently lacks this feature, but knowing the wordpress community, it's unlikely that we must do without. | 2010/08/11 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/92/"
] | One of the most common plugins used to do this is [Contact Form 7](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/). There are also [numerous other free plugins](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=contact+form&sort=) to add this functionality, as well as paid plugins such as [Gravity Forms](http://www.gravityforms.com/). | Add me to the Gravity Forms supporters list. Of course it does a lot more than just contact forms. You should definitely check out the feature list and decide if it is worth your $39 dollars. It was a no-brainer for me and I bought the unlimited site developer license. The time that it saves me makes it worth it. |
70 | How does one go about building a page in wordpress that contains a contact form full of custom fields, boxes, inputs, etc. completely determined by the author of the site. It seems odd that wordpress currently lacks this feature, but knowing the wordpress community, it's unlikely that we must do without. | 2010/08/11 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/92/"
] | See the different- for only a form in one page it is easy and fast (no filter-hook or other) to write a template for a page in WP, for more flexibilty and functions us a plugin. A ready solution or a starter there you can find here: <https://github.com/bueltge/WP-Contact-Form-Template> | Plus one for gravity forms as I have found it to be much easier for my clients to use. Is easier to provide theme support for (ie Easier to customize via CSS) and has fewer conflicts with other plugins |
70 | How does one go about building a page in wordpress that contains a contact form full of custom fields, boxes, inputs, etc. completely determined by the author of the site. It seems odd that wordpress currently lacks this feature, but knowing the wordpress community, it's unlikely that we must do without. | 2010/08/11 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/92/"
] | Add me to the Gravity Forms supporters list. Of course it does a lot more than just contact forms. You should definitely check out the feature list and decide if it is worth your $39 dollars. It was a no-brainer for me and I bought the unlimited site developer license. The time that it saves me makes it worth it. | Plus one for gravity forms as I have found it to be much easier for my clients to use. Is easier to provide theme support for (ie Easier to customize via CSS) and has fewer conflicts with other plugins |
70 | How does one go about building a page in wordpress that contains a contact form full of custom fields, boxes, inputs, etc. completely determined by the author of the site. It seems odd that wordpress currently lacks this feature, but knowing the wordpress community, it's unlikely that we must do without. | 2010/08/11 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/92/"
] | Add me to the Gravity Forms supporters list. Of course it does a lot more than just contact forms. You should definitely check out the feature list and decide if it is worth your $39 dollars. It was a no-brainer for me and I bought the unlimited site developer license. The time that it saves me makes it worth it. | Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress
=======================================
For years and years I have been using the form plugin from dagon design: <http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-form-mailer-plugin-for-wordpress/> for free! (so let me do my happy user giveback thing:)
This plugin has a wide range of features including:
* Support for multiple instances
* An easy to use dynamic form generation system (any number of fields, in any order)
* multiple recipients
* multiple file attachments
* optional auto reply feature
* an image verification system
* numerous security features (including protection against email header injection)
* a message template system
* multiple languages
* and too many other things to list.
This plugin was designed to be easy to use, while still being extremely flexible. If you just want a simple contact form, you can set one up with just a few clicks.
For those of you who need something a bit more advanced, you can completely customize the plugin to fit your needs – whether it is 5 fields or 500. A non-WordPress version is also available. ReCaptcha support has also been added, as well as support for storing the data in a delimited file.
It has served me well for years. |
70 | How does one go about building a page in wordpress that contains a contact form full of custom fields, boxes, inputs, etc. completely determined by the author of the site. It seems odd that wordpress currently lacks this feature, but knowing the wordpress community, it's unlikely that we must do without. | 2010/08/11 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/92/"
] | [Contact Form 7](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/) is one of the most popular plugins to add a contact form to a WP blog. It supports multiple contact forms and you can add/remove fields as needed. Additional services such as reCAPTCHA and Akismet can be added. I use this on most of my blogs to power the contact features. | I've been pleased with the (free) [Deko Boko forms plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/deko-boko-a-recaptcha-contact-form-plugin/). Flexible, easy to modify and recaptcha is integrated. |
70 | How does one go about building a page in wordpress that contains a contact form full of custom fields, boxes, inputs, etc. completely determined by the author of the site. It seems odd that wordpress currently lacks this feature, but knowing the wordpress community, it's unlikely that we must do without. | 2010/08/11 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/92/"
] | [Contact Form 7](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/) is one of the most popular plugins to add a contact form to a WP blog. It supports multiple contact forms and you can add/remove fields as needed. Additional services such as reCAPTCHA and Akismet can be added. I use this on most of my blogs to power the contact features. | Add me to the Gravity Forms supporters list. Of course it does a lot more than just contact forms. You should definitely check out the feature list and decide if it is worth your $39 dollars. It was a no-brainer for me and I bought the unlimited site developer license. The time that it saves me makes it worth it. |
332,324 | After georeferencing a black and white TIFF image, the QGIS Raster Georeferencer fills the corners with black pixels, creating black elongated triangles along the edges of the new image. I could not find anything in the Georeferencer settings to force these filler pixels to be while. I want to set all white pixels transparent when importing the image into QGIS, so eliminating the black corners is preferred. I tried editing the georeferenced TIFF image but it loses the reference data on saving. I tried the GeoTIFF tools (listgeo.exe and geotifcp.exe) but writing the data back to the TIFF image using geotifcp.exe gives a warning "LZW compression is not available to due to Unisys patent enforcement." It would be ideal if QGIS can be set to force the padding colour to white otherwise I am happy to try any other tools, methods or instructions how to achieve what I want.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XYn2N.png) | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/332324",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/93736/"
] | It's a super hack, but it works.
1. Do the georeferencing as normal.
2. Open the created \_modified.tif file in Paint.NET (<https://www.getpaint.net/download.html>) FREE!
3. Bucket fill the black corner triangles with white. Save file as new TIFF (just in case).
4. Drag-drop new TIFF into QGIS. It'll maintain the georeferencing and now have white corners. | In the Georeferencer, check the 'Use 0 for transparency when needed' which will make the black pixels go away. To avoid white pixels, go to Layer properties and set 255 as the additional nodata value.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7bCKX.png) |
554,488 | I am writing a paper and I am lost for a phrase to describe the set of topics a person is knowledgeable about.
For example: "If someone knows about topic A and also knows about topic B, then topics A and B are [phrase relating the topics and the user's state of knowing]." | 2020/12/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/554488",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/408275/"
] | Those topics can be said to be “*in his **wheelhouse***”
Defined in [Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/wheelhouse) as:
>
> within one’s area of expertise or interest:
>
> *There are some subjects that are in your wheelhouse and some that are not.*
>
>
> | They are his or her specialities.
>
> Specialty = a subject that someone knows a lot about
>
>
> [Cambridge doctionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/specialty)
>
>
> |
554,488 | I am writing a paper and I am lost for a phrase to describe the set of topics a person is knowledgeable about.
For example: "If someone knows about topic A and also knows about topic B, then topics A and B are [phrase relating the topics and the user's state of knowing]." | 2020/12/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/554488",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/408275/"
] | They are his or her specialities.
>
> Specialty = a subject that someone knows a lot about
>
>
> [Cambridge doctionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/specialty)
>
>
> | The answer to your question will depend on the precise area(s) of knowledge you're referring to, the level or degree of expertise of the knower, and the intended register.
One option not previously mentioned is the word "bailiwick," which is fairly productive, as it can be used both phrasally and as a stand-alone noun.
*You should ask Laura that question: It's in more in her bailiwick than mine.*
*That question falls outside my bailiwick.*
[Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bailiwick#examples) gives these example sentences:
*Questions about organization of the fund drive are my bailiwick.*
*Weaver’s bailiwick has been Republican candidates whose greatest interest seems to be criticizing other Republicans.*
*Reardon's usual focus is on using data from pulsar timing arrays to search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, so magnets are a bit out of his bailiwick.*
A few alternatives (again, depending on context) involve the words "scope," "competence," and "expertise." |
554,488 | I am writing a paper and I am lost for a phrase to describe the set of topics a person is knowledgeable about.
For example: "If someone knows about topic A and also knows about topic B, then topics A and B are [phrase relating the topics and the user's state of knowing]." | 2020/12/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/554488",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/408275/"
] | Those topics can be said to be “*in his **wheelhouse***”
Defined in [Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/wheelhouse) as:
>
> within one’s area of expertise or interest:
>
> *There are some subjects that are in your wheelhouse and some that are not.*
>
>
> | The answer to your question will depend on the precise area(s) of knowledge you're referring to, the level or degree of expertise of the knower, and the intended register.
One option not previously mentioned is the word "bailiwick," which is fairly productive, as it can be used both phrasally and as a stand-alone noun.
*You should ask Laura that question: It's in more in her bailiwick than mine.*
*That question falls outside my bailiwick.*
[Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bailiwick#examples) gives these example sentences:
*Questions about organization of the fund drive are my bailiwick.*
*Weaver’s bailiwick has been Republican candidates whose greatest interest seems to be criticizing other Republicans.*
*Reardon's usual focus is on using data from pulsar timing arrays to search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, so magnets are a bit out of his bailiwick.*
A few alternatives (again, depending on context) involve the words "scope," "competence," and "expertise." |
128,732 | I'm going to a concert to Vienna on Saturday (two days). I just realized that there aren't any trains back to my home in the night so I'd have to wait til the morning until the first train leaves again (5.43 AM).
I don't know when the concert will end, but expect it to be somewhere between midnight and 2 AM.
Now, I don't want to spend 40 € on a hotel room, especially when I can only "book in" in the middle in the night and have to leave really early.
Is there any safe space in Vienna for a young woman to stay for a couple of hours in the middle of the night? I don't need to sleep, I just don't want to get raped.
Are train stations safe there? Or are there any cafés which are open 24/7? MacDonalds? | 2018/12/20 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/128732",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/70911/"
] | Update May 2022: both McDonald's are closed overnight.
---
There are only 2 McDonald's in/near Vienna that are open 24/7 (and even on [the Chistmas and New Year holidays](https://www.mcdonalds.at/downloads/oeffnungszeiten_2018.pdf)):
* at the aiport, Objekt 115
* in Wiener Neustadt, Pottendorfer Str. 45
Their [restaurant finder](https://www.mcdonalds.at/restaurant-finder) has on option to restrict the search to restaurants that are open 24/7: go to "Detailsuche", tick "24h geöffnet".
All the Burger Kings and KFCs are closed during the night.
As @FDMS notes, the only transit service to the airport that runs 24/7 (though very infrequently) is the [Vienna Airport Lines](https://www.viennaairportlines.at) bus service ([network map](https://www.viennaairportlines.at/en/info/1144)), which costs 6.5 € per direction. The last train to Wiener Neustadt, which is over one hour away from Vienna, leaves at 01:01 from the main train station (Hbf). | If your main concern is that you have to pay for a hotel room for the entire day but would spend only a couple of hours in it, maybe you could opt to leave Vienna later in the day or early evening instead of early morning.
That way you can relax after a possibly tiresome concert, wake up fresh, then either spend time in the room or explore Vienna a bit (if you haven't already) and then take a train to your final destination later in the day. I feel this option would be safer than opting to stay out in the open (even if its in a 24-hour McDonalds). You could cut your cost by some euros by staying in a dorm instead of a hotel room. |
128,732 | I'm going to a concert to Vienna on Saturday (two days). I just realized that there aren't any trains back to my home in the night so I'd have to wait til the morning until the first train leaves again (5.43 AM).
I don't know when the concert will end, but expect it to be somewhere between midnight and 2 AM.
Now, I don't want to spend 40 € on a hotel room, especially when I can only "book in" in the middle in the night and have to leave really early.
Is there any safe space in Vienna for a young woman to stay for a couple of hours in the middle of the night? I don't need to sleep, I just don't want to get raped.
Are train stations safe there? Or are there any cafés which are open 24/7? MacDonalds? | 2018/12/20 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/128732",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/70911/"
] | Update May 2022: both McDonald's are closed overnight.
---
There are only 2 McDonald's in/near Vienna that are open 24/7 (and even on [the Chistmas and New Year holidays](https://www.mcdonalds.at/downloads/oeffnungszeiten_2018.pdf)):
* at the aiport, Objekt 115
* in Wiener Neustadt, Pottendorfer Str. 45
Their [restaurant finder](https://www.mcdonalds.at/restaurant-finder) has on option to restrict the search to restaurants that are open 24/7: go to "Detailsuche", tick "24h geöffnet".
All the Burger Kings and KFCs are closed during the night.
As @FDMS notes, the only transit service to the airport that runs 24/7 (though very infrequently) is the [Vienna Airport Lines](https://www.viennaairportlines.at) bus service ([network map](https://www.viennaairportlines.at/en/info/1144)), which costs 6.5 € per direction. The last train to Wiener Neustadt, which is over one hour away from Vienna, leaves at 01:01 from the main train station (Hbf). | As you are staying on a weekend, there will be plenty of bars, clubs and other entertainment locations open till the early morning. Some of them may be loud, some quiet, so you can pick depending on what you are likely to be in a mood in after the concert.
Here's an english website listing many options: <https://www.wien.info/en/lifestyle-scene/nightlife>
Note that in general, Vienna is considered a very safe city. So you should most likely be fine no matter where you stay, but as everywhere else, a public place is a good option. |
128,732 | I'm going to a concert to Vienna on Saturday (two days). I just realized that there aren't any trains back to my home in the night so I'd have to wait til the morning until the first train leaves again (5.43 AM).
I don't know when the concert will end, but expect it to be somewhere between midnight and 2 AM.
Now, I don't want to spend 40 € on a hotel room, especially when I can only "book in" in the middle in the night and have to leave really early.
Is there any safe space in Vienna for a young woman to stay for a couple of hours in the middle of the night? I don't need to sleep, I just don't want to get raped.
Are train stations safe there? Or are there any cafés which are open 24/7? MacDonalds? | 2018/12/20 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/128732",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/70911/"
] | For 5.8€, you could get a transit day pass that allows for unlimited travel on the transit network, including night buses – (especially) if you take a seat next to the bus operator, you'll definitely be safe, and you'll also see some more of Vienna. | If your main concern is that you have to pay for a hotel room for the entire day but would spend only a couple of hours in it, maybe you could opt to leave Vienna later in the day or early evening instead of early morning.
That way you can relax after a possibly tiresome concert, wake up fresh, then either spend time in the room or explore Vienna a bit (if you haven't already) and then take a train to your final destination later in the day. I feel this option would be safer than opting to stay out in the open (even if its in a 24-hour McDonalds). You could cut your cost by some euros by staying in a dorm instead of a hotel room. |
128,732 | I'm going to a concert to Vienna on Saturday (two days). I just realized that there aren't any trains back to my home in the night so I'd have to wait til the morning until the first train leaves again (5.43 AM).
I don't know when the concert will end, but expect it to be somewhere between midnight and 2 AM.
Now, I don't want to spend 40 € on a hotel room, especially when I can only "book in" in the middle in the night and have to leave really early.
Is there any safe space in Vienna for a young woman to stay for a couple of hours in the middle of the night? I don't need to sleep, I just don't want to get raped.
Are train stations safe there? Or are there any cafés which are open 24/7? MacDonalds? | 2018/12/20 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/128732",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/70911/"
] | For 5.8€, you could get a transit day pass that allows for unlimited travel on the transit network, including night buses – (especially) if you take a seat next to the bus operator, you'll definitely be safe, and you'll also see some more of Vienna. | As you are staying on a weekend, there will be plenty of bars, clubs and other entertainment locations open till the early morning. Some of them may be loud, some quiet, so you can pick depending on what you are likely to be in a mood in after the concert.
Here's an english website listing many options: <https://www.wien.info/en/lifestyle-scene/nightlife>
Note that in general, Vienna is considered a very safe city. So you should most likely be fine no matter where you stay, but as everywhere else, a public place is a good option. |
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