How do you balance time for playdates vs family time?

Question: Both playdates and family time are extremely important to the growth, maturity, and well being of children.  That being said how do you balance playdates and family time given the limited time we have for either once our kids are in school?  Are there any studies that speak to this?
Comment: Unfortunately I do not find that any of these answers actually address the question of HOW to deal with the problem. They all restate the problem in different forms and bring out all the problems. Many of you seem to think playdates are not important however, as kids get older, and here I am talking as early as pre-k and certainly my second grader, they almost need playdates to keep up with the social scene which is so important for self esteem. As well they enjoy them. Family time is a given and must be time spent playing with the children or doing projects or other focused time; not only fam
Comment: I think the problem is that you don't specify what kind of answers you want. What do you mean with "how"? I mean, the correct answer is "You increase what is to low, and decrease what is too high, until you have reached balance". Which of course is a pretty useless answer. So you must mean something else with "how", but *what* you mean isn't clear. Do you mean to ask what balance is a good balance?
Answer: Maybe I can approach the question in a broader sense. In suburban America we have built a community that does not meet our needs. To get anywhere we have to drive. For children, schools are out of walking distance, friends from school can be further than that, and parents don't trust children to bicycle on neighborhood roads. We spend so much time driving that we lose the time we need to live.
In one example I've come across; a child's karate class was less than 1/8 mile away from their home (in a straight line) but to get there his mother had to drive out of their neighborhood, down to the major streets,  through 2 red light intersections, do a u-turn, and pull into the karate building's parking lot. A 5 minute walk has been turned into a 12 min drive, each way. For a one hour karate class his mom drives for almost an hour to drop him off and pick him up.
So here's my answer to your question:
We are often tempted to treat our children's time as something to be optimized. We have this feeling that by including the most high value experiences into each day they will grow up to be... what? Instead of optimizing our children's time, let's work on optimizing the richness of their environment. Get to know your neighbors and their children. Work to utilize, improve, and expand your neighborhood assets; parks, libraries, schools, community centers, vacant land, front yards, and streets. Plant fruit trees in the front yard, build a garden and recruit neighbor kids to work it with your kids, build bicycle ramps, or close the street for a block party. Get back time for family and friends by making the place you live the place you want to be.
In the long term, the above suggestions will give your children time for unstructured play, exposure to adult role models, and more time with the family. In the short term, I think, focus on time with family and let your children remind you when they want to play with their friends.
Answer: I found, by experience, that the best family time is the daily meal time. Set a time that suites everyone's schedule. Stretch the meal to include dessert. Open non-controversial discussions. Give chance to everyone to talk about their day. You want everyone to look forward to it. In short, make it a quality family time.
In addition to the fixed daily time, there are many opportunities for one-on-one interfaces. Examples are driving to and from school, helping with the homework, and discussing personal topics with each individual. Critical and controversial subjects are better handled during one-on-one sessions.
There are also weekly opportunities in the weekend for family activities. This is not regular because it depends on every individual's responsibilities and interest. Family meetings to discuss and make decisions on family matters can be held in the weekend. Hobbies shared between family members brings them together. Also attending children school events are available opportunities.
Playdate is a non-structured time where children spend time together. If there are children of the same age living close by, it is very easy for them to get together. Parents do not have to drive. Arrangement between parents to rotate the visitation is recommended. However, if there is no one close by, children can gather in one home after school. This can be part of carpooling arrangement. Playdates do not have to be every day, although children may like it to be.
In summary, every school day has the following scheduled activities:

School
Playdate
Homework
Meal time (dinner)

The order of the events depends on the circumstances. Some children go to school afternoon, in this case plydates may be before school.
Comment: Seems that simple, but with four kids and school not getting out until 3:30 this plan does not work.  As well you mention before school?  I agree completely that meal time is the best family time however the kids need more than that!
Answer: I would consider why you are organizing play dates. If your children are in school, they have play/social time. Depending on their age, this is less once they are in secondary schools. I think it is important to consider the desired outcome from each interaction. I personally would argue that family time is more important than play dates. I think dinner as a family is essential - every day. I think it is also essential to have family evenings where there are no other events. It becomes tempting as children get older to get them involved in more and more tempting to get your children involved in activities, I would recommend limiting the activities. I notice more and more kids are over scheduled and have minimal time to just be kids and interact with their family. You mention having 4 children, I am one of 5 and we played with each other more often than playing with others and we continue to be close and spend time together.
If you feel that your children need play dates for what ever reason, I would either limit the number per week, or perhaps limit to between school and dinner only. Somehow keep the time to a pre-determined limit and do not let play dates or other things interfere with scheduled family time.
Comment: Recess is great, but usually group play.  As well, it is very important to the children that they have playdates, it is part of growing up.
Comment: I complete agree about over scheduling.  My children are allowed one activity a week and that is all. Playdates are important from a social point of view, the social interaction of one to one and of having to choose an activity themselves is very different from school socialization.
Comment: Generally at recess, they choose their activity and have opportunity for one to one interaction. Of course, if your child has difficulties with social interaction, additional help with this is VERY important. Also, if your child's school does not offer choices and some freedom at recess, then too, you need to encourage that interaction through playdates.
Answer: Lives are generally divided into:

parents' time: together, with kids, with friends, alone, and at work
kids' time: together (with siblings), with parents, with friends, alone, and at school

The trick is to find natural intersections.
Schedule lessons at the same time as their friends. This way, the kids get to do stuff together and as a bonus, if you are friends with the parents, you get to socialize too. There is a park by swimming lessons so we plan to go a bit early to give the kids a chance to socialize before the lesson. A short playdate (10 mins in the park) then becomes longer.
Also, we have consciously under-programmed our children. This way, we have more family time, especially on weekends. We want to be able to spend time with each child one-on-one. This usually happens during grocery shopping.
Aside from mealtimes, where breakfast is our rallying point (since they are still young), Friday night games help bring us together. Friends are not entirely excluded because "friends are the family you choose".
Hope this helps.
Comment: My kids each have one activity a week and that is all.  We also underprogram our kids, but with school getting out at 3:35 and bedtimes between 6:30 and 7:45 (4 kids spread out) we can't do playdates during the week and we would like to keep Sunday as family time to go out and do things together
Answer: I don't think play dates are important. I think family time is. I think kids will ask for them when they're ready whether it's 5 or 10 years old.  A loving family carries kids into emotional health and maturity.  Friends are good for an independence of sorts and sometimes great fulfillment but kids need mature role modelling. Most kids I see fight a lot during
Play dates.  Parents make bizarre requests.  Not a social more I want to get into.
My kids like playing with each other. I did one play date where the sweet boy literally
Touched and overturned my whole house.  How could I tell the mom? No thanks


When to add "in" before "this way" or "adj +way:

Question: It's my own example:"I was just born this way" "you should carry out this ceremony in more simple way" "he scolded me (in) the worst way"
Answer: In X way modifies a verb and it means the action in question was performed or occurred such that the result or effect is/was [the] X - it answers how, not what.
This way can mean "the action in question was performed or occurred such that the result or effect is/was this."
This way can also simply mean "like this" - which would not specifically refer to a method but attributes or state of being.
Examples to illustrate:

I was born with four fingers.
I was born this way (showing hand with missing finger - I was born in this way would be wrong.)
I was born via C-section.
C-sections are surgical procedures.  I was born in this way.  (You could say I was born this way as well and not be wrong.)
Answer: It is a case of shortening. Generally one can say that English has a strong tendency to shorten frequently used expressions. This becomes obvious with the noun "way" in the sense of manner or referring to direction.
"in adj way" is mostly shortened by dropping "in".

It should be done this way.
Well, he said, we'll do it your way.
I couldn't stop him any other way.
Oh, the escalator is going the wrong way.
Something wicked comes this way. (Title of a story by Bradbury)

Occasionally you can find the preposition "in" and, of course, it is not wrong if you use "in".

I'll do it in my own way.
Comment: Some of these examples are not correct - to add "in" would actually change the meaning and/or sound wrong. For example, "Oh, the escalator is going **in** the wrong way" makes no sense, and "I was just born **in** this way" changes the meaning to be describing the birthing process itself instead of describing the person. So there are some uses where it is about shortening, but also many uses where only one or the other will be correct.
Comment: So it would be  gramatically correct if I add or drop it ,right? I mean,the shortened form is not something like spoken english,which is only acceptable in speech rather than writting.and I can use shortened form of it in former writting,right?
Comment: Yes, the shortened form is used in spoken and written language.


No error in the training/validation dataset

Question: Suppose I have a linearly separable dataset, divide into training and validation sets. Will a perceptron learned on the training dataset be guaranteed to have no error on the training dataset and on the validation dataset?
Comment: Theoretically yes, you can create a perfectly linearly separable dataset and obtain such result. But you should definitely never expect such thing. In any real-life problem the data is noisy, for a bazilion of reasons, so no model is guaranteed to perform perfectly. To be sincere, unless I didn't understand your question well, it makes no sense at all.
Answer: Your question, as I understand it, is this:
Given a linearly separable data set, if a perceptron is trained on any subset of that data set, is the perceptron guaranteed to have a) 100% training accuracy and b) 100% test accuracy on the remaining data not in the training set?
Answer:
a) Since the data set is linearly separable, any subset of the data is also linearly separable. Thus, the perceptron is guaranteed to converge to a perfect solution on the training set. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron#Convergence)
b) No. Consider the following classification problem as a counterexample. The graph below shows a very simple linearly separable data set consisting of two classes of data points — red points and blue points. The black line highlights the linear separableness of the data.

Now, since any subset of the points can be used for our training set, let's suppose that the following two points ended up being our training set, taken from the data shown above.

Furthermore, suppose that the perceptron separates the classes in the following manner.

Now the remaining points in the data set for validation or testing are the following, with the partition from training shown again as the same black line.

Note that the test points are now falling on opposite sides of the line, so that the perceptron will fail on classifying both of those data points, because it did not select the best partition during training.
Answer: Perceptron is guaranteed to have zero-error when trained with a linearly separable dataset. It outputs a hyperplane that perfectly separates your training samples. But, this doesn't mean that you'll perfectly classify the validation set. Because the perceptron didn't see those samples, it's probable that it picked a bad decision boundary (among the possibly infinite choices), even if it perfectly works with the training set. And, I agree with @Lucas's comment that real-life datasets don't possess linear separability in general.


How do I set cursor colours per evil-state in the (non-GUI) text terminal?

Question: In the terminal, (set-cursor-color "red") has no effect, so the only way I can distinguish insert from normal mode under evil-mode is through the <N> or  on the modeline. Is there a way to set the cursor colour even in text terminals? (I use sakura with TERM=xterm-256color if that matters.)
Answer: Here's a hack that seems to work:
(defun evil-set-cursor-including-terminal (orig-fn specs)
  (if (display-graphic-p)
      (funcall orig-fn specs)
    (when (= (display-color-cells) 256) ; otherwise messes up tmux under xfce4-terminal
      (pcase specs
        ((and (or `(,colour) `(,colour . ,shape))
              (guard (stringp colour)))
         (send-string-to-terminal (concat "\033]12;" colour "\007")))))))
(advice-add #'evil-set-cursor :around #'evil-set-cursor-including-terminal)

The exception is replace-state, which doesn't seem to change back to the normal colour (so I have to insert/visual and exit to get back normal colour).


How can I create hindrances to radio waves?

Question: How can I create hindrances to radio waves?
Comment: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
Comment: In elevator/lift I have seen range in my cell phone dropping to zero. Maybe you can hide there :p
Comment: In the presence of much thermal noise, I would think radio waves stand no chance of carrying whatever information they might contain.
Answer: Any conductive material will block any EM radiation, including radio waves. However, the thickness of material required to fully block the radiation depends on the wavelength of the radiation and the properties of the material. With a perfect conductor, the radiation is stopped completely by any thickness of the material, but in any real material (except for a superconductor) the radiation is attenuated as it travels through the material. The strength of the radiation will fall off with an exponential decay, and it will do so more quickly in a better conductor. The important number here is called "skin depth" which is given by:
$$\delta = \frac{c}{\sqrt{2\pi\sigma\mu\omega}} $$
Where $\sigma$ is the conductivity of the material, $\mu$ is the magnetic permeability of the material, and $\omega$ is the frequency of the radiation. The skin depth is the distance into the material at which the radiation will have fallen to a fraction of $1/e \approx 0.37$ relative to its original intensity.
As you can see, the skin depth will be smaller for a better conductor or higher frequency radiation. For example, for Aluminum, radiation at 60Hz will have a skin depth of over 8 millimeters, while optical radiation around 600 THz will have a skin depth around 3 nanometers! This is why metal blocks visible light so well, yet radio waves easily penetrate into your house.
Sources:

"Lectures on Electromagnetism" page 280. Ashok Das; Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect
Comment: Your answer also seems to answer [this question](http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6725/if-both-radio-waves-and-gamma-rays-can-travel-through-walls)
Answer: A large sheet or volume of matter that contains plenty of freely moveable charge carriers.  Examples: metal, which contains electrons not assigned to particular atoms, but free to move;  plasmas which consist of electrons and positive ions free to move in space; or  a cloud of charged dust particles.   If you just want to slow it down not stop the radio waves, any dielectric material will do, the the index of refraction can vary greatly with frequency.
Have enough of this material to block the line of sight between all points of the emitter and all points of the sensor/observer, and more beyond that to reduce radiation sneaking around due to diffraction.   To say much more, the question needs to be more specific.
Answer: In short, just build a Faraday Cage out of conducting material with a mesh size much smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic wave you want to block.
Answer: Let's go for a somewhat more unconventional answer. Consider this: if you have a radio wave of certain frequency and wavelength, you can "cancel out" its effect by emitting another wave of same frequency, wavelength and amplitude, just offset by half of its period. Something like this:
(forgive the crude drawing)

The two waves would neutralize each other–so to an observer there would be effectively no radiation.


How to change elementary OS themes

Question: How to change elementary OS Themes ?
Is it possible to add new themes ?
Answer: This answer does cover your question about how to change themes:
How can I add more themes on Elementary-Tweaks??
You can install new themes and themes' usually have their own instructions at their files.
You can see from elementary-tweaks the themes that is installed but it is not recommended since elementary-tweaks is no longer maintained.
Also you can use dconf-editor to change the theme (also developers warns that dconf-editor can show you some options that should not be messed in order to not break the system , dconf is a bit like the registry editor on Windows).
For dconf-editor;
Open terminal and install if you don't have dconf-editor:
sudo apt-get install dconf-editor

Open dconf-editor at terminal:
dconf-editor

CTRL + F and write gtk-theme, as changing the value of gtk-theme you can change your theme.
Also you can change your window theme with:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme "NameOfTheme"

Answer: An Example:
Arc Theme have a readme file with a tutorial for install that theme
Comment: Arc Dark is awesome, but interestingly I've run into the gray text problem with it too. So it may not solve the issue.

How to change elementary OS themes


Ability to filter for questions on hold?

Question: An offshoot of my earlier question (Hold process suggestion):  it seems that it would be a service for willing members to go through questions in the hold queue and try to edit them to solve whatever the issue is if the question is fixable (including leaving comments requesting specific information if needed).  It appears that reviewers have access to the queue, itself.  I'm wondering if there is some type of filter so that any user (or users above a certain rep), can see the questions on hold, aggregated.  There are an awful lot of questions and just scrolling through page after page looking for ones on hold is not very efficient.  I have no idea how big the queue is.  If there aren't that many questions in it, this probably isn't worthwhile.
Comment: Is searching for `closed:1 is:q` what you need?
Answer: This search looks like what you want... It finds:

Questions which are not marked as duplicate
Questions which have not been migrated to another site
Questions which are "on hold" or closed
Sorts the results by most recent activity on the question
Excludes answers

To see what search parameters there are, do a search (on any StackExchange site or meta-site) and click "Advanced search tips" on the right hand side. Or go here.
Comment: Thanks.  That gets it from 240,000 to 9,000.  Should be a lot of meat there.  Any way to specify a time frame? (fixing many of the problems requires input from the poster so ancient questions are likely a lost cause.)  Is there a reference list for these search codes?
Comment: The sort on the "Active" tab sorts by questions which have had edits, comments, or answers most recently. That should take care of your concern about ancient questions, since they'd be waaaaaay at the bottom of the "Active" tab.
Comment: Edited my answer to address your question


Is it wrong if I broke my fast intentionally because I fainted and was feeling very dizzy?

Question: I broke my fast because I fainted and was feeling very dizzy. Is this wrong? Would this be considered intentionally or unintentionally breaking a fast?
Answer: I found a similar question which was asked:

What is the ruling of Fainting and anesthesia (unconscious) at the
  time of the fasting?

The presented answer which can be related to your question was that:

If you already have had the intention of the fasting, it is considered
  as the precaution (Mustahab, recommended) to end the fasting of that
  day and afterwards do its Qaza as well (repeat it).

Hence fainting doesn't appear including the items which invalidate the fasting. Then you mustn't break your fast in such positions (since fainting doesn't invalidate that). Based on my limited knowledge, you should do it again (Qaza), since you broke it, but I am not sure if you must do it with Kaffara (60…) or not. Hopefully, my answer can be helpful for you to some extent.

References:

www.tebyan.net
www.sistani.org
ahkam2.mihanblog.com
Comment: Fainting during fasting can exhibit an underlying medical problem and could very well be harmful. I believe in every case of fainting you should break your fast, and seek medical advice. It could be as simple as dehydration or something more significant.
Comment: @masfenix Nice matter you mentioned. Of course I said that regarding if it would be invalid or not. Otherwise I reckon perhaps they should break their fasting if it considers as a remarkable harm... / Good luck mate
Answer: In this case it does not matter whether it is considered intentionally or unintentionally breaking the fast.
You fainted and you felt dizzy. It is wrong not to break the fast. In particular when you have strong reasons to believe that you are not well/healthy.
Au contraire, would you have not broken the fast you might have taken a bad decision. Especially when you are in a position in which you are supposed to be an example for others. You might mislead others in thinking that no matter the condition you have to finish the fast. You are responsible.
Simply catch up on that day during the coming year. God is merciful.
On a side note, you are encouraged to ponder. Think about what might have caused the fainting and dizziness, and try to mitigate if you can. Should you have reasons to believe that it might be a condition consult a doctor.


Why does Google Chrome not show websites' correct fonts?

Question: I just did a fresh install of 11.10, and installed Google Chrome. For many sites it does not display the correct font (it shows the fall-back font instead). Both Chromium and Firefox show fonts correctly. Is there a fix for this?
Answer: Have you tried looking under
Wrench>Settings>Under the Hood-tab>Web Content-Customize Fonts
There you should be able to customize your google chrome fonts


How to make Lotus Notes 9 display post time in inbox?

Question: When I receive mail from an internet mail server, all incoming mail is displayed with the date/time of the replication. How can I change this? I would like to have the date/time visible in the inbox view when the mail has been sent by originator. I'm using Lotus Notes 9 Social Edition on Windows 8.
Answer: If you have a domino designer, then you can change this. If not- then you need somebody to do this for you in a template and send it to you.
You just open the folder inbox in the designer and change the formula of the date- column from posteddate to delivereddate (or vice versa, i'm not 100% sure)..


Is this stated in the Talmud?

Question: Those who are cruel to the kind, are kind to the cruel. I heard it was stated in the Talmud, but not able to find it. Thoughts?
Comment: I know this is said in the context of Saul's mercy on Agag yet cruelty toward David, but I can't remember where specifically it's said.
Comment: It might have been someone trying to explain the concept of corporal punishment with your young children.
Answer: Midrash Tanchuma Parashat Metsora
R. Eleazar said, "Anyone who becomes merciful upon the cruel one will end by being cruel to the merciful: It is written (I Samuel 15:9), 'But Saul had pity upon Agag and upon the best of the sheep and the cattle'; and it is [also] written (I Samuel 22:19) about Nob the city of priest, 'And he smote Nob the city of priests with the edge of the sword.'
https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma%2C_Metzora.1.1?with=all&lang=bi
Answer: Pretty much identical to the above but said elsewhere by someone else....
In Koheles Rabbah 7:16:

רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן לָקִישׁ אוֹמֵר, כָּל מִי שֶׁנַּעֲשָׂה רַחְמָן בֵּמְקוֹם אַכְזָרִי, סוֹף שֶׁנַּעֲשָׂה אַכְזָרִי בִּמְקוֹם רַחֲמָן, וּמִנַּיִן שֶׁנַּעֲשָׂה אַכְזָרִי בִּמְקוֹם רַחְמָן, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שמואל א כב, יט): וְאֶת נֹב עִיר הַכֹּהֲנִים הִכָּה לְפִי חֶרֶב, וְלֹא תְהֵא נֹב כְּזַרְעוֹ שֶׁל עֲמָלֵק
Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said - All those who are merciful in a place of cruelty, in the end they are being cruel in a place of mercy. And from where do we know that one makes themselves cruel in a place of mercy - as it says (Shmuel I 22:19) "And Nov, the city of Kohanim , he smote by the sword" and Nov shall not be like the seed of Amalek.

Is this stated in the Talmud?


Which are the main disciplines that UX comes from?

Question: User Experience is a practice which has historic roots in multiple other disciplines, uniting and combining them to provide something new. What are the building blocks of UX and what role do they contribute to the whole?
Comment: Hi @Ana. Welcome to the site! There are several earlier questions that may answer what you're asking: (1) [UX Responsibilities](http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/31320/ux-responsibilities/31321#31321), (2) [What is the difference between web design, interaction design, user experience design, and user interface design?](http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/43808/what-is-the-difference-between-web-design-interaction-design-user-experience-d/43813#43813), (3) [What is User Experience (UX)?](http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/10400/what-is-user-experience-ux).
Comment: **I nominate the question for re-opening.**  @Michael's answer gives a valuable perspective on this topic not captured in the other similar questions.  I've made a slight edit to this question's phrasing to aim it more clearly to the approach in his answer (looking at the fields UX historically stems from rather than the fields which have developed as components of UX).
Comment: I agree:  the HISTORY of UX is quite an interesting topic which I've never seen dealt with in a book: one of the early events in UX is the invention of the mouse by Douglas Engelbart in the early 60s - as you can't have a graphical interface without some way of interacting with it ! (rather than the 'command line and keyboard model') http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29
Answer: The comment by 3nafish points to answers of what UX is, but it sounds like you're particularly interested in where UX comes from. The parent disciplines of UX can be revealed by the academic background of the practitioners. In UXMatters 2010 reader survey, that background was primarily:

Computer science, especially human-computer interaction.
Graphic design.
Cognitive psychology.
Library science.
Technical communication.

The parent disciplines reflect the fact that UX work is concentrated in web site and software user interface design (despite our grander ambitions). UXers are primarily concerned with effectively conveying information, as text and images, to a user through web pages and mobile apps. Computer science gives UXers  the technical know-how for such media. Graphic design teaches the use of colors, lines, shapes, layouts, and font to effectively present information. Cognitive psychology provides insight into how users process information, and also contributed the experimental methodology that inspires usability testing. Library science teaches how to organize information for findability. Technical communication teaches how to write understandable content.
UXers are also concerned with eliciting an emotional response in our users, on which graphic design instructs, in addition to how to effectively convey information. Strangely, we don't draw much from creative writing, social/personality psychology, or marketing, which would also instruct us in that area.


How to resolve 'No internet connectivity issues' with a Virtualised 2008 R2 Server using Forefront UAG

Question: I have spent some considerable time reading up on as many possible blogs and articles as I can to help me solve why my VM (Running on Hyper-V) for DirectAccess has suddenly stopped being able to access the internet. The VM setup shares the same internet connection on which I have written and submitted this question so I know that the actual underlying internet connection is fully functional.
Previous to last week the DirectAccess was fully functional and had no issues. This is a recent problem which was led up to by a number of consistent crashes on the DA machine when access was attempted. Upon reboot all seemed well until recently.
I am not certain whether it is relevant, but previously to this I had a number of power issues where the entire VM host shutdown unexpectedly leaving around 8 VM's in a bad way. Upon restart, the UAG DirectAccess machine was unable to access its configuration service (although the service was started) but this seemed to relate to the Light-Weight Active Directory Service AD LDS which had a corrupted database. Having repaired this database, I restarted the service and could subsequently reconnect to the configuration service again.
For good measure I re-bound the network adapters (virtualised through Hyper-V) and DirectAccess claimed to be all happy again. However as it stands my machine is still unable to access the internet showing the "No internet connectivity" exclamation mark for the external facing NIC. I have also tried removing the adapters, disabling, re-enabling and the problem persists.
The intranet part of the VM CorpNet seems to be fully functional as before and I'm running out of ideas. Any input would be greatly appreciated. I am not an advanced Domain Administrator so please be gentle.
Answer: Try to uninstall the Physical NIC and install them again on the HV machine, and than recreate the Virtual Network again using the Physical NIC, try to doing restart specially to the AD


STM32F405 Internal vs External Oscillator

Question: If the frequency stability over a temperature range is not a concern in a project instead it's reliability in continuous long time operation is a more important factor then which of the two oscillators would be preferable, internal RC (16 MHz) or general purpose external crystal oscillator (8 MHz) to get a SysClk of 160 MHz using the internal PLL?
Answer: If reliability is your only concern then you should avoid adding components and connections to your system. All other factors being equal, an internal clock source will have greater long term reliability than an external clock source that requires additional components.
However, you need to be very certain that the frequency accuracy and stability are acceptable for your application.
Comment: Not to mention that as reliable as quartz crystals are, they are mechanical components and are among the most unreliable components in electronics. They are vulnerable to shock damage and an an RC oscillator is much more reliable. The advantage of a crystal is stability and accuracy, not reliability.
Comment: Additionally, the internal oscillator reliability is better than the reliability of the chip, which is specified in the datasheet. Reliability of external crystal, capacitors, pcb design, pcb traces, solder, soldering technique used etc. is unknown unless tested.
Comment: How accurate must that 160MHz be, after 10 or 20 years?


Should whole coffee beans be stored at room temperature, the fridge or freezer?

Question: My coffee is normally used up within 1 week and is of unknown age on purchase, do I need to do anything extra to make it last a week?
Answer: If you use your whole beans within a week it's probably not worth storing it in the refrigerator or freezer. Coffee beans should be stored in a cool, dry place. They can last 1-3 weeks in your pantry. Ideally you should store them in an airtight opaque container. They degrade quickly in the presence of light, heat, or oxygen.
If you want to store them longer, then they will last 3-4 month in the freezer.
Source:
http://stilltasty.com/fooditems/index/16941
Comment: @lukecyca: It would technically be better, but for only a week I'd say it's a negligible improvement, unless the grinder gets direct sunlight.
Comment: So if I'm keeping mine in the transparent hopper of my Rancilio Rocky grinder for a week or so, would I be better off blacking out the hopper to keep the light out?
Answer: I have typically seen most rules of thumb for this being along the lines of buy only the coffee you will use within 1 week (kept at room-temp). freezing coffee breaks down the oils that make it flavorful, refrigerating it traps it with a bunch of other smells. storage of coffee is like that of produce, just have the right amount on hand; especially for high quality.
Basically, buy 1) appropriate portions and 2) keep it in a vacuum sealed container.
*note: if you buy locally roasted coffee/coffee with a roast date the peak flavor is typically within the first two days of roasting, and some (myself included) prefer the brown bag the coffee comes in to allow for the coffee to breathe during this period
Comment: I've never heard of freezing breaking down flavorful oils in coffee, and my experience of having done this countless times indicates otherwise as well.
Comment: From my coffee house training: It's not so much the cold that breaks down coffee beans' essential oils as it is the condensation that refrigerated or frozen coffee beans develop and absorb when they're removed from cold storage; moisture contributes to the decay of coffee beans' essential oils. Coffee beans can be placed in cold storage to preserve their freshness if they're sealed in an airtight container and aren't repeatedly removed from and returned to cold storage; for best results, coffee beans, once removed from cold storage, should never be returned to it.
Comment: I would say the taste of beans ground from out of the freezer is compressed, but i can only give a subjective answer, and based on the coffee shop down the street, they store theirs unrefrigerated; that may be also because they have a master roaster who roasts on site monday & wednesdays and they go through their beans pretty quickly.

i think that we could find a bunch of links supporting and debunking our claims so i think if you notice the difference then do(n't) freeze.
Comment: Peak flavor 3-4 days after roasting is what my local roaster told me here, plus I tend to read the same often on the big coffee forums.
Comment: @jontyc Sorry if the wording seems confusing: 'peak' being, for my practice, hold off the fresh coffee just roasted for the first one-two days, use within the week (i.e. 3rd-7th days, sweet spot being therein based on conditions of environment)
Answer: Do not store coffee in a refrigerator for daily use. The repeated opening and closing of the container at lower than room temperatures will cause condensation on the inside of the can and on the beans themselves, degrading the flavor. I echo the other responses about using an air tight lid at room temperature. This should keep whole beans fresh for longer than a week.


Implementing back translation as a data augmentation for text classification

Question: Since back translation English->other language -> English seems like quite a useful data augmentation technique , I wanted to experiment with it. E.g. it occurred to me that languages from very different language families (but very well supported for economic reasons such as Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Arabic...) could make for a diverse set of effects occurring in the back translation.
Commercial translation APIs would be a straightforward way of doing this, but without free API key or budget from my organization (would not qualify as academic) that's quickly quite expensive for a private thing.
Pretrained translation models would seem like an obvious alternative (I have a GPU for inference, but clearly that's not enough to train all the models from scratch), but I could e.g. not find those for any OpenNMT variant. Are there any recommendations from others that have used this approach?
Answer: One option, which I have discovered, is back-translation via the Unsupervised Data Augmentation repository made public by Google Research. This is based on this paper.


What happens when Core Cluster Group is failed over to another node? Will it take the whole cluster down? Single point of failure?

Question: http://bit.ly/1lKJFIa "Cluster group" fail-over will cause cluster go offline. Really? Single point of failure? Am I missing something? What happens when Core Cluster resources (Cluster Group) are failed over from one node to another? Will it take whole cluster down? Thanks.
Answer: Yes, if any of the resources in the Cluster Group fail, the cluster will go offline.
No, it is not a single point of failure. The Cluster Name, and IP address are responded to by all nodes in a cluster. If multiple nodes go down, the remaining nodes will attempt to form a quorum and continue responding to requests.
The Quorum resource is only needed when a cluster has an even number of nodes. It is usually the witness disk and is given a tiebreaker vote for quorum. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731739.aspx


American book translated to French: poor boy starts out selling newspapers in the street

Question: I'm French and am looking for a book I read as a child. I think it's an American book (I read it translated in French). It's about a boy, probably in the early XXth century (or late XIXth), who is poor and starts by selling newspapers in the street. I think he then becomes a succesful journalist. The cover of the book, in France at least, was colorful and showed a boy holding newspapers in the street. Unfortunately, I don't remember much more than that. I'd say that the overall philosophy of the book was to promote a certain way of life to children, something like: "with a lot of courage and dedication, you can succeed, whatever your social origin is".
Comment: I don't understand the downvoting...?
Answer: This sounds like a Horatio Alger book (although this type of rags-to-riches plot was fairly popular in the U.S. in the 19th century; Horatio Alger is the most famous of the authors who wrote these, so his books are probably more likely to have been translated.)
Dan, the Newsboy, also known as Dan, the Detective, is one of Alger's books where the hero starts out selling newspapers. If this isn't the book you remember, you will need to give us more information. It is out of copyright, and you can read it online here (in English, not French, unfortunately).
Comment: Thank you for your answer. Looking at the theme and covers, the book you indicate indeed really look like the rare memories I have of this book. The strange thing is that I can't find any French translation record on French sites, even at the National Library. Now, as the book had been bought in the 50s, it may well be that recording procedures were not followed strictly or that the book was an illegal copy. Thank you for your help!
Comment: I suppose it's possible that somebody stole the plot and wrote a French book using a different author's name.  I think this is only borderline illegal (it depends on how closely they followed the original), although I don't know French copyright law at all, so things could be different in France.


How to install WPMU with composer?

Question: I am looking for a way to install WPMU and a premium ACF plugin with composer, but have not found any functional way of installing them. The best alternativ I found is to upload them to a private bitbucket and then install them with Satis. If someone could point me in to a practical example and/or a better alternative then Satis.
Answer: To speak to your primary question (How to install WPMU with composer?) I went down the road of installing wordpress and then wp-cli/wp-cli and then using it to do a multisite-install.
Answer: Composer inherently prefers packages that support it explicitly. It is flexible enough to still work in other cases, but it gets less pleasant.
The options used in practice typically are either including premium plugins into version control or re–hosting them yourselves.
After yet another discussion on topic I have also created Release Belt project for this. It aims to easily serve ZIP archives as Composer repository. It isn't much used/tested so far though.

How to install WPMU with composer?


Is it ok to sister a joist to burnt joist?

Question: I am about to purchase a house that was damaged in a fire and sitting for 4 years. The fire was mostly contained to a small area, but some joists were burned quite badly, while other just had some discoloration. I'm going to be putting in new joists, but I wanted to see if it was best just to sister up to the existing badly burned joists or if would be be better to remove them altogether? There is no smoke smell from anything since it's been sitting for so long, and I couldn't think of any way that the burned joists could damage the new joists, and I figured that as long as they didn't cause any damage to the new joists, they just provide some extra strength so it seemed better to leave them, but wanted to check my logic.
Answer: As a home inspector, I can tell you that sheer existence of those damaged joists are going to be a RED FLAG at any time you decide to sell and move on. If they are badly burned, they are not structurally sound and should be removed. Install a few temp supports on ends of adjacent joists, then remove and replace them one or two at a time. Use proper joist hangers, proper intervals and upgrade the size if current code requires. I little more work now will pay off big for you later. The cost will not be much different, just a bit more labor.
Comment: Thanks, that was my thought. The engineer in my says keep them because they'll only add strength, but admittedly if I was buying a house I would be wary of any damaged joists even if they were sistered up to a good one.
Comment: @Zipper: Charred material adds barely enough strength to support its own weight, if that, and without removing it there's no way to see how much useful material remains.  If removing charred material to expose bare wood shows that the joists are mostly intact, there may not be anything wrong with sistering them, but if any portion of the joist is more than half gone I don't see much benefit in keeping it.
Answer: Fine if you leave them just consider covering burner or smoked wood with a kilz primer for no after smell or effects.


Simplified Chinese font easily readable, suitable for documents and OK for commercial use?

Question: For the English alphabet there's a site, FontSquirrel, that provides great free fonts for commercial use, handpicked and tested. I haven't found anything similar for Chinese fonts, the only very good free font and commercial-use OK is Google Noto, but I'd need something more "traditional-looking", a type of font you'd find in school books. If there isn't anything good for free, I am also OK with purchasing something, but I haven't found online neither a store for Chinese fonts.
Answer: You may want to try WenQuanYi bitmap fonts.
http://wenq.org/en/
Comment: @MastroWillis Both are equally readable for me. BTW: I did not noticed that you was not asking for free fonts. In this case, I would think any fonts marked as "宋体" or "Sun" or "Song" would be good.
Comment: Thanks very much! As soon as I got enough points I'll upvote. If I may ask, can you read chinese? If you can, what is more readable in your opinion between these fonts? http://www.scribd.com/doc/237814779/Lorem-Ipsum-SCH
Comment: Thanks a lot! I am also interested into purchase fonts since I saw that those two Japanese don't work perfectly: the second one (aozora mincho) renders smoothly with high pixel densities and becomes blurry on low ones while the first font (Hanazono) does the exact contrary! Should I buy an Adobe Font? I heard that they work good both on Desktops and smartphones, which is what I am looking for.
Answer: Unsurprisingly the Japanese do this better.
Hanazono have an excellent, free, font:

About Hanazono font
This font is a free kanji font. The KAGE system1, Clipper2, FontForge[3]
  and TTX[4] are used to create this font. All glyphs in this font are from
  GlyphWiki[5].
List of included characters
This font contains about 90,041 characters (and spaces) defined
  in ISO/IEC 10646 standard / the Unicode standard.

It's broken up into two files HanaMinA.ttf and HanaMinB.ttf and can be downloaded from Source Forge.
Comment: Pleco dictionaries (iOS and Android) use this as their backup font - so that should answer your question about mobile devices.
Comment: Yeah absolutely.
Comment: Thank you very much! I'd give an upvote if I could. I got a few more questions though: is it commercial-use friendly? does it render well on a mobile device? Does it support also Korean?
Comment: I saw myself that Korean is not supported.
Comment: Wikipedia: [F] Hanazono Mincho (花園明朝)[2] Two ttf fonts HanaMinA (Japanese 花園明朝A) for BMP and HanaMinB (Japanese 花園明朝B) for SIP – covers all CJK, CJK Compatibility, CJK-Ext.A, CJK-Ext.B, CJK-Ext.C, and CJK-Ext.D. Dual licensed under its own Hanazono Font License or SIL Open Font License.
Comment: Thanks again for sharing your knowledge, it seems that my editor has problems in displaying Korean then...
Comment: Should be okay, I don't really understand how Korean works exactly but the font seems to include a ton (300-400) of Hangul Jamo characters which should be enough to cover all Korean characters, at least by my knowledge.
Comment: Korean is made by the combination in syllables of several characters and these combinations are about 11'000, so I doubt it covers all CJK. Did Wikipedia got it wrong?
Comment: I mean maybe it's not full CJK and Wikipedia got it wrong but it seems weird. But you guarantee me that the Simplified Chinese is fully supported, right?
Answer: If you are using Windows (XP, Vista, 7, ....), you can install the Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese Support.  Then you will have fonts like MingLiU, Kai and SimSun.
Comment: A bit baffled that people are looking for fonts in these days… OS X has plenty of great Chinese fonts installed per default, including all input methods one could wish for. Of course the usual Kaiti, Fangsong, Song and Heiti, but also handwritten style with Xingkai, Yuppie, Hanzipen, Hannotate and Wawa, as well as Yuanti, Baoli, Libian, Lantinghei and Weibei with a historical or stylish flavor. Plus a bunch of Japanese, Korean, Tibetan and other fonts, of course.
Comment: Moreover, Apple is offering different glyph variation (Mainland/HK/TW) for the same font face in IPhone.  On the contrary, Google is bundling one font in Android only, and it complies to Mainland glyph requirements.
Answer: After having done several researches and having looked at your answers, I merged them and I finally got to a solution, that I will share.
Hanazono is undoubtedly the best free and commercial-use friendly font to display simplified Chinese yet its rendering is not perfect: it often gets blurry on desktop devices, while it's pretty sharp on mobile ones. So I found that the company Dynalab offers great S Chinese fonts for an affordable price (50 dollars), and this seems the best solution for people with a low budget. Their site is also available in English, which is great.
Since the topic also involved Japanese and Korean as we talked about it, I found out that there are some very, very wonderful fonts for these languages, all free and suitable for commercial use. For Japanese we got Aozora Mincho, which renders incredibly on all devices and screen densities, while for Hangul Naver itself developed Nanum Myeongjo, which is excellent on desktops and stunningly perfect on mobile devices.
Answer: Arphic has released several free Chinese fonts, and I particularly like the Kaiti style. In Ubuntu, they're available in the package manager; I'm not sure how to get them for other systems.


Is it ok, if i put my leg up on the bench while bench press

Question:
If this position is wrong?
and when bringing the weight down, Do i need to rest bar on my chest slightly?
Answer: While you will see a lot of people doing this it is incorrect form, especially if you are lifting heavy weight,  your feet should be planted firmly on the floor and will help you maintain your balance.
Answer:
This form is wrong because your stability is bad. It's very important to keep a stable & core-involved position during your bench press, which means contracting your abs and keeping your feet on the ground, pushing through your heels. Personally, I can affirm that my bench quickly improved by about 10 pounds since I started following this approach.
It depends on your goal. If you're training goal is developing pure strength, it may help, but then your should consider doing dead press (here's a video example). If your main goal is hypertrophy, there are better approaches.
Comment: @Ger_Moki, There is nothing wrong with slight arch in your back in a bench press.
Comment: This position might be wrong, BUT if you place your feet on the ground you might go to swayback (? hope this is correct english). And this behaviour is absolutely wrong!
Comment: This style of benching is not wrong, I would even say it is even healthier then the feet on the ground style as it for ces you to use less weight and is safer for the spine and abs. It depends on the goals or circumstances one might have that dictates the right style
Comment: If you focus on shoulders/abs, there are plenty of better exercises for that. Putting legs this way means loading less weight, less than one is available to bench, and thus delaying the progress. In what circumstances would you prefer this position? My only thought is shoulders injury but then I'd avoid barbell bench completely.
Comment: You can use this bench position for speed benching, only for hypertrophy work where you not focus on lifting max weight, or if you are prone to hernia or other form of injuries abs/shoulders but dont want to substitute the exercise. ..
Comment: Btw ever tried floor presses? They are helpfull in strength development. .. you are flat on the ground and your legs at same hight !!
Comment: @Lasse, there is nothing wrong with a flat back neither.
Answer: This position is as much wrong as it is correct.
If your goal is pure hypertrophy or you want to focus more on just the pecs and shoulders this type of 'style' is better also it does not have much impact on your spine. Please take care to keep the elbows closer to your body then the guy on the Image as it is healthier for your shoulders.
If your goal is strength, you should consider a different 'style' and treat the bench press as a whole body movement. Therefore you have to use your legs and a tight back. There are a lot of different youtube Videos out there and you should find the correct form for you.

The truth is actually quite simple – both ways can be valuable in your training, depending on your goal...
  http://angrytrainerfitness.com/2012/01/fitness-fact-or-fiction-bench-press-feet-up-or-down/

In general there is no prescription on what the correct form is, try to find it out for your goal and body and work on it.
The important part is to always think of shoulder and back development too, as people nowadays neglect the body Parts that are not visible in the mirror, but are important for muscular balance and health.
Comment: No. This position is wrong. Your unstable and it causes injuries, also you can lift less.
Comment: @Lasse - What injuries are caused by this? Lifting less ... for what - Powerlifting? it depends on your goals and there is no right or wrong ... if your goal is max weight use powerlifting style benching if your goal is hypertrophy this one is perfectly fine and you can work up easily to 140 - 150 kgs in this position - what would be totally fine for muscle grow... right? You can cause more injuries by lifting heavy weights and legs low  or making a bad back... in this pos your back is flat and you are targeting the pecs and triceps more.


Personal cover letter for visa application for TV-L 13 PhD Position

Question: I have been offered a Ph.D. position with a TV-L13 (50%) salary. I am in the process of applying for an employment visa (as I am a non-EU citizen). The work contract provided by the university is for a part-time scientific associate. I am unsure of what exactly to write in the personal cover letter (explaining the exact purpose and duration of the stay) for the visa application. Should I write about both the part-time scientific associate position and Ph.D. or only about the part-time scientific associate position?
Comment: I recommend asking this at expatriates.stackexchange.com.  The requirements and expectations for the employment visa are the key thing here, and not really specific to academia..
Comment: Also, possible duplicate of https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/84913. (The cover letter is not really relevant; what matters are the forms.)
Answer: I can only take an educated guess here, but the extra information that you are a PhD student can only be in your favour as it explains what you are doing with the other 50 % of your time and gives you additional good reason to reside in Germany. As this is a common situation (the vast majority of German PhD employments are like this), I doubt that anybody is going to bite your head off for telling the truth here.
That being said, the institution where you will do your PhD is likely to have some experts or other resources to assist you with this.


Recover Same Wordpress Admin Password

Question: I have a wordpress page that i'm trying to gain access to. I currently have access to the phpadmin database and I can easily create a new password. But I'm actually looking to see what the actual password is. There is only one user account, which is the admin. But i'm able to create other users accounts if needed. Is there anyway i'm able to crack the md5 salt password?
Comment: There is no stored password, just a **hash** of it. And the whole point of a hash is that you cannot "go backwards", it works just in one way.
Answer: In general, no. This is not possible. The password is btw, not encrypted only once, but twice with md5.

There are some cases where you type the password to the database, and for the short time, it will not be encrypted at all. :)
The very first time the admin authenticate itself again, the password will be correctly encrypted.
You may try that when you can.
Comment: thanks for the response. I think I might try my luck at just plain old brute force.
Comment: @gshustle, this way you are asking to understand the security problem of sharing the WordPress installation and database. You may update that title. Other way it looks like you try to hack.
Answer: You can try using a password cracking tool but this seems borderline unethical. I'm not sure that I understand the reason you would need to know the password at all if you aren't the owner of that account.

Recover Same Wordpress Admin Password


In QC10, how can I find outdated tests?

Question: IN HP QC 10, I'm looking to find all tests that have not had their design steps altered in the last 6 months.   Having trouble finding the correct table and query to do this.....
Thanks,
Answer: You want to use the DESSTEPS table, grouping by test ID. You can join this on the TEST table to get details on the test
<code>SELECT DS_TEST_ID, max(ds_vts)
FROM DESSTEPS s inner join TEST t on s.DS_TEST_ID = t.TS_TEST_ID
group by DS_TEST_ID
having max(ds_vts) < DATEADD(month,-6,GETDATE())     --6 months ago
</code>
Comment: I hope you don't mind but I suggested an update as the OP was asking for tests that have not been edited in the last 6 months this should be < instead of >=.  +1 for the solution

In QC10, how can I find outdated tests?


Pros and Cons of a Decentralized Puppet Architecture

Question: We have around 300 RHEL servers that are currently connecting to a Puppetmaster server.  However, we have noticed some performance bottlenecks and it is the point of failure in our system.  I am fairly new to puppet in general and I am considering creating a decentralized puppet architecture instead of having Puppet clients connect to the Puppetmaster server.  Aside from what I would suspect to happen such as performance gain and lack of signing and exchanging SSL certs for new machines, what are other pros and cons to setting up a decentralized architecture?
Comment: Is there a reason why it has to be one way or the other?  Have you considered options somewhere in between?  With that many servers, and a concern about a single point of failure, then why haven't you setup additional masters?  Setting up multiple load balenced puppet servers is covered in the 'Pro Puppet' book.  There is a lot of flexibility, it should even be possible to setup a hierarchy of puppet servers if that would make sense.
Comment: @Zoredache There really isn't a reason that it has to be one way or the other, I was looking for more information on a decentralized architecture in general to help facilitate the decision.  I have considered additional masters but the core of the idea, which I apologize for not mentioning, is to reduce server count since it directly impacts our budget.  I agree, load balancing the puppet servers makes sense, but if I can get rid of a server all together that would be the best solution.
Answer: Go decentralized.
Instead of signing certificates, make ssh keys. Don't give the keys to non-admins
You can use Git as your transport instead of subversion, and then you can branch for different machines/roles, and then version your changes, as well as allowing for... but you must know the DVCS spiel at this point.
It's faster, and less finicky to set up. Add some commit hooks for sanity checking.
Now, at this point, you've replaced the puppetmaster, with its client-server model, with ssh and git, both of which scale better than the puppetmaster.
Now, there might be a need in your organization for hierarchy. No problem, just store the git repo containing the definitive branch somewhere safe.
Bonus:
<code>git blame
</code>
will allow you to see who made a change.
http://bitfieldconsulting.com/scaling-puppet-with-distributed-version-control
https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/decentralize-your-devops-with-masterless-puppet-and-supply-drop?
Answer: Are you running puppet in passenger? stored configs? You really shouldn't have scalability problems at all with 300 nodes as long as you handle basic setup issues.
Comment: We are using Apache+Passenger configuration.  We are also using subversion to push the changes to the Puppetmaster
Answer: Decentralized is the best way to go cause each client compiles its own manifest from a local copy of the manifest source.  This is updated each time you push updates from the say git server.  Much more efficient use of bandwidth as clients don't ahve to contact the puppetmaster on every run.  Also eliminates single points of failure as clients can be updated from anywhere.


Why transposing range of my digital piano is restricted by 5 semitones up?

Question: My digital piano (Roland FP 80) can transpose the existing MIDI file at most five semitones up or at most six semitones down (does not allow to select more). Has it been done for my convenience ("too many features") or there are some fundamental reasons making transposition by arbitrary range more difficult than appears?
Answer: Why would you need more than that?
Five semitones up and six down can make every possible key:
Let's say the original MIDI file was in C major. Up 5 semitones and you can get C C# D D# E and F. Down 6 semitones and you can get C B Bb A Ab G Gb. I am aware that you cannot transpose to a different octave using that but for practical purpose that is easily sufficient.
I imagine, that that function was designed to allow the pianist to transpose to better meet a singer's vocal range so a total span of 11 semitones is perfect.
Comment: The ability to combine a transpose function with an octave shift function means every transposition is available.  So it's quite fine if the Midi protocol does not offer more possibilities than that.  As a user interface, however, such a restriction seems rather awkward.  In an age where Midi keyboards are not built with solid-state circuitry, it is just lame to force non-redundancy into a user interface.
Comment: The piece "Bm G D" of the song my daughter learns has been transposed by the teacher up, Bm now to be Fm, to adapt to the voice that is higher (original singer is a guy). That I can transpose this MIDI file into Fm octave below instead, does seem very helpful... or should it be? But I understand the explanation - if you play the chords yourself, it is simple just to shift hands one octave above.
Answer: Look for a separate Octave Shift function.
As David has already said above, there are two different functions, transpose, which shifts by semi-tones and octave shift which does the same thing by a whole octave. If you just want to shift the pitch by a whole number of octaves you need to use that function, if you then need to adjust by a few tones you need to select transpose as well.
So Audrius needs to transpose down to Fm and then also shift up one octave to get the desired result.
Comment: Could you maybe add a little more explanation?


Are there benefits for achieving max chaos?

Question: I was playing Dishonored and for now, it seems to encourage stealth.  Is there a benefit of going for max chaos? ie. killing anyone I see and making evil choices. Are there unique items?  Quests dialogs? Anything at all?
Answer: There is actually a significant difference in how a certain character will behave (and how a certain mission could be played) between high chaos, and very high or max chaos (not shown in the ending):

 I just finished a 3rd playthrough where I went lethal+stealthy. As a
 result, I had a moderate number of kills - the first few missions said
 I had Low chaos, but it had changed to High by the time I got to the
 last mission, since I went on a bit of a rampage with the assassins.
 On "very high" chaos, Samuel is a total dick to you and warns guards
 by firing into the air. On my playthrough, he simply said he was
 disappointed by how "brutal" I had become, and drove the boat away in
 silence.

Source: Reddit /r/dishonored: "There IS a difference between "high" chaos and "very high" chaos, just not in the ending"

 If you have been extremely violent in your playthrough, Samuel will even fire a gunshot to warn the guards on the isle.

Source: http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/The_Light_at_the_End#Trivia
Comment: There's also a precious achievement for a high-chaos ending, and several achievements you can only get while killing people.
Answer: If you play with Very High Chaos and you keep up your bloody sci-fi massacre streak until the end of the game, you'll get a different ending.  Check out this thread for details
Answer: Well if you consider a darker atmosphere a benefit then yes, but essentially the game will be harder because of increased weepers and more plague rats. A lot of people consider the chaos system a punishment, not a choice.
Answer: Lke the above three mentioned creating chaos causes "ill"effects in latter missions, unless you want more weepers to kill. it also changes something in the end:

 the picture emily draws of you: rather than it saying daddy with hears it shows you on a pile of corpses with your mask on. the game is meant to be a simulation i.e. cause an effect


Connect a GPU into Raspberry pi

Question: I want to connect a GPU GT640 to a Raspberry pi model B. I know there is not a direct connection and the tranfer data are very differents but. Is there any chance to connect this devices in order to take advantage of GPU processing power? is not necessary to have a real time communication, but is this possible in theory?
Comment: Then i seriously suggest you avoid trying to do this
Comment: I am planning  to use [MCS9990](http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=124;74;110&PLine=74) (PCIe to 4-Port USB 2.0 Host Controller) to make a board that connects the GT640 PCI 3.0 16x with the RPi USB 2.0. I think the only difficulty is the driver of that chip but i have time to develop it. If i implement this, what about the other software, (CUDA and GForce driver) they work on top of the board driver?
Comment: I found an interface that will do the job. It is a **PCI Express Gen 2 to USB 3.0** peripheral Controller. It features one PCI Express Gen 2 x1 port and one USB 3.0 SuperSpeed client port. I know that USB 3.0 also supports USB 2.0:

 + USB Hi-Speed (**USB 2.0**) **480 Mbit/s**
 + USB SuperSpeed (**USB 3.0**) **5 Gbit/s**
 + External **PCI Express 2.0 ×1** **4 Gbit/s**
 + External **PCI Express 3.0 ×16** **32Gbit/s**

I am going to be limited by the USB 2.0 Raspberry pi port.
Comment: Programming drivers is very difficult, especially when it is something that has never been done before
Comment: Raspberry Pi's main processor already is a GPU based on VideoCore IV.
Comment: There is this way https://www.techrepublic.com/article/want-your-raspberry-pi-4-to-run-a-modern-graphics-card-this-engineers-working-on-it
Answer: almost impossible.
you'd better try to use cheap PC box instead, because there's a very high risk to fry your GT640 and/or Raspberry Pi.
Comment: @ArturoVeras have you managed to connect some simpler processor to the RaspPi GPIO and communicate reasonably with it?

I agree with lenik, that it is extremely difficult task (study the PCIe architecture and GPU communication first) and the benefit is very small.
Maybe as an exercise first try to communicate with GPU connected directly to the PCIe bus in your PC.
Comment: Why is almos imposible ? i was thinking to use a PCIe to usb adapter chipset like MCS9901CV-CC, i want to try the inverse way.
Comment: @ArturoVeras because these devices are not supposed to be connected and/or used together. let alone the missing drivers and software you have to write, the performance would be abysmal, rendering the whole endeavour moot.
Comment: Maybe i am missing the point. Correct me if I'm wrong, the idea is to connect the raspberry, some how, to a GPU. Later we can do a cluster with this and have more process power. The idea is not to take advantage of transmission PCIe speed instead of the GPUs thousand cores. So , if i can communicate, using GPIO o a chip like MCS9901CV, there will be great because that means that i can add more Raspberry pi and make a cluster and voila!.
Comment: No i don't. I am studying the PCIe protocol and see if i can communicate with the Raspberry pi GPIO.

What to you think of using a [PE4L-PM060A](http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/PE4L%20V2.1.html)?, is a PCIe to mPCIe adapter. I notice that PCI 1x interface only reduce the PC1 16x bandwidth, i do not mind that. This kind of things can help me because i can use a development board that it has mPCIe interface.
Comment: The PCI protocol is extremely complex, I don't know if you will be able to get the flexibility needed to program on that level over the GPIO. Normally you do this with an FPGA. Perhaps a board like that would be more suitable than a Pi.
Comment: I am reviving this too, mainly because I was looking for an answer myself. There are reasons one might want to do this...my reason, to test out a lower powered form of alt coin mining, on hardware that costs virtually nothing. Anyway IMPOSSIBLE, is the one thing that people say, who really have no vision whatsoever...thank goodness, that we as a species don't go around saying impossible to everything. I found an answer...but then...how could I? Impossible lol. https://hackaday.com/2015/07/03/tiny-x86-systems-with-graphics-cards/
Comment: @MyBadComputer have you actually read the article? it talks about small-sized x86 computer, that already has PCIe slot. RPi is an ARM computer without any PCIe slots. this is why a few years ago I have recommended to stick to familiar (x86) architecture...
Answer: It would be possible, but please be aware that you will need to write your own drivers and sort out the power issues, because I doubt the RasPi will be able to power a full PCI/PCI-E GPU on it's own. Please also bare in mind that the CPU will also affect the GPU's power, so it may be an idea to research before you try. <--- Adding to that, you can use a 1x to 16x powered riser cable commonly used in gpu mining rigs. There are other powered riser cables that utilize adapter cards for USB as well.
Comment: That's my concern right now, the power issues. What are the issues that i have in mind if i want to use an external power supply to the GPU ?
Answer: You could use a startKIT which has a PCI Express x1 card slot which you could use to interface to a suitable GPU (you would likely have to write your own drivers), and this could then interface with the Pi though the GPIO header.
So in short: yes you can, all the hardware to do so exists and is readily available, all you have to do is write glue logic, but don't expect it to be easy.
Comment: What do you think about [USB 2380](http://www.plxtech.com/products/usbcontrollers/usb2380#technicaldocumentation). It seems to be the solution, the only problem is that GT640 is 16x PCIe and USB 2380 is for 1x PCIe, but i think this is not problem at all.
Comment: Maybe connecting the GPIO to PCIe with a MCS9901 ?
Comment: The startKIT only adds a hardware interface between PCIe and de RPi? The drivers that you mention must be written in the startKit or in the RPi? What is the difficulty of programming a driver?
Comment: Very difficult probably.
I'm not actually sure how feasible this is, but in theory with the startKIT you will have the required hardware and environment to do what you want to.
Comment: @ArturoVeras Difficult to say with no access to product details, but seems like it should be possible, still, expect it to be difficult.
Also you probably won't be able to get the full utilisation of the cards power when it has the Pi as a host anyway.
Comment: ic found another host controller, the [MCS9990]{http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=124;74;110&PLine=74}. I am going in this way, develop myself the circuit.
Answer: So, to wake the dead thread, I would not do it on a Raspberry Pi personally. I would recommend at least the Pi 3 with a mPCIe to PCIe adapter designed for desktop GPU and powered by a dedicated power supply. Also you need to make sure that the version of Linux has driver support for it; if there's no drivers someone has to write them, and that can take months with the right assets and source code. It is 100% possible to do this way, but you will likely have to be talented enough to write it for the community if it has not been done already.
Comment: Of course any Linux drivers that NVidia release are going to be targeted at the PC-like hardware - I cannot believe that the OP is going to be able to get the data throughput to do anything useful, instead of FPS (frames per second) even assuming he could get any useful display output I'd bet it would be measured in FPM or PFH! 8-)
Comment: Also NVidia only distributes closed binaries rather than open source code drivers (in the same way that we only get the binary blobs that is used on the RPi to operate the GPU) which makes developing drivers much, much harder if not impossible... IMHO.
Comment: This is also true and should be taken into account. Any code that you can find and reverse engineer for the pi 3 should be cherished. Likely it will take a team of ethical hackers or a few companies to come together to create a solution. In either sense it would be interesting and borderline funny to see.
Answer: Another problem you face is that the CPU would bottleneck the graphics card since it is clocked at only 700 MHz. I would try this with a much cheaper GT 210 (Which you can find for $20 - $30). Regarding your drivers you could find the open-source Nvidia drivers and compile it on ARM.
Comment: What is the specific problem with this? i just need some computation from the GPU i do not need real time aplications.
Comment: What about this card? [SBC-A510 Single Board Computer](http://compulab.co.il/products/sbcs/sbc-a510/#specs). It has a 800 MHz CPU and brings with a PCIe 1x slot.
Answer: Just bumping to an old thread. It's nearly impossible, but the main reason is capitalism and bureaucracy, not writing drivers.
Sure, writing drivers is very difficult, but work with an epic team and it would be done before sunrise.
Even harder would be to get access to existing source codes for the whole video card and maybe even source codes for either the BCM2835, BCM2836, or BCM2837 (Pi 1, 2, and 3 respectively). You need those to learn how the cards work on the inside and find a way to interface with it with each other.
You would have to be an OEM to get just even a chance to get the source codes. Even the Raspberry Pi foundation itself has had has difficulty with those and has to settle on a pre-compiled blob to interface with the processor and GPU.
Power requirements wouldn't be an issue at all since, by the time you're begging [company name], you would have already figured it out. Probably a PC PSU connected to the video card and also powering the Pi via its 5V rail.
Answer: The MCS9990 is a PCIe to USB/ISA bridge, designed to provide additional USB / ISA / GPIO ports on a system with PCIe interface. It cannot be used to connect a PCIe device to a system which only has USB, such as an RPi. So this approach is doomed from the start.
Answer: Your only problem will be drivers. It would be so cool to get a Nvidia GPU to work on a Pi, but this is almost as hard as building your own GPU from scratch.
People are right, the hardware isn't impossible, but it WILL be sketchy. You absolutely will need drivers, however. Even if you could write your own, they would not be optimized to utilize all to the speed and features on the GPU.
I wanted to try this with an old Nvidia GForce, but I am a lousy programmer with no hardware hacking experience.
I figured it was a long shot, but I emailed NVidia just after the RTX was released, and asked if they would either compile the drivers for a few Pre-2010 GPUs for the Pi and make them available to download and tinker with, or release the source code for people to compile themselves. Obviously they said "no."
So here is the thing, we have external GPUs for laptops (costs disregarded) and the Wi-Fi in the new Pi 3B+ is supposed to be fast, why not see if that could work?
Comment: I'm not sure if this provides an answer, or is a suggestion, albeit a useful one.
Comment: @ Greenonline This was intended to be a suggestion and an aswer (Reread the last sentence)

Connect a GPU into Raspberry pi


Great Korean Learning Textbooks: i.e TTMIK

Question: So I'm looking for a good textbook that will have auditory and comprehensive applications. I tried the Integrated Korean, but I did not feel like it helped me with speaking Korean proficiently as well as how to listen. If anything, I can just read Korean well. I was wondering if Talk to Me in Korean is a good resource? I understand that they have a textbook and an online portion. They also have podcasts to help with listening and speech. I want to learn not only textbook Korean but also how how Koreans actually talk on a day-to-day basis. If anyone has used TTMIK as a primary resource for learning Korean, before I decide to pay money, how well did it help with your language proficiency skills? Would you recommend?
Answer: Personally, I use howToStudyKorean.com as a very grammar focused resource which is made for native English speakers and I find it very easy to follow. It is completely free and they have a lot of example sentences for every grammar principle that they introduce and audio recordings for how these sentences are spoken.
I unfortunately do not have any experience with TTMIK.
Additionally I also use a book called "Korean Grammar in Use" which has a version for TOPIK 1 & 2 as well as TOPIK 3 & 4 and I find it very useful as a grammar reference as the table of contents is sorted by grammar principles and everything is very well explained, including natural ways of how something might be used in everyday language. I have used it multiple times to find out about a grammar principle that I found in some Korean sentence and wanted to know more about. It also comes with a CD but I have not yet bothered to listen to that. Here's an amazon link for reference.
While this might not answer all your question, I hope that it helps you find good resources to use.


How does Tor connect to a server while hiding it's ip?

Question: This may be a naive question. When I type in a .onion address I assume that the Tor network is designed to not know the ip of the server, or else law enforcement could easily subpoena Tor saying "Hey this .onion has illegal content, what's it's ip?". So how can the Tor network connect to the ip address of a hidden network without knowing the ip?
Answer: The general idea is that the client doesn't connect directly to the onion service. Instead, the client creates an anonymous circuit to a relay, the onion service creates its own anonymous circuit to the same relay, and the relay attaches/splices the two circuits together. So the onion service is actually making a TCP connection out to the Tor network, rather than having the Tor network make a TCP connection to the onion service. The Tor network itself doesn't really need to care about the onion service's IP address.
A good summary of the process can be found in Section 1.1 "View from 10,000 feet" of the Tor Rendezvous Specification document.


redirecting output of running background job in bash

Question: in bash I have some jobs running, in background. They are always producing random irrelevant error messages that pollute the terminal. I am not always so prompt to start them with the 2>&1 > /dev/null redirect. How can I redirect the output when they are already running?
Comment: Thanks. Actually this command solved my problem in the most straightforward way: https://github.com/jerome-pouiller/reredirect/
Comment: See this related answer: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/4035/74516 (not tested).
Comment: @fstab You can write that as an answer to your own question. I know I didn't know it was possible to do this (attaching to the target program as a debugger is quite a nice hack!), so I thank you for mentioning it.
Answer: Bash can't modify the file descriptors of a running process.
See answers for How to change the output redirection of a running process? (or a similar thread on stackoverflow)
The easiest and only current tool seems to be reredirect:

reredirect is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching its outputs (standard output and error output) to files or another process. (quoting project homepage)

reredirect -m /dev/null <PID>


Squishy raw pork - gone bad?

Question: I bought some pork loin chops and went to open the package and part of the meat was really squishy. I repackaged it and put it in the freezer to throw away later. I didn't notice any smell but didn't get too close to it and it looks fine otherwise. The best before date is three days from now. Is it common for meat to get squishy like this? I don't think it was tenderized. Thanks!
Answer: An important part of practicing food safety on your own kitchen, is looking out for any "red flags" in raw ingredients that may have the potential to sicken.
If something doesn't smell right, doesn't look right, or as in your case, doesn't feel right; it is a red flag that you should pay attention to. It might be safe to eat, but why take any chances?
Supermarkets have been known to treat expired meat with ammonia or bleach, and then repackage it with an extended expiration date. Such despicable practices are hopefully rare, but pre-seasoning soon-to-expire meats and poultry, and repackaging with a later date is quite common.
You don't need to save the meat itself, but keep the package label (and receipt if you still have it), and bring it back to your store for a refund. Most stores will give you your money back with no hassle.
Comment: If the texture is not right, it isn't fine. The store can't accurately assess food safety over the phone. If they don't make it right with you, I'd look for someplace else to shop.
Comment: Thank you. I just called the store and they said it's fine! I'm not sure I agree though. The chicken drumsticks I got at the same place feel a bit soft too but maybe I am noticing it too much. My fridge is cold enough but possibly the store's isn't even though it's really popular.
Comment: Still not going to eat the pork chops!

Squishy raw pork - gone bad?


British war with France 1795?

Question: My question concerns the television series "Poldark". The year of action in question is 1795, and Great Britain is at war with France. In spite of the state of war, a group of four Englishmen goes covertly into France to rescue a captured friend. The men sit in a tavern and mention to a French official that they are English, but "businessmen". This is accepted, although their presence is regarded as suspicious. Would the presence of Englishmen in such a situation have been possible?
Comment: You might find this somewhat related question & answer to be of interest: [During the French Revolution, how did the French address non-citizens?](https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/46037/during-the-french-revolution-how-did-the-french-address-non-citizens).
Comment: Thank you. Nevertheless, the state of war between the two nations(!) is the qualitative point in question.
Comment: Agreed, I wasn't suggesting otherwise. Tough question.
Answer: This appears to be possible.
The first piece of evidence is "A Tale of Two Cities," which was set in France a few years before 1795, but during the French Revolution.
The second piece of evidence is the nature of the war itself. That is, France's main enemies were mainly Austria and Prussia (on land). The fight with England was mainly a sideshow. France and England were "barely" (not fully) at war. "Poldark" mentioned an English presence in Flanders (Belgium) which was Austrian territory, but whose coast England wanted to keep out of French hands. Unlike Austria and Prussia, England was waging a "preventive" war (mainly outside French territory), not an "invasive" war.
While France of the time was "suspicious" of almost everyone, her suspicions of England were far less than those of the Germans (Prussia and Austria), meaning Englishmen had some leeway. Until much later (Napoleon) England was not at the top of French worries.
Comment: @T.E.D.: Two points. 1) Conscription does not equate "every man now has something to do with the war". Germany had conscription from 1956 till 2011... conscription *and mobilization* would be closer, but still not every man would automatically "be involved". 2) Calling Britain's forces "all-volunteer" is a bit of a stretch at that time, which was the heyday of [impressment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment).
Comment: One thing I noticed looking into this is that England didn't have Conscription back then. It was an all-volunteer force, and 2 years prior had numbered only about 40,000. This means groups of English men doing something that had nothing to do with the war was at least plausible.
Comment: @T.E.D.: It's not just England. By some arguments, France led the world into the modern era by enacting a state of Total War (two years earlier if memory serves me well). Total War basically is what enabled France to conquer Europe at the time.
Comment: @DevSolar - I used the term "all-volunteer" because the sources I drew from used it. Its a term of art to differentiate from conscripted armies (which likely would have *some* volunteers as well). I certianly don't dispute that some people got "volunteered" by others, particularly right after war was declared and a big ramp-up was required.
Answer: The situation in Poldark is perfectly plausible in 1795, not just during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792 - 1802) but also during the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). This scenario would also work for French merchants in Britain.

In France
Among Napoleon's thoughts while he was in exile on St. Helena was this on a comparison between the Law of Nations at sea and on land (he is referring to both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars):

...in a patent
  contradiction, a British vessel (in the event of a war between France and
  Britain) that is found in the port of Nantes—e.g. when war is declared—
  will be confiscated. The men on board will be prisoners of war, even if they
  are non-combatants and simple citizens. By contrast, a shop containing British goods belonging to Englishmen living in the
  same town will be neither sequestrated nor confiscated; and British
  merchants travelling in France will not be prisoners of war and will
  be afforded right of passage and the passports required to leave
  French territory.

Source: Napoleon: On War (edited by Bruno Colson, translated by Gregory Elliott)

In Britain
Prior to the 1793 Alien Act, which became law less than a month before Britain and France went to war, there were few restrictions on foreigners entering the country. The 1793 Act meant, among other things, that

Foreigners were allowed to arrive only at certain ports and their
  movements from the port of arrival to their destination as well as in
  the country were subject to controls and restrictions. Only foreign
  overseas merchants were exempt from them: they were allowed to travel
  freely within the country.

It was not until 1798 that foreign merchants were subject to the same regulations as "other immigrants and foreign travellers".
Source: Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl, 'British Nationality Policy as a Counter-Revolutionary Strategy During the Napoleonic Wars' in 'Migration Control in the North Atlantic World' (Andreas Fahrmeir et al, eds.)

British war with France 1795?


Would it be HIPAA compliant to share docs with EHR data between two HIPAA compliant Gsuite organizations

Question: Assuming both organizations have HIPAA compliant G-Suite and have signed the necessary legal documents.
My gut says this should not be a problem as its done within the google servers, am I missing something?
Answer: If as you say, both entities have entered into a business associate agreement with Google they are able to use G Suite for PHI sharing. Google supports HIPAA compliance for G Suite). Provided the method of sharing information is covered by the terms of that business associate agreement, it would be acceptable to share PHI between the two entities.
Bear in mind that no software solution can be truly HIPAA-compliant as any software solution, even if a BAA is in place, can be used in a manner that is not compliant with HIPAA Rules. Both entities would therefore need to ensure that G Suite has been configured correctly and appropriate security controls have been activated, access controls have been implemented, and an audit trail must exist.
The two entities that wish to share the PHI may also need to have a business associate agreement in place before any PHI is shared. e.g. if one is a healthcare provider and the other is a vendor.
Answer: In principle, if you have the necessary BAA signed with Google as well as the third party who has shared the content , it is possible to be HIPAA compliant in sharing information over say Google Drive. Google has listed products that are compliant and those not in compliance should not be used.
The below implementation guide from Google should clarify as to the controls that would be necessary to ensure that you comply.


Character's point of view when using empathic powers

Question: I am writing my first novel in the third person semi-omniscient. I am aware that I ought to still structure passages from a primary character's point of view, as in, if two or more characters are interacting in a scene, I can only relay to the reader what is going on in the head of one character; to do otherwise could get confusing. However, my protagonist has empathic powers, so, done well, might I use this mechanism to relay the thoughts and emotions of others character(s) in the scene or is this a rule that must never be broken?
Comment: "is this a rule that must never be broken?" No such thing!
Answer: Third person unlimited!
If your character is empathic (mind reader or just emotions?) you can have something very close to omniscient while maintaining limited omniscience - because your character has near omniscience when it comes to other people. I did something similar, where my MC could read minds. I treated the thoughts of others like a one-way conversation.
This makes a nice literary cheat, because you ARE limiting the view to your MC. They just happen to be able to see things others can't. It's similar to the POV of a precognitive, where they see things that might or will happen.
Comment: Thanks for the advice. Would you recommend always referring back to the main character and framing other's thoughts through his point of view or having made the powers of the main character clear could one simply treat other characters in the scene in the same way as the MC? I hope that makes sense?
Comment: @Richie Hayes If you are using their thoughts like dialog, then follow the rules of dialog, as if they were saying their thoughts out loud. If the MC is getting sensory data from them, then use the MC's POV as if he was seeing or hearing what the others are. There are a variety of ways to do it. You could even do a cut-scene from the alternate character's POV, as long as it was clear it was the MC experiencing it vicariously.


IIS 7.0 on windows 2008 server. 500.19 error

Question: I tried setting up a virtual folder on IIS7.0 on windows 2008 server.
when trying to browse the aspx pages, i received an error like "HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error" and had few more lines saying the config file is incorrect.
Few google results pointed to applicationHost.config file might be incorrect.
just by trial and error I checked up the space in the server and found its just having 1MB free space.
SO freed up 1 GB space and then the error was gone
My question:
whenever a website is accessed first time in IIS7.0 does it try to update applicationHost file?
what is the role of applicationHost in IIS7.0
Answer: The 500.19 error is indeed caused by errors in configuration files but not necessarily applicationHost.config, it can also be caused by errors in the web.config file for the application or any web.config file that applies to the application/virtual folder/site
Link to MS Support article about this error - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942055
The following link is to an article that introduces the applicationHost.config file -
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/128/iis-7-configuration-reference/
If you read it you'll see that the main role of the file is to configure the general setup of the web server and control what configuration can be overridden in web.config files.  It also tells IIS all the Sites, Virtual Folders and Applications that are running on it.
Given that your web server has a measly 1MB free space (how did you get that low without the entire machine crashing!!??) I would suspect that IIS 7 may do something with the file and was unable to update it on disk correctly due to the lack of space leading to the corrupted configuration.


Why do some hyperlinks to pages in wiki library work and some don't

Question: I am building SharePoint 2013 Wiki library with pages that will have training instructions for a new online SharePoint tool.  I wanted to create some imbedded links to all the wiki pages across the top of each page for easy navigation.  However, when I created the hyperlinks in OneNote and paste them back into the site four of the ten links don't work.  When I look at the link properties the address is blank.  If I add it manually and save the page the address is removed from the link tab.  This is true of all hyperlinks on the page to these four wiki pages.  I figure it has something to do with the four pages but I can't think of what.  I know it is not URL length because I have checked that and have other URL that work that are longer.
Comment: Some additional information, I have built link "ribbons" like this before using OneNote to create hyperlinks with names I want and pasting them onto a Wiki page.
Comment: So I found the potential problem.  Here is one of my working links: /ops/eda/ppriskmgt/RiskWiki/Step%201%20Create%20Screening.aspx.  Here is one of the broken ones: /ops/eda/ppriskmgt/RiskWiki/%E2%80%8BStep%203%20RAS%20Creation.aspx.  What is this "%E2%80%8B" in front of my page name?  All the broken links have it.
Comment: One more thing.  The links, even the ones that won't work in SharePoint, all work fine when I click on them in OneNote...  ...I am confused o_O
Answer: The problem could be the extra character (%E2%80%8BE). This happens when you copy/paste urls from MS Word or other Office Apps. This is an invisible/non-printing formatting character (UTF-8: E2 80 8E with name Left-to-right mark).
So, you should decode your links when inserting those on SharePoint. Use an online URL Decoder/Encoder.
Comment: To find out more about encoded characters, check out w3school's HTML URL Encoding Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
Answer: It's encoding issue. Before copying it from source decode it properly by this tool. After decoding, you can see clean url.
Encoded URL: /ops/eda/ppriskmgt/RiskWiki/Step%201%20Create%20Screening.aspx
Decoded URL:  /ops/eda/ppriskmgt/RiskWiki/Step 1 Create Screening.aspx
Resolution: Update all corrupted links.