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308,615 | I am fairly new to JavaEE, so I have some concepts still missing.
I am learning Docker to use it in our DEV / CI Build environments. I could make it work on my machine. But for it to work in the CI server, my current approach would be to store the docker-compose.yml and dockerfiles in git and, in the CI server download... | 2016/01/28 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/308615",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/7764/"
] | For point 1. and 3. You could create private Ivy repository and fetch DB Drivers and Modules from it via your Build tool ( Mvn, Ant, Gradle support getting dependencies from Ivy repos ) when building your app.
And for `.xml` files - you can have git repository for your Test Environment config files. Or have them encry... | You need a reproducible build - this means you do not want your CI server downloading things from the internet on demand. You need to download them and otherwise collect everything needed for the build and store it somewhere accessible to the CI server.
Now the easiest and most future-proof way of doing that is to sto... |
17,058 | We have ants in our house, and nothing I've tried so far has been sufficiently successful. Now I'm considering using ant traps, but only under the kitchen cabinets behind the plinth, a place where neither my cats nor my kids (a baby and a toddler) would ever be able to reach them (no chance of them getting in there). W... | 2017/05/09 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/17058",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
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] | I don't think it is overstocked at the moment.
But these are all schooling fish and they might be happier if the schools are a bit bigger.
A better mix would be to remove 2 species (eg the tetra's and the barbs) and replace them with the other species (more corys and rainbows for example).
6-7 fish for a 's... | Yah. Not overstocked but it will be if you have their appropriate schools. Try two or three schools of the smaller species like zebra danios and turquoise rainbows. You could possibly put some guppies in if you are interested. |
17,058 | We have ants in our house, and nothing I've tried so far has been sufficiently successful. Now I'm considering using ant traps, but only under the kitchen cabinets behind the plinth, a place where neither my cats nor my kids (a baby and a toddler) would ever be able to reach them (no chance of them getting in there). W... | 2017/05/09 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/17058",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/users/2554/"
] | I don't think it is overstocked at the moment.
But these are all schooling fish and they might be happier if the schools are a bit bigger.
A better mix would be to remove 2 species (eg the tetra's and the barbs) and replace them with the other species (more corys and rainbows for example).
6-7 fish for a 's... | So, I'm going to slightly disagree with the idea to keep AND add to the rainbows pop. This is one of my favorite breeds of freshwater community fish too, so although my heart says keep those beauties, my experience says differently.
They get about 4" (10 cm) in length and need a decent sized school to be happy. It's s... |
17,058 | We have ants in our house, and nothing I've tried so far has been sufficiently successful. Now I'm considering using ant traps, but only under the kitchen cabinets behind the plinth, a place where neither my cats nor my kids (a baby and a toddler) would ever be able to reach them (no chance of them getting in there). W... | 2017/05/09 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/17058",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/users/2554/"
] | So, I'm going to slightly disagree with the idea to keep AND add to the rainbows pop. This is one of my favorite breeds of freshwater community fish too, so although my heart says keep those beauties, my experience says differently.
They get about 4" (10 cm) in length and need a decent sized school to be happy. It's s... | Yah. Not overstocked but it will be if you have their appropriate schools. Try two or three schools of the smaller species like zebra danios and turquoise rainbows. You could possibly put some guppies in if you are interested. |
10,663 | I received a new iPhone yesterday and connected it to my home Wifi network.
On content heavy sites it runs perfectly fine, but if I use either the Youtube site or the Youtube app I can't watch anything. It takes forever to watch 5 seconds of video.
My first question is, how can I be sure that my phone is using local ... | 2011/03/22 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/10663",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
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] | Yes, you can have both versions. In fact you can install the new Firefox in your home directory's Application folder (and it will be only accessible with your account). If you don't have ~/Applications folder, you can create it (and Finder will mark it with the same icon as the /Applications one). Note that you cannot ... | Once you install it in separate directories, you can in fact **run them both simultaneously**.
It just takes a little Firefox flags magic as explained here in [this article](http://www.shankrila.com/firefox/howto-run-firefox4-firefox3-simultaneously/). |
61,881 | We have a Honeywell whole-house humidifier attached to the duct directly above the heating element/electronics of our furnace. A few possible pertinent facts:
* The water intake is attached via a saddle valve.
* The drainage line leads to a pump. The intake for the pump is a PVC pipe, which the drainage line rests ins... | 2015/03/12 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/61881",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/13047/"
] | I can only provide anecdotal answers to questions 2 & 3.
2. I have successfully used a few drops of concentrated food coloring, at different places I suspect for leaks in a water softener and its related valves and plumbing. I used 3 different colors if memory serves me right. We had a very slow/unnoticeable leak, apa... | Our humidifier leaks in a similar manner, but the only way I could figure it out was to run the humidifier and watch for it (sounds awfully boring). I tracked it down to a tiny leak in the spout that feeds the overflow tube. The drops were running down the tube and leaking off the lowest point (where it curves), which ... |
96,984 | When another moderator sends a direct user message, the notification appears for all other moderators as a dropdown alert. This is somewhat distracting, and also impossible to get back to once it's closed. I feel like this type of alert makes more sense *for moderators* as a global inbox notification, since it's more o... | 2011/06/30 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96984",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/139837/"
] | The users **also typically get an email -- you know, a real, physical email in their email inbox** -- and that contains the text with a link to the moderator message URL, so I'm not sure I can agree with this.
It is the default option when sending a moderator message. | *When I logged in today I could swear I saw a moderator message appear* right before Firefox died loading another page\*.
I don't know what it was. I can't find anything in my inbox which would generate such a message. Perhaps it was a badge notification or a notice on an open bounty? or?
But I don't see any recent b... |
96,984 | When another moderator sends a direct user message, the notification appears for all other moderators as a dropdown alert. This is somewhat distracting, and also impossible to get back to once it's closed. I feel like this type of alert makes more sense *for moderators* as a global inbox notification, since it's more o... | 2011/06/30 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96984",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/139837/"
] | As per [Moderator message notifications should be red in the global inbox for those involved](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/133837/moderator-message-notifications-should-be-red-in-the-global-inbox), this has now been implemented as a "notification" (not an inbox message), and will be changed to a proper inbo... | *When I logged in today I could swear I saw a moderator message appear* right before Firefox died loading another page\*.
I don't know what it was. I can't find anything in my inbox which would generate such a message. Perhaps it was a badge notification or a notice on an open bounty? or?
But I don't see any recent b... |
71,032 | I have a Ph.D. in pure math (interested in Harmonic analysis and operator theory). I am looking forward some proper references to lead me get the foundation of discrete/signal processing more and more. Actually, I had a review of the Heppenheim's books (both signal and digital ones) and (rather) got what he is saying i... | 2020/10/23 | [
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/71032",
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com",
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com/users/50574/"
] | You have already read those Oppenheim's Signals & Systems, and Discrete-Time Signal Processing books.
I'm not sure what you mean by *foundations* but in some sense these two are also the foundations on signal processing. In other words, there are no (popular & successful) graduate level DSP books that discuss at an ad... | I found these books to be very good in their respective field:
[J.R. Ohm - Multimedia Communication Technology](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/3540012494)
This has focus on representation and transmission of signals. It follows a practical approach hands down and features very good, informative illustra... |
43,917 | I am traveling from Stockholm to Dubai and Dubai to Nairobi using two different airlines. I have Kenyan nationality and can't go through Immigration because I don't have a Dubai visa.
How I will get my luggage? | 2015/02/27 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/43917",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/27260/"
] | If your luggage is not checked through, then I am afraid you will have to collect it and to do that you'll need a visa as the baggage carousels are *after* the immigration counters.
The sequence is:
1. De-plane.
2. Depending on the terminal, you'll have a long walk (and then go down a few flights of stairs) or a shor... | Do you plan to actually immigrate into Dubai (will you leave the airport)? Without a visa you will not be able to leave the transit area of the airport.
It sounds like you are just passing through Dubai on a layover. You will be forced to go through arrival security check after you deplane no matter what your Nationa... |
23,434 | A friend of a friend has on multiple occasions aggressively asked how my self-study for software engineering interviews is going. Most recently I answered very briefly, because I find it too nosy and the person to be arrogant and presumptuous. I don't like for example that he's convinced that I seem too calm about the ... | 2019/11/11 | [
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/23434",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users/4886/"
] | It sounds like you have already figured out this person's *motivation* for asking you questions - they want to give you advice. "Advice-giver" is a [recognised personality trait](https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/evolution-the-self/201308/what-you-should-know-about-advice-givers), and many do it for their own ego... | From the way you describe it in your question, it sounds to me like you're already dealing with the situation perfectly well.
As you yourself have said: you let them ramble on, you were honest with them when asked for feedback, then later you distanced yourself from them.
It sounds like you have already "convey[ed] t... |
127,635 | I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a [Nagios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios) plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through [NRPE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios#Nagios_Remote_Plugin_Executor).
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux and they all... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/127635",
"https://serverfault.com",
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] | What do you mean to check ports on hosts remotely? Do you just want to connect to the port to see if it is open? The check\_tcp plugin will do that, if, that's what you want to do.
Not quite sure what you mean. | i really like nagios. have been using it for years. i even do some oracle database management with it, but what nagios really is is an availability monitoring tool. i think what you are asking for is better fulfilled by another software like [openvas](http://www.openvas.org/) or [snort](http://www.snort.org/). |
127,635 | I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a [Nagios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios) plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through [NRPE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios#Nagios_Remote_Plugin_Executor).
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux and they all... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/127635",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/14850/"
] | What do you mean to check ports on hosts remotely? Do you just want to connect to the port to see if it is open? The check\_tcp plugin will do that, if, that's what you want to do.
Not quite sure what you mean. | I suppose what you want is to make sure that there is no "positive" response on any port apart from a short whitelist. I can see how you would prefer not to have 65000 check\_tcp:s on each host :)
Mind you, I'm not sure nagios is really your best bet for this. Partly, it risks being a test that is always red and also,... |
127,635 | I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a [Nagios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios) plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through [NRPE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios#Nagios_Remote_Plugin_Executor).
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux and they all... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/127635",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/14850/"
] | What do you mean to check ports on hosts remotely? Do you just want to connect to the port to see if it is open? The check\_tcp plugin will do that, if, that's what you want to do.
Not quite sure what you mean. | It sounds like you need a nagios check for changes/alerts in [pbnj](http://pbnj.sourceforge.net/)
Use nagios to monitor the tool that tracks the changes, don't try to shim Nagios to track the changes. |
127,635 | I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a [Nagios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios) plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through [NRPE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios#Nagios_Remote_Plugin_Executor).
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux and they all... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/127635",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/14850/"
] | I suppose what you want is to make sure that there is no "positive" response on any port apart from a short whitelist. I can see how you would prefer not to have 65000 check\_tcp:s on each host :)
Mind you, I'm not sure nagios is really your best bet for this. Partly, it risks being a test that is always red and also,... | i really like nagios. have been using it for years. i even do some oracle database management with it, but what nagios really is is an availability monitoring tool. i think what you are asking for is better fulfilled by another software like [openvas](http://www.openvas.org/) or [snort](http://www.snort.org/). |
127,635 | I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a [Nagios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios) plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through [NRPE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios#Nagios_Remote_Plugin_Executor).
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux and they all... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/127635",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/14850/"
] | It sounds like you need a nagios check for changes/alerts in [pbnj](http://pbnj.sourceforge.net/)
Use nagios to monitor the tool that tracks the changes, don't try to shim Nagios to track the changes. | i really like nagios. have been using it for years. i even do some oracle database management with it, but what nagios really is is an availability monitoring tool. i think what you are asking for is better fulfilled by another software like [openvas](http://www.openvas.org/) or [snort](http://www.snort.org/). |
127,635 | I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a [Nagios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios) plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through [NRPE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios#Nagios_Remote_Plugin_Executor).
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux and they all... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/127635",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/14850/"
] | This guy has developed a nagios script for linux that does exactly what you are asking:
<http://www.altsec.info/check_scan.html>
I'm trying now to find a Windows equivalent
Miguel | i really like nagios. have been using it for years. i even do some oracle database management with it, but what nagios really is is an availability monitoring tool. i think what you are asking for is better fulfilled by another software like [openvas](http://www.openvas.org/) or [snort](http://www.snort.org/). |
127,635 | I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a [Nagios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios) plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through [NRPE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios#Nagios_Remote_Plugin_Executor).
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux and they all... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/127635",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/14850/"
] | This guy has developed a nagios script for linux that does exactly what you are asking:
<http://www.altsec.info/check_scan.html>
I'm trying now to find a Windows equivalent
Miguel | I suppose what you want is to make sure that there is no "positive" response on any port apart from a short whitelist. I can see how you would prefer not to have 65000 check\_tcp:s on each host :)
Mind you, I'm not sure nagios is really your best bet for this. Partly, it risks being a test that is always red and also,... |
127,635 | I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a [Nagios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios) plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through [NRPE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios#Nagios_Remote_Plugin_Executor).
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux and they all... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/127635",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/14850/"
] | This guy has developed a nagios script for linux that does exactly what you are asking:
<http://www.altsec.info/check_scan.html>
I'm trying now to find a Windows equivalent
Miguel | It sounds like you need a nagios check for changes/alerts in [pbnj](http://pbnj.sourceforge.net/)
Use nagios to monitor the tool that tracks the changes, don't try to shim Nagios to track the changes. |
441,419 | I’m curious if I have a legitimate concern or if I’m just being overly paranoid.
I have a rechargeable Lithium-Polymer battery (prismatic shaped) rated for a max charging temperature of 45 °C.
The battery rests against a circuit board that I know can generate some heat when charging the battery (500 mA current via an... | 2019/06/01 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/441419",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/77406/"
] | Lithium-Polymer service life is seriously degraded at high temperatures, especially when fully charged. The cooler you can keep the battery the better. I suggest using a more efficient switch-mode charging IC such as the TP5000. | Now, the question is: How much of it do the powerful chips that generate a lot of heat ("heat" is thermal energy) transfer into the battery; that's a question of considering where the heat goes.
First thing to realize is that if you have a perfectly sealed, perfectly thermally isolated box, it's going to heat up forev... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5533",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/7758/"
] | Seems like the answer is NO. While others here have helpfully suggested workarounds to try, the answer as to whether the piece of hardware I asked about exists in a single piece is NO. | The emulator that you want does exist. You are looking for an emulator that emulates a USB Floppy Drive. So the emulator connects to the computer via a USB cable, and the storage media is a USB Flash Drive.
Do a Google search on "UFA1M44-100" and you will find one model of emulator that emulates a USB Floppy Drive. Yo... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5533",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/7758/"
] | There's no way a USB anything can transparently emulate a floppy drive without a driver being preinstalled.
The traditional PC floppy drive was an ISA device and appeared on specific I/O ports (0x3F0 to 0x3F6 IIRC). Reading and writing to these ports was how you talked to the floppy drive.
USB peripherals talk to a ... | You can install XP in IDE mode and install the AHCI drivers afterwards, I did this on my netbook several times. I think it goes something like:
* Set disk controller to IDE mode in bios, and install XP.
* In device manager go to the disk controller and manually change the driver to the AHCI one.
* Reboot into bios and... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5533",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/7758/"
] | I don't think anyone sells something like that in one piece.
There are, however, components on the market that should allow you to build that from scratch:
1. A GoTek or HxC that behaves like a "real" floppy
2. An *old* Floppy-to-USB adapter that was used to connect "real" floppies over USB. I don't think they're sti... | You can install XP in IDE mode and install the AHCI drivers afterwards, I did this on my netbook several times. I think it goes something like:
* Set disk controller to IDE mode in bios, and install XP.
* In device manager go to the disk controller and manually change the driver to the AHCI one.
* Reboot into bios and... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5533",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/7758/"
] | I don't think anyone sells something like that in one piece.
There are, however, components on the market that should allow you to build that from scratch:
1. A GoTek or HxC that behaves like a "real" floppy
2. An *old* Floppy-to-USB adapter that was used to connect "real" floppies over USB. I don't think they're sti... | The emulator that you want does exist. You are looking for an emulator that emulates a USB Floppy Drive. So the emulator connects to the computer via a USB cable, and the storage media is a USB Flash Drive.
Do a Google search on "UFA1M44-100" and you will find one model of emulator that emulates a USB Floppy Drive. Yo... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5533",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/7758/"
] | Seems like the answer is NO. While others here have helpfully suggested workarounds to try, the answer as to whether the piece of hardware I asked about exists in a single piece is NO. | You can install XP in IDE mode and install the AHCI drivers afterwards, I did this on my netbook several times. I think it goes something like:
* Set disk controller to IDE mode in bios, and install XP.
* In device manager go to the disk controller and manually change the driver to the AHCI one.
* Reboot into bios and... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5533",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/7758/"
] | There's no way a USB anything can transparently emulate a floppy drive without a driver being preinstalled.
The traditional PC floppy drive was an ISA device and appeared on specific I/O ports (0x3F0 to 0x3F6 IIRC). Reading and writing to these ports was how you talked to the floppy drive.
USB peripherals talk to a ... | The emulator that you want does exist. You are looking for an emulator that emulates a USB Floppy Drive. So the emulator connects to the computer via a USB cable, and the storage media is a USB Flash Drive.
Do a Google search on "UFA1M44-100" and you will find one model of emulator that emulates a USB Floppy Drive. Yo... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5533",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/7758/"
] | There's no way a USB anything can transparently emulate a floppy drive without a driver being preinstalled.
The traditional PC floppy drive was an ISA device and appeared on specific I/O ports (0x3F0 to 0x3F6 IIRC). Reading and writing to these ports was how you talked to the floppy drive.
USB peripherals talk to a ... | To boil down what others are saying:
A USB device itself is incapable of *making itself appear* as a traditional floppy drive, because USB devices don't have that kind of access.
However, if you're lucky, your BIOS will have support for USB floppy drives and *it* can apply the same virtualization trick that it uses t... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
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] | I don't think anyone sells something like that in one piece.
There are, however, components on the market that should allow you to build that from scratch:
1. A GoTek or HxC that behaves like a "real" floppy
2. An *old* Floppy-to-USB adapter that was used to connect "real" floppies over USB. I don't think they're sti... | To boil down what others are saying:
A USB device itself is incapable of *making itself appear* as a traditional floppy drive, because USB devices don't have that kind of access.
However, if you're lucky, your BIOS will have support for USB floppy drives and *it* can apply the same virtualization trick that it uses t... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
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] | You can install XP in IDE mode and install the AHCI drivers afterwards, I did this on my netbook several times. I think it goes something like:
* Set disk controller to IDE mode in bios, and install XP.
* In device manager go to the disk controller and manually change the driver to the AHCI one.
* Reboot into bios and... | To boil down what others are saying:
A USB device itself is incapable of *making itself appear* as a traditional floppy drive, because USB devices don't have that kind of access.
However, if you're lucky, your BIOS will have support for USB floppy drives and *it* can apply the same virtualization trick that it uses t... |
5,533 | I'm aware there are floppy emulators that are installed to 3.5″ bays where disk images are stored on a flash drive. But what I need now is the opposite: essentially a USB dongle that emulates the floppy drive hardware with a disk inside. Something that older OS installers would recognize.
The need came up when I tried... | 2018/01/20 | [
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"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/7758/"
] | Seems like the answer is NO. While others here have helpfully suggested workarounds to try, the answer as to whether the piece of hardware I asked about exists in a single piece is NO. | To boil down what others are saying:
A USB device itself is incapable of *making itself appear* as a traditional floppy drive, because USB devices don't have that kind of access.
However, if you're lucky, your BIOS will have support for USB floppy drives and *it* can apply the same virtualization trick that it uses t... |
519,832 | I want to write the following sentence in a compact way:
"The difference between the old scheme and the new scheme lies in..."
Which one of the following is correct?
1. The difference between the old and **new scheme** lies in...
2. The difference between the old and **new schemes** lies in...
3. The difference betw... | 2019/12/04 | [
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] | All are variations of parallelism, with two distinct wrinkles:
* Whether the determiner or article must be repeated or not
* Whether the head noun is singular or plural
All four constructions are valid, but produce slight differences in emphasis.
---
>
> The difference between **the old and new** scheme lies in...... | Replacing the premodifiers with less esoteric ones (and assuming that that does not affect the analysis too greatly):
>
> 0' *The difference between the old model and the new model* ...
>
>
>
is the undeleted (part-) sentence, obviously correct for a single new model.
.............................................. |
519,832 | I want to write the following sentence in a compact way:
"The difference between the old scheme and the new scheme lies in..."
Which one of the following is correct?
1. The difference between the old and **new scheme** lies in...
2. The difference between the old and **new schemes** lies in...
3. The difference betw... | 2019/12/04 | [
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] | I would say that you do not require the last two articles, as neither is the focus of identification.
What is being identified is 'the' difference :
>
> The difference between old and new schemes lies in ...
>
>
>
---
It could be argued that this is an example of the zero article, that is to say the absent arti... | Replacing the premodifiers with less esoteric ones (and assuming that that does not affect the analysis too greatly):
>
> 0' *The difference between the old model and the new model* ...
>
>
>
is the undeleted (part-) sentence, obviously correct for a single new model.
.............................................. |
519,832 | I want to write the following sentence in a compact way:
"The difference between the old scheme and the new scheme lies in..."
Which one of the following is correct?
1. The difference between the old and **new scheme** lies in...
2. The difference between the old and **new schemes** lies in...
3. The difference betw... | 2019/12/04 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519832",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/368826/"
] | All are variations of parallelism, with two distinct wrinkles:
* Whether the determiner or article must be repeated or not
* Whether the head noun is singular or plural
All four constructions are valid, but produce slight differences in emphasis.
---
>
> The difference between **the old and new** scheme lies in...... | I would argue for one of the following forms, my preference being for the first.
>
> 1) ... the old scheme and the new scheme ...
>
>
> 2) ... the old and the new schemes ...
>
>
> 3) ... the two schemes, old and new, ...
>
>
>
This is because the difference is between a scheme and a scheme, not between "an ... |
519,832 | I want to write the following sentence in a compact way:
"The difference between the old scheme and the new scheme lies in..."
Which one of the following is correct?
1. The difference between the old and **new scheme** lies in...
2. The difference between the old and **new schemes** lies in...
3. The difference betw... | 2019/12/04 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519832",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/368826/"
] | I would say that you do not require the last two articles, as neither is the focus of identification.
What is being identified is 'the' difference :
>
> The difference between old and new schemes lies in ...
>
>
>
---
It could be argued that this is an example of the zero article, that is to say the absent arti... | I would argue for one of the following forms, my preference being for the first.
>
> 1) ... the old scheme and the new scheme ...
>
>
> 2) ... the old and the new schemes ...
>
>
> 3) ... the two schemes, old and new, ...
>
>
>
This is because the difference is between a scheme and a scheme, not between "an ... |
16,329 | I have some basic questions about my 1-year-old pug.
1. How much should he eat? Typically he should eat 2 times, but he always keeps some food in his bowl and whenever he wants he eats. Is this a good practice? (I use Royal Canin Mini Adult)
2. Now-a-days he always wants what I'm eating. How to stop this?
I'm too ne... | 2017/02/08 | [
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] | 1. As Gone2 has stated, you should definitely regulate your pug's intake by removing the food after 15-20 minutes with each feeding.
All kibble has feeding directions on the back, so you should follow the feeding recommendations on the bag for his weight unless otherwise directed by a veterinarian. Dogs should generall... | 1. Leaving food out beyond the two set feeding times is not a good practice. You should go by the recommended amount on the bag for his weight and split that in half; one portion each feeding.
2. To prevent begging you should avoid reacting to the begging and if necessary physically separate yourself from the him while... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
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] | I think you're vastly underestimating just how different a truly non-deterministic universe would be.
**Case A**
If the god's influence is sporadic enough that you can still discern a "default" set of laws that nature follows most of the time, then scientists would simply study those laws.
**Case B**
If the god's i... | This is actually a very common misconception about the scientific method that we seem to teach in schools. The scientific method is not *just* about identifying the "right" laws governing the universe. It is also about building useful models of the universe. In fact, if you are willing to sit down with any real scienti... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | **Caveat**: I've made some assumptions in order to make this work as a potential world. Like many have pointed out, a truly mad god acting without care would probably manage to kill off the human race pretty quickly if they acted often enough to have a tangible effect on the world (by triggering a catastrophic imbalanc... | As a writer and reader, if I'm dealing with a being with what we might call "godlike powers", they still have to operate within a larger reality. For example in your setup, Sheogorath builds a tiny "Perpetual Motion Machine" but is actually cheating because in some mysterious god power way, it is perfectly converting a... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | I think you're vastly underestimating just how different a truly non-deterministic universe would be.
**Case A**
If the god's influence is sporadic enough that you can still discern a "default" set of laws that nature follows most of the time, then scientists would simply study those laws.
**Case B**
If the god's i... | As a writer and reader, if I'm dealing with a being with what we might call "godlike powers", they still have to operate within a larger reality. For example in your setup, Sheogorath builds a tiny "Perpetual Motion Machine" but is actually cheating because in some mysterious god power way, it is perfectly converting a... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | **It very much depends on your god's sense of humour.**
If he's decided for example that [da red wunz go fasta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ork_%28Warhammer_40,000%29) and anything blue can fly then you've pretty much had it. All the rules that you come up with are going to be wrong.
If his logic has an internal co... | This is actually a very common misconception about the scientific method that we seem to teach in schools. The scientific method is not *just* about identifying the "right" laws governing the universe. It is also about building useful models of the universe. In fact, if you are willing to sit down with any real scienti... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | **Absolutely**
To quote some mouseover text from a certain webcomic: 'We don't use science to prove we're right. We use science to *become* right'. The scientific method is just as valid in your crazy mixed up world as it is now, and will remain so unless the world becomes so crazy that no logical sense can be made of... | As a writer and reader, if I'm dealing with a being with what we might call "godlike powers", they still have to operate within a larger reality. For example in your setup, Sheogorath builds a tiny "Perpetual Motion Machine" but is actually cheating because in some mysterious god power way, it is perfectly converting a... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | **Caveat**: I've made some assumptions in order to make this work as a potential world. Like many have pointed out, a truly mad god acting without care would probably manage to kill off the human race pretty quickly if they acted often enough to have a tangible effect on the world (by triggering a catastrophic imbalanc... | **Absolutely**
To quote some mouseover text from a certain webcomic: 'We don't use science to prove we're right. We use science to *become* right'. The scientific method is just as valid in your crazy mixed up world as it is now, and will remain so unless the world becomes so crazy that no logical sense can be made of... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | *Is the scientific method still possible in this world?*
More or less.
The scientific method depends heavily on being able to prove things are either true or false (at least it used to) with as many few "maybe" in between as possible. Those "maybe" being mostly regarded as proof of falsehood.
Simply put, it depend... | As a writer and reader, if I'm dealing with a being with what we might call "godlike powers", they still have to operate within a larger reality. For example in your setup, Sheogorath builds a tiny "Perpetual Motion Machine" but is actually cheating because in some mysterious god power way, it is perfectly converting a... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | **Caveat**: I've made some assumptions in order to make this work as a potential world. Like many have pointed out, a truly mad god acting without care would probably manage to kill off the human race pretty quickly if they acted often enough to have a tangible effect on the world (by triggering a catastrophic imbalanc... | This is actually a very common misconception about the scientific method that we seem to teach in schools. The scientific method is not *just* about identifying the "right" laws governing the universe. It is also about building useful models of the universe. In fact, if you are willing to sit down with any real scienti... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | **It very much depends on your god's sense of humour.**
If he's decided for example that [da red wunz go fasta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ork_%28Warhammer_40,000%29) and anything blue can fly then you've pretty much had it. All the rules that you come up with are going to be wrong.
If his logic has an internal co... | As a writer and reader, if I'm dealing with a being with what we might call "godlike powers", they still have to operate within a larger reality. For example in your setup, Sheogorath builds a tiny "Perpetual Motion Machine" but is actually cheating because in some mysterious god power way, it is perfectly converting a... |
33,840 | Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the [Mad God Sheogorath](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath) is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the pr... | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33840",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2763/"
] | **Absolutely**
To quote some mouseover text from a certain webcomic: 'We don't use science to prove we're right. We use science to *become* right'. The scientific method is just as valid in your crazy mixed up world as it is now, and will remain so unless the world becomes so crazy that no logical sense can be made of... | This is actually a very common misconception about the scientific method that we seem to teach in schools. The scientific method is not *just* about identifying the "right" laws governing the universe. It is also about building useful models of the universe. In fact, if you are willing to sit down with any real scienti... |
16,660 | I'm currently building a functional Lego escalator that is minifigure-scaled and with staircases transitioning from flat platform to stairwell. Here's my progress so far:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OOvDG.png)
But with the design of the staircases hopefully... | 2021/10/15 | [
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] | Could this work in you case? Using snot brick to build it vertically.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9mNeE.jpg)
EDIT 1:
The only way I managed to get your angle and snap it correctly is like that.
I used stud.io with collision turned on to be sure it could work.
I hope ... | **Update:**
Now that I have stud.io installed, I've finally got an upright design for the slope's framework as follows:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MTQh3.png)
This design was based off of @Hugo 's suggestion, but modif... |
330,170 | I learned British English, but I work exclusively with Americans. I'll often say "Fat lot of good X did for us", and I get confused looks from others. For example, the other day, I said "I think we should have had them take the web development course; fat lot of good the algorithms course did for them" and people have ... | 2022/12/30 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/330170",
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] | **Just leave out the fat**, in speech, and use a sarcastic tone.
"I think we should have had them take the web development course; a lot of good the algorithms course did for them."
The fact is that this is an idiomatic expression.
And **many Americans** *would in fact understand*
"a fat lot of good". Who cares what... | A whole lot of good would also work. I'm guessing the confusion comes from the fact that "fat" generally refers to being overweight. |
3,599,278 | I must develop a simple web application to produce reports. I have a single table "contract" and i must return very simple aggregated values : number of documents produced in a time range, average number of pages for documents and so on . The table gets filled by a batch application, users will have roles that will all... | 2010/08/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3599278",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | KISS - keep it simple and stupid. You have five days. Create working application and if you have time refactor it to some better solution. | The road to good code is not paved with design patterns.
Good code is code that is readable, maintainable, robust, compatible and future-proof.
Don’t get me wrong: Design patterns are a great thing because they help categorise, and thus teach, the experience that earlier generations of programmers have accrued. Each ... |
3,599,278 | I must develop a simple web application to produce reports. I have a single table "contract" and i must return very simple aggregated values : number of documents produced in a time range, average number of pages for documents and so on . The table gets filled by a batch application, users will have roles that will all... | 2010/08/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3599278",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | KISS - keep it simple and stupid. You have five days. Create working application and if you have time refactor it to some better solution. | How about you use strategy pattern for the retrieving data? And use interfaces like following to keep it extendable at all times.
* IReportFilter: Report filter/criteria set
* IReportParams: Gets report parameters
* IReportData: Gets the report data in a result set
* IReportFormat: Report formatting
* IReportRender: R... |
698,478 | I have to run Mac OS on virtual box for a class and it keeps giving me errors stating
"VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration not available on your system. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature and will fail to boot without it."
If there is a solution, I am not used to windows 8.1 and will need detailed ... | 2014/01/08 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/698478",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/287753/"
] | For anyone else who may look this up in future. I had the same problem. Turns out virtualization had been disabled in the bios. Check if this is the case. If so, just enable it and the error is gone | As previous replies have said, check if your processor supports VT-x virtualization. If it doesn't, then you just won't be able to run Mac OS on VirtualBox. If that is the case, consider VMWare Player, which is a decent alternative for VirtualBox, and is also free. It is commonly used in computers whose processors don'... |
80,774 | I recently switched to a new PC at work, one with two (identical, Dell 23") monitors. I'm running Linux Mint 15 64bit / Cinnamon. Is there a way to set it up in such a way that, instead of both monitors sharing the same huge workspace, they are on separate smaller ones? E.g. left monitor on workspace 1, right monitor o... | 2013/06/26 | [
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80774",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/41904/"
] | Found this on the Ubuntu Forums in a thread titled: [gnome panels on two monitors](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1417900).
*excerpt*
I believe what you want is the following:
1. You have to right click the panels on Monitor #1 and choose "New Panel"
2. Then hold Alt and click and drag the new panel to Mon... | The simplest solution is to use Docky on second screen, Docky by default calls apps on screen it is on :) |
40,006 | I'm trying to chart out a song, just so I have a chord chart to use for comping. It's in 4/4, and most chord changes happen on the strong beats (1 and 3), but there's a couple of places where beat 3 is anticipated (by an 8th note). For reference, the song is "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straights.
Is there any sort of c... | 2015/12/05 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/40006",
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"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/3404/"
] | (I don't have enough reputation points yet to comment, so I'll make this an answer instead. Will convert to comments on other answers later, or to edits on other answers, once I have enough cred to ask those answers' authors whether they welcome the edit.)
I don't see any convention specified in either the "Concise Di... | Since you're using a stave (don't know why), you can write in the last quaver of the bar previous to the chord to be pushed, with a tie mark across the barline. Write the actual chord over that quaver, thus before the bar. Shortly after that part, there's a syncopated Bb to C part, which really needs writing out in dot... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | What you see around the corners is most probably not glue, and certainly not put there to hold the chip in place during automated assembly.
Some SMD components need to be glued down after the soldering, as in case of a PCB with components on both sides, when you flip it upside down to assemble the other side some comp... | The main reason for using staking or underfill is to 1) reduce the stress on the BGA solder joints caused by CTE differences between the package and the board, 2) reduce the possibility of the part detaching from the board during a high shock (depth charge near a submarine) or vibration (rocket launch) event and 3) in ... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | To add on to the other excellent answers, and to answer your third question: the red glue you see is likely to be some kind of **corner staking** or **underfilling**. After soldering, an adhesive compound is added to mitigate in-the-field failure, particularly when packages are subjected to thermal or physical stresses... | What you see around the corners is most probably not glue, and certainly not put there to hold the chip in place during automated assembly.
Some SMD components need to be glued down after the soldering, as in case of a PCB with components on both sides, when you flip it upside down to assemble the other side some comp... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | What you see around the corners is most probably not glue, and certainly not put there to hold the chip in place during automated assembly.
Some SMD components need to be glued down after the soldering, as in case of a PCB with components on both sides, when you flip it upside down to assemble the other side some comp... | The "red" glue you are seeing is an SMT red glue and it's a certain type of temperature-set adhesive. Normally most assembly houses will not be using these adhesives, as surface tension will position the components correctly. However that is the "theory" ... In practice and depending on the circumstance, it may be requ... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | What you see around the corners is most probably not glue, and certainly not put there to hold the chip in place during automated assembly.
Some SMD components need to be glued down after the soldering, as in case of a PCB with components on both sides, when you flip it upside down to assemble the other side some comp... | * 1. No, absolutely no glue should be used on BGAs prior to reflow. BGA solder balls collapse slightly during reflow, increasing contact with the pad, and any adhesive would interfere with that.
* 2. The solder paste holds the chip in place prior to the melt, then surface tension during. No need for anything else.
* 3.... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | What you see around the corners is most probably not glue, and certainly not put there to hold the chip in place during automated assembly.
Some SMD components need to be glued down after the soldering, as in case of a PCB with components on both sides, when you flip it upside down to assemble the other side some comp... | Personally, I'm intimidated by the whole idea of BGA rework with hobby grade equipment, and really wouldn't do it.
But, no, if I were doing it, I would be very hesitant to glue the chip in place. Surface mount soldering relies on letting the surface tension of melted solder being able to pull the chip into alignment. ... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | To add on to the other excellent answers, and to answer your third question: the red glue you see is likely to be some kind of **corner staking** or **underfilling**. After soldering, an adhesive compound is added to mitigate in-the-field failure, particularly when packages are subjected to thermal or physical stresses... | * 1. No, absolutely no glue should be used on BGAs prior to reflow. BGA solder balls collapse slightly during reflow, increasing contact with the pad, and any adhesive would interfere with that.
* 2. The solder paste holds the chip in place prior to the melt, then surface tension during. No need for anything else.
* 3.... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | To add on to the other excellent answers, and to answer your third question: the red glue you see is likely to be some kind of **corner staking** or **underfilling**. After soldering, an adhesive compound is added to mitigate in-the-field failure, particularly when packages are subjected to thermal or physical stresses... | The "red" glue you are seeing is an SMT red glue and it's a certain type of temperature-set adhesive. Normally most assembly houses will not be using these adhesives, as surface tension will position the components correctly. However that is the "theory" ... In practice and depending on the circumstance, it may be requ... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | To add on to the other excellent answers, and to answer your third question: the red glue you see is likely to be some kind of **corner staking** or **underfilling**. After soldering, an adhesive compound is added to mitigate in-the-field failure, particularly when packages are subjected to thermal or physical stresses... | Personally, I'm intimidated by the whole idea of BGA rework with hobby grade equipment, and really wouldn't do it.
But, no, if I were doing it, I would be very hesitant to glue the chip in place. Surface mount soldering relies on letting the surface tension of melted solder being able to pull the chip into alignment. ... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | To add on to the other excellent answers, and to answer your third question: the red glue you see is likely to be some kind of **corner staking** or **underfilling**. After soldering, an adhesive compound is added to mitigate in-the-field failure, particularly when packages are subjected to thermal or physical stresses... | What others have said. We use a small under-board preheater (my technician says that is essential) so minimal airflow is needed on top using a hot air pencil. We just bought one of those inexpensive reflow ovens (under USD$500), which with some controller modifications can be quite good for doing small board runs. I sa... |
654,953 | I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder BGA chips using hot air, should I glue the chips to the board before heating?
In their answers to a quite similar que... | 2023/02/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654953",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/199752/"
] | To add on to the other excellent answers, and to answer your third question: the red glue you see is likely to be some kind of **corner staking** or **underfilling**. After soldering, an adhesive compound is added to mitigate in-the-field failure, particularly when packages are subjected to thermal or physical stresses... | The main reason for using staking or underfill is to 1) reduce the stress on the BGA solder joints caused by CTE differences between the package and the board, 2) reduce the possibility of the part detaching from the board during a high shock (depth charge near a submarine) or vibration (rocket launch) event and 3) in ... |
511,515 | We have a scenario
One Main e-commerce website - currently attracting a lot of visitors.
Three sub "brand specific" sites which will hang off this site - each of these sites will potentiall have the same level of traffic over time.
The client requires order processing for each brand site to happen in one place (i.e.... | 2009/02/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/511515",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/42446/"
] | Without having a more detailed understanding of how your application is to function it is difficult to provide you with clear direction.
Your proposed implementation of having a central server (Publisher) supporting reads and writes, with a number of additional site specific servers (subscribers) for reads only, is ce... | Not a specific answer to your question but [Youtube scaling](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6304964351441328559) is an interesting video about youtube scaling. Prehaps it will give you some ideas. |
105,877 | So I'm making a game using love2d where the player will find himself in an zombie infested city but I don't want the city/map to be just the same all the time, so I want to create a random map/city generator, but I don't know where to start, I maybe can make my own but the result would probably be not what I wanted, as... | 2015/08/19 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/105877",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/70087/"
] | Like stated by Shiro in a comment , it's difficult to give a precise answer. I can suggest a possible starting point.
Use random [voronoi](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagramma_di_Voronoi) generation where , given a set of random points P , each point in space is weighted relative to the distance from the nearest p ... | You should do some research about l-systems, they allow you to specify some basic rules and then procedurally generate the map.
You could for example specify that every building must be surrounded by roads, and every road must continue in a straight line or eventually end, and every road is surrounded by buildings or ... |
105,877 | So I'm making a game using love2d where the player will find himself in an zombie infested city but I don't want the city/map to be just the same all the time, so I want to create a random map/city generator, but I don't know where to start, I maybe can make my own but the result would probably be not what I wanted, as... | 2015/08/19 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/105877",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/70087/"
] | There are simple ways to generate cities, depending on your needs.
Some time ago, I wanted to generate cities for a fantasy setting, so I started [playing with a generator](http://rpg20.com/cityGen.php?imgStyle=3&citySize=very_large). Like I said in [another SE post](https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/57695/moder... | You should do some research about l-systems, they allow you to specify some basic rules and then procedurally generate the map.
You could for example specify that every building must be surrounded by roads, and every road must continue in a straight line or eventually end, and every road is surrounded by buildings or ... |
951,981 | Expanding on [How can I make Windows 8 use the classic theme?](https://superuser.com/questions/513492/how-can-i-make-windows-8-use-the-classic-theme) and [Windows 10 TenForums: Windows Classic Look Theme in Windows 10](http://www.tenforums.com/customization/11432-windows-classic-look-theme-windows-10-a.html) -- how doe... | 2015/08/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/951981",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/327566/"
] | Have a look at this thread:
<http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=113024&p=777781&hilit=classictheme#p777781>
They're discussing/testing how to modify windows binary files to "get back" to classic interface by "unusual" methods, rather than just turning colors into gray!
But it appears to be very complex d... | Its impossible to change it to:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YMIdr.png)
If you are REALLY desperate for the classic theme, [downgrade to Windows 7](http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/roll-back-windows-7-from-windows-8-3459580/). Or go along with this
[ and [Windows 10 TenForums: Windows Classic Look Theme in Windows 10](http://www.tenforums.com/customization/11432-windows-classic-look-theme-windows-10-a.html) -- how doe... | 2015/08/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/951981",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/327566/"
] | Have a look at this thread:
<http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=113024&p=777781&hilit=classictheme#p777781>
They're discussing/testing how to modify windows binary files to "get back" to classic interface by "unusual" methods, rather than just turning colors into gray!
But it appears to be very complex d... | On Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 1903 and above I suggest to use [Explorer Patcher](https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher) and [ClassicThemeTray](https://github.com/spitfirex86/ClassicThemeTray):
[![Windows 11 in classic theme, with the help of ExplorerPatcher and OpenShell](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7CACo.pn... |
75,214 | I copied 3.62 GB of data on to a re-writable DVD instead of erasing it. Now there is no data on the disc but it shows used space as 3.62 GB and 690 MB of free space. Now I am unable to erase my disc. What should I do to erase the disc and get the space back? | 2009/11/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/75214",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/96938/"
] | You aren't supposed to format a DVD-RW. Use something like [CDBurnerXP](http://cdburnerxp.se/)'s erase function:
 | As stated elsewhere, you need to erase the DVD-RW before using it again. I have a very simple low profile program I use called Active@DVD Eraser located here:<http://www.ntfs.com/dvd_eraser.htm> |
75,214 | I copied 3.62 GB of data on to a re-writable DVD instead of erasing it. Now there is no data on the disc but it shows used space as 3.62 GB and 690 MB of free space. Now I am unable to erase my disc. What should I do to erase the disc and get the space back? | 2009/11/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/75214",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/96938/"
] | Another free alternative:
[ImgBurn](http://www.imgburn.com/)
 | As stated elsewhere, you need to erase the DVD-RW before using it again. I have a very simple low profile program I use called Active@DVD Eraser located here:<http://www.ntfs.com/dvd_eraser.htm> |
75,214 | I copied 3.62 GB of data on to a re-writable DVD instead of erasing it. Now there is no data on the disc but it shows used space as 3.62 GB and 690 MB of free space. Now I am unable to erase my disc. What should I do to erase the disc and get the space back? | 2009/11/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/75214",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/96938/"
] | if you don't want to install additional software, use **[InfraRecorder](http://infrarecorder.org/)** Portable.
Go to **Actions** > **Erase/Format Disc...** | As stated elsewhere, you need to erase the DVD-RW before using it again. I have a very simple low profile program I use called Active@DVD Eraser located here:<http://www.ntfs.com/dvd_eraser.htm> |
150,258 | Someone moved a very important page on my website into the trash, and I do not know who did it! It was not deleted permanently so I don't need to worry, in that sense.
The revisions, when I restored it, show that someone edited it 3 days prior to today, so it could have been them, but I can't be sure.
Does WP keep tr... | 2014/06/20 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/150258",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/15209/"
] | No, natively WordPress does not log any activity. While plugins for it exist, they won't work retroactively.
However don't forget that any action taken in WordPress is technically a HTTP request, such as page load, form submit, or Ajax request.
These are often logged pretty thoroughly in web server's access log and i... | There is a free plugin called *Stream* that will make your life much easier. Search within the WordPress plugins page. It logs all changes to posts and who is responsible for them. |
150,258 | Someone moved a very important page on my website into the trash, and I do not know who did it! It was not deleted permanently so I don't need to worry, in that sense.
The revisions, when I restored it, show that someone edited it 3 days prior to today, so it could have been them, but I can't be sure.
Does WP keep tr... | 2014/06/20 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/150258",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/15209/"
] | WP can not do it, but you can go to the server logs and find the user's IP. It may take some effort and success is not guaranteed but this is the only possible way. Will's answer will help you in future mistakes.
Finding a user based on their IP is not usually hard especially if the number of authors is limited. | There is a free plugin called *Stream* that will make your life much easier. Search within the WordPress plugins page. It logs all changes to posts and who is responsible for them. |
21,239 | I'm setting up a projection map for a non-profit that will have images projected onto angular and unusually shaped walls. I use modul8 on my mac in the past, but this case is different. They use PC (in fact their whole show runs off of a laptop) and they want the ability to change the images based on the theme of the s... | 2017/04/20 | [
"https://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/21239",
"https://avp.stackexchange.com",
"https://avp.stackexchange.com/users/18709/"
] | It is certainly possible to use FCPX and AfterEffects as part of the same workflow. To do this effectively, you will need to use an intermediate codec that preserves image quality across successive generations. ProRes HQ 422 is a good baseline as an intermediate codec. There are higher quality ProRes codecs (XQ 4444) a... | While Adobe and Apple each link their editing software with their own respective compositing software, saying 'AE is to Premiere as Motion is to FCPX' glosses over the strengths and differences of each package.
Sure, AE is a powerful compositing app, and it's dynamic link to Premiere is convenient, but Adobe is still ... |
34,160 | I'm making a malware software in my final thesis at the university. I won't use it ever, and it was made by educational and scientific purposes only. But my university will publish it, giving the opportunity for everyone to use it. If someone commit a crime with my software, can I get in trouble? | 2018/12/07 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/34160",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> my university will publish it, giving the opportunity for everyone to
> use it. If someone commit a crime with my software, can I get in
> trouble?
>
>
>
I would say "No" for three reasons. I will assume that you are in a jurisdiction of the U.S. or reasonably similar thereto.
First, the malware code is par... | There's not much I can say without knowing where you're operating, but I would suspect the charges would fall on the party who used it, not the developer. Especially if you could prove your university sanctioned the project's creation and lack of ill intent. I know this isn't the place for opinions, but I could find no... |
1,787,006 | I am working to integrate data from an external web service in the client side of my appliction. Someone asked me to test the condition when the service is unavailable or down. Anyone have any tips on how to block this site temporarily while we run the test to see how the service degrades?
For those curious we are tes... | 2009/11/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1787006",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10676/"
] | Create some Mock-Webservice class or interface (and [inject](http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html) [it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBVJbzAagfs)). In there, you could test the response of your system to webservice failures and also what happens, if a web-service request take longer than expected or actual... | How about blocking the domain name(s) in question by putting a nonsense entry into the `hosts` file? |
1,787,006 | I am working to integrate data from an external web service in the client side of my appliction. Someone asked me to test the condition when the service is unavailable or down. Anyone have any tips on how to block this site temporarily while we run the test to see how the service degrades?
For those curious we are tes... | 2009/11/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1787006",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10676/"
] | You need to be sure to test the most common failure modes for this:
1. DNS lookup fails
2. IP connection fails (once DNS lookup succeeds)
3. HTTP response other than 200
4. HTTP response incomplete or timeout
5. HTTP response 200 but RPC or document returned is invalid
Those are just a few common failure modes I coul... | How about blocking the domain name(s) in question by putting a nonsense entry into the `hosts` file? |
35,349 | I'm making a game with target (orbit camera). I want to limit camera movements when in room. So that camera don't go through walls when moving around target and along the ground.
What are common approaches? Any good links with tutorials? I use Unity3D, nevertheless I'm good with a general solution to the problem | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35349",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/19462/"
] | Make a snake game with it. Make a shooter game with it. Make some simple well known games to start off. Once you've done this, you should be more confident with your engine, and making these games will give you ideas on where to keep going. | This is one of the classic problems of game engine development - your engine most probably is too generic.
Pick your favorite genre, perhaps even your favorite game - and look at how things work there. Try to copy a thing or two. Make something good, make something bad. Create experiments and problems. Experiments are... |
35,349 | I'm making a game with target (orbit camera). I want to limit camera movements when in room. So that camera don't go through walls when moving around target and along the ground.
What are common approaches? Any good links with tutorials? I use Unity3D, nevertheless I'm good with a general solution to the problem | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35349",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/19462/"
] | Make a snake game with it. Make a shooter game with it. Make some simple well known games to start off. Once you've done this, you should be more confident with your engine, and making these games will give you ideas on where to keep going. | Proceeding with levels seems like a good next step, it can teach you how to create data structures to fit your game, and file input/output.
Also, I would just have tried to build the engine with a set target game in mind. You don't have to be very specific, but say just make the engine for a specific genre that you li... |
35,349 | I'm making a game with target (orbit camera). I want to limit camera movements when in room. So that camera don't go through walls when moving around target and along the ground.
What are common approaches? Any good links with tutorials? I use Unity3D, nevertheless I'm good with a general solution to the problem | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35349",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/19462/"
] | Make a snake game with it. Make a shooter game with it. Make some simple well known games to start off. Once you've done this, you should be more confident with your engine, and making these games will give you ideas on where to keep going. | I disagree with @William 'MindWorX' Mariager regarding the nature of the question. It's game design and game programming related and belong here.
@Tomas, you created the egg before the chicken. You want your coding to have a purpose first. This is how project and business works. Most game development team will create... |
35,349 | I'm making a game with target (orbit camera). I want to limit camera movements when in room. So that camera don't go through walls when moving around target and along the ground.
What are common approaches? Any good links with tutorials? I use Unity3D, nevertheless I'm good with a general solution to the problem | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35349",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/19462/"
] | Go to LudumDare and see games that got a lot of positive attention in previous competitions. Play them and see which ones you like and simply develop on those ideas. Taking ideas from one game is stealing, taking from two or more is research. | This is one of the classic problems of game engine development - your engine most probably is too generic.
Pick your favorite genre, perhaps even your favorite game - and look at how things work there. Try to copy a thing or two. Make something good, make something bad. Create experiments and problems. Experiments are... |
35,349 | I'm making a game with target (orbit camera). I want to limit camera movements when in room. So that camera don't go through walls when moving around target and along the ground.
What are common approaches? Any good links with tutorials? I use Unity3D, nevertheless I'm good with a general solution to the problem | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35349",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/19462/"
] | This is one of the classic problems of game engine development - your engine most probably is too generic.
Pick your favorite genre, perhaps even your favorite game - and look at how things work there. Try to copy a thing or two. Make something good, make something bad. Create experiments and problems. Experiments are... | Proceeding with levels seems like a good next step, it can teach you how to create data structures to fit your game, and file input/output.
Also, I would just have tried to build the engine with a set target game in mind. You don't have to be very specific, but say just make the engine for a specific genre that you li... |
35,349 | I'm making a game with target (orbit camera). I want to limit camera movements when in room. So that camera don't go through walls when moving around target and along the ground.
What are common approaches? Any good links with tutorials? I use Unity3D, nevertheless I'm good with a general solution to the problem | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35349",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/19462/"
] | This is one of the classic problems of game engine development - your engine most probably is too generic.
Pick your favorite genre, perhaps even your favorite game - and look at how things work there. Try to copy a thing or two. Make something good, make something bad. Create experiments and problems. Experiments are... | I disagree with @William 'MindWorX' Mariager regarding the nature of the question. It's game design and game programming related and belong here.
@Tomas, you created the egg before the chicken. You want your coding to have a purpose first. This is how project and business works. Most game development team will create... |
35,349 | I'm making a game with target (orbit camera). I want to limit camera movements when in room. So that camera don't go through walls when moving around target and along the ground.
What are common approaches? Any good links with tutorials? I use Unity3D, nevertheless I'm good with a general solution to the problem | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35349",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/19462/"
] | Go to LudumDare and see games that got a lot of positive attention in previous competitions. Play them and see which ones you like and simply develop on those ideas. Taking ideas from one game is stealing, taking from two or more is research. | Proceeding with levels seems like a good next step, it can teach you how to create data structures to fit your game, and file input/output.
Also, I would just have tried to build the engine with a set target game in mind. You don't have to be very specific, but say just make the engine for a specific genre that you li... |
35,349 | I'm making a game with target (orbit camera). I want to limit camera movements when in room. So that camera don't go through walls when moving around target and along the ground.
What are common approaches? Any good links with tutorials? I use Unity3D, nevertheless I'm good with a general solution to the problem | 2012/08/31 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35349",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
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] | Go to LudumDare and see games that got a lot of positive attention in previous competitions. Play them and see which ones you like and simply develop on those ideas. Taking ideas from one game is stealing, taking from two or more is research. | I disagree with @William 'MindWorX' Mariager regarding the nature of the question. It's game design and game programming related and belong here.
@Tomas, you created the egg before the chicken. You want your coding to have a purpose first. This is how project and business works. Most game development team will create... |
5,914,978 | I am currently in the planning stages for a fairly comprehensive rewrite of one of our core (commercial) software offerings, and I am looking for a bit of advice.
Our current software is a business management package written in Winforms (originally in .NET 2.0, but has transitioned into 4.0 so far) that communicates d... | 2011/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5914978",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | *(I am working on the assumption that by "stateful" you mean session-based).*
I guess one big question is: Do you want to use SOAP in your messaging stack?
You may be loathe to, as often there is no out-of-box support for SOAP on mobile platforms (see: [How to call a web service with Android](https://stackoverflow.co... | 1) consider stateful utility services using singletons, but keep the request/response pattern at the facade level stateless.
2) consider distributed caching, perhaps Windows Server AppFabric Cache. |
7,900 | [The Axis of Awesome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Axis_of_Awesome) has a song called "4 Chords", a medley of various songs all written, or so it's claimed, using the same four chords.
Now, from what I understand, a chord is just a bunch of tones played at the same time so they sound like one. For example, a 300 H... | 2012/11/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/7900",
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] | **tl;dr - your definition of chord is wrong.**
Your initial assumption
>
> a 300 Hz note and a 500 Hz note played simultaneously will be a 100
> Hz sound
>
>
>
is unfortunately incorrect.
When you play a 300Hz note and a 500Hz note what you will get is a 300Hz note, and a 500Hz note, **and** a 200Hz note (the ... | Well, I don't know about all this hertz stuff, that's never interested me as a musician. A chord is a harmony that is created with a SET of usually three or four different notes (tones) that are not repeated. It does not matter which order you play them as long as they are played simulataneously.
Now sometimes a band... |
7,900 | [The Axis of Awesome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Axis_of_Awesome) has a song called "4 Chords", a medley of various songs all written, or so it's claimed, using the same four chords.
Now, from what I understand, a chord is just a bunch of tones played at the same time so they sound like one. For example, a 300 H... | 2012/11/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/7900",
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] | The chords are I, IV, V, and vi (not in that order) which together contain every note in the key. So any extra notes could be considered to be part of one of those chords. Regardless though the idea is not that the keyboardist plays only a specific set of notes. It's that four chords (in the broader sense Dr Mayhem men... | Well, I don't know about all this hertz stuff, that's never interested me as a musician. A chord is a harmony that is created with a SET of usually three or four different notes (tones) that are not repeated. It does not matter which order you play them as long as they are played simulataneously.
Now sometimes a band... |
203,829 | We have a point-of-sale system that was developed using ado.net, our current concern is to make the application real fast in creating transactions (sales). Usually there are no performance concerns with high end PCs but with with low end PCs, the transactions take really slow.
The main concern is on saving transaction... | 2013/07/05 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/203829",
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] | I would like to point out that Entity Framework (full name: [ADO.NET Entity Framework](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399572.aspx)) is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that uses ADO.NET under the hood for connecting to the database. So the question "should we use ADO.NET or EF?" doesn't really make sense in... | If you are looking for performance stay away from EF. It is the slowest ORM out there and uses a lot of memory to keep the database metadata. Most [benchmarks](http://www.servicestack.net/benchmarks/) out there show that - |
203,829 | We have a point-of-sale system that was developed using ado.net, our current concern is to make the application real fast in creating transactions (sales). Usually there are no performance concerns with high end PCs but with with low end PCs, the transactions take really slow.
The main concern is on saving transaction... | 2013/07/05 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/203829",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/79820/"
] | If you are looking for performance stay away from EF. It is the slowest ORM out there and uses a lot of memory to keep the database metadata. Most [benchmarks](http://www.servicestack.net/benchmarks/) out there show that - | How necessary is it that each transaction require a database call?
At what point is the db insertion being performed? Is there one call per transaction or is it inserting with every addition to the order causing a major lag throughout the user's interaction?
Can the db call be handled through private HTTP requests to... |
203,829 | We have a point-of-sale system that was developed using ado.net, our current concern is to make the application real fast in creating transactions (sales). Usually there are no performance concerns with high end PCs but with with low end PCs, the transactions take really slow.
The main concern is on saving transaction... | 2013/07/05 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/203829",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/79820/"
] | I would like to point out that Entity Framework (full name: [ADO.NET Entity Framework](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399572.aspx)) is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that uses ADO.NET under the hood for connecting to the database. So the question "should we use ADO.NET or EF?" doesn't really make sense in... | You say you are calling a "lot of stored procedures". If every call includes a seperate trip to the database, that is your performance issue, because trips to the database are always expensive, no matter what they do. You should have one stored procedure to save a transaction. If that procedure has to call other proced... |
203,829 | We have a point-of-sale system that was developed using ado.net, our current concern is to make the application real fast in creating transactions (sales). Usually there are no performance concerns with high end PCs but with with low end PCs, the transactions take really slow.
The main concern is on saving transaction... | 2013/07/05 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/203829",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/79820/"
] | I would like to point out that Entity Framework (full name: [ADO.NET Entity Framework](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399572.aspx)) is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that uses ADO.NET under the hood for connecting to the database. So the question "should we use ADO.NET or EF?" doesn't really make sense in... | How necessary is it that each transaction require a database call?
At what point is the db insertion being performed? Is there one call per transaction or is it inserting with every addition to the order causing a major lag throughout the user's interaction?
Can the db call be handled through private HTTP requests to... |
203,829 | We have a point-of-sale system that was developed using ado.net, our current concern is to make the application real fast in creating transactions (sales). Usually there are no performance concerns with high end PCs but with with low end PCs, the transactions take really slow.
The main concern is on saving transaction... | 2013/07/05 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/203829",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/79820/"
] | You say you are calling a "lot of stored procedures". If every call includes a seperate trip to the database, that is your performance issue, because trips to the database are always expensive, no matter what they do. You should have one stored procedure to save a transaction. If that procedure has to call other proced... | How necessary is it that each transaction require a database call?
At what point is the db insertion being performed? Is there one call per transaction or is it inserting with every addition to the order causing a major lag throughout the user's interaction?
Can the db call be handled through private HTTP requests to... |
33,818 | I recently bought a Sandisk Cruzer USB drive. Part of the drive (6.66 MB) is formatted with CDFS and shows as a CD drive.
Why do they do this ? Is it to protect the software on that part of the disk to trick the OS (Vista) into not overwriting or amending, because it thinks this is a read-only CD ?
Is the 6.66 MB sig... | 2009/09/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/33818",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/7891/"
] | This is part of the U3 software that comes on it. It is garbage and I always remove it, the link for the removal tool is here:<http://u3.com/support/default.aspx#CQ3>
Keep in mind, this will format your drive. | Most likely the reason they did this was to prevent overwriting their software from the flash drive.
If desired, you should be able to change the partition scheme to fully utilize the drive. The easiest way to do this is to boot into [a Linux LiveCD](http://www.ubuntu.com/) and use [gParted](http://www.wikihow.com/Us... |
33,818 | I recently bought a Sandisk Cruzer USB drive. Part of the drive (6.66 MB) is formatted with CDFS and shows as a CD drive.
Why do they do this ? Is it to protect the software on that part of the disk to trick the OS (Vista) into not overwriting or amending, because it thinks this is a read-only CD ?
Is the 6.66 MB sig... | 2009/09/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/33818",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/7891/"
] | This is part of the U3 software that comes on it. It is garbage and I always remove it, the link for the removal tool is here:<http://u3.com/support/default.aspx#CQ3>
Keep in mind, this will format your drive. | Does the pseudo-CD have an autorun.inf file on it?
This is sometimes done to take advantage of the CD autorun feature. When one of these devices is plugged into a computer that has autorun enabled, a program on the drive will start automatically. This is typically a small pop-up menu that allows the user to run, insta... |
5,389 | In the comments to [this answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/5258/85) to [the question of why Abraham lied to Pharaoh about his relationship with Sarah](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/3524/why-did-abraham-lie-to-pharaoh-about-sarah-being-his-sister-in-gen-12/5258#5258), the following ques... | 2012/01/13 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5389",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/85/"
] | Sibling marriage, and later, "near kin" marriage, was the only initial option; the limited selection repeated with Noah's 3 sons and their wives following the great flood. Just 340 year later Abram, was 10 when his half-sister Sarai was born. During this time period sibling and "near kin" marriage was less common, but ... | Abraham married his wife before his calling from God and before the 10 commandments. Every wrong action after the 10 commandments is a sin. |
5,389 | In the comments to [this answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/5258/85) to [the question of why Abraham lied to Pharaoh about his relationship with Sarah](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/3524/why-did-abraham-lie-to-pharaoh-about-sarah-being-his-sister-in-gen-12/5258#5258), the following ques... | 2012/01/13 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5389",
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] | During Abraham's time the law hadn't been written against a man taking his father's daughter as his wife. After the law was written in:
>
> **[Deuteronomy 27:22](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2027:22&version=NKJV)** (NKJV)
>
> 22 ‘Cursed *is* the one who lies with his sister, the daughter... | In Genesis 11:31 the KJV reads "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there."
Why would it say "Sarai his daught... |
5,389 | In the comments to [this answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/5258/85) to [the question of why Abraham lied to Pharaoh about his relationship with Sarah](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/3524/why-did-abraham-lie-to-pharaoh-about-sarah-being-his-sister-in-gen-12/5258#5258), the following ques... | 2012/01/13 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5389",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
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] | Abraham just lacked faith at that time and was telling lies. He did not trust God to protect him, so he used his wife and her beauty instead – that's why God kept revealing and exposing him where ever he went. | Abraham married his wife before his calling from God and before the 10 commandments. Every wrong action after the 10 commandments is a sin. |
5,389 | In the comments to [this answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/5258/85) to [the question of why Abraham lied to Pharaoh about his relationship with Sarah](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/3524/why-did-abraham-lie-to-pharaoh-about-sarah-being-his-sister-in-gen-12/5258#5258), the following ques... | 2012/01/13 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5389",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
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] | Like my answer [here](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5049/did-adam-and-eves-progeny-commit-incest), you need to keep the chronology right. There is no levitical law at the time of Abraham.
Thus, even if he did marry his sister, remember that he was breaking no covenantal restriction on doing so. As I... | During Abraham's time the law hadn't been written against a man taking his father's daughter as his wife. After the law was written in:
>
> **[Deuteronomy 27:22](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2027:22&version=NKJV)** (NKJV)
>
> 22 ‘Cursed *is* the one who lies with his sister, the daughter... |
5,389 | In the comments to [this answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/5258/85) to [the question of why Abraham lied to Pharaoh about his relationship with Sarah](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/3524/why-did-abraham-lie-to-pharaoh-about-sarah-being-his-sister-in-gen-12/5258#5258), the following ques... | 2012/01/13 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5389",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/85/"
] | Marrying a close relative was not forbidden at that time. The old question of "Where did Cain get his wife?" is answered by saying that he married a sister of his. It was not immoral at that time, since there was no law forbidding it.
Leviticus is where we find such laws, which was written over 400 years after the tim... | In Ancient times, the word for "sister" also means "cousin" in Semitic languages. Aramaic word "Khtha" can mean sister or cousin. I believe the intended meaning here was Cousin.
Genesis 11:26-27 (NIV) - "After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of **Abram, Nahor and Haran**. This is the account of Terah’s... |
5,389 | In the comments to [this answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/5258/85) to [the question of why Abraham lied to Pharaoh about his relationship with Sarah](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/3524/why-did-abraham-lie-to-pharaoh-about-sarah-being-his-sister-in-gen-12/5258#5258), the following ques... | 2012/01/13 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5389",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/85/"
] | During Abraham's time the law hadn't been written against a man taking his father's daughter as his wife. After the law was written in:
>
> **[Deuteronomy 27:22](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2027:22&version=NKJV)** (NKJV)
>
> 22 ‘Cursed *is* the one who lies with his sister, the daughter... | "If Sarai (later Sarah) was the daughter of Terah, then Sarai would have been listed along with Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
So we can confirm that the intended meaning was cousin."
Hmm, but in Genesis 20 Abraham says ...
Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will ki... |
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